The morning call., 1892-11-13

streets clean and there are 100 street-ciean-
ers The civil service rules obtain even as
to these boys and their wages are raised
after they have been working on the streets
for three years.
The buildings are kept ne clean as the
streets and every man has TO wash down
his house about 80 often. and it is against
the law to put up bill boards or to paste
posters on tho houses. When Buffalo Bill
was here he was almost crazy because he
could not get any place to plaster up his
big posters OF the "Wild West" show. and
the only arrangements by which posters
can be put ND is In connection with round
sheet-ir0n tubes which are on the corners
of the streets and which are about fifteen
feet high and of the diameter of hogs
head. These arc especially for the FASTING
them you find the theater advertise
ments and business posters. Within
the last few months the Urania Cum
pany have been putting up adver-
Using pillars all over the city after u
plan which forms perhaps the best ad-
yertising scheme in existence. These pill
lars are about fifteen feet high ana they are
by no means unornamentai. They are as
big around as Hour barrel, but are origi-
nal in shape, and they are the most valuable
guide that any city can have. They are con-
nected with the observatory OF the city and
there is clock on each of them that al
ways gives the correct time. Above the
clock there is star showing the points of
tions from any place you may happen to be.
Below this star there Is globe which
moves by machinery and which tells you
the positions of the stars from day to day.
Beside this stands the clock, which has
four round disks in different sides of the
pillar. One OF these gives the time at Ber-
lin. Another gives this world time and
third SHOWS how the earth stands in the
solar system from day to day. Below this.
with shades throwing an electric light upou
ar tnh MI fAE AUuF raau
ments. which are in frames under glass.
These revolve every minute and mixed
up with the advertisements are tables
of information about the city. In
one OF the plates below them there is the
time of the trains leaving the city by ali
the roads and another plate shows you the
condition OF the barometer. the thermome-
ter and OF the humidity OF the air from
hour TO hour and keeps a record of IT, Upon
these pillars you can always fnd the nearest
police station ana the nearest branch post
office, and there Is little plan Of the section
OF the city In which the pillar stands. with
the streets plainly marked, so that by going
to one OF these you can alwRys find just what
you want without asking questions. 1 do
not know the cost Of these advertising
pillars. but ms new ones are being rapidly
put up l judge they must be profitable.
Such other street advertising as is done is
with the sand witch men or by dodgers. You
find men distributing bills everywhere aud
there are plenty Of grotesquely dressed
figures carrying bill boards. The people
advertise very we'll in the newspapers. and
altogether they make their wants known
without defacing the buildings.
Speaking of the German police, they put
on more airs and are far more obnoxious to
strangers than the policemen of 81. Peters
burg. Tbe BerilDese are said 10 have been
very modest and unassuming before the
Germans whipped the French. but since
then their conceit has grown UNNECESSARILY,
and German soldier or a German police
man struts around with more airs than a
village drum major. He has high idea of
bis authority and be NEEDLES with all kinds
/ OF business quite as much as do the police
men OF Russia. it IS the boast Of the Gov
| eminent here that II knews every night Just
| where every one OF its subjects sleeps, and
the moment you arrive at hotel you are
| asked for your name, your place OF resi-
| dence. your profession. and this is forwarded
| by the hOtel-keeper 10 the police. IL
you take a lodging IN the city out
| side of hotel you are asked for your
| passport and If you stay any time in the
| city an Investigation will be begun of your
I antecedents and your biography TINS
gathered will be filed away here. have a
| friend in Berlin who left Germany about
twenty-h five years ago and went ID America,
| where he became an American citizen. lie
| was in the German army before he left and
| served with honor, leaving the service with
the consent OF the Government some time
| prior 10 his starting for America. He con-
cluded TO keep house here and lie had
hardly settled in his quarters before a
| policeman called upon him and asked for
his passport. He gave II. He then wanted
to know how long he was going TO stay. and
! lie told him that lie expected 10 stop Il year.
SAID he: II tried 10 get rid Of them, but
they came again and again. AT first
couldn't and my passport and they said
they would come in tomorrow at
| given hour. i happened to be out
when they came and they came the
next day. They were very polite, but
very persistent, and If i hadn't found
| IL / believe they would be coming now
Well. they examined me again and again
and at last took my affidavit. They asked
me where / had been every week Of the
years since 1896. and they wanted me to
give the day on which everything had oc-
CURED. They wanted TO know the time at
which went to America. how long | had
stopped in New England, and when they
lett they had a record OF every place and
everything i had done in America, and
have no doubt they wrote to the German
legation al VI Washington 10 find out whether
had told the truth. They wanted to know
the streets on which 1 had lived in Berli n
before went and the number Of the houses
IN which l had boarded. and l have no
doubt they have fled away an accurate
statement of everything l have DONE and if
should develop into a socialist or anything
OF that kind they could spot me at once
You are not in Berlin long before You
find that the Emperor runs the city. The
soldiers OF bis army are more dctatorial
and offensive than those of Russia. Ger
many is supposed to have a free press.
but correspondent cannot write anything
against the Kaiser here any more than he
could against the Gar in ST. Petersburg
lie may have one or two letters published,
but as soon as they get back TO Germany he
will be invited 10 leave the country
| heard to-day Of an instance In which a Rus
sian wrote something about the Sultan and
the Gar, which was not pleasing TO the
Germans. He was told to leave Berlin, and
he had TO 60. 1t Is important to have a
passport on you here in Germany especially
IL you are moving about in places that are
at all questionable. There was a man ar
rested for murder here not long ago. His
| arrest was unjust and unwarrantabIe and
| he tried TO get damages, but the courts said
| he could have none because he didn't hap
| zen to have his passport with him at the
| time he was arrested.
Speaking Of the Kaiser. there is good
deal OF the politician about his nature and
| he is always eodding the working classes,
| and he tries TO make capital with them as
much as bdncombe Congressman does with
| his constituents. 1t is not many months
| since. by his orders, Berlin got new Sunday
laws, ana the stores are now only open
| from 10 A. NJ. until IL, whereas they used to
| be open all day long. Now only the cigar
| stores and the eating establishments are
| open, and, though the servants and laborers
I have rest. the people are disguised. A
great many families here have been accus-
| TONED 10 buying their Sunday dinners from
cookshops. or of getting parts of them, such
as the icecream and the roasts, from such
| places. Now they have to make them
themselves or order them on Saturday. The
closing is good thing, for in the past the
| clerks bad TO work in nearly all the stores
until 10 o'clock at night. and in the factories
the lsborers were forced TO put in Sunday
mornings in the cleaning OF machinery.
| The police now enforce the closing of the
stores. and the people. though they growi,
submit
You can't hire a servant-girl here in Ber-
| lin without going fn tina nalice and unn