The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24
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thorough and tardy inspection of censor
who will cut out the offending leaf or make
! il ilegible: Books and newspapers on
Turkey, criticising the government or dis
closing anything political. They consficate
photographs OF ths sultan or Turks b
women and all foreign cigars or cigarettes.
4 Here, as in India and Egypt, there are
small money changers (sar4afs) located on
/ the curbstOnes at every corner, aid the
traveller finds it necessary 10 deal with
them and lose two to chree piastres, say 4
to cents, on every piece of money he
changes. The native as well as the stran
ger submits alike to this. The injustice
is not due TO a scarcity OF change,
but to the fact that the money
CHANGERS collect all the small money they
can lay their hands on and deal it out 10
centage. Hence provident buyers pay out
their large money and hoard the change.
Carriage lire is found TO be more than in
sny country since leaving America, 20
cents for the first and second hour and 30
cents for each succeeding hour The street
cars are stored, unc0m ortnble, dirty aud
cheap; women and children are confined to
one end CT The cars with drawn curtain
separating them from the men. This being
the month of Ramazan, the only one in the
calendar when STEAMBOAT is not wrapped
in slumhers one hour after sunset, travel
ers are using every conveyance within
reach. being enchanted, according 10 his
mobility, with the artistic illumination of
the mosques and minarets in and outside
that meet him at every turn.
The turbaned Turk does not use ordinary
time or an ordinary time-piece; with him
the setting OF the sun is The closing in of
one day, or IL O'Clock. AS the sun varies
every day IN its setting, the clock must be
regulated as often. The calendars sold in
the east however, indicate but six changes,
being the Dist OF February, April, June,
August, October and December. There
are travellers in the east who carry watches
with two sets of hands, one Indicating
European and the other Turkish time.
Thanks to the carrying out OF a few
sanitary measures the epidemics which
usually broke out almost annually in the
1ominions OF the Turk have been localized
and Constantinople for number of years
has been free from those 'scourges of
God.n
The marvellous strength of the Ottoman
porters (Hamals) has not been overrated.
The majority of these are Armenians
and they stop at nothing, from a small
valise TO an iron-safe, walking of with it
on his back through the miserably paved,
steep and winding streets from one end of
the town 10 the other. They use q stiff,
hard pad that may explain part OF the
liIdClC IL - tuC ACL III anu WlQbu Vi Lt0
back, the shape of a wedge and
fiattened around the shoulders, the
thick (six-inch) end of the wedge
resting on the spine. AS to the character
Of these porters. they are insolent and I'M
possible 10 satisfy. They consist of an or
ganized body of men and have certain I'M
derstood privileges among themselves and
the authorities. From ten TO fifteen are
told off to De porters for such and such
district, and woe betide the man who
thinks to get his household gods, his Lares
and PeDates, moved from one district to
another by less exacting or ''non-union''
men. Before the latter can 90 couple OF
blocks nell be thrown down, his load on
top, and an assault added for invading rec
ognized rights.
MUNICIPAL CHARACTERISTICS.
Since water pipes have been brought
into the Pera quarter large fires
have become infrequent, but outside
CT Pera the burning down OF one TO ten
wooden houses (Which material predomi-
nates) is almost of weekly occurrence,
making hundred to $50 houses which an
nually blaze away. The last great fire
was in 1870, " hen half Pera with 6.0O0
homes and nearly 1000 people were
burned: and later, in 1886, the de-
structive flames rolled over Scusari
and in little more than ten hours
left almost the entire district
in cinder. They have q military fire bri-