The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-12
BISHOP p0fTER'S HOLIDAY.
INCIDENTS or wIxfER "TRIP 10
TURKEY AND aREKCE

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Bishop Henry c Potter arrived In New York
on Wednesday night on the steamship Tsu-
tonic. Accompanied By Mrs Potter he had
been on a winters holiday in the East He
was In his once At the See House yesterday
afternoon. He said he had been away Just
eighty days. spending forty days on the water
and forty days on the land. The object OF his
journey was 10 get into Turkey and Greece.
On former trips he had always been prevented
by quarantine restrictions from getting to
Constantinople after STAYING In Italy.
After landing from the Kaiser Wilhelm at
Genoa the Bishop started for Brindisi. where
he took passage on an Austrian Lloyd steamer
and there saw the 1rst evidence OF the hard
times which he afterwhrd commented on az
| being much worse in Turkey and Greece than
| In this country. There were only 1vo other
| FIRST cabin passengers on the boat. which can
carry scores. and among these there was not
an Englisl-spcaking person. EnElish-spesk-
| ing people are not travelling abroad much this
| winter. he noticed. Ali tho hotels In Rome
were doing very poor business. and at one Of
the largest. where there were hundreds Of
| guests last year. there were only I'VE this sea-
| son. At Constantinope there were also sto-
| ries OF hard times. Their drnRomah told them
| sorrowfully that they were the FIRST English
speaking people he had seen in Ave months
The hotels were lanRulshing for foreign pat
ronaRe and the Turk who gets his living from
| foreign travellers was having a very melan-
cboly time. STILL he thought that perhaps the
poor in Turkey. and also in Greece we're hap
pier than the poor here. for the simple reason
| that Il takes less to make them happy. Tho
| Bishop spent about ten days in the city and
| visited the mosques. the tombs and the public
buildings. and saw the dervtshes dance. The
streets he found very dirty and he maryelled
much at the plague Of doga He found the
Turk quite q Christian gentleman. He had
| been told to expect scowllnE faces and num-
bled curses and even personal violence But
| everywhere he found the Turk was very civil
| and very gentle-in fact harmless.
| One Friday he saw the sultan. Add .el- Hamid
| H.. go to the mosque. IL was a warm day and
| the Bishop. sitting bareheaded at O window.
wondered at the Sultan as he rode by In an
! open vehicle. wrapped In big Germany mill
tnry coat Bishop Potter got the idea from the
| Sultans appearance that he does not entirely
enjoy life. For some time he has been nursing
q cholera bogy. At the time whom II was FORE
| told that he would succeed his brother as
| Sultan II was also stated that he would die OF
| cholera. There were about seventeen cases
| of cholera u day. possibly one-third OF which
| were fatal. In the middle OF November. and the
| Sultan was keeping q record Of all the deaths.
| In ordinary times doctors In Constantinople
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| tho facts the Sultan agreed to give . double
| fee to every doctor reporting . death from
cholera. which. Bishop Potter observes. may
| have tended to increase the number OF deaths
The Bishops dragoman described thus the
way man dies OF cholera:
Formerly" said tho dragoman. we were
| afraid OF the janizariss But now II man
comes out OF a CATS and Is sick and lies down
on the sidewalk doctor comes along and
n In in ir+a tn
carbolic acid. Then he iniects some in hi
nose, and then. OF course. the man dies. That's
n case Of cholera" o.. $50
The people In general were not alarmed
much. At the sepuchre Of the Sultan Sulei-
man. the re.ormer. venerable Mohamm edan
opened tho DOORS and thon with much fervor
circulated something In Turkish. Bishop
Potter asked his dragoman Demetrius what
the matter.waa ,,.,. ..a,rs.,, ,,..- 90.
He Is gsayJpG. slr, that he thanks God that
there are two people who are not afraid Of
cholera. but are willing to come to Stamboul |
Now. sordid mind Bishop Potter remarks.
might have seen in this exclamation OF Joy q |
pot wish TO cloud his Iecoiieciions OF the |
kinlly old saeristsn by 30 unworthy sus- |
While in the city Bishop Potter vi,itedJsober
soiisse the Nndenomin.tional institution |
oSndsa p th: NeT i0 s.L man whose name It
yonderful work for all the adjacent countries.
Numbers OF ne graduates have become Prime
Ministers and leading statesmen and powerful |
factors 10 Bulgaria and Roumanin and Seryia.
70 b:nop snIs 90 f. M Sfse long enough
Bishop Potter 10 forced to tho conclusion
that Christianity has not made ms great an i'm
precision as might be desired upon the followers
Of Mohammed. OIL and water do not easily mix.
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pscDs sss the fslt.iCn 81 M R5E %SGn lie He
states. upon the teachers and m ssIonaries and
got substantially the same answer Christian
s ,S IN ths Ta16i:h empire, but not a@onx
their vices aud little more They have mod,
tue the bettsr. The TUX has ' im i t tSs
dress and military fashions Of Eqropsan
and original bearing: The army 81 the sultan
Il mechanical and often Rrotesqns copy OF
Eoffsd Clothes j. like may Be iaaSined i rom r
the bishops statement that TURK: man or
9 North American Indian in badly hitting
dress suit.
the Turk for the ohristlan endures aud the
Turk wraps himssi soiemnly In large seorn
bishop Potter noticed az an syidsncs Of kind,
lier feelings toward the Christians that one DAY
hour tqr evening prayer be was not asked to
Leave the n9 S as ws A. fPTSsr the custom
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thought Home was the eisanest city In the
S SiSsid; shIsnnsr Shsn Paris H., or L1PdOn and
was going forward in taking care OF her streets.
Mayor uilroy OF the authorities who are re- ,
sponsible Tor II deserved great credit, lie | i
thought Tor the great number Of streets that
are being fitted With the asphalt pavement.
which Is so easy To Keep clean. lie was much
pleased that there was SO much Of IL ON the
east side. lie recalled that some time ago a
cablphn drove hitu from his home In Fifty | .
ninth street TO the foot of Pike street East
River, and made nearly the whole distance on
asphalt.
Alter ten days at Consta ntinopls Bishop
Potter wanted to 20 TO Athens. out found that
the Greeks Would put him in quarantine for
Steven days because he had been IN CoDstan-
tinople Bishop Potter put his Wits 10 work
4 nd learned that the Greeks were QuaTAntIn-
ing people from Italy ONLY one day. So he took 1
ship again and went the same course which
grammar school pupils say . bottle would
follow from G9nstantinopls 70 Brndisi,