The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-06
WHERE TURKISH
HISTORY IS MADE
AUTHOR OF TURKEY AND THE
TURKS" GIVES PLEASANT
COUNTRY.

following account OF the 1lIQlZ KIOSK
and other names mentioned in the
present Turkish uprising.
Upon his accession to the throne
Abdul Hamid took up his residence in
the beautiful Dolme Bagtche palace;
but at the outbreak of the war with
Russia he transferred his residence
to the Yildiz Kiosk on a hill over
looking the Bosphorous. A small
kiosk had been erected on the Bak-
che hill by Sultan Mahmud as early
as 1882, and Abdul Mejid in 1914
pulled the kiosk down and erected
a larger pavilion, which he chris
tened Yildiz in honor of one of his
favorite Circassian women. The Yil-
diz estate is admirably situated from
a strategical viewpoint, and from the
time of it's occupation by the present
sultan great numbers of kiosks, pa
villions and cottages sprang up about
it.
The Yildiz kiosk is not, as a critic
has pointed out, palace at all-it is
simply medley of homogeneous
The Ottoman rulers have
long been afflicted with the building
mania, and Abdul Hamid has not es-
capped the disease A Turkish pro-
verb asserts that the more man
build the longer he will live, and the
present sultan, who has been build
ing, tearing down and rebuilding
without interruption during the last
80 years, doubtless hopes to- live to
the reputei age of Methuselah.
Enclosed by Huge Walls.
The Yildiz estate is enclosed by an
immense wall, which in 1898 was
largely rebuilt and the walls raised
30 feet higher to render scaling i'm
possible The private residence of
the sultan, his harem and the resi-
dences of his sons are on the north
ern part of the estate and enclosed
by second wall II feet thick. and
entered through strong iron doors,
which open without. The harem
with the sultan's pa
vilion by means of gallery. but the
quarters of the princes are separated
oh vii &c.
a graceful wooden building which
contains only "a rooms In front is
an artificial lake and at one side is
a private theatre.
The estate also includes the palace
Of ceremonies, where Emperor Will
lam of Germany was lately enter
parks, gardens, two mosques,
the imperial stables. baths, a mu-
scum of natural history, the imperial
library, a porcelain factory. dog ken
nels. aviaries and the lake. The Yil-
diz is a veritable city, and without
counting the large imperial guard
it has something like 5000 perma-
nent inhabitants within its walls, in
Guiding the sultan's chamberlain,
bodyguards, must
clans, gardeners, cooks, grooms, do
mestics, stable boys, the women of
the harem, with their suites of cum
uchs and slaves, and the households
of his sons. This does not include
a large number of wOrkmen who live
outside the walls The monthly sal
airy list of the palace reaches the
sum of 100000
The Sweet Waters of Europe, viii
age at the head of the Golden Horn
and between the Kiaghad-Khane and
Abbey rivers, is the recreation quar-
-ers of Constantinople. Besides the
kiosk of the sultan rich pashas and
important government officials have
pretty villas here. All about are
splendid groves and fine meadows,
md all classes of society during the
ate spring and summer come here
'or outings It is the chief recrea-
ion ground of the Turkish women,
md an English writer says concern
ng their Friday afternoon visits to
he Sweet Waters of Europe:
The Passing Show.
"The gaudily dressed Turkish wO-
men come AMI cluster on the sward,
md spread theoir carpets and bask
n the sunshine, and through the win
lows of the broughams drawn in line
1nder the great planetrees the fair
aides of the imperial harem peep at
he passing crowd from the folds of
heir snowy yashmaks.
"Alas! only 80 years ago, instead
Of sitting in those broughams their
and excellencies displayed
themselves on the embroidered cush-
ons of their Arabs, and eunuchs In