The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22

thin face, nose just slightly inclined tc
the Roman, and he wears full set of short
luxuriant, glossy, black whiskers. His
hands are long and thin, and he has the
look of man who lies awake at nights
He does not look like happy min, and his
eyes wandered here and there as he rode
slowly over the sanded way to the gates OF
the mosque. AS he passed the house OF
entertainment, he looked up and raised his
hand to his fez cap in salutation. He then
drove on to the mosque, and going up pri
vate stairway, was soon hid from view
AS he entered the gate the soldiers all
turned around in order that their faces
might be towards him, and when, in the
course of half-hour, he appeared again,
they resumed their old position.
The Sultan seldom goes to mosque twice
in the same way. Yesterday magnificent
riding horse was led behind the carriage,
and shortly after his majesty arrived, a
low carriage drawn by pair of milk white
ponies was driven up to the front of the
mosque. The servants of the Sultan had
not been told as to how he proposed TO &c
homeward, and these three different equip
ments We're present in order that he might
ride on horseback, drive his ponies or &c
back in his bagouche, as he saw fit.
He PREFERRED THE PONIES,
and had good chance TO see him as he
drove back up the hill with the ribbons in
his hands. Behind him came several car
riages containing ladies of his harem and ]
noted that dozen beggars followed these,
and that the ladies within them threw out
handfuls OF coin to them, over which they
fought as it fell upon the sanded road.
| have seen the Sultan several times dur
ing my stay in Constantinople. l saw him
twice at the mosque, and I saw him when
he made his annual procession across the
Golden Horn to STEAMBOAT to kiss the mar tie
of Mahomet, which is preserved in the old
seraglio. | have met some of the most
noted of his officials. and have had numer-
Gus conversations with men who have been
connected with his palace for years. The
Sultan likes to wall his doings with secrecy,
and only the barest details of his private
life are known to the general public.
Within the gates Of his great palaces only
his intimate friends and his NEST trusted
servants come, and | am told that he has
such fear OF assassination that he has
men continually on guard. both about his
person, at his doors and about his watch
towers.
THE PALACES OF YILDIZ
are all built on hills Their grounds con
y
through which flow bubbling brooks, of
forests and lakes, OF parks and of gardens
They rise almost straight up from the be
ginning of the Bosphorus, and the thirty
or forty palaces which his majesty owns
here all command views of the surrounding
country. Notwithstanding this elevated
position the Sultan still fears plottings and
assassinations. He trusts few people i'm
plicitly, and he seldom goes to bed at night
1fr1 n'.lp
as best he can, and then throws himself
into cushioned chair and dozes on till day
break, when he retireS to his bed to sleep.
He has those about him in whom he thinks
he can cOnfide, but the fate of his predeces-
sors warns him to beware. During the
thirteen years of his reign, he has had
several revolutions, and he was frightened
almost to death when the Car of Russia
was assasSinated.
He has a number of other palaces outside
of this one in which he lives. but he seldom
occupies them for more than a few hours at
time. One of his largest palaces is that
of DOlma Bagtche, which seems to rest on
the waters of the BOsphOrus, and which is
a great airy structure of stone and stucco,
painted so that it looks like marble. 1t is
surrounded by beautiful gardens and parks.
and is gOrgeOusly furnished with carpets,
crystal chandeliers and with all the
BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT MONEY CAN PUE-
CHASE.
This palace was that in which Sultan Alb
dul Azziz lived. and the upper part of it
was devoted to his harem. When it is re-
membered that this man spent nearly three
million dollars year on this part of his
household alone, some idea of the grandeur
of the furniture can be conceived. In one
year Abdul Azziz spent $500, GOO for pictures
and there was nothing too costly for his
palace. l went through this palace by
means of special permit of the Sultan, and
| saw great crystal posts as big around as
the body of a man, and more than six feet
tall, on the top of which were immense can
delabra, the prismatic crystals of which
Sparkled like the diamonds of Sinbad the
sailor, under the rays of the light |
passed through room after room finished in
gold and walled with satin. ] entered the
most luxurious of bath rooms, and spent
some time in the grand audience hall where
the Sultan holds his receptions at Bairam
or the Mohammedan easter | walked upon
the court in front of the palace. along the
beautiful waters Of the Bosphcrus and
looked at the yacht of the Sultan which
with steam up, stands unused in front of
the palace; and as / did so ] remembered
the story which one of the Sultan's officials
told me as to why his majesty never occu-
pied this grand building over night 1t is,
said the official, because of warning which
the last Sultan gave him.
ETHIs SULTAN WOKE UP ONE MORNING
to find the gun boats, which he had built TO
guard himself turned against him and he
advised Abdul Hamid never to occupy a
palace which could be so easily stormed as
this one.
The Sultan of Turkey is very fond of
horses. He has about two thousand in his
stables, and these have been brought here
from all parts of the world. His finest
horses are of Arabian blood, and YOU will
find nowhere in the world such horses as
are seen upon the streets here in Constan-
tinople The street car horses have the
finely arched necks characteristic of tie
Arabian, and in every troop of cavalry
there are hundreds of horses which would
bring the highest prices in America 1t is
against the law of Turkey to export Arab
ian horses, and when Senator Palmer
wanted couple of stations for his breed
ing farm near Detroit, he had to get the
permit of the Sultan to buy them The
Sultan himself is good rider, and he is
much
IN HORSE TRAINING AND BREED
ING.
His stables cover many acres, aud there is
a great training place connected with them
where his majesty sometimes comes and
watches the exercising of his horses. He
prefers the Arabian horses for riding
horses, and his favorite mount is beauti- |
FIJI bay. His rides are taken in his parks
which surround his palace, and which are
Of great extent. His friends often ride |