Religion: St. Nicholas

"Hamba," shouted one and "Hamba," cried another—which being translated from the Russsian means "Shame." A foreign mob pressed in from the East one rainy day last week, tossed cattlewise upon 97th St., Manhattan, sprawled upon the upper calm of Fifth Avenue by the Park. "Hamba. Hamba."

The mob converged upon a small, ill-favored church in the centre of the block flanked by apartment buildings— St. Nicholas Cathedral (mother church of all Russian Orthodox faithful in North America) which faintly reflects the Slavic splendor by its six cupolas above, and by ugly ikons and...

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