Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-14
OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT,
October 18th. 1915.

The land of Egypt, as seen on ap-
preaching Alexandria, offers no at
fractions to the eye. The coast is
low and sandy, and the barren ridg-
es heaped up by the wind, or by the
engineers who are fortifying the har-
Dor, are not relieved by any verdure.
The new break-water which stretches
out from the entrance to the old har-
Dor, is nearly completed, but the i'm
mense space enclosed is not yet used
as an anchorage When the fortif-
cation is finished, and the Khedive
is ready to make an effort to secure
his independence from the Sultan,
the new harbor will be needed to ac-
commodate the navy which he will
have to buy. AT present the old
harbor is large enough to hold a
great fleet of English, Austrian and
French steamers, and along the
wharves are packed great masses of
sailing vessels, mostly English col
liers, and Turkish and Greek coast
ing briggs.
To the left of the inner harbor
stands the Khedive's palace, a great
mass of modern buildings, with
great, staring windows. There are
plenty of palaces in Egypt, and
there are half dozen new ones in
progress now. They are generally
huge and costly piles, built by Euro
pean architects, and, although rich
in marbles and gliding inside, are not
worth visiting.
Another palace stands on the beach
near the new break-water, but has
not been used for years. The Khe-
dive makes it rule. to abandon or
demolish any palace in which any
of his near relatives have died, and
the residence of his favorite daugh-
ter, who died a few weeks ago, is
now left desolate.
Such sentimental feeling in the
case of a ruler who acknowledges
fifteen sons, eighteen daughters and
an indefinite number of wives, is
likely to cause the taxpayers some
inconvenience.
Another evidence of the Khedive's
luxurious tastes, is seen in his yacht,
lying near. She is large and splen
did steamer costing $4,000, 900, and
capable of steaming twenty-five
miles an honr.
On landing you are surrounded by
a mob of guides, carriage drivers,
and donkey boys, all speaking En-
glish with ferocious fiuency. 1t is
absolutely necessary to hire one man,
unless you want to be followed by a
dozen.
The wharves are busy enough, but
everything is either unfinished or
out of repair.
Going toward the grand square,
where all the hotels are stu
ated, you pass through the Arab ba-
gar and market, and though the
streets are swarming with turbaned
natives, and many Of the shops are
perfect examples of Oriental cos
TUNES, there are too many Europeans
lounging about-too many French
and Italian cafes and English grog
shops to satisfy the travelerin search
OF real Eastern city. The Europe
an quarter is like the suburb of some
French or Italian city, and the grand
square is grand only in its proper
tions. The heat, the dust from the
unpaved streets, and the noise and
confusion of drays donkeys and car
riages, iolting each other in the
rough and narrOw streets, make AL
exaHdria a tiresome place.
The business CARVED on here since
the completion of the railroads
and the Suez canal, has drawn large
numbers of foreigners to the city, and
the French, Greek and Italians have
th cir bands, cafes and newspapers.
There are two monuments in Al
exandria of which every one has
heard, though there is nothing re-
markable about them: Pompey's