The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-06
FROM SIMON'S ROOF.
Rev. Robert L. Wick Sends
Tidings of the Fries
land Pilgrims.
LONG LETTER FROM JoPPA
Barefoot Experience in a Mosque
The Cry for Bocksheesh--
Interesting Items.
LONG LETTER FROM JoPPA

Fr-esland-
ROOF Of SIMON, THE TANNERS SSSl
My Dear People,-I am not on the top
of Simon the Tanners House at the
present moment, but was a Few hours
me that 1t would be a good place 10 be-
gin an account of my wanderings since
Side the harbor of historic Alexandra.
Then 1 was going down into Egypt-
now ! nave come OUT, ana, OF course,
l nave seen a good deal that was new
and strange to my northern eyes. Why,
The very evening We dropped anchor III
Alexandra Bay, as the sun went down
tan hung out his Star and Crescent in
the sky. and it was under its hight t-at
We were rowed over the waters 10 tne
been chattering and screaming and Jang-
ling and fighting for the last two hours
unuer our very bows.
Al the wharf we We're eourteouSly ask
ed to give our names as We went through
the customs department. 10 the large
vans which We're to carry Us tbt to s Me
got an mixing of what we might expect
in the and of the Pharoahs from the
said more expressively than gramsnati-
i Haziy an p aNhs S We ha nfsasaa psggafs ana
giers. and had become enough hardened
to piteous appeals ana manned ana Grip
pied .spestaeulars" e gs 1cfia 8 neI hni a we
0Q4CSCCICS ~ klC Al
counted without our host. We hadn't
seen the beggar and 'tbocksheshs man
at his best. But we have met him now,
the other side that We hadn't "stacks.
of orders on Newman Home Inaustr.al
Missions to tender hin, wherein ne mis Sas
face" It's Bocksheshs bockshesh. all day
long. You hire a maj fer SO much
the place to which you wish to Sc, and
when you have paid him his dues he
brazeply asks yoq foF b~sanakS sM 81
You meet a boy onfsthe street., and ten
out his hand. and II his sSssssess tone
yet out OF swaddIing clothes, who cant
get out the whole wore, meet you With
open palms and cry %sheesa;a 4 saw fbs
leads to the ancient Church OF the CoPts.
ggatnsEr herself oat IF 1 5Gga5as s5y a 4 Boy oT WINS
had run over her In time to importune
one of our particular party for "Sheesh."
pie. and am glad that 1 f~r1ifated Ger
Tain people OF old, of whom you ali haye
heard and got out of it. But this isn't
on your way to the railroad station
where We were all to embark for Cairo
to be honest. / did not see mgehso f The
for one thing, and for another, it IS a
modern city for the most part as is
R E5SlfIb OY Bo 5ns laGsa t1 e. 60 so.o 90. s Gnsn ans
spend much time looking at cities of this
m my lay right before US,
Alexandra is quite English, YOU Know.
II Q don't know Il You Waum hays hays
seen its signs. On-cur way 70 the station
We saw many signs. but the only ones
id liquors, 1t Was a sorry comment
on Western civilization, for II iookeo as
though its disciples were such a thirsty
crowd that Immediately on their reaching
the Orient they must needs quench their
thirst in French wine. Scotch whiskey
and German beer-but I've this to say for
and after another sort from the English
Gated person among them. in fact the
only drunken mar I've seen since leav-
ing New York harbor was a Roman
MIA, who celebrated his departure from
civilization by swallowing enough OF
some sort of an intoxieant to make
ing that the natives do. not get drunk;
the probabilities are that they do-at
Least least. a fo g6oa many maj dr n mem Of win wine 's se
I understand, and this state of pro
Inhibition" may account. n part, at least.
for the noticeable absence OF drunkenness
At the railroad station we climbed in
to one of their compartment cars, and
w St g 'e good die ea 7 zzast eas rate laaa than E 90s ever
Jacob made when he climbed into
Joseph's wagons and went down to see
Cairo at say 3 O'Clock in the morning,
we got into a wagon presided over by a
genius" who mounted the box. cracked
serted streets like a mad man. The
drivers own in Egypt all seem to be
lineal descendants OF Jehu At least
bluff gentleman. They all drive furious
ly. Al the Hotel Bristol we We're housed
s fs5n5gd %bjyte g sblr T5e ps baFg 'le gssh I black rea
eyed Son of the desert as chambermaid.
We had dropped suddenly into the realm
to do was to press the button to get
sight of the ''red headed white robed
apparit.on who moved "asrily' about
ened al dawn by the Chatter and jab-
ber', of the crowd outside, we break
tasted on rolls, honey and coffee. and
Mohammed Ali. In fact the bones OF
that gentleman repose therein In a fine
0rohzeo, s sPL END MOSQUE.
a description of. the mosque, but viii
visit it. Covered reads All kinds of
hat .. fr9m "a q jockey mesa hat to but a s boal0p pr sila <
given to understand that no hob nails
were to be allowed. They get the idea,
1 suppose, from the words of the Lord
10 Moses: Put off thy shoes from off
thy feet. for the place where thou
have 1t, and SO AT. the door slippers are
fhe MOSQUE of Mohammed Ali. but the
old unregenerate Arabs WIKI had them
demanded several ''piasOes for the use
of them. Not having had time to get an
exchange of money, I vas destitute o.
avoid any alteration with the fol
lowers Of the Prophet off
with any shoes and did the mosque in
the appropriate style OF the true Mama.
luke. IT was easily DONE, for the marDle
floors of the building were covered wltf
rugs, so the only Inconvenience apoul
1t was the trouble one was put 10 takine
mosque, our man, Abdout, who, by the
way, took me Into his confidence ane
told me that he was the husband of two
wives and the father of three children
guided us to what is called the Well Oh
Joseph-a deep hole some 200 feet deep
used in ancient times as q source OF
water supply for the garrison Of thu
dusty inclines, down where one creep.
to the spot where he can safely pee
over into the darknes beneath him. Tn
legend they tell is that 1t was in this
wall that Joseph was put by his brethren
nrevious to their selling him to the man
Efealers. who took him down into Egypt
It IS remarkable with what facility some
men do lie.
After taking in another mosque, tina
Of SI,itan Hossan, which boasts of tn
hioj,ast roinorpt and loftfeSt entrances II