New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-24


two miles away; the market town OF the arron.
basement is Nantes. eight miles distant and the
chief town Of the canton-consistng OF Rollebose
and half dozen other communists Bonniere
three miles of.
POLICEMEN AT THE VILLAGE FETE.
The village fete that Sunday happened to be IA
full swing The amateur brass band Of Rollebolss
was banging away at the Marselllaise and the
Russian anthem. There were merry -go-rounds."
target shoo,inss with pistol and carbine and lot.
teries for fat carp pike and turkeys. Dancing was
going on in a huge tent. where scores Of rosy.
checked maidens OF Roeboise and the neighborhood
were waltzing with young farmhands and with
soldiers from the Vernon barracks. Sedate ma
irons were cooking in the open air fragrant fried
potatoes and waffies (gauffres) and seemed to DO
doing a brisk business Rolebose being on the
highway (rou,e naonale( between Paris and Rouen,
cycles and motor carriages stopped to take part in
the Festivities, Joined in the dancing and shot for
wood floats anchSred hundred red yards from the
he Mayor tae Of
Immensely. The Mayor IL typical Frenchman Of
e se ha he e in
erty He is forty-five years OF age Is bright, witty.
lawsuits suit in RoleSolss are almost unknown ii.
set In While chatting with the Mayor I noticed
tRs prsty Of the Village
grocer. Altogether Roleboise seemed 10 me 70 %
the ideal OF patriarchal government, and this
opinion was shared by my friend. an American art
list. who passes several months eacn year at TINS
picturesque little village and VINO Is consequently
q competent judge.
THE GERMAN COUNTRY POLICE.
The rural police of Germany. Italy, Belgium and
Switzerland Is similar to that OF France as regards
organization and administration. and the police
regulations Of those countries-for the municipal
as well as the country constabulary-are taken
he Gods NlpOlkOn.
nlshes the basis of the system OF policing nearly
the whole Of Central and Western Europe-a fact
greatly tightening the prediction that the codi-
fication of the French law undertaken during the
Consulate Is destined TO outve every other work
OF Napoleon. In Germany the green-coated
'gendarm," with helmet and horsehair plume, cor
responds the French "gendarme." and the blue
"Pozediener" performs the duties OF the French
'garde champetrc." The gray-cad "Feldhdter' an
to the French garde chase and garde PeShe
n9 So be MS opged 10 as refer almost
everything 10 his municipal council; but on The
other hand, the 'Burgermeister' Is responsible FOR
all the small ya o nay e o their
own, and where the central authority is represented
sentative ("Ortsvorsteher'), with one or more
and who all m, Snd ners s
The administrative unit OF rural police IL thus tho
canton or bez S instead 81 iae Ike tSs
French "garde champetre' Is usually selected from
good-conduct men VINO nave coNhpeteu thet sei'iSe
IN addition to this there are the German "Naeh,;
The .'Nachwachter" are elected by the inhabitants
gsrss!er to be eligible for or the r PS6 Sachpss
Of Se Of Ss :.
special night police in France, because there al
the police perform night Work by aUaSn OF
is exactly the same as in France They belong 70
he ri
tours of inspection. patrol the country ana make
arrests The German 'gendarms" nave almost
all served in the army as non-commissioned officers
They picked men, although they are not as wen
During a stay at KonigswIntcr in the siebsngs-
brge distrlc;. near Drachenfes. in Rhenisn Prus.
The practical working Of the German country police
system and i IA, 'Hwn q
co@9c s as OF RSsbor o
ooks the eine e SO does K5nsswner overlook The
Rhine Kanisswner is In the , wnss aTs f ~
sG4h AND and genuine sss
sort but there very little q The sxpsns I've
military rigidity. and they held aloof from, the
popular movement and maintained an AIR OF au-
ihorlty in way that Is by no means customary
Al the little town OF St. Hubert. in the Belgian
forest Of the Ardennes. last August. the writer
noticed that the rural police Were sam, Srtss.
and responsibilities were essentially the same, the
only difference being that in u Sss afs
Franc France The parish priest is at once Judge and
policeman Nine times out Of ten b when sas sw0 n SssS s
mayor as in France. but the parish priest whom
th Ssys nhs me s s1s 1
ton sngulariy enough, there is no jealousy Or
Ssfc. ef Belgium a. we Would nsya
re the in France The Belgian gendaImset
paches. ali pursue their daily and nightly duties
Just their colleagues do in FRANCE The sane ans
,ro- Hungarian system Is analogous to that or Ger
many.
The rural police system Of Russia is totally dr.
feren, from anything that prevails elsewhere. Tho
writer has travelled considerably in Russia during
the last i've years and has visited St Petersburg,
Moscow and Tula-the country OF the famous IRON
indusiry--on the railway line toward kursK he
has also made tour through the Criinea. Stopping
Al sebastopol. Livadia and Yalta. Everywhere IN
the north as well IN the south it was painfully
apparent that the masses of the Russian people
shun and detest the central administration ana
have an innate dread OF the police OF every de-
scription. Official Russia. the Russia OF the
tehnovnk soldiers and eonsanes an az s sbt
ton living in their village eommunpi nssian anr
corresponds to tho French commune but with two
essential differences IN the frst place me yl.aSe
tants and is omnipoent In his village. has no Pc
cemen under his orders. as is the case WITH MS
s the az the OF is eeecV
nv ali the male inhabitants thus sinsulary enough
realizing the dream OF Jules Guesds Jaures Kisn..
Socialism OF to-day. The taxes are levied on eacn
mir In proportion TO the number o. its ma sn
active pecunary interest In seeing that each man
belonging to the mir works in the fields !eaos
an Industrious life refrains from njuring me
crops horses or cattle and that he does all in his
power to add to the wealth OF the community;
Thus not only the starasta. but every indlviduai,
peasant. becomes a sort of garde champetre ana
protects and watches over ire common proper'}.
performed, so to speak on cooperative principles
that would be impracticable In Western Europe
The Russian gendarmes and municipal rural con-
stables receive their orders directly from me CEN
ralized imperial authority, and In spite OF the pest
Intentions az st. Petersburg and Moscow this vast
network OF police supervision Is absolutely rotten
with venai corrupton In the minds OF the Rus.