The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-22
SPIES IN NEW YORK.
The Cars Agents Keeping
Track of the Nihilists.
A PRETTY WOMAN Prosecuted.
David B. HilPs Social Side Grover
Cleveland Not Creating Much En-
thusiasm in the Big Cities.

NEW YORK, May 16.-TSpecial Core
spondence. l-One of the most extraordi-
nary episodes that have come under my
observation in the strange, fascinating
cosmopolitan life Of New York city is the
story OF Mrs. Kraemer. the Red Cross So
ciety and the Russian secret police Is
there ''secret police" in existence here
in this great American city, where even
the solutions boast of their freedoms
regularly organized system of paid spies
who report to uniformed superior, who
in turn advises the great spy system of the
Russian despot in his own semi-barbaric
realm of moujiks and droshkies The
story of Mrs. Kraemer seems to es-
tablish it beyond a reasonable doubt
There's a pastoral-looking little town
out beyond Bowery bay. on Long
Island sound, called Steinway, after the
great firm of piano manufacturers whose
head, William Steinway. has, of recent
years, been potential figure in Demo-
cratic politics hereabouts. In Steinway
is quiet-looking little country house
where friend of mine not many DAYS
since called on and had the pleasure of
meeting aud talking with the handsome
young Pole who is the heroine of this
IA
be able to wrap men about her fingers.
And this is what Mrs. Kraemer must do
to deserve her reputation. She is tall,
dark-haired and deep-eyed, the kind of
creature writer with adjectives to spare
would call distingue. He might also use
lissom and shapely and, perhaps, svelte
itself on Mrs. Kraemer. She is beauti-
full and intelligent, and advanced enough
to have come under the espionage
of the Russian secret service in New
York. Mrs. Kraemer had expected to
sail short time since for Russia, among
the Red Cross relief ENJOYS, but the secret
police nipped her plans in the bud and
warned the ladies and gentlemen who were
interested in her and Mrs. NJ. Louise
Thomas, the Sorosis speaker and writer,
who was to have accompanied her, that
Mrs kraemer would be stopped at the
Russian frontier. All this was in New
York, remember So Mrs Thomas sailed
alone, and Mrs. Kraemer's name was
struck from the list of Red Cross envoys.
The interior of the Steinway residence
where this lady found seclusion at this
time showed the home of refinement if not
of luxury. There was an essential absence
of the commonplace. If Mrs. Kraemer is
the head center Of the most powerful
nihilist group in America, there was
no evidence of it in her surround
ings. But the fact that she sat there
among her books and paintings and
cushions instead of being on the relief
steamer Tynehead, in which she was to
have sailed with a Red Cross on her
bosom, was conclusive evidence that TO-
600 miles from the headquarters of their
chief Of police, now dying of slow poison,
the Russian bureaucracy is powerful
enough to keep an American citizen from
even starting for Russia. The Russian
consulate in New York consists of several
apartments in the lower end of the CITY.
spacious enough, rather gloomy in their
dignity and apparently free from the at
mosphere of espionage. General Ola
vowsky, the Russian consul here, seems
to have abundant means. animate and
monetary. to find out all he wants to learn
about the sixty odd millions of us who
have never paused to consider possible
encounter with Russian spy, Olavowsky
knows all about Mrs. Kraemer, or thinks
he does. He sent for Mrs. Thomas and
cautioned her against going to the Cars
country with such travelling companion.
"She is a protested socialist" said he
there is something in the word nihilist
which hurts the CLOTHS of loyal Russ
and he casually observed that he. Olavow-
sky, had forwarded Mrs. Kraemer' 3
biography to the Third Section" the tech
nical name of the political secret police
Mr.. Alexander Greger, the dashing diplo-
matte bachelor who has for some wears
been in demand as beau in Washington
City society, had already called on Mrs.
in Nos y, ,Ut<,p aud
her against Mrs. Kraemer. So she
started without Mrs. Kraemer. whose
connection with the Req Cross Re-
lief Association has now. it is said,
been formally served by Mr.. F. B. Tilling-
hast, of Davenport, Ia, who superin-
tended the loading of the relief steamer
Tynehead. Here comes in not the least
remarkable thing about the whole affair.
AS soon as Mr.. Tillinghast heard the
''rumors" about Mrs. kraemer's pro-
nounced socialism from the Russian
spies, of course-he set his own spies to
work and he learned enough from his de-
tectives in three days time to make it his
duty to cross her name from the list OF
ENJOYS. So far, the only charge made
| ism" The word nihilist has not been
associated with her. She is charged with
having associated with the Poles OF
New York who want to free Poland,
some time or other in some way or
another, and to have actually attended
their meetings and made speech to them
i'll Polish And for this she must not even
! her breast. That was all a subterfuge. the
spies say. She knew that the Red Cross
| ENJOYS would not be stopped at the from
tier to have their baggage searched. She
knew that the Russian Red Cross Society
stood high in the cars favor, and had
| not many weeks ago, held general meet.
| ing at st. Petersburg under the presidency
| of Adjutant- General Won Kaufman, and
| shown $4,000 in their treasury after
| recent outlay of more than $3.50,
| 600 in the famine-smitten districts
| rich and powerful order this no,
yet tainted with nihilism-if the score,
| service knows it. And Mrs. Kraemer has,
| within a month, obtained her naturaliza-
| ton papers n the New York court of com
| mon pleas Part OF her life romance crops
out in her application for those papers.
She therein declares that she was born in
| December q. 1868, in Poland, and that hel
| father, distinguished under the name OF
| Smith, emigrated to Cincinnati and lived
| there several years, writing and translat-
| ing for the newspapers. What II all the
| Smiths should prove TO he nlhlliSts
| Wouldn't the car have the ague then
| But to return. The villains still pursued
! her She has never been free from spies
and never will be, until she sets hel
| woman wits TO work on some new lines
| But ii is the remorseiul, revengeful work
| of Just such gifted creatures as she that
| wins the great tragic victories of nihilism
Is it any wonder the chiefs of the Third
| section die of slow poison mingled, no one
| knows how. IN their food? But what dc
| Americans think of the picture of the spy
! system at work right under the shadows
| of old glory Mrs. kraemer has been mar