Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-07

mart of the city o. having a boom; ana
i,fs ,yhigh sold for $40 a square yard
t,.. wears nro are now bringing $500
There are instances where ground D.
ceiling for ls times as much as II ala
iu 1905 Property is going up al over
thi. section. and am enormous amount
of building is being done. Rents arc
sl rising that the poorer Europeans
arg moving out into the suburbs, and
This CITY promises to have "a suburban
development just as we have about our
American towns.
European cairo is city Of wide
streets. paved with asphalt IL ls
citt of electric lights and sanitary im-
provemonts. il has fine residences
surrounded by gardens tllcd with trop-
ical plants and trees; ana It's bettet
stores carry goods which would sell
readily i'm Paris or New York one can
buy almost anything from anywhere 90
the world at these stores. This is es-
uecially so OF such wares as are Do
demand by the tourists and the rich
do-nothing class. The pedler OF an
Equities and fine china, OF lewelry anu
Of oriental rugs is also here In all hts
glory. and during the season he does
q big business.
cairo has many doctors and dentists.
The doctors charge So a visit whether
YOU see them at their offices or at your
hotel. The dentists are mostly Amer
leans, ana they are not here for their
health The town IS one Of newspa-
pers Libraries and clubs. It has It's
daily journals. in which you can read
the kilograms In French English and
Arabic; and IL has it's loudmouthed
ncwsboys. who cry the papers ON tho
streets. MY shoes are BACKED every
morning by a boy wearing a turhan
and his charge IS two cents a shine.
cairo has a good postal system. Wits
"a letter delivery several times day.
ana 10 has hundreds Of policemen. both
on foot and on horseback A police
| man stands en- the center Of every
street crossing to see that all carriages
60 10 the left instead Of the right and
there are enough police I'm every sec
ton to make life and property safe
CAIROs BIG HOTELS.
Cairo IS one Of the winter resorts of
the world. It is thronged during the
season with Europeans &nd Amel leans.
There are thousands of our rich on -
zors here every year, and they leaN.
millions of dollars in Egypt Thhty
thousand tourists visited the valley %
tine Nile last winter and 90 is safe @
say that they left upwards of $4,000, -
900.
The hotels of Cairo increase IN size
and number every year. They are run
by syndicatcs with large capital and
they pay big dividends. Shepherd 8.
which as SO well known everywhere, has
400 beds The savoy has $50. The
Hotel Continental 300. the Ghezireh
palace can accommodate 400 guests at
one time. and the Mena hotel, right un-
der the Pyramids, has $50 rooms. All
these hotels have modern Improvements
and they charge you roundly for them.
Al Shephcard's 1 pay S a day for a
douhle-bcddcd room for myself and son.
and in addition there is a charge OF 10
cents day for electric lights. If
have my breakfast in my room that Is
am extra. and n I am not I'm the din
ing room, at just the moment when
dinner begins I find the doors closed
and have 20 go to the grill room and
pay extra for whatever ! order -Four
or five dollars per person per day for
room and board is the usual price az
the hrst-class Egyptian hotels, and this
rs so at Alexandria and all up and down
the Nile valley. The prices are some
what less during the summer and fall