The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-08

ne exclaimed, as TX ne had at last given me
ITS hardly so prosperous up there" ex-
planned, but they say things are picking
'..well. don't see how that can be-" he
said. .for 1 have a brother over there
the railway. and he sends me money right
along. Things can't be very bad, can
they?" / suggested that it depended on
how much money his brother sent him and
the interview ended. He seemed convinced
that was not rascal, although my
clothes made me look like one, and adj
vised me to call on my countrymen in the
town and see If they could not help me
Had really been in need of help should
have been compelled to do that very thing.
This is the one thing they will not do.
Besides the passports the police also at
tend to the service books" of. servants:
When the Haus-Frau hires new servant
she first asks her for her ''Dienst'' book
In this book Is full description of the
girls life. as well as any recommendations
she may have received from former en-
ployers. i can judge from them whether
the Dienstmadchen is likely to do her work
We'll or not. III sne Is taken her book must
be stamped at the police Office and again
when she leaves my employ. The room
that she sleeps in Is likewise subject TO
to odge Rer in the Bo nH longer or eeiiSe
garets at the tops of the houses, and she
must have sleeping quarters of a prescribed
number of cubic feet. To see that this law
is enforced, policeman calls from time
to time and reports at headquarters any
discovers.
furthermore required in his house inspec-
tons TO see that no partition put up after
the original building of the house reaches
| to the ceiling, and II he finds one of brick
mediate removal. Then while the house is
in construction he is free TO make criti-
must be liked according to the latest d.
rections of the chief Of police. II Inhabited
before the s six month months period REQUIRED by
drying of the plaster, the policeman has
the right to order the owner of the house
fined he loses his tenants, who must move
into other quarters.
POLITICAL SUPERVISION.
In case the encounter with the police per-
tains to political matters it is likely to lead
to most interesting results. 1 used to know
| a newspaper correspondent in Berlin who
almost got acquainted with the Emperor
during one of his little squabbles with the
Politische Polizel. He happened to read
one day in local paper that the Sultan
OF Turkey was Ill. and. as he had not seen
the news before. and thought it important,
he telegraphed 1t to London. The police
had somehow overlooked the dispatch in
| the German newspaper, and when Ii came
back from London in English dress, Herr
Won Caprivi's attention was attracted to it.
Ere long the Emperor also got wind OF the
affair, and as he knew that the Sultan dis
liked all such rumors, he ordered that the
mo matter whose political head IL cost"
The police were Immediately set to work,
and In course OF time the correspondent
was asked to report himself at headquar-
ters From there he was sent to the Chan
cellor, and had the Emperor been there,
too. as was expected he would be. he might
have had a most amusing interview; but,
as II turned, he got no further than II Will
heimstrasse, the residence of Chancellor
papers brought report after report of the
results OF that dispatch. 1t started origin
ally In constantinopIe. and a Yiennese was
his position, then a harmless little tele-
graphist, and. II remember correctly. two
journalists in Berlin were escorted to the
Prussian frontier. The correspondent bare
" escaped the same fate. When the affair
had Gained med, down little everybody saw
a triffing matter, but IT was delicious to
hear the reporter give his version of the
story. He always ended IL by saying: And
to think that a half crown (the cost of the
telegram to London) could do all thatl''
The contiscation of newspaper by the po-
lice Is also not entirely sans humor. In
talking recently with the editor OF one of
the largest Berlin dailies. which has not
yet had "Beschlagnahmung," I learned
that for the business of the paper, nothing
better can happen.
when it becomes we'll known" he said,
that paper has been confscated, the cir
culation goes up Immediately. For my part
| should like to have the police come every
day" 1T Is the same thing with a play. If
1t is prohibited by the police in one town,
its success in another, when the censor is
favorable, IS great indeed. and the only
pushing IL needs Is an announcement on
theater bills that IL has been 'polizeilich
verboten."
As far as the American Is concerned, his
POLITICAL relations with the police concern
mainly his attitude towards the superior.
His republicanism is tolerated a matter
of course. and there is nothing to hinder
his talking about it with his countrymen
to his hearts content, bur he must be very
careful to say nothing which can be con-
strued Observation-Disclosures If he
Rhn CO.. nrrn "a fnGf hot
peror William had no business to make
speeches that he does, and a policeman
heard and understood him. he would find
time. The police are very strict in all such
matters, and hardly week goes by that
somebody is not arrested for similar re-
must not do too publicly is to whistle.
BISMARCK REBUKED.
Bismarck delights to tell a story OF how
ne was ordered by Bobby to stop whist
ling one Sunday morning in London. and he
once used the story in the Reichstag TO
show what Germany would come to il it
imported English customs for the keeping
of the Sabbath, but many an American has
experienced the same thing on week days
in Germany. Two young Americans known
to me were strollng down the Friedrich
strasse, in Berlin, one evening, whStlfng
one of their college songs. They had not
gone far when Schutzmann appeared and
said: See here, meme Herren, that must
stop Don't you know that you can't whistle
in the street," They escaped any further
trouble on the plea that they were ignorant
OF the law, but they were warned that
repetition of the offense would land them al
the Polizei-Prasidium.
The temptation in all such unpleasant
ness is to scold the policeman rather than
the law, but it is unjust. for, as rule, he
does nothing more than execute his SUI
perior's command Each town has a police
president, and whatever he orders must be
carried out 10 the letter. The Schutzmann
is merely an instrument. and as helpless. as
far his own individual wishes are con-
cerned. as the citizen himself. My own ex-
perience with him is that he tries 10 be as
fair as his position will allow. and. consd-
temper remarkably we'll In Berlin, for in
stance where ne is probably better paid
than anywhere else in the empire, he makes
but a poor living. To be a policeman there
he must have served nine years in the army
prior to his petition for beat. If accepted,
he is put on probation for six months at
three marks day Provided all goes we'll
during this period. he is taken into the reg
ular force and his salary is raised to 1.100
marks year. besides clothes and rent mon
ey to the amount Of 240. Every three years
the salary is increased by 80 marks until
the 1.5Oo mark limit has been reached:
not go. If he is injured while in the serv-
ice he receives a pension for life. amounting
to third of the salary he received when
he became disabled, but there is no fixed
date after which he can lie off. IL he lives
to be eighty years OF age and can still make
a good policeman. he must remain at work
or give up all claim TO pension.