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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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f which, probably, he has oftenheard and read; to saunter through the curious streets of thetown, and to pick up in its stores and in the houses of thenatives additional specimens of Alaskan handiwork and othercuriosities; to visit the Training School and Mission, wherenative boys and girls are being educated. Christianized, andtaught useful trades; and, possibly, to pay his respects tosome member of that admirable body of United States officials,now administering the affairs of the Territory with so muchsuccess. Baranoff Castle is not a grim, ivy-covered, and decayingstronghold, with turrets, battlements and keep, but a plain,square, substantial, yellow frame building, surmounted by alittle look-out tower, upon which might have been seen untilrecently the revolving anemometer of the United States SignalService, whose station here has just been given up, presumably:n view of the fact that observations having been carefullymade and recorded for no less than half a century, first by the
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436 The Northern Pacific Railroad, Russians and afterward by the Americans, there remains nonecessity for its further continuance. The interest that at-taches to the castle is almost entirely either historical ortraditional. Among the memories that haunt its great ball-room is that of the beautiful niece of Baron Romanoff, one ofits Muscovite governors, said to have been fatally stabbedon her wedding night by her own lover, in whose enforcedabsence she had been compelled by her uncle to marry a pre-viously rejected suitor of nobler birth. The most interesting object in the city, however, is theRusso-Greek church, not so much for what it is in itself, asfor the paintings, vestments, and other art treasures it con-tains. Among these is an exquisite painting of the Madonnaand Child, copied from a celebrated picture at Moscow, andso largely covered with gold and silver—after the manner ofthe Greek Church—that but little of the picture is to be seenexcept the faces. Another of its trea

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