Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12
lspeeial correspondence.)

- ONST4NNTINOPLE. May 3l.--'I
IA will sacrifice my whole life to
the people and the constltu-
ton" These were Rechad Me-
hemed's first words when the Young.
Turks sent messengers to say he had
succeeded his deposed brother. Though
not altogether uneXpected--he received
notice the day before to prepare his
mind for the great change In his
life--Mehemed v had been too long q
prisoner;to throw off all his old ways
as soon as he became. Sultan and Cali
Jpn. The habits ofs3o years die hard
II want to live in my old home at.
1 Dolma -Baghtche," be said on his way
back from the chamber OF. deputies,
whittier heat once drove to take the
oath of obedience to the constitution.
Give Yildiz Kiosk to the nation,
he went on II viii not live i'm tilt.
must be turned into q museum and the
people must be allowed to visit 1t.
The grand sriaier suggested that a.
new palace might be built for his
majesty, or that he could choose one.
-of the many which the former sultan
had built and embellished. But he
would not hear of it,
AS the new sultan said he wanted
lrDolma- 3aghtchef to,.7be undermined
people who understand these things
were sent there. The sultan himself
received them, Il have heard and
read that there are machines YOU put
into the houses by means of which
YOU can talk to people at great dis
tances without seeing ,them," he said
to his secretary. The sultan, of course,
meant telephones, which he never mad
seen in his life and which We're gen
orally forbidden in the palace. Besides
those in connection with the town,
| one willfenable .the sultan to colnmun-
icate with his harcm without leaving.
| hts own apartments, and others are
| ,to+run to his secretaries apartments:
SOME INNOVATIONS.
Hitherto the%palacc has been lighted
lsby oil lamps and candies His majesty
lis. deli gi,ted with the iden Of electric.
! light and goes into the various apart
| ments where. the work is being done,
| choosing the lamps and giving advice.
| But he is engaged chiefly i'll asking
questions of the workinen shout the
| way the installation is done. Another
liinnovation is the telegraph office now
being set up in the palace itself.
l. Dolma-Baghtche is handsome
! enough palace OF white wood and
| marble. overlooking the Bosphorus.
But during Abdul Hannids reign the
1 royalG inmate was forbidden, use the
| rooms overlooking the sea lest he
should be tempted to escape. He ana
| his household were confined to the
1 other Size, WINCH opens. onto Tie avg
| nue. of Bcchitach. Here Abdul zFlamtd
erected an enormously high wall. to
| whose height he added from time to
I time. as his suspicious increased. OF
| course this wall now viii be- consider
| ably lowered. The sultan's private
4 apartments IRE to overlook the sea.
furniture has been brought from
Yildiz Kiosk. not because ofits beauty
| but in order TO save expense, rs Me-
| hemed V, in view of the great pov,-
/ erty prevailing in the country, and al
/ 50 in order to set a good example TO
i extravagant pasfas has decided to nix
i his private income at $4,000 per
4 month This will cover all the cX-
penses Of his court and household.
COSTLY POTTERY.
The only really beautiful items of his
1 Establishments are some vases from the
china putteries at Yildiz. These pot
teries which We're closed last year,
/ when the constitution was proclaimed,
| were d, tie Il hobby tho foT;ae, Su.
/ tan's. who used TO pass great deal
/ of his time there. The foremen were
French, and when he was taken pris-
oner the vases found therein We're wort.
1 upward of 100000. Some of them
4 have been taken to Doima-Basht
and the others will remain in the 4ildiT