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Show Not What They Are Represented to Be 1 by Foreigners New York, SepL 16. One of the most interesting among the distinguished distin-guished group of foreigners whloi is ; essembled In New York In prepara- I tlou for the Qulnqc-nnial pilson con- gross to be held shortly in Washing ton, lsx Ftlenne Khroulell', chief of I the adminjstiatlon of pilsons of Rus-1 siu, controlling trie destinies of the inmates of the "" Jails in Russia and Siberia Me l a tall man with a benevolent ben-evolent expression and courteous man ner. He confesses to fifty years, twenty-live of which he has spent in tho government service. "Yes, this the llrst time that such a terrible person as the chief of tho Russian prisons has ever been in the United States," said M. Ie Khrouleff to the interviewers whom he received i at his hotel soon after his arrival. I hope lo gain much first-hand Information Infor-mation over here. The prison system' of America and her reformatories are known theoretically in Russia, but now io shall be able to get them In a practical way. WeVhall be able to learn much Yc arc trying to Improve. Im-prove. "In llussla the criminal is conoid- j ered not merely as an enemy to so- i cietv, but as a sick man. Persona ', condemned to enforced labor have the ! right to see their parents once a month and oftener in the discretion j of the chief of u prison. "It can be said that the Inmates of ' Russian prisons not only do not suffer suf-fer hardships, but their comfort, food, clothing and so on tnake their posl-1 tlon1 so far as those things are con- ' j cernc-d, no worse than that of a peas-I peas-I ant or an ordinary city workman living liv-ing In liberty. Part of the money de-rived de-rived from the work done by prison- . ers is put aside to be given them upon up-on llieir release In short the 'chambers 'cham-bers of inrture' that some of the lor- ! elgn newspapers talk of are figments i of the Imagination.' I |