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

guard elixir to bolster up his waning
health. The present Chief of Police is a
| ferce-looking man of about 40, who is q
more pompous man than Gresser was and
who does matters In a business way. I
chatted with him in German for some time
the other day and found him very intelli-
gent though somewhat secretive official
A mans life is as safe in st. Petersburg
as it is in New York, and there is less vice
and crime here than there is in the average
American city. There is a policeman on
every block both day and night, and there
is always a policeman in the center of
every street crossing. The laws of the
road are such that though q man may drive
at the rate of II miles an hour down the
Nevsky prospect and though the people
always drive at a break-neck pace you
never see collisions. There are few bur-
glaries and few murders here, and there are
less arrests than in London.
Two Thousand Men Guard st. Petersburg.
The police force of ST. Petersburg con-
sists of 2, 900 men. The city is divided up
into AZ police districts and each district has
q police station, with which is connected q
sort OF police court. In each one of these
stations records are kept of all the citizens
of the district, and these records are CLASH
fed so that the police can tell in moment
district. These records are made on papers
of different colors, and those who are sus-
pected of political ofenses have papers of
a separate color from those suspected of
crime, and dangerous characters have their
police biographies written on paper OF
still different color In every one Of these
police stations and in the police stations all
over the empire are kept lists of men who
are to be arrested wherever they are found,
and men who are considered dangerous to
Government. Similar lists are sent to the
agents of Russia in the different capitals OF
the world, and by reports from these police
agents the Government knows as Tar as
possible Just where its ensmies are.
The 1000 policemen of St. Petersburg
wear uniforms There are tens Of thousands
of other men employed by the police who
dress in citizens clothes, and every house
in st. Petersburg has its police agent and
spy. Many of the people here live in fats
and the man who takes care of the fat is
known as the dvornik, and he is RESPONSE
BILE to the police for the people within it.
He reports upon their doings; he sees that
their passports are correct and he keeps the
police informed as to what goes on in his
house, and it is almost impossible to have
secret meeting in Russia without it being
reported by one of these men.
Inc StreeCS are w eIhepI.
These dvorniks have a sort of trades
union among themselves and they are gov
erned by chief, and this chief is men,
ber of the police and is, to q certain extent,
responsible for the actions of the dvorniks.
1t is necessary for every householder to
have one of these men and often there are
several of them in single fiat. They have
control of the sanitary arrangements of the
house as we'll as the political and criminal
arrangements. They are expected by the
police to see that the streets in front of
their houses are swept and watered twice q
day, and St. Petersburg has as well-kept
streets as any city in the world. The dvor-
niks are responsible for any dirt or filth in
side the house, and the man who does not
keep his house clean in st. Petersburg can
be arrested. If the police see business
man whose shop is not properly cared for
they order him to clean it. If he does not
not do SO be may receive an order to close
up his establishment for a certain number
of months, and he has to do it
1t is the same with theaters One here in
St Petersburg had not as many exits as the
police considered necessary. The manager
was playing big engagement when he re-
ceived an order from the police to remedy
this defect and make the house safe. He
paid no attention to it and went on with his
show. The result was that few days later
his theater was closed by the order of the
police and what he might have repaired at
the loss of few nights of acting cost him
many thousands of dollars. 1t Is the same
with the smallest matters. There is law
here that the barber shops must bring a
clean piece Of soap and clean brush to