The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04

and IL has grown into a commanding
position and extends wide influence in
Turkey. 1t has eleven instructors,
and of its graduates about forty have
become physicians, as many more
are preachers, and a much large
number have become teachers. 1t
has good buildings and equipment
and funds of about $5O,000
The Euphrates College.
The Euphrates College at Harpoot,
beyond the Euphrates, was established
in 1876 and is the only institution of
high grade which teaches both boys
and girls under the same administra-
ton. and which also includes all
grades of pupils, from the kindergar-
ten to the college, more than a thou
sand in ALL 1t has funds of about.
$4,000.
Anatolia College at Marsovan, in
the province of Sivas, was established
as a college in 1886 Side by side with
it is a girls boarding school, and
there are four hundred pupils in the
two institutions. The Mission Theo-
logical School is also located at Mar
sovan. Anatolia College has fairly
good buildings, an able corps of in>
structiors, American and native, and
what was said concerning the college
at Aintab holds also of it's graduates,
have become leading business men.
The funds of the college are $1,000.
The colleges at Aintab and at Marso-
van have imperial firmans.
The two other American colleges,
viz. that at Tarsus and the Interna-
tional College at Smyrna are still
younger. The latter became a college
two years ago, but already has $50
pupils, and is more nearly self-sup-
porting than any other of the Ameri-
can colleges in Turkey.
Two of the Oldest and most impor-
tant of the high schools are that for
boys at Bardesag, near Nicomedia,
and that for girls at Adabazar on the
Anatolian railway.
American Hospitals Established.
Recent years have witnessed the es-
tablishment of American hospitals in
most of those large centers of the in
terror of the country such as Beirut,
Aintab, Caesarea. Mardin, Marsovan
and Van, where no hospitals before ex-
listed. In these hospitals, and in the
dispensaries connected with them.
scores of thousands of the suffering
are treated every year. This work is
done wholly irrespective of race or
creed. 1T is beneficent work which is
highly appreciated by all races and all
classes of the heterogeneous popula-
ton of the Ottoman Empire.
How Turkey Obstructs American
Workers.
1t is supposed by some-once and
again United States ministers have
come to Constantinople with this idea
that American missionaries run to
| their ministers and consuls whenever
they meet with any difficulty raised by
local Turkish officers. Nothing could
be further from the facts. Ninety-nine
! cases out of every hundred of such diff
/ ficulties are settled by direct face to
I face conference between the American
resident and the Turkish officials. The
4 distinctly reactionary movement in re-
+ cent years away from the more liberal
sentiments of thirty or forty years ago
! has greatly increased the necessity that
/ American educators and missionaries
are now under for appealing to repre-
/ sentatives of their government for as
I sistance or redress.
The most serious occasion for COM
1 rlaint is found in the Turkish aversion
/ to doing to-day what can be postponed
/ till tomorrow. that extreme reluctance
I TO dong at all whatever is unwelcome,
! even when It is acknowledged that
/ sooner or later 1t must be done.
/ Held IN fer six Years.
1t took six years to secure the per-
mission for the erection OF the first
! Robert college building, and no sub
! sequent erection Of additional build
/ iugs has been possible, except after a
! delay OF at least two years II took
six years to get the Turkish govern
ment to pay the indemnity for the de-
/ struction OF buildings In 1895 II has
/ taken twice six years-and IL is not
/ accomplished veto get the permits
/ sion TO erect a chapel on n site long
/ since purchased IN STEAMBOAT There il
absolutely no valid reason for all this
/ delay American missionaries have
/ compiled with the vexatious require
nents Of the new school law Of 1862
/ according 20 which not only must al
text books be submitted 20 the repre-
sentatlves Of the Department OF Pub
| lic Instruction, but the qualifications
/ of teachers also must be Judged by
theirs
A larger number ~ American inter
ests are affected by this law than by
any other. tnhappiy Ia lie enforce