The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-19
HILL SEES SULTAN
 AND THE ORIENT
Congressman Gives Extracts from Dary
 of His Travels to Fairfield People
THE VISIT TO JERUSALEM

lntroduc1ng Hon. E. J. Hill or Nol~
 walk to a large audience last night in
 the hall of Memorial Library, Fair l field, Rev. Dr. Frank S.. Child said he l is descended from an old and honored family of Fairfield. MT, Hill address l ed the annual meeting of the Histor- 1 ical Society. He said he would read
 extracts from his diary of a journey
 from Constantipole to Cairo. He al- 1 ways keeps a diary when he takes | journey, as future help to his mem | ory. This one was written on sill
 of car window, or on the arm Of | steamer chair or on the back of
 mule. He left Norwalk on the 12th of September, .1907 and after run through France. Switzerland, Hungary and Austria, he took passage for Con- | stantinople where he spent week. IL l is a wonderful city and while there
 he saw the great feast of the Sultan going to the Mosque. This was on the 11th of October, and is an act of worship which the then Sultan, since
 deposed, had not missed for 30 years. His Majesty lives in the Star Palace, a fine building of yellow stucco and gold, standing in the midst of a park l of 250 acres. The mosque is 1000 feet away and the road leading to it is 100
 feet wide. Spectators were allowed to stand on a stone platform built by the side of this road, 30 feet wide and 100 feet long. Thither MT. Hill went with a host of other people of all natipnaH- ties to see the procession pass. There were 5000 troops in the parade, of all branches of the service, in splendid uniforms. all wearing the red fez. Those which were mounted had beau tiful horses, one troop being black another white, and a third chestnut
 The road was covered with fresh sand, and at the sound of trumpets the pro-
 cessicn began to move from the pal ace. First came three elegant car riages filled with ladies of the ,harem,
 who did not hesitate to show their faces; then more trumpets blew and 200 palace officials appeared in gor-
 geous uniforms, their breasts covered with decorations. Finally the Sultan came and all the soldiers shouted
 Long live the Sultan!" three times in succession. Half dozen Arabian horses followed the procession, from which the Sultan would choose such as he liked to take him back to the pal ace. After about 40 minutes the pray CTS at the mosque we're ended. and the Sultan reappeared. He chose a two saluting aus he passed. To MT. Hill he seemed to be 80 years old. The sight was worth going to Constantinople to see. MT. Hill was told the Sultan had count! He is the military head and defender of the church. The Moslems now possess every inch of land where once our own faith was born. The Christians have been driven out by the Turks in the name of God They kill all their animals in the name of God. By their fruits ye shall know them, said Mr HiH. He deplored the fact that the Holy Land is in the hands of the infidels.
 MT. Hill spoke of Smyrna and it's beautiful bay, and said that one-half of the shore for miles is lined with hotels, and the other half with resi- dences. The streets are fine. the city is clean and has a large commerce. For a city of today Smyrna is ahead of Athens and Constantinople. He stopped at Ephesus and fell in love with the grapes which are as large as plums and delicious Today it is town of 200 or 300 Turkish peasants. But once it was glorious city or mar -ble palaces and it's streets were paved with mable. It's theatre could seat 25OOO people, and it's libraries, tenn pies and churches tell the tale of a great city. The Temple of Diana, which stood here, has been mostly car- ried away. Ephesus gave no immor- tai names to history but recent exca- vations on the part of Austria reveal a wonderful civilization. MT. Hill said he stood in the theatre where Paul was. He saw some of the black mar ble columns from the Temple of Diana, 50 feet long and some feet in diam eter as bright and polished now as they were 2,500 years ago, and all of one solid piece. From the temple he went to one of the fig and raisin fac-1 tories. The figs are picked and dried in the sun, and then sprinkled with sea water.
 In one factory l, 100 men and women were at work. All the raisins are stemmed by machinery. and packed into boxes by treading upon them with the bare feet. MT. Hill thought that after this he will eat only layer rai- sins.
 . On Oct. 26, MT. Hill was at Jaffa, and in the afternoon started for Jersu- salem. a distance of 50 miles. He gave detailed account of the physiog- raphy of the country about Jerusalem. and told much which is familiar to most people. and good deal that is new. Inside the city he passed down Christian street, into David street, and so on up to the temple. He was sur prised at the extent of the temple grounds On this spot, he said, Abra- ham offered up Isaac. There is bare rock under the dome of the great mosque This was the place of sac rifice. He went to the pool of Bethsa- da, and found the water cold and clear as crystal. He threaded tthe marrow streets of Bethlehem and found the people fine looking, and as it was Sun, day, all were on the streets and we'll dressesd. He stood on the spot where Christ was born, which is marked in the rock with gold star, and guard ed by a Moslem. No man can stand in such spot as this and not feel it's sacredness. The < history of the world proclaims the divinity of Christ
 MT Hill expressed his disgust at the way in which the different sects quarrel at Jerusalem, and he did not like the commercialism everywhere apparent. He was delighted with the Garden of Gethsemane and the beau tiful manner in which it is kept, being filled with all the flowers which will grow in that climate. It is said it is the one place in Jerusalem where the eternal fitness of things is pre- served.
 TO TEACH SALMON CLUB.
 Clarence Russell Williams, of Phil- ade1phia has been engaged by the Young Mems Christian Association to be the leader of the Salmon Bible Club for this season. MT. Williams is a man known throughout most of the Atlantic states as writer and