Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — WHERE YOU CAN'T HIDE. [ARTICLE]

WHERE YOU CAN'T HIDE.

b Berlin the Police Know the Whereabouts of Everybody. You can’t hire a girl in Berlin, writes frank G. Carpenter, without going to the police, and you have to make out two statements whenever you hire a servant. One of these statements is for your landlord and the other for the police. They desoribe the girl as a passport does, giving her age, size ana the color of her eyes and hair. You 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 and honest and the reverse is true, and she goes somewhere else and 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 pereon cannot get a plaoe here under false pretenses, nor oan a man here easily esoape the payment of his debts. One of the curious institutions of the city is an intelligence office, as it might be called, where reoords of these passports are kept, and where you oan go and find out just where any man or woman is stopping. If John Smith, who owes you a bill, moves to another part of Berlin to esoape you, you have only to go to this offioe, and by paying a few oents 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 chanoe for a man to escape or hide here, and the argus eyes of the Government are always upon you.