The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-04-05
Turkey in Ne,U York
Just off BrOQdlUQu
re- NATURALIZATION" Region Of Strange Carb,
Stranger Ways and Strangest Food.
Here You viii See, Hear and Eat Things That Most
Ncu, Workers Never Heard or

everybody's salad. u In mint dressing,
and after YOU have tasted 1, you wonder
why 1t never occurred to any one beside
Turks to use II.
Then n you want II. there IL HIeIatiia,
sweet syrup Jelly: iebban. a dessert
resembling Junxe,. and innumerablc
sweetneats including real Turkish
mama or ITalawwi.
As you drink your Turkish coffee
there come strains Of sensuous Syrian
music. with Its indescribsbIe, haunting
cadences. but into that lower room Il
In not always an easy matter for tho
stranger to 10. II you can say In
Arabian the old Turkish motto. For
every sscent there IL descent" YOU
will be instantly conducted downstairs
Into q basement by a back door. There
you will hnd a small number Of Turks
clad In native trousers OF green or
purple and dark coats. listening to the
singing OF Abdul Fatch. Tho singer has
heavy oval face. with straight black
eyebrows almost meeting over aashln <
eyes. Abdul Is the cabaret At times.
TO the accompaniment OF q drum, he
executes curious oriental dancing figures.
THE "LowEsr PAID" TENOR.
When he was in New York two years
ago from Mount Lebanon he brought
with him three wives. The wives en-
broidered lace and silk scarfs and 40
dull peddled them. In the course of his
Ousiness he met an American SRI who
fascinated him moro than his three
wives and his business put toxether.
Allah! How beautiful she was! She
had eyes moro brilliant than all tho
jewels Of Bagdad. and when the sun
shone on Der hair II had colors like q
rainbow scarf from Damascus. Her
name was Mary O'Brien. waNahi!
Why should he not marry herr He had
but three wives and the Mohs6nmedan
faith allowed him fur.
year ago Abdul Fateh and Mary
O'Brisn were married at the Syrian
Church on Washington street But she
knew nothing Of tho other three wives,
and they meanwhile knew nothing Of
her. Yaiiah! Through the malice of q
rival pcddier the American wife was In
formed Of the other wives OF Abdul.
And the day she learned of his plural.
~ "'s. pesssess ehu oiu1kko1Teu. lnOuRn
Abdul has carried his iaces over ali
New York. no has not been able to md
her.
30 now he sits every day in the res.
taurant and chants plaintive Arab mel
od!cs A. no has . fine tenor voice, the
proprietor gives him food and back
sheesh.
Most Of the Turks and Syrians who
have come TO New York have become
either small shopkeepers or peddleru Of
foreign laces and silk. ~hese men re-
tain one Eastern trait. In the after.
noon they close their shops for the day,
put business entirely out Of their minds
and 30 to q restaurant to smoke a
kalian. drink a glass or arak and play
cards. The restaurant serves 40 q club,
where the same friends meet day after
day. year In and year out.
Ask n Syrian why the neighborhood
y 80 disorderiy, and he will say: "Ya
Kab! A ncighborhood cannot DO good
with Turks In II. The foreigners should
he kept out"
Ask n Russian and he will say: "T'here
! are too many Syrians. Drive out the
| Foreigners"
The Turk will say: "Ailah' The Irish
must 20. The foreigners are too many
mere"
/ And when ono thinks OF all the thirt,
nations who are crowded into Q spac,
les than q quarter Of . mile In length
hating each other with nil their differ
ont kinds Of race antagonism. you vii
wonder why tho neishborhood Ia Al
peaceful ~ Il 10.