The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-15

eminent is depending even more upon
it's secret police for the sovereign's
safety. Probably the authorities of no
other nation would have sent fifty spe-
cial police agents to Rome six weeks
ahead of their ruler to feel the public
pulse, and it is doubtful whether any
other monarch would surround himself
with such hosts of guards as have COM
passed the car during his recent trip
to Darmstadt.
With the hosts of enemies, however,
which Nicholas II. is supposed to have,
muchh of this precaution can be ac-
counted for, but people who are ac-
customed to stand within reaching dis
lance of their chief executive when he
travels about may be astonished at the
arrangements which always are Incl
dent to any journey the Russian en-
peror may choose to take in his own
country.
The parts of "Holy Russia" which
are to be honored by a glimpse of their
sovereign begin to prepare for him
some time before he arrives. Two days
before the cZar is expected the police
thoroughly search every building,
whether inhabited or not, standing
within twenty yards of the line over
which the royal train is to pass. The
detail selected to do this is the pick of
posed of men who have been tried in
loyalty After satisfying themselves
that the poverty stricken peasants have
no bombs concealed in their dwellings,
the commission proceeds to close and
seal with the government stamp any
outbuildingS not in actual use and own
ers are forbidden to open these until
officially notified to do So After the
commission leaves, no one not MEM
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family, may occupy any of the build
from strangers.
Forty-eight hours before the arrival
of the imperial train strangers must
leave all villages through which the
train is to pass, and twenty-four hours
before the special is due, two police
men are stationed in every house
standing within twenty yards of the
line to prevent any suspicious person
from entering the premises.
In order that there shall be no guer-
rilla work from inside the houses on
the railway line, every window facing
the track must be securely boarded up.
All cattle, too, and every dog must be
shut out of sight, and when this is
| done and the seals on the outbuild1ngs
examined, the guards are about ready
to watch the royal train whiZ through.
Even after the inhabitants nave COM
piled with all the rules regarding their
homes, they are not allowed to remain
in them while the train passes, but
must assemble at a place which the
police designate, arranging themselves
on each side of the track at least ten
yards away. These groups, let 1t be
understood, must consist only of actual
residents, and should any stranger be
| found in the crowd, the police have the
strictest orders to get him as far away
| as possible before the train arrives
After the cars have passed, the regula-
| tons require that the villagers shall
/ stand in their tracks until notified to
| dispense a minute before the train is
out of sight.
| Nor are these the only details of the
minute arrangements. Hundreds OF
officials line the railway, the signalmen
standing within speaking distance, and
often an exact duplicate of the imperial
| train proceeds that containing the car
to encounter any mines that may have
! been placed under the track. Some
times the scout takes the form of ar
| expert riding railway tricycle., who
| closely examines every foot of the line
| before the royal train comes along.
] While every other European coun-