Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13

stay any time in the city an investigation
| will be begun of your antecedents and your
biography thus gathered will be filed away
here.
ST was surprised" said an American now
living in Berlin, 'to find how much the
police know. After 1 had lived in my house
three months / got a notice to come and pay
my taxes, and 1 went to the tax office. l
was asked what my name was and where 1
| lived and they found me in a moment, and
one of the clerks pulled out a book and
said: 'Yes, Mr.. Blank, you came to Berlin
| August 1 and registered at the Central
Hotel You stayed there week, when you
went to pension on Friedrichs strasse and
staved there two weeks. Then you went
back to the Hotel Central, and it was just
three months ago that you took your pres
ent rooms, paying $50 marks for them.' 1
was thunderstruck at what the man knew,
but ne had everything right, and he had
gotten the amount of my rent from the
landlord, which had been turned in accord
ing to law. They tax you here on your in
come by looking at your style of living. 1t
is generally estimated that man spends
one-third of his income for house rent, and
as / paid $50 marks for rent they estimated
that made 45O marks month"
The Kaiser Runs Berlin.
You are not in Berlin long before you find
that the Emperor runs the city. The SOL
d1ers of his army are more dictatorial and
offensive in their manners than those of Rus
sia- Germany is supposed to have free
press but correspondent cannot write any
thing against the Kaiser here any more
than he could against the Gar in st. Peters,
burg. He may have one or two letters pub
lisned, but as soon as they get back to Ger
many he will be invited to leave the coun-
try. I heard to-day of an instance in which
a Russian 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
passport on YOU here in Germany, espe-
cially if you are moving about in Places
that are at all questionable. There was a
man arrested for murder here not long ago
His arrest was unjust and unwarrantable
and he tried to get damages, but the courts
said he could have none because he didn't
happen to have his passport with MIN at the
time he was arrested.
Speaking Of the Kaiser, there is good
deal of the politician about his nature and
he is always coddling the working classes,
and he tries TO make capital with them as
much as. q. bnncombe Congressman does |
with his constituents. 1t is not many |
months since by his orders Berlin got new |
Sunday laws and the stores are now only |
open from 10 A. M. until Il, whereas they |
used to be open all day long. Now only |
the cigar stores and the eating establish |
ments are open, and though the servants |
and laborers have a rest the people are dis |
gusted. A great many families here have |
been accustomed to buying their Sunday |
dinners from cook shops or of getting parts
of them, such as the ice cream and the |
roasts, from such places. Now they have
90 hop hon, n order them
Saturday.
The Sunday Closing Law.
The closing is good thing, for in the
past the clerks had to work in nearly all
the stores until 10 o'clock at night and in
the factories the laborers 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 growl, submit.
You can't hire a servant girl here in Ber-
lin without going to the police, ana you
have to make out two statements whenever
you hire a servant. One of these state
ments is for your landlord and the other is
for the police. They describe the girl just
as q passport does, giving ber age, size and
the color of her eyes and hair. You nave
to state where she came from and when she
leaves you have to send in another state
ment saying she has gone. If you say she
is good girl and honest and the reverse Is
true and she goes somewhere else and shows
herself to be thief you are liable to be
fined for giving her false recommends
tion. This is the same with all sorts OF
servants, and dishonest person cannot get
q place here under false pretenses, nor can
a man here easily escape the payment OF
his debts. One of the curious institutions
of the city is an intelligence office, as it
might be called, where records of these
passports are kept and where you can go
and find one just where any man or woman
is stopping. If John Smith, who owes you
\ bill, moves to another part Of Berlin to
escape you, you have only to go to this office
and by paying few cents you will get re-
port which will tell you just where he has
lived in the city and where you may find
him at present
FRANK G. CARPENTER,
You cannot deny facts, and It Is fact that