The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
NABoBs FROM THE MIDWAY.
The Money These People Are Taking
Away Will Make Them Rich at
Home

From the Chicago Tribune.
Milk and honey will flow, and there
will be feasting and rejoicing in many
lands of the Orient this winter. The
people of the Midway are going home,
| and they are taking with them an amount
which added to what they have already
SENT is estimated to approximate 81 ,000,
600. If any man doubts it, let him go into
| the banks and tourist agencies, which
| deal in foreign exchange and money.
They have been beseiged the last two days
by Egyptians, Copts, Franks, Arabs,
Turks, Hindoos, Sinhalese, Nubians,
Japs, and Syrians with wads, bundles,
and bags of money to be changed into
coin that passes current in their PARKWAY
| homes.
If any man wishes to see an exhibition
of Oriental grief and rage, let him be
| there when, out of the money offered, the
! receiving clerk throws back lead quar-
ter or a counterfeit bill. The bland peo-
pie on the Midway, who managed to sell
plasterS worth 4 cents for SO, were game
for people who wanted to shove bad
money. They got leaden silver pieces
bad limitations of United States currency
notes, and bills issued by the confederate
| government or state banks, which died
thirty years ago How much they got
cannot be estimated Capt. Porter, of
the United States secret service, who
| heard of it yesterday afternoon, began an
| instant Investigation. He does not be-
| lieve the amount is great. At the banks,
where the money was changed, it is
| thought the sum total is a mere DROP
! compared with the good money the Mid
way people are taking away
1t was a curious sight to see them come
| in. The first arrival Tuesday was a dom
! key boy from Cairo street. From some
remote corner of his flowing robes, he pro-
| duced tattered cloth, and, unrOlling it,
dumped 500 in silver on the counter.
Let me have French francs for it," he
said, through the interpreter. A camel
! driver followed, who wanted $1,000
! changed Along in quick succession
! 81 800 on Beyrout, Turk, who had So 600
! to transfer, a Persian dancer with a for
| tune of 81, 800 in American silver, and a
! Nubian soldier, who unrolled 5000 in bills.
! All day Tuesday and yesterday they
| came with money in every imaginable re-
| ceptacle. The elderly Egyptian who
| sold plasters worth 4 cents for coins of
| 300 B. G. for 81 each, plauked down sew
! eral hundred dollars in bills and asked
| for French NapOleons. Devout Turks,
who had spared the time from their de-
! Votions to selling something, had Jumps of
bills to turn into gold.
It was a spectacle that inspired Major
Hutchinson to remark that the glory of
the Orient had returned. What he
meant was this: In Egypt an income OF
| 20 francs a month IS deemed sufficient &c
keep family and allow a margin for saw.
ing The unmarried many with an annual
income of $25 is considered a great catch
''Wheu that donkey boy from Cairo
street arrives home with his 800 what
will he doc Buy palace!o was asked
Maj. Hutchinson.
"He will be a marked man among his
| people. He may not buy a palace, be
cause he is as like as not to have half &
dozen wives. The money he takes home
will keep them long, long time. The
| praises of Chicago will be sung in many
| lands this winter, because hundreds Of
families in the Orient will be- in plenty
with what their fathers have earned il
trade and received in backsheesh. We
! have been sending people home for {
month. Forty destined for Turkey, Egypt
| and Arabia leave in LIE Bretagne mex
Saturday. Those who remained until the
last take home the most money. 1t has
| been accumulated by them all summer
| We see it now for the first time"
The Orientals, who are going home, are
leaving a little of their money behind
Some of the Syrians have bought first
class guns and pistols. When they gallon
over the desert on theil
I
Remingtons and Colts in the air, in
stead Of the rusty fint-lock musl1ets with
which their friends who stayed away
from the fair are armed. Half a dozen o.
those Egyptian donkey boys, who arr
taking home Independent fortunes, are
going in style BETTING their changed con
ditions. They have purchased American
clothes literally of South Clark street
secOnd,ha dealers. The Nubians have
invested in scented hair oil and mirrors
The Turks have bought jewelry.
"They will be bowling swells among
their people, said Mai. Hutchinson
"They have been treated here with a re
spect they were totally unused to. l ex
pect to hear of trouble on the Nile wher
the donkey boys get back and find thai
with Europeans familiar with Egypt they
are simply donkey boys. Why, some o.
them were taken riding in carriges thi:
| summer"