Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — WHERE YOU CAN'T HIDE. [ARTICLE]

WHERE YOU CAN'T HIDE.

In Berlin the Police Know toe Whereabouts of Everybody. You can’t hire a girl in Berlin, write# Frank G. Carpenter, Without going to the polioe, and you have to make out two statements whenever you hire a servant. One of these statements is for your landlord and the other tor the police. They describe the girl as a passport, does, giving her age size and the color of her eyes and hair. Lou have to state where she came from, and when she leaves you have to send in another statement saying she has gone. If you say she Is a good girl aim honest and the reverse is true, and she goes somewhere else aud shows herself to be a thief, you are liable to be fined for giving her false recommendation. This is the same with all sorts of servants, and a dishonest person cannot get a plaoe here under false pretenses, nor can a man here easily escape the payment of his debts. One of the curious institutions of the oity is an intelligence office, as it might be called, where records of these passports are kept, and where you can go and find out juit, where any man or woman is stopping. If John Smith, who owes you a bill, moves to another part of Berlin to escape you, you have only to go to this office, and by paying a few cents you will get a report which will tell you just where he has lived in the oity and where you may find him at present. There Is no chance for a man to escape or hide here, and the argus eyes of the Government are always upon you.