The Detroit times., 1909-12-01
BERLIN POLICE
CHIEF BUSY MAN
His Duties Not Confined To the Sup
preston of the Criminal Glasses
by Any Means.

BERLIN. Nov 30 Berlns new
police president. Herr Won Jagow. will
have his hands full There are prob.
lens OF tho utmost gravity for him 20
settle in every department of his va
riegated command Perhaps the most
difficult is that Of Berins red light
quarter For years prominent visitors
from The country and foreign lands
nave complained that II is almost i'm
possible fur decent folk particularly
ladies' 10 walk after five D. m down
Berlin's finest street. the Friedrich
strasse They assert that this is due
10 the absence OF definite and limited
rcdlight quarter such as exists In the
oliftT Cefinah irGIw-Tr-..' Hamburg. Frank.
furl Brunswick and other places Tn.
forlmates are legally not permitted TO
reside in Berlin al all. with the re-
Sult that they are shamelessly exploit
ed BY the lodging house keepers who
give them shelter"
/ The "morality-pOlice" az Berlin are
separate department of the force and
heir work of inspection is tremendous
Day by day countless reports come
before the president, who. under the
Home Secretary. is the Official uti-
N 'tely responsible for keeping Berlin
lie ent Similarly the president has 10
lOOk after the sale of literature and
here Is big organization for controll-
ns the sale of books and pictures
Hardly any branch nf the work is more
a Controversial than this. for there is a
nf3r I.,ft
! the worthy folk who would like TO pro-
hibit the public sale of nearly every
book and picture dealing with the "hu.
!, man form divine. and the opposite
4 party who under gmse OF scientific
sand artistic propaganda give the
: weight of thciJ approval 10 the ever
, increasing Hood OF purely pornosl&phic
material lioth parties try to get the
ear cf the pOliCcpre sidcnt
The policc-president too has the ulti-
mate control OF the vast system Of
records uf all visitors to Berlin and all
persons German or foreign passing
through the civ He has TO see that
the systoni of registration is working
smoothly and that undesirable aliens
are NOT being given shelter by people
WHO omit 10 mention their names 10
. tho police II You come into Berlin
or move U.t OF n four name. business.
last residence aud length Of stay is re-
corded and fled ai police headquar.
, tiers Even the famous Russian system
Is far less infinitely exact than that OF
Prussia anu the Berlin section Of II is
the minu5cst OF all 5 few years ago
Il was prerty easy 10 control but Ber-
lin is growing al a tremendous pace,
md Ca keep track of three million IN
hdbitanto and many million passers
through needs enormous organization
and an interchangeable organizer
But even this is perhaps less difficult
than the anxious work OF controlling
Tho routes over which the Kaiser rs
constantly passing. Detectives IN and
l,it Of uniform are continually ON the
lokout for suspicious characters along
nc main roads traversed lbs the Kaiser
In Berlin one of these detectives, an
officer Controllnc one OF The routes
from the palace 10 the station for Pots
dam told the World corrcsp ondeni that
whenever word reaches him thar tho
Kaiser j.. ju pass over his stretch he
-cncz Ia duty I'm a nervous funk and
comes uG duty iu a cold sweat
III auythiug happened ON my sec
ton lao said. J. might as well shoot
mvfa,f at once Md guess SO might
The police president II ANYTHING hap
perod anywhere I'm Berlin
lastiy The president Is responsible
not only FOR tho general control Of the
cver.increasing city in a social Nay but
also for tho rofac-ard buildings New
buildings or The alteration Of old have
10 receive his consent, new roads or
The widening OF old are subject 10 his
approval He acts as mediator when
tho rival municipalities want 10 con
--4el4c.- nov underground electric rail
WAYS and cannot agree what Share OF
the cost each shall hear