Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-22

peared. with every single ingot of gold on the premises. Since then Cossacks have been looked upon in lrkuisk minds in the same way as vigilance committees are regarded.
 Diseourselns Burglars.
 For the last year the city has had streetlighiing system. but the resi- dental thoroughfsres stones throw from the main shopping streets are left in pitchy darkness When there Is nothing better doing the adventurous element of the population passes ihe evening in the quieJer streets. beating up belated householders returning from earousals in the restaurants after an unwise degree of internal lubrica- tion and trying ground-hoor windows. Not infequentiy, as you are passing down one Of these streets late at night. youn be startled by an explo- sion over your head and the whistle or spreading bird-shot past your ears. Timid householders, without any ob- iection being raised by the police. fire shotgun from the window before turning fin 10 bed to show lurking burglars that there Is a gun in the house.
 The policing is done partly by mu- nicipai. partly by private patrolmen, the latter employed by property own CTS The private patrolmen deserve an honored place in the annals of twentieth century philosophy. The American idea of night patrolman Is keen-eyed, stealthy, gum-shoe man in blue. leaving what the Chinese eu- phoniously term the piecee stealee men 10 play first and then taking the trick. The Irkutsk patrolman. with the high souled idea of warning pro- specdve burglars Of his approach and causing them to abstain from shining makes the night hideous by perpetual ly clsttering a powerful wooden rat rle. He grasps it firmly in the hand and parades the streets. whirling it round and round at every few paces Lying half asleep in the early hours Of the morning you might imagine yourself In a Pittsburg boiler factory.
 Ex-conviets as Servants.
 Many of the servants here are er- convicts who decided to settle down in the east. For instance. that tall. portly head waiter with the restless eye and the big bifurcated slayonic beard. who will be recollected by the i traveller who has visited the Hotel Rossla at Tomsa. slew hIs wife and i her friend snd has served long term of Imprisonment in barracks of the { frozen north. Three murderers are on the waiting sta1 of the Hotel Central here in Irkutsk. and one in our very | hotel. the Metropole
 Irkutsk Is pretty gay at nightsfnow ! but the citizens look back enyiousIy to the zenith of it's career to the days Of the recent Jspanese war Then ] champagne and wines were often eau. tiousiy transported free of freight charges from St Petersburg and Mos COW in steel cars labelled Powder cars militant with painted imperial eagles and .Cossaek guards At Irkutsk the powder cars were shunted o5 along the barrsck sidings and found a final resting place st the end of the rails entering the officers mess store shed in the barracks west Of the big girder bridge over the IrkHt river A colonel Of one regiment openly boast. ed in the Metropole restaurant the other night that more champagne was drunk in IrkuJsk in one month during the Japanese war than is sold on Broadway New York. in half a year. The fun at Irkutsk starts al mid. night; the city Is as dead as Sunday an hour before Then the moving. picture shows. of which there are