Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-26
How the Present Gar is Guarded

\ few days after the fatal catastrophe
of the 18th of March the Russian min
listers resolved on begging the emperor
to reside III one of his numerous mn
perial palaces outside his capital. The
explosion in the winter palace, the
mine in the Mala Sadova, many
other attempts of which the public
know nothing, and above all. the tragic
! death or the late car proved TO them
beyond n doubt that in st. Petersburg
neither the devotion of nine tenths Of
the population nor the increasing Wig
lance of ministers, police, and fifty
| thousand soldiers could guard their
! imperial master from the murderous
attacks of a small band Of desperate
men and women.
The emperor showed some re-
| luctance ut first to leave the Anitehkoh
palace where he has spent SO many
happy days as CzareyitCh, but consent
ed when Loris Melikoff reminded him
that he was surrounded on three sides
by private houses, from the cellars of
which at that very moment nihilst
miscreants might be cutting their way
| to his palace in spite of the greatest
watchfulness on the part of the police.
As the emperor has decided never
to live in any of his fNorite residences
the winter palace, Tsarkoe, Selo and
| Livadia-for reasons easily guessed,
orders were sent to prepare the palace
at CATCHING Ca small town about thirty
miles to the southwest Of St. Peters
burg for the imperial court Several
| hundred artisans and mechanics, all
soldiers Of the Preobrajinsky regiment
the Russian soldier is thoroughly
taught some trade, and allowed to
earn money by it while off duty-were
selected to make the necessary altera-
tons. At midnight they assembled in
the church Mt CATCHING, and solemnly
swore never to reveal the nature OF the
work they were about To- undertake.
Death or Siberia was the penalty if they
| broke the oath; "krassny" ten
roubles, or twenty-one shillings,) reward
| if they were silent and industrious.
The alterations were made in forty
eight hours, but secrecy was not kept
much longer. Vodka losened the
tongues of the soldiers, and soon all
| CATCHING was talking IN whisper of
| tlle pTeCdullOH IikcD 10 IbItstINc INC
| life of the car.
A subterranean passage leads from
his bedroom to the stables, where a
number of horses are kept saddled and
briddled day and night. Sentinels are
posted at intervals Of twenty yards all
around the building The imperial bed
room, which has two windows pro-
| teCted at night by massive shutters
can only be reached from the outside
by passing through three spacious ante
chambers, in which are posted eighty
| cossacks armed to the teeth. They
are allowed to speak and move about
in the outer rooms, but in the hall adj
| Joining the czar's bedroom perfect 81
lence is maintained all night. The
general on service for the day sets in
an easy chair, his cossacks on - dlvan,
which runs round the whole room. At
the generals right hand is the push of
an electric apparatus, which rings
a bell in every guard-house
within the palace grounds. When
the emperor is about to retire
to rest, before shutting the door he re-
moves the outer handle, so that no en-
trance can be effected until he himself
personally opens the door from the IN
side. Unlike his late father, ne can
not endure the presence Of an armed
soldier in his bed-chamber