Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-25
TO GREET The new SULTAN
Mehmed V to Visit the Beautiful City
of Brusa.
WILL PRAY AT ANCESTORS TOMB
His Predecessor Had Promised to Go
There, but Failed-Its Famous
Green Mosque DeinE
Furnished Up.
WILL PRAY AT ANCESTORS TOMB

Green Mosque being
Furnished Up.
BRUSA. June 2s.-In Brusa, the ancient
capital Of the Osmanli, the people are IN
a state Of excited expectation. for has
not their new psdisha, Sultan Mehmed V,
announced his intention of visiting the
town next month to pray at the tombs OF
his forefathers and 10 open an exhibition
OF the industries Of the vilayet? Since the
advent OF Sultan Aziz, nearly half a CEN
fury ago, the famous hot iron and sui
phur baths and the enormous silk indus
try OF the prosperous littls town have
been neglected by its padisha, for Abdul
Hamid, preferring to remain invisible to
his people, failed to keep his promise to
open the first exhibition. But at last
the people are to be rewarded with a
sight Of the sultan. He will spend three
days at the Yildiz Kiosk, which stands
some 1900 feet above the town and was
originally built for Abdul, but never oc-
cupied.
An air OF great anticipation rests over
the whole town and everywhere there is
to be seen hustle and preparation. The
celebrated green mosque is receiving such
q cleaning as II has not known for years.
It's beautiful porcelain tiles Of blush
green, the exquisite workmanship and rich,
harmonious coloring OF the sultan's tribune
and the marble mouldings Of doors and
windows which make this mosque one
Of the most beautiful in the Ottoman en-
pire will appear as magnificent as on the
day that the mosque was finished.
Beauties Of a Constitution.
Houses are being reprinted. The work.
ers in the numerous silk factories-babes
and old women from 7 to 70 years of age
sling at their work In spite Of the fact
that the constitution has given them longer
hours each day for the same pittanca
2 to 4 piastres a day Is to Is cents). and
permits night work, which wa hitherto
forbidden.
Travellers in the interior of Asia say hat
on their return journey the sight Of Brusa
and its fertile valley is to them as Para
disc, and yesterday I myself experienced
something of their sensation after SPEND
Ing five long hours in a crowded, dirty old
Turkish steamboat and suffering a drive
of eighteen miles in an Asiatlc ARABIA dur
ing the hottest part OF the day. The Asiatic
carriage resembles a small furniture wagon,
for the tabular shaped wooden rough
framework is covered with black canvas
which may be drawn up at the sides or left
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There are no seats In this carriage. Some
times a straw mattress is spread on the
floor, and upon this some eight to ten peo-
pie manage to squat on their feet, and
often a whole family packs away inside
with Its luggage, which makes 1t look like
part Of a gypsies' caravan, for the whole Of
the woodwork is painted with vivid colors.
Along the Road to BrusR.
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est seaport town. by a road which aseends
gradually to a height of about 800 feet. and
now and again get a glimpse of the blue
water of the bay behind you, the very
sight of which seems to bring a breath Of
cool air. The countryside is monotonous.
Mile after mile, acre after acre OF hill and
valley upon either side OF the road present
the same appearance, low growing vines,
olive and close cut mulberry trees.
Upon the parched clay soil there is only
an occasional blade of burnt grass or
some hardy flower to be seen, and the hot
MONDAY sun scorches you mercllessly as
you drive along over the interminable
dusty road, at the edge Of which droves
of donkeys and mules stand patiently,
awaiting their enormous burdens of null
berry branches.
ouuuGnlg a bOlu III ~ lOou bhO"S VIC
you are nearing the summit Of the hill
and in a moment the snowy head OF
Olympus is seen over the brow. A few
steps further and there appears beneath
you a magnificent fertile valley surrounded
by range after range OF green noun
tains. Away in the distance Brusa, with
it's mosques, It's factories, It's mills, It's
hospital, its large military training col.
lege and its famou hot sulphur baths
while on the slope TO the right is the vii.
laRe of Tchekirghe, with its iron baths.
Every inch is covered with a rich DARK
soil, and in the little town yonder many
Of the houses are fitted with natural hol
water, and at its street fountains you car
wash In either hot or cold. Every corn.
field is being reaped by hand. Fruit trees
are laden wit cherries, pears, apples
peaches, plums and apricots. There arr
figs, olives. mulberries and vines by tn,
acre. There are stalwart oak trees anC
hillsides covered with shrub oak: there arr
silver beeches, jumpers. chestnuts, lines
weeping willows, pomegranates, graceful
poplars and sombre cypress trees; the las
named planted In the cemeteries on thu
death OF some great parsonage. generally
overshadow some mosque. There are field
OF waving corn, of maize, of sesame. Their,
are thousands OF different wild flowers
growing at ones feet and high up on tn,
mountainside.
Not Like Asia Minor.
Il is with difficulty you realize that you
are in Asia Minor. One moment you ar,
In ireland with its brilliant emerald green
the next in Devonshire with its hedges
its wildness and its flowers; then you ar,
in the south OF France with its vineyards
and in Switzerland with its cultivated AM
s~nowcapped mountains. But a group o
peasants passing with their donkeys
crowds OF cherry stained infants as the,
run shouting after your arabaJi, or
Biblical looking parsonage mounted higl
upon the back OF an ass serves to remin,
you OF your whereabouts. The wrinkle,
old women In wide trousers and bare fee
turn their heads away at your approach
or hastily hold their wells over their faces
The men, face chest and hands tame,
alike, wear the full trouser tight over tn
leg to the ankle, while the children. man.
OF whom are exceedingly pretty, ara ofte,
fair skinned,