The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-09-11
A lntosesting Lettes.

As We promised our fe10ete Iast
week we are herewith publishing .
very interesting letter received by
Judge John T. Adams from his da ghter
and which he has very kindly allowed
Us to copy.
On beard chip from Constant
nople to Odessa.
have been writing letters about
our trip and this time it is about Con-
stantinople. Our ship laid in Constnti-
ncple from Tuesday evening until Wed.
nesday evening so we took guide and
acarriage and saw all of the important
things in one day. We went into the
museum. where we saw many wonder
ful things belonging to many centuries
ago, most beautiful gold and silver or
naments that once belonged to the Sui
tan and the vases are most beautiful
In fact from the many beautiful old
relics it looks like the people Of ages
ago must have had nouncommon taste.
OF the other numerous Things will
only mention the tombstones some of
which are supposed to be over 1900
years old some of them are made of
stone or marble. being cut out in one
piece and fully as large as moderate
sized room and with engravings and
figures hewed out in the stone and Of
the fine ,orkmanship, among these
was the vault Of Alexander the Great
and his wife. We went to the Moham-
medan church and as We went in we
had to put slippers over onr shoes,
(the Turks themselves wash their feet
and go in bare foot.) They have no
seats in their chtrch but the whole
church is carpeted and they sit on the
floor. The ceiling of the church is gold
with many fine paintings The dimen-
tions of the church are simply wonder
fui, the doors are made Of copper ard
are about 10 inches thick. There is =
box for the Sultan which looks like 4
great big cage but made entirely Of
gold. This church belonged earlier to
the Greeks but has been converted in
to Mohammeden church and has been
rebuilt third time. We were there
about II o'clock Wednesday morning
but there were hundreds of people
there performing their religious duties
and just at this time the Turks have q
four weeks fast and are allowed to eat
only once day and that is at two
O'Clock in the night. A cannonshot is
fired which is a signal to break the
fast. We went into the bazaar which
is large building ABOUT the size of
the race ground in |Julesburg and
where you can buy most anything
imaginable. Everyone has a small
booth where he sells his ware. We
bought five pair of Turkish slippers
which ore embroidered with silk and
cost go cents per pair. hope we get
them home without paying duty. We
saw the new bridge where 20 young
soldiers were hung before the public.
They were traitors. The Turkish Ia
dies all wear black silk coats and 4
black veil on the street SO that it is
impossible to see their faces. Con-
stantinople consists of many foreign
people beside the Turks ard each for
eign country have their own post Office
and every country has its battleship
there for protection of its people. /
am not sure whether there is an
American post Office or not but saw
an American battleshiP and a fine
building where the American CONSUL
lives. The city has over one million
inhabitants but has no telephone and
up to the present time have no street
cars but there is track laid and
street cars are supposed to be put on
within short time. We saw an aw-
full lot of men on the streets and would
you believe it we saw many oxen in
use. The city failed to show many
signs that war was going on within
her borders. With the above letter
comes one from Mr.. Adams grand
daughter dated at Odessa, Russia, in
which it states that Mr., Adams daugh-
ter was taken with appendicitis and
removed to the hospital at Odessa
where she was operated on and at the
time Of mailing the letter, was recov-
sring from the operation.
ICE