Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — WHERE YOU CAN’T HIDE. [ARTICLE]

WHERE YOU CAN’T HIDE.

(n Berlin the Police Know the Where* abouts of Everybody. You can’t hire a girl in Berlin, write* Frank G. Carpenter, without going to the police, and you have to make ooff two statements whenever you Mre * servant. One of those statements is for your landlord and the other for the police. They describe the girl as a passport does, giving her age siae and 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 yon 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 person cannot get a place here under false pretenses, nor oan a man here easily esoape the payment of his debts. One of the curious institutions of the city ',3 an intelligence office, as it might be called, where records of these passports are kept, and where you can go and find out Just where any man or woman Is stopping. If John Smith, wh > 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.