Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21

applaud with the most violent They hear
their trade denounced without writhing,
and they go home with full and often an
almost verbatim report in their heads.
Here work with gamblers is what it Is
the world over, though perhaps there is q
| little more of it. Gamblers thrive like
weeds all over Paris, from the aristocratie
! opera quarters to the walls. They arc
raided one night and what OF the lot escapes
cheerfully installs itself somewhere else be-
fore another nightiall They are the pest
OF the races, the fairs, the places of amuse-
ments in the suburbs and sometime, liter
ally take possession of outgoing excursion
| trains.
One section of the division of news looks
after the uniformed policemen. It spies on
his habits, reports him for taking a sly
glass of wine as he tramps up and down the
street, for his visits with the conciergies at
the hall doors, for mis- Indifference to un-
licensed beggars, for his omissions and
commissions. 1t also investigates all
charges made against the police. The sec
tion is small-only about AZ persons
Still another section investigates the
claims of persons seeking admission into the
administration, wanting licenses to open
concert halls, to run fruit or vegetable
carts, to play hand organs, to carry on any
one OF the innumerable small trades which
makes the street lite of Paris so varied, SO
picturesque, so human. The personnel il
not fixed in this section.
Looking After the PaIacs.
There remains only a small force of the
ununiformed service. 1t has the interest,"
ing duty of looking after the palace of the
Elysee, where the President OF the Repub-
lie lives Oddly enough the members Of
this division receive daily lee of from to
francs to keep themselves fine on, so that
they can be distinguished by the initiated
from the ordinary member of the service,
and perhaps. too, so that they will be in
harmony with the elegance OF the palace to
which they are connected. They use the
money well. wearing the shiniest OF tail hats
and the whitesr of linen. 1t rather takes
the pleasure out of ones promenades in the
vicinity, however. Ii one did not know Of
this guard he would be justified in magin-
ing all the elegantly dressed men be met
around and in the gardens OF the Elysee to
be intimates of the President, but with a
knowledge of it there is always a suspicion
that those who look particularly we'll are
simply police officers. 1t has the same
effect on men of fashion as the habit of
arraying walters in evening dress You
are never quite sure whether you are ad-
dressing the master or his servant
The duties of the guard are numerous
1t is they who intercept the cranks who
burn to relieve the French Government of
its figure head; who warn of the relic hunt
ers who seek to chip of bits OF the marble
statuary or carry off flowers to press; who
keep an eye on the Impertinen.; who, in
short, prevent the President being
reached by common bores, by dangerous
characters, by vulgar cheats. In this list
of duties Is one OF special lnterest-investi-
eating the claims of those who seek charity
The President OF the French Republic and
his wife make it one of their cniel duties
to relieve distress. Naturally the demands
are endless and frequently fraudulent Be-
lore responding to any clam it is turned
over to the guard TO investigate. The iIea
is good one. 1t might be adopted by
American millionaires OF generous habit
who love to give, but hate to be cheated.
IDA NJ. TARBELI.