Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-12

with three galleries not unlike the
Salt Lake Theater In general plan OF
construction as we'll as In size. AS In
all European theaters the galleries
are divided up into boxes or lodges.
with the exception of part of the
second and all of the third. These
are seated with benches and are pat
ronized by the worst class of people
II has ever been my misfortune to be-
hold, ! speak not without experience
as our seats were located in the third
and we had the privilege Of near as
ISOLATION with that horrible rabble.
Our seats were located in just such
a way that we could not get even the
fraction of the stage within our vision.
We were in our seats early and to add
10 the JOY of the situation had TO wait
some two hours for the curtain to
go up on the first act. 1t seems this
is the customary thing in Roumania.
to have the play billed to commence
at and to have 1t really commence
at TO- We didn't know this and Of
course suffered in consequence. We
Judged from the applause that the
performance was very good though
we did not see any of 1t, Here and
there we heard a little of the music
which sounded good. Aside from
that we were hardly conscious of
having been near a theater.
ROUMANIAN CHURCH.
The next day we had look at the
churches Of which Bucharest has a
great many. They are mostly low
cruciform structures and of little in
terest. or course one must see the
Metropolitan church as being the most
noted one in the city. The residence
of the Metropole or archbishop (head
of the Roumanian church) lends in
terest to the church, II being the adj
joining building.
With map in hand we found our
way to the church, where. after re-
peated pulls at a bell cord we got
an aged priest to unlock the door and
show us through.
How different this little cramped up,
stuffy, ill-smelling church from the
large, plain Lutheran church In Bras
So And figuratively speaking how
great is the distance that separated
this Roumanian priest with his oddly
shaped head gear, long black and
flowing gray beard and hair, from
the old Saxon warder who took us
through his church One could not
help comparing the noble, austere
plainness of the Lutheran church with
the towdry gaudiness of this diminu-
tive over-decorated Greek house of
worship, much to the advantage of
the former
restored In 1889. so 1t has at least
the virtue of century or two OF age.
though in this respect II would stand
exceedingly low when compared with
most other churches of Europe that
claim age among their chief attrac-
lions. The impression one carries
away is simply OF a conglomerate
mass of gold tinsel and Christmas
tree decorations.
on one side of the rotunda are two
gorgeous chairs reserved for the king
and queen and all strangers imme-
diately go and sit down In them and
passify their demonstrating guardian
with a small coin or two. We were
no exception to the rule unless IL was
In the matter of the size of the coin
As we came out of the church the
carriage of the metropolitan drove up
to his door and as the old gentleman
came we got very good look at him
Flowing white hair, long beard and
a somewhat feeble step or two testi-
fled of his advanced age
That afternoon we visited the Col
tel hospital, very large, substantial
building In beautifully kept grounds,
and to all appearance equipped with
every modern convenience for making
II as up-to-date an institution as one
might hnd anywhere. We had no
F, permit to visit the place, but Just
went In on our own responsibility and
were In no way interfered with.
we made an attempt to get into
the famous Athenaeum later. but
were after visiting hours or something
else was wrong for the place was
locked up tight
A BRIToN FOR CONSUL.
Failing in this we visited the United
states concui where anything but cor
Rh IN ~.
This may be accounted for by the
fact that instead Of being the usual
1ovial hearty American, we found our
consul an out and out Britisher, He
may be citizen of the United States.
but l have my doubts about IL.
We then tried the minister but did
not come close there. We had an In
door Which neither he nor we UNDER
stood. Sie did his part In Roumanian
ana we MRS In English we got in
side the Mont hall but no further. I
nave no doubt we should have been
Vel received had wo got past that
yigilant guard.
bucharest by this time seemed 10
nave mad about enough OF us. no we
decided TO leave II the following morn
ing for. other fields. Ny friend was
70 go back 20 his English class An
hrasso while I continued on 10 CON
slamsa ana thence TO ConstantInople.
therefore bright and early were
we uD' And before the run had be-
gun TO pierce the murky gray sxy with
Feeble shafts OF light from over the
eastern hills We We're crunching over
,he frozen snow 10 the railway sta
uon once more In one Of their cramp-
ed 10 ir- yh5elers
Luck was with US and we had not
,bns ~ Mal III the train pulled out OF
lne STATION, The last thing | saw was
Iny friends tall figure as he stool by
me iraln waving me a last 'aufwIeder-
seh6n."
AT coNsrANzA.
The only seaport that Roumania has
- the little town OF CONSTANCE on a
penlhsuia which Juts into the Black sea.