The Arvada enterprise., 1910-08-26
Hungary to Turkey.
Continued from page 4.

OF turkish coffee, 1t is thick like
syrup, very black and very sweet
and is made by mixing sugar and
coffee powder in water. | like
It first rate. lam very much in
ferested in some of the people on
the train. In my compartment
are two men born in CONSTANT
nople; one is thirty, the other
sixteen. The older one is a cloth
merchant and speaks several Ian
guages including English. Then
two, | have met a young man
who is a merchant in Smyrna, a
Greek by birth, speaks five Ian
guages. He is just returning
se-:,om a pleasure trip from Amer
lea. At dinner there were four
of us, "a Greek, a Turk, an Ital-
ian and myself.
1t is now Tuesday and we ar
rived in Constantinople early
this morning. 1t was a fine trip.
| have read that one should not
en5er Constantinople by train
but by boat to get the best i'm
pressions because if you come in
on the train it is like going into
a house by the back door. like
it though and | am glad | came
this way because Igo out by boat
so that | shall see the whole
town from front and back. /
am writing this on the Famous
Sublime Porte or The Ministerial
Building, where all the foreign
ambassadors have their offices.
| am waiting now to see the
Grand Master of Ceremonies of
the Court so that | can get per-
mission to go through the Royal
Treasury. There is so much red
tape here, | had to go to our
American Consul first and get a
letter from him.
Last night a most interesting
incident occurred at" one Of the
stations. The governor of the
province was at the station to
bid adieu to his brother who is
one Of the way up officials of Tur-
key. There was an immense
crowd of people including a band |
and a lot of soldiers. The two
brothers reviewed the soldiers
and received und gave salutes.
>, y4pting the friends saluted
anu Kissed the hands of the
officials. | wish you could hear
a Moslem priest praying as | can
now hear him. You would never
forget the noise, It is terrible. t
The life here is very interesting,
every country is different. Fezes
are everywhere. The women,
poor souls, don't amount to much, 1
they do not seem to be appre-
ciated.
| saw a funeral this morning;
they were all men. Women are
not allowed to attend. Turkish
women | see on the streets are
heavily yelled. How dreadfully
hot and close it must be for them.
My! but how the people here yell
as if they were frantic; they talk
all over mouths hands and feet,
and it is said they are frightful
swearers. Such a mix up, on
the streets as one sees; men wo-
men, goats, kids, sheep, dogs,
donkeys, peddlers and beggars
all in a heap. ! have to have
guide here. there is such a jum-
BILE of houses and streets and no
electric cars, few old horse cars
and as a modern innovation, a
very few bus-autos. The old Sui
tan who was recently deposed
las certainly a terror: he would
not allow such improvements as
electricity or telephones. They
say he was a human devil and
during his reign had $4,000 peo-
pie assassinated or murdered.
For instance he invited, which in
vitation was always command,
re persons he did not like, to
come and dine and then gave
them poisoned food and that was
the last heard of them. A Ger
man chemist was asked to exam
inc the stomachs of some who
had mysteriously died and found
the poison. Later he got an in
vitation to dine at the palace and
that was the last of him. The
Sultan deliberately murdered one
of his daughters of six years.
The little girl came to him with a
toy gun given her by a foreigner;
he thought it was a plot to kill
him and whipped out his gun and
shot her dead. He kept his bro
ther, who is now the reigning
Sultan, in confinement for 33
years and now the released bro
ther is having the old sultan con-
fined, and no doubt Believes that
revenge is sweet. The new
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