Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-27
CONSTANTINOPLE AN
 INTERESTING CITY
Letter Describing the Ancient City is Received From Pine Bluitian Who is Making Tour of Europe With Friends.

Friends.
 The Graphic this morning publish es another interesting letter from e. s. K a Pine Bluff lady who is mak ing tour of Europe with a party of friends. The letter is descriptive of Constantinople and has many inter esting features. Ii follows;
 Feb. 2S.-We left Constantinople this morning, took q sail up the Bos- phorus and Black sea. The former Is the Newport of Europe. It is ln- ed with palaces of the Sultan, the Kedive of Egypt, and his mothers house where Emperor Eugenit stay ed awhile. These are all summer homes, of Ambassadors from Russia, France, England, Italy, Germany, etc. Saw the old hospital where Florence Nightingale was, during the Crimean war, the sweet waters of Asia where the women of nobility and Sultans wives came to bathe. accompanied by their eunochs, also many ancient pal aces in ruins. Whep we got in the We all went in the forward saloon and had a fine sermon by d Kansas City minister. l forgot today in go- ing up the Bosphorus we passed Rob- ert College. The students--mostly i Roumanians, Greeks and Turks were in front of the college waving and cheering. Our band playfl Star Spangle Banner and the two flags VI TO lowered ir salute There was { tile educating Of the yoang mon and }Ac'r knowledge gained Of other gov garments thro' the college has been the cause of reformation ill Turkey. i July is 3 gi'f at month with them. the , lth, l4ti, and 9th each save inde- pt ndcnue practically: For i' was the 24tll oE July that a constitutional governmt nt commenced "A bloodless revolution" it is called, tho a general was murdered The gu cle said If Abdul Hamid hat' not agreed to the iconRtitution he would now he iii the i7ottDm of thn sea. We saw his pal zee and two war vessels were there. they say 10 keep him good. Ten days ago another great change came about when the old minister was replaced by another.
 When our ship anchored the Amer ican Consul and many Turkish gen. tlemen came on board. An ovation was given them, much to the Turks delight The Consul informed us wt would be allowed to visit the Treas ury g favor seldom granted Tht women are now claiming their rights IL is pitiful to see their houses with barred md latticed windows. When tHey go on the street they have to be yelled and attended by eunoch.. We American women can't realize how blessed we are Tn driving over Con- stantinople Miss Bena Mrs. Hudson (who is my foster mother on this trip lives in Nashville, Tenn.,) and ! were so fortunate as to have the guide-for four cabo-sit with our driver He is a Greek and very in- telligent. We first went to the Galata tn oJi fo ffo we'll repaid by a magnificent view of the whole city-in three sections, Stamboul, Galata and Pera. The Golden Horn--a liquid street filled With vessels of every nationality, and an arm of the Sea of Marmora, sep arates Stamboul (The Turkish quar- ters) from the other side. Galata, the business section, was originally occupied by Italians. Pera on the hill above Galata, is the European resident quarters and the only decent part of Constantinople. Talk of dirt, never saw any before. Dogs every where. Thirty thousand isn't an over estimate-they came from Asia Minor with the Turks and are not allowed to be killed-all one breed, common cur, but very fat, being the only scavengers for the city. We next wis., ited the Seraglio, in this enclosure is the T0asury. I can't begin to de- scribe the gorgeous things I saw there. Diamonds seem to me now, no more than the sands of the sea shore. There was the old Persian throne of beaten gold studded with hundreds of rubies and emeralds An emerald, the largest in the world is oblong and about size of half a p.ne |apple. Hundreds of diamonds set in dagger hilts, sceptres aflame with emeralds and rubies, crowns studded with opals and pe&ls, magnificent garments of all the Sultans with the