New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-01

| The energy and variety OF the Emperors move
| ments have made the officials OF the palace Of
the garrison and Of the police perspre freely, as
was shown by the plaintive answer OF one of them
| TO a foreigner, who, when asked IL the Emperor
would pass soon and by what road replied Mani
| Do know when or where he VIII yoY Not even
the Sultan can tell you where he is going. lie is
| a guest, and he is an Emperor When he likes, ana
! where he likes. and as fast as he likes, there he
will go7 The result, however. OF the hbors of
| the officials has been that the Emperor once
failed TO find troops in line the road clear. and
| provision for his personal comfort complete
wherever he went If he crossed the
Bosphorus at the landing or the other side the
Sultan's choicest Arabian horses were waiting for
him II at the end Of a long ride he found him.
self wishing for boat al point five miles from
his lsp,ing-llace the Sultan's steam launch would
| appear before he could dismount from his horse
| If after sail down the Marmora he wished to
! land far outside of the city walls, the Sultan's
horses, with magnifcently jewelled saddles, were
| paving the ground he stepped out Of the
| steamer and full escort in red and gold sprang
| up ready 10 fall into his train. After ride
| around the old walls TO the head OF the Golden
Horn if he concluded that he would like 10 return
TO the palace by water the Sultan's steam. launch
instantly appeared; or If some one suggested that
| sail in caique would be novelty, Oh his ac-
ceptance of the idea the steam-lamch would dis
appear and the great state caiques would be az
the landing Then, as the procession went down
| the Golden Horn, me ships would be declSed in
flags and the bridges would open to him
! the humiliation Of passing under the roadway.
| Wherever he went, even without the least notice.
| be found the streets newly swept and watered,
clear of enculnbering hamals. and with TROOPS 70
| hold back the crowd or TO present arms in due
! form. True, those who saw the machinery at
work to produce these efects-the stall Officers on
foaming horses galloping TO give warning; the
! double-qulclzing Of jaded troops by short cuts:
the frenzied rush of water-carts and sand.carts
over the road sometimes but five minutes in adj
vance of the Imperial party; the fury wreaked
| by the police upon hamals and pacS-mules that
happened to be in street when the order to clear
it arrived; the imperous orders TO beggars to go
out of sight; the hustling Of horse-cars from the
track and over the cobble-stones into by-ways-
whoever saw these herculcan efforts put forth
aye and often put forth in vain in consequence
of the uncertainty of the actual route TO be fol-
lowed, was not perhaps so much impressed by the
result But to the Emperor and Empress the
provision for their convenience must sometimes
have seemed like the work of the Genii
The illuminst ions the night Of the Empesors
arrival and again on Monday night were maginh-
cent The Bosphorus lends itself 30 such displays
as readily as the Grand Canal of Venice, and far
more grandly. On Monday night when the En-
peror and Empress came down the Bosphorus from
a short excursion into the Black Sea, the houses
on both sides for eighteen miles were outlined
by thousands Of tiny lamps. or were beautified by
lanterns in the form of arches, palaces suns and
moons hung from scaffoldings on the waters
edge The myriads of lamps threw quivering lines
nf I;rkI4 t1a lilo INF IL MI
the Government at various points projected into
space all manner of pyrotechnics almost by. the
ton. On the ships of The feet spars and rigging
were crusted with lamps; and when the EmperoTs
steamer arrived off Dolma Baghche the whole
feet bazed out with port fires and turned on their
electric lights 10 illuminate the landing of the
Imperial guests. Over a veritable sea of silver
they sailed TO the shore where the court carriages
were in waiting to take them 10 the Sultan's
dinner.
The Empress Victoria Augusta had here one
experience not TO be matched in any other place
in Europe. To be received as a guest. but by
men alone 10 be entertained with perfect devotion,
but exactly as if her host was a bachelor; 20 find
not a single woman on the premises in any
capacity, and then, after twcnty-four hours Of this
kind of life, to be taken through side door into
a walled-up section OF the palace and there. IN
the midst of waiting women innumerable and Of
unsurpassed magnificence, to be introduced %
Madame the First Wife, Madame the Second.
Madame the Third Madame the Fourth etc, etc,
must of course impart slight impression of limited
hospitality 10 the flavor of the entertainment pre-
viously offered in the halls outside of the real
household. This is what happened TO the Empress
OF Germany. The Impression produced by the
passing glimpse of the real home Of the Sultan |
WIS heightened by the fact that in Turkey |
etiquette forbids speaking to a man about his |
wife The subject is very properly tabooed. |
The man who has fallen into multiple entange- |
ments Of the heart does not care 20 be addressed |
concerning then any more than he wishes to be |
talked TO about any other weakness or failure Of |
his lie.
The ladies Of the Harem have had one revela.
tion in this connection, even more startling 30 |
them than this opening Of the Harem door and
the taste OF its democratic life could have been |
70 the Empress The rumOr that their Imperial |
master had taken the Empress his arm. and had
driven through the streets sitting by her side in
his own carriage as 10 one OF them could possibly
do, was in itself sufficiently amazing But to
read in all tn. daily papers the account of the
visit Of the Empress without her husband TO tho
ojty when the Turkish sailors manned the yards
of the feet in her honor, and when salutes were
fired for her sole benefit, was a most unexpected
disclosure of the heights of dignity 10 which q
woman may attain in some parts of the world
Not one Of the ladies Of the Harem is known
even by name TO the Nation, much less honored
by the Nation this stranger from Germany
has been IGNORED.
The Emperor William hos been very active in
seeing the sights OF the CITY. No personally con-
Quoted tourist ever " did" the city more con-
scientiousy, or more hurriedly. But the Sultan
has not broken through his rule Of exclusion so far
as TO accompany his guest on any excursion de
has given him every facility, but he has left him
to the society of his suite when outside of the
walls of Yidiz. The impression which one forms
Of the young Emperor from his four days soIoun
here on the whole relieves somewhat the impress
sion of Imperial hauteur derived from accounts OF
his bearing when at home Here he has been
seen % smile has not seemed utterly unapproaeh-
able and has delighted many by taking notice
If their private interests Hardly European In
the city has CHANGED 10 be on the wayslde When
he Emperor passed without being able TO say
nat the Emperor saluted him personally: The