The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-13
FIRST EDITION
the DEATH OF DICKENS,
The Foolish Peerage Story.
Mr.. Dickens Wife and Family.
Cons*antinople's Conflagration
ETC.. ETC.. ETC.. Etc., Etc.
CONSTANTINOPLE.
THE Scene of the Awful ConAasration-Gelats
srnd Pera-One Of the Greatest Fires of
dern Times.

The scene of the Awful ConHasration-6e 6eiaia
srnd Pera-One of the Greatest Fires of
G1odern Times.
THE BURNT DISTRICT
The telegraph now assures us that more than
thousand lives have been lost In the recent terrible
Gre at Constantinople The amount OF property
ssumed at the same time is roughly estimated at from
q hundred to hundred and twenty-five millions of
dollars. Be these figures exact or tneXact they
Of such magnitude as to make It apparent that the
calamity Of which they assume to give us the mea-
sure must be considered one Of ths most serious of
TOPOGRAPHY OF ooNsTANTINoPLE
Constantnople lies In latitude 4l0'16 north, and
longitude 26'3s 80 east on the Sea Of Marmora, at
the entrance OF the ThraGian Bosphorus, which
separates Europe from Asia Its position, one of
the most magnificent In the world, the extent and
safety OF It's harbor and the power concentrated for
its defense, make 1t the key of the Black Sea and the
East and northeast of the Golden Horn lie the
suburbs Of Gaata and Pere the scene Of the recent
connagration. The largest of these suburbs is
the plain formed at the foot Of the hill by two val
leys-the one on the eaet, the other on the west.
Gaata is in shape almost conical hill rising from
the blue waters of the Golden Horn. Higher again
above it rises European Pera which stretches north
1s yond and which slopes downward to TopeHane, the
.House OF the Cannons," with Its mosques its foun-
es The turkish Quarter Of Foundo1fou and peyond
again lies the new palace OF Sultan Abdul-Az
known as Dolma- Bagstcbe Galata and Pera are
united with Stamboul by bridges Of boats which cross
the Golden Horn and the port.
THE SCENE THE FIRE.
We are not yet clearly told whether the recent fire
broke outin Galata or In Pera. Its ravages how
ever, as reported, seem to have been severest in
Pera, and we may assume 1t there to have spent its
rage and done the most extensive damage. Pera
occupies the heights whioh overlook Foundouklou.
Top pHane and Galats- There are the palaces OF the
foreign embassies, the consulates, the chief hotels,
and the European merchants
-r GHATA
Whoever visits Constantinople by water disem-
barks at Galata. There are the Custom Houses
through which the stranger passes, we are sorry to
be obliged to say, with much less vexation Of soul
than through those OF the ''best government which
narrow street Of stone steps leads steeply mn to the
tall Flower of Galata, which marks the limit be-
tween this suburb urban and the @thes8perior Pera Up these
gracefully and as daintly as so many young ladies.
Porters toll up them bearing on their heads vast
weights OF baggage, trunks and portmanteaus, bar
The streets, which open out to the right and the
left one climbs upwards to the tower and to Pera,
are for the most part wretched, narrow, dirty,
though mainly built in stone Yet in these streets
ing houses the lines steamers the telegraphs-
short the European lie Of Constantinople. Along
filled with cafes, sailors boarding houses, and
erns of the lowest kind. Here swarms and foams
mongrel population, the scum of Europe and OF
the East.
Past church and convent of the Franciscans
(which we presume to have been burnt the street
Teach the Tower OF Gaats, and directly after that
dancing deryishes This estsbIisSment ant was burned ed
up some years ago: and though the dervishes had
recently begun TO rebuild it. we understand that no
great progress had been made towards raising the
absolutely necessary funds From just above the
tette of the dervishes began the true main street
of Pera," which forms the axis OF that town. There
we come upon the SLOWER MARKET" the espa-
made of the Itchoglan College, destroyed in 1881,
and serving to-day as a barr acks To the right
OF the consumed tekie OF the dervishes a street
leads straight up TO the English palace This street,
soon after 1t passes the Hotel dAngleterre begins
to show shop fronts OF most dezzling kind Palais
Royal jewellers are here, and mekers OF fancy goods
from Lyons side by side with grave men of BUSINESS
from Algiars and from Tunis, exhibiting rare en-
broideres and intoxicating perfgnes. Up this street
1t must have been that the fire most furiously
swept On its dreadful path 1t must have passed
not only the hotels, which deserved to be burned
but Legations OF Sweden, Belgium, and France, the
French and Austrian Post 0fices, the Russian EN-
bassy. on It's way towards the Embassy OF England.
All that 1t passed IL seems TO have scathed; and
vet the range covered by it was such that it must
have more than riyaled, In the extent and the
importance OF the ruin which IL has wrought the
fearful conhagration OF 1851, which also destroyed
the English Embassy OF that date together with
many thousand houses for the most fart, however,
built of wood.