The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-17
AMERICANS STIR
LETHARCIC TURKS
Constantinople Becomes Cosmo'
poIitan City With Ending
OF War.
NOW RUNNING WITH ENERGY
American Soldiers, Red Cross, Y. M
c. A. and American Business Men
Now Throno city-caII II an
vasion OF Wealth."

Constantinople. - Americans make
Constantinople hum with their energy
business methods and way Of "golns
ahead" that makes even the old Turk
Indifferent as he is to all that passes
around him, lift an eyelash In mild
surprise. American soldiers. Red
Cross, Y. NJ. G. A., American bust
ness men, American-made machinery
food. clothing. merchandise Of every
sort and kind are now In this most
dirty. casual and ancient city. The
Turks, when they talk about II at all,
call II "The Invasion Of Wealth"
The Prussians have gone; the Ger.
man invasion is over. But, besides
this American invasion, is the Rus.
sian invasion. which the Turk, when
he talks about II at all, calls, owing
to its contrast with the American
species, "The Invasion Of Poverty"
Russians, Too, Abound.
Every day the orderly, prosperous
businesslike. keen-eyed American
grows more numerous. buster. better
at home in this most fascinating old
city on the Golden Horn. the most
wonderful city that ever was, with
its mingling OF the races, its white
marble palaces. its noise. dust. and
its seal Of the Orient.
Every day more and more Rus
slams, poor. ragged. disordered, idle,
"devil-may-care," hungry and pleas
ure-loving. flock here from the bolshe-
visits. escaping by way Of the Golden
Horn from Odessa. At STEAMBOAT, at
more or less Americanized Pera, at
Chiclln and other suburbs, Russians
abound.
And what a contrasti The Ameri-
cans, clean-shaven every day, method
ical, wideawake to all around; the Rus
slams. dirty. unkempt, possessed with
the one idea, to amuse themselves.
They gamble every night In the hells
Of Pera, throwing down sheaves of ru-
bles in notes of thousand, two and
five thousand. which they feverlshly
change at the rate of six cents per ru.
BILE instead of the once nominal sc
cents.
American ways and energy have
even penetrated into the Turkish
homes. Many Turkish women now &c
about with uncovered faces because
the American women do IT," and few
are taking an active part In politics
holding meetings at the famous Hip
podrome TO agitate for woman suf
frage, quoting the woman leaders OF
the suffrage movement In faraway
America which they have never seen
and whose language they do not know
Public order is good throughout the
city. Patfols of Italians and Turks
see to that. At crossroads English po-
licemen regulate that curiously intri.
cate Eastern traffic with the same
calm they showed few months ago
at Piccadilly Circus.
Prices Are High.
Americans find life dearer here than
In New York. A cab, drawn by an
emaciated horse, SIS for a short
course; cup of Turkish coffee, 80
cents. about the size of thimble.
One furnished room costs 500 a
month, but no extra charge is made
for the various kinds of bugs that in
fest 1t. White bread can be had at 81
cents per pound; American flour Is
very popular I'm consequence.
Except for the women who have dis
carded their wells, nobody seems to
care about politics; the great thing is
Observation-Disclosures for Greek, Armeni'
an and Israelite-and each and all
want to do business with the Ameri'
cans. There is a market for every
thing that grows or makes. And the
Turk, who does no business, but
smokes his cigarette, sips coffee and
lets others toll for him, is ready to
pay the price. For he is by no means
so poor as he gives his neighbors, far
| and nqar 10 understand.