Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-26
THROUGH THE BOSPORUS.
Madame TeIford Describes Her Peregrinaons in Turkey
Beauty and Grandeur.

chief Hussein Ami, and grand vizier,
Mlunat Pdsha, ent red his room and
tod him he was no longer Sultan, and 10
prove II showed him his own ironclads
with their guns tuned against him. Al
though regal in its appointments, its
assocla tons were too painful Tor Sultan
Hamid tll.. who has never lived in l..
and only uses it al his Bairam reception.
Today, solitary but imposing, it stretches
along IT. quay OF spoiless marble, fl ghis
OF Steps leading down to the blue
waters. When the palace was inhabitel
and the teauties of the harem sat be-
hind the jealous latices, every steamer
was obliged u make vide de tour. but
now this regulation has been transferred
TO Chlragsn, the palAc. Just above,
where deposed Su tan Murad I'll mad
Murad"-walks up and down, a royal
prisoner. No visi or is ever admitted
mere, and no boat is allowed near tue
shore. Six guard-houses are placed at
regular intervals on the Gala in lrsnt
and delachments of blue uuif, rmed,
brass buttoned, and scarlet ezz d guar s
patrol before his windows night and
day. Through an open window he has
been seen pacing rsstlessly back and
forth like a Gagged lion. Beyond h re,
the European shore presents a continu
Gus line OF palaces, summer residences
and villages, whose streets run steeply
down TO the quay, while IN every avail :
able place, open air cafes covered with
growing vines or green branches. show
groups oil red-i, zz-d m-n enjoying
narghilehs. Ire bills rising back of the
.ats 49,. ...
wreathed in green, and sometimes one
continuous stretch of verdure seem TO
connect the blue oil the sky wi II the
blue Of the water beneath. Sometimes
great pink patch catches the eye, and
shows the Judas trees or pink horse
chesinus in flower. At every stopping
place the universal red or white
turbans OF the Sofas masssd iog Their,
give the effect OF great tulip bed, while
the glitter Of the morning so'diery, with
shining. arms, made one think OF bril-.
liant dragon flies towering near. A.
Armenian aud Greek villages there are
open doors and windows with the VIC
men looking out; while the Turkish VIII
lagos or palaces present front OF closed
windows and clos barred lallices
DOiiiS VI tliN DhtdNCS dtC oNNl
the water, with no entrance in front
save by caique, while Others have the
scala before them Nearly all the
brown tiled roofs, and stove pipes pre-
jec,ing from the windows. All the low
er windows are irou-barIed. and the
heavy doors sport brass knockers of
antique appearance.
Mat,x e ha frprtstek he, J., l.
scrptions over them. while Greek
house may be recognized by it, wreath
of whitening blossoms lett there from
May day Perhaps the most picturesque
| spot on all the Bosporous is that at
Roume!i Hissars, where are the stupen-
dous Notifications .erec ed by NJ )ham.
| med H., in I452, as the first step pre-
parstory to the siege OF Constantine ple,
| Along the rocky sides Of steep prom
ontory are the winding walls, built oil
| alternate layers OF stone and brick.
| while three massive towers, from which
! ssaying vines flutter aud cfeep--tell a
story equalled by NJ romance-I.oo
masons, I,ooo lime-burners, and an ar
my OF labortrs were set to build thes !.
walls. two yards OF which were assign a
to each mason. The castle is reported
to have been complete in three month,
the walls being thirty ieet hick, and
high in proportion. The tNyer nearest
the waters edge was armed with enor-
nous guns, which threw stone shot OF
more Than Ioo-weighi; while openings
above the doors allowed for the throw
ing of hot pitch on any attacking party.
This tower still goes by the nam. Of
"Cut-throat Castle an appelation
well deserved; as, until the present cen
iury it was used for prisoners con-
demned to death "Out OF it says
tradition, mo man ever went alive"
Today it is occupied by a Bulgarian
woman, a refugee, who, doubtless knows
nothing OF its gruesome history. AT is
bsse-i Turkish eusrdhouse holds its
contingent OF soldiery, whose families
have ensconcsd themselves in housss
within the enclosure OF tn D.. wall.
Some OF the enormous stone lhot ar :
ranged at intervals alon. The shore
Between Bebek nj Rune Hissar, on
magnificent plateau, 3 10 feet above
the Bosporous, stands the piid. of all
| Americans the handsome stone ediice,
known as Robert college, which has ex
ercised the most marked influence OF
| the educational progress OF Turkey and
Bulgaria. But the steamer still goes On
| and we see in turn the pretty palace pre-,
senled by Sultan Aziz to mis- diugnter,
Faimeh, and in which W" e sic 4 - '