The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-20
CROWDS and RUSSIAN POLICE
SOME ASSEMBLIES, TBOt' en-
MFG ~. arr OrERT OOkED.
The Government Doesn't Minh a swarm
AT Football Games ar AVIATION Field
People Rra,iSr TNis. AMI Once ghry
Are Gathered Are I.oath Ia 60 Away.

People HeuNSe Thi-. anu bnfr sAri
Are Gathered Are i.0ath To 40 Away.
Sr PErERsBURG. Nov. J. What is %
crowd; Down to-he most recent times in
Russia il has been a thing Ia be- prevented,
th. polio. ere furnished with various
definitions Of the kind of assembly that
may become "A crowd" in the forbidden
sense Lest any party of people who
have met by arrangement for n common
purpose should dev elop into n crowd they
must. unless they mean Ia risk arrest.
notify the chief OF poIiCs twcnty-four
hours in advance Of the plac" and pro-
gramme OF their meeting II YOU give y
dance and have more than dozen guests
the house porter of your dwelling must
notify the police beforehand. otherwise
your merrymaking will be suppressed.
Time has brought social ehanSes into
the Siaily life Of 81. Petersburg which have
produced class OF crowd which the
political masters of the police would like
tn encourage. They are trying tn dis
tinsuish il in their regulations from the
undesirable variety. The aviation meet
ings for instance are actively encouraged
from on high and are maintained ~ pa
triotic demonstrations. Around the aero
drorne fields there is no polio. difficulty
because the occasion has had the neces-
sary license But lately dirigible balloons
have been iying every other day across
the capital. .ncirciing the P"ter-Paul
Fortre the kazan Cathedral and other
landmarks Of the capital. and crowds
amounting tn many hundreds have gath
cred in the great squares 10 look IN at the
novel sight.
Now probably s0 per cent oftha individ-
uIls making mp those crowds are classed
IN the official catalogue Il humanity that
j. kept here a. well mentioned That
means tina, they are believed To- he not
kicking angrilv against tho regulations
hat control their public actions When a
feast day comes round aud tn" town IA
decked with flags and ilumiultIons thoy
go ont to see and not to scot They ara
not looking gift horses in the mouth.
10 they take the wonder II man high
III the air aboy" Jhsm set IN "A frame that
gives tho idea of u beetle Fastening across
tho roof a. Il gratis entertainment. The
bowers that insist or tho suppression
If undesirable crowds arr glad that this
ind nj crowd exists All ;hs same. IA
il gathers III a few minutes without Civ
ing the statutory notice "a writing to tbs
authorities 1t l. really an i'le-,li assembly,.
Hitherto tho individual policemen. with
their swords and reviewers. have boon
tactfully absorbed in looking up az sho
,irrnea on such occasions and have not
boon able 10 see the breach Of lIw going
IN around them
A similar state OF things i now ne y
Sented after IA" football gam L ~
sport wa- introduced To- Rus-.' cou ~
Of years ago with warm enc 90 mt
from tho governing agt o.. he
healthy rivalry IT athletics Sc blow
H. gust of fresh gir anon IN tucIt-
ing youth and swo'p AVA ..N hole
and corner conspirat,y c0tcri-- 1ha.s
latter were ~ course crowds IN ne most
perniCiOUs category 1t WIS ~ combat
the lilo OF tnc-D t,tl' .hr regulation was
framed and has boon 50 unTela zingiy
enforced But now ~ or tho football
games tic crowds insist I'll waitiiG
around a:.d u,eortIuE .H"i. champions
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