New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-07
4 VERY P4rERYAL GOVERNMENT
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You can not 1--we in SaxOny without hanalln .t an
assortment OF yellow tickets every day. lou 9et d
ticket for everything when you pay your lar ,, on
the street-car. the conductor gives you yeno"
ticket Before reaching the end OF your UP, u ~,
other official enters the car ana tears CORNER vi
the ticket, If You send package by express you
receive a yellow ticket. and II you receive an oA
press package you get yellow tiekeu; one for
the consignee aud one for yourself, aud When tlo
consgnee receives the money he also receives yer
low coupon, and signs yellow tlcKeI. Mn1a yol
buy bill Of goods in q store you are handed yer
low ticket, and when they are DELIVERED NJ {pun
house the bundle boy gives You another yeiIowy
ticket and takes the one you first received non
know whether the minister who ofliciates at we'd
ding gives the BRIDE and groom yellow tlche.9 VI
not, but believe they must have one when tnel d
first baby is born. If you live at 3,796 B-st' ana
you move to 3,795 Asst you must go to the CITY
Hall and get yellow ticket: II q serVaRt gIl d
leaves Mrs, y. and goes TO WORK TOT MIS- IA, sno
must also 90 to the City Hall and get yellow
ticket 1t Is probable that the Saxon goes INTO the
uext world with yellow ticket In his hand D put
that Is another point upon which nave no oenni'o
information. .. -
All tns seems very strange and very funny to an
American until he has inquired into 1t thoroughly,
and then IL strikes him that the plan Is all excellent
part of excellent system. In the street car, ior
instance, there can he no such thing as kh0cAhg
down." The brace bell punch will not WORK Every
passenger must have receipt Tor ms rare, anu ne
must show il to he official who tears the corner on
Every body knows the value OF receipts Tor pack
ages sent and received whether III Dc Dy express,
Dy DOSt, OF Dy Duhult-Doy.
The books of the City Hall will tell you where
every man in Chemnitz resides, the number of the
street as well as the number OF the fiat they wlii
tell you whether no is married or sngle; whether
he live with his parents OF rooms alone; now many
children he has now old he il how old MS WHO
is and how old his children what his trade Is
whether he keeps a servant girl what he pays
her how much MS income isl where he was porn,
etc. ETC. They wlli tell you. IN word, anything
that II ~ possible to find out concerning himself
and his business lie cannot sail under false col
ors III he preteuds to have an ircOme oil lO,OOO
marks per aunum he must pay an income tax Oh
that amount or prove that he has been talking TOO
bIg III merchant is thinking OF hiring man, lie
can within fOrty-eight hours. discover whether MS
prospective employee has ever been mixed up In q
dlshOnOraDie ,cTape aud determine whether or not
the account gwen by the man regarding his own
history is true. ,.
There is another feature of this system which is
remarkable Ii you know the number OF the house
where a Ger ain man lives whose history you are
anxious 10 ascertain, but you cannot possibly hnd
our his name in any other way, you can go To the
civ Hall and have not only his name but his entire
record placed before you IN very short time. Inc
number OF the house loll, the story But you can
nor get information ABOUT Iom DICK or Harry
simply TO 81 isfy idle curiosity OF Tor Purposes OF
blackmau You must show cause for seeking the MS
tory or naIpe OF Tom, Dick. or Harry your own
name is entered as having called al the CITY Han
nj Al and such time Tor such aud such "A pul-
nose and il YOU use the Information which you
nave received uulawiully you will be punished
severely.