Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-06

Petersburg. Filed away in the pigeon
holes of their offices is the record of every
inspected person in the empire and their
system is such that they can turn In an
instant the electric light of police investi-
CATION on the record of almost any man in
the world They have their agents in every
capital of the world, and nothing is done
anywhere which the least effects Russia
which is not known to these agents and put
upon record
And still one might travel all over Russia
and hardly know that the police exits
Outside of complying with the passport
regulations which are attended to by the
managers of the hotels, you do not meet
the police more here than in any other
European city, and have not found them
as offensive in their bearing as the police of
New York and London. 1 had no trouble
with them on the frontier. 1 have carried
nv camera with me and have taken photo
graphs of them on foot and on horseback
l have through them resisted the extortions
OF the droschsky or cab drivers, and have
gotten information from them Just as
would from policeman on a street corner
in America.
Police Do Not Molest Travellers,
am convinced that the traveller who
without fear may travel just as easily here
as in any part of Europe In fact, the only
trouble have had with the police during
my three months here was in connection
with Mr. Frederick Remington, the famous
artist, who, in company with Mr. Poultney
Bigelow, made very short visit to Russia
and left in haste. 1 came with Mr. Rem
ington and Mr.. Bigelow on the same ship
from New York to Hamburg. I lived in
the same hotel with them at St Petersburg
and said goUdby to them when they left. /
took photograph of them in the steamer
Normannia, on which we crossed, and 1
think their fears of Russian Imprisonment
had more foundation in their minds than
any basis in fact.
Mr. Remington and myself while out
riding one day behind a fast droschsky
horse, ran a race with a military official
and this official was angered at our pre-
sumption. 1t was on the fashionable drive
which goes from ST. Petersburg to the
islands of the Neva The military man had
a better horse than we had and he succeeded
in passing US. Shortly after this we came
TO bridge, in the center of which was a
policeman. The official got there first and
be said a word to the policeman as he
passed, and when we came up the policeman
told US We must go back to the city, We
protested, but we could not talk Russian,
and our droschsky driver was forced to turn
around and we drove back home. Whether
the official was one of the police or whether
he was a 5-cent General do not know. At
any rate be was big enough and small
enough to take this petty revenge and we
had TO submit
A Famous Chief of Police.
The military and the police work together
in Russia aud the Chief OF Police can call In
the Cossacks to help him The chief OF the
third section here is practically the Cover
nor Of the city. He can try suspected per-
sons when IL 10 necessary In secret, and
shout 20, 900 men were, IL is said, banished
from the capital every year during the
reign Of General dresser Gresser was the
most famous Chief Of Pelite the CIar had
for yearE. lie was q general OF the army
when he 4 severed Q plot 10 assassinste ths
CEar, And his services In this were 90 great
that the CEar made him the chief Of the
third seotion lie gave him . present 81 |