Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-01

he WsaFa-aR Ethiopian Canduc-
Inr-The WOmen'H Compartment
The People who Ride.
A correspondent Of the London
Telegraph writes: "There is no
hurry-the Mussulman never is in
one-and we have ample leisure to
contemplate the machine and the
place it starts from. Observe the
driver; he is duly PROVIDED with a
three-legged stool to sit upon, and
a wheel. brake similar to those sup
piled 10 his congeners in London,
Paris, New York and st. Peters
burg--in short, wherever this tram
way system hourishes. But not
anywhere, save in Stamboul, would
you behold such a Jehu as this-a
tall, wiry man, with hooked back
prominent as the PROV of Il Roman
galley, a black, leech.like mustache,
and bis hair shaved closely off his
temples and forefront, so as to give
his flesh a tinge, blush in those
parts such as you may motto. in
some conscientious actors off the
stage. Unconscientious comedians
do not so shave the temporals and
frontals, and are careless as to how
their wigs may sit. The Turkish
car-driver wears o fez of hue, say,
of a tomato, which has been run
over by the wheel Of an omnibus
on a wet day, or of a pickle cabbage,
the quality OF the vinegar employed
to preserve which has left some
thing to be desired. Otherwise he
is attired in a many-caped great
coat of a dingy drab color, whose
very fellow | have seen hundreds oil
times hanging outside the shop Of
a ramper Of Old clothes in Dudley
street (late Monmouth street, Soho,
London. You know the kind of a
coat. 1t is that which the old
hackney coachman used to wear,
and a few four.wheeled cahmen-
usually the most drunken and the
most abusive Of their class-still
Affect; being called, if | do not err,
sometimes a 'wrap-rascal,' and
sometimes CD upper Benjamin
In the name 0i wonder, how ever
did this nearly obsolete gaberdine
find its way to the Golden Horn ?
Underneath the driver is a Turk
at least he wears baggy breecheS
and cross-gartered leggings. He is
smoking cigarette. TO him en-
ters his conductor, a coal black
negro in a caftan and pantaloons
which should be Of the color Of
the undriven snow, but the tint of
which reminds You far more forcibly
of snow after it has been on the
ground for a week, or after a couple
Of chimney-sweeps have had an up
and.down night upon it. This man,
possibly a Nubian, is terribly pitted
with smallpox; for the rest he is Us
friendly and as CHEEKY as negroes
generally are. To an amicablo
smile he iAstAntly responds by grin
ming hugely and al once invites me
to take my place in the trsmgay
caravan. 1t is as well to do with
out further delay, since the machine
is filling rapidly, and the seats are
few while the passengers are many.
Hanging on by straps is a practice
as common in Stamboul aS in the
American horse cars, but, for one
very good aud sufficient reason, you
are not called upon some half a
dozen times in the course of ball
an hour to give up your seat in
order to accommodate q lady,
This is that there are none in
the car, and that there never
will be until social reform in Tur.
KEY attains proportions the magni-
tude of which even the most
advanced of the jenue Turque
party shrunk from contemplating.
/ notice that there is a door at the
end of our car, which is being con-
stantly opened and shut to give
passage to the conductor as he col
lects the tickets. That portal leads
to the ladies compartments, and
therein they sit yelled, but by no
means up to the eyes. There are
some with bundles, and there are
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