Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-24
The SULTAN CHEERED
BY His People on Appearing in Public
In Constantinople.

Conetantinople, April 23.--The Sultan
appeared upon the streets of CONSTANT
non!e today and was greeted by the
people with cries of alteration. With
Il mask like countenance and his head
sunk between his shoulders he ac-
knowledged the salutations of The
throng by curt mods.
The occasion of His Majesty's APP
pearance was his regular Friday visit
to the White Mosque outside the walls
Of Yldiz Kiosk, a ceremony known as
the Salamlk 1t vas the first time the
Sultan had been seen in public since
the revolutionary outbreak of April 49,
Great crowds witnessed His Majestys
brief transit from the gate of his palace
enclosure down the broad driveway
lined on either side by the picked regi-
mcnts Of the army to the carved stone
portals Of the beautiful place Of wor-
ship.
His Majesty received an ovation. The
people uttered adoring cries as he drove
by and saluted the Sustain as their
master and a saint. His Majesty nod
ded to right and left as his vehicle was
driven at slow pace through the lines
of soldiers and he carried his right
hand at salute.
The display of troops at the cere-
mony was particularly fine today. The
army was represented by picked de-
tachments from every branch in the
service. The mosque was completely
surrounded by the soldiers. Regiments
Of cavalry filed a nearby open field,
the avenue leading, from the mosque
to the palace gate, freshly sprinkled
with white sand that the Sultan might
have an INDEBTED path to his place of
worship, was lined four and six deep
by the trooIs of the empire. Back Of
the soldiers the people gathered in a
dense throng.
At noon the gates were thrown open
and the Sultan appeared in his Gus
tomary Victoria. He drove the short
distance to the mosque and at once On
tered to say his prayers. After the
completion of his devotions he return
ed by the same way he came and dis
appeared through the broad portals in
to the guarded precincts of his palace.
None of the ambassadors We're pres
ent by common consent, they having
agreed to remain away.
His Majestys customary uniform,
! that of field marshal, was covered to-
day by an old gray overcoat that he
has lad and Worn for years. This gar
meat is commonly believed to have
been lining of a fine steel and His
Majesty looked thicker through the
| body today than he does when he is
receiving in the palace.
The usual procession attended the
Sultan from the palace gate to the
Mosque Prince Berrhen Eddin, the
fourth son of the Sultan, and Tewik
Pasha. the grand viZier, drove in a
carriage together with the youngest
son OF His Majesty, boy of eight,
who was dressed in the uniform of a
Turkish general Tewfk Pasha looked
old ana Worn. Several of the Sultan's
wives. in closed carriages, drove down
% the mosque in front of. His Majesty.
F.unuchs walked by the side of each
vehicle. Through the open windows of
the carriages the spectators caught
glimpses Of yelled faces.
AS one of the Turkish women pass
ed the palace terrace she called the at
tention of her companion to the new
Paris hats worn by the Turkish women.
The carriage reaching the mosque, the
horses We're unhitched, and the women
waited While His Majesty went within
for his devotions
After a space of 20 minutes inside