, 1884-05-25
TURKISH sTReET-cAR SYSTEM.
.esnstnntinopie Correspondents
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Isan Fraucirco Chronicle.

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Aesnstnntinopis Correspondents
Description.
[San Fraucisco Chronicle
The Turk is a curiosity to white people,
however, and always will be while he con-
tinues as he is, He has no business in Europe,
for his ways are Asiatic, and his whole SYM
pathy against civilization. When he gets a
civilized invention he proceeds to cross it
with his old way Of doing the thing
till the resultant is no longer either
barbaric or civilized. He has u horse car
line in Galata, but it is not the
horse-car line of our fathers. The car itself
is n double barreled arrangement, with COM
pnrtmentsf for people OF different rank. The
back end down stairs is tightly shut Off from
the remainder and hns close curtains and Il
separate door. Here they coop up the fair
odalisques, who have been quick TO catch the
fashion of riding from their white sisters.
-Four horses are used (thcre being so many
hills, and they run them in a way that fills
one accustomed only TO the sedate pace of
the civilized caT-horse with wonder and
Armament
There are no sidewalks in Galata and every.
body goes in the streets. As a consequences
the first weeks receipts of the horse-car
company included four Armenians, three
Turks, a Nubian and a Greek-children and
dogs not counted. Business was equally
BOOu Tue htCuLu week.. BuI inc tllfd tley
had the misfortune to include q pasha.
1t vas a bungling piece of business for
they did not kill the pasha; they only
mansled him. And when he got round again
he put in his whole time working for an in
junction against the road. It was shown in
evidence that the company did not want the
pasha or the other people killed; that they
had been at considerable expense to dispose
Of them, and further that it had rung its
bells, as by law required, and 50 was not re-
sponsible for the people who got in the way.
The pasha fled his answer and said, that
he had heard the bell; TINT any one
not deaf could not well help hearing
1t; but that it was not his bell and
he could not be expected TO look out for every
slave that rang one in the public streets. II
the slaves were to be beil-sheep for the pashas
he thought it was timo for the latter to re-
sign.
1t was a very pretty quarrel and occupied
a good deal of government time. But finally
1 compromise WINS reached and an arrange
ment adopted which has continued in use un-
til the present time. The speed Of the car
was not slackened nor its right of
way denied. But in consideration of
tho crowded state OF the thorough.
fares and the impossibility Of making the
populace turn out or mind the bells, the COM
pany was handicapped with outrunners.
Each car was proNided with a negro armed
with a club-whip and a tin horn whose bust
ness it was to run some fifteen PAGES ahead
on the track blowing his horn and industri-
ously clubbing the pashas, donkeys and
small boys into opening n swath through
which the car cOuhl follow in his wake.
They are picturesque fellows, these
outrunners, in their red fezes and green
shirts that are open nearly to the waist.
They are small respecters of persons and their
pace is SO tremendous that they are gone be
fore vengeance could reach them. The dogs
have learned the ropes and very few of them
now go to sleep on the track; but the people
mover will learn and in the more crowded
portions to-day whenever Il car passes, with
the scattering and excitement and whips and
horns, it is more like a riot than anything /
know of.