The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-07-22
AMERICANS STIR
LETHARC|G TURKS
Constantinople Becomes cosnlo-
poIitan City With Ending
of War.
NOW RUNNING WITH ENERGY
American Soldiers, Red Gross, Y. N.
c. A. and American Business Men
Now Throng City-CaII II I'm
vasion Of Wealth"

Constantinople. - Americans make
Constantinople hum with their energy,
business methods and way Of "going
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. M. 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 1t at all,
call 1t "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 1t at all, calls, owing
to its contrast with the American
species, 1.-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, It's 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
Chiclin and other suburbs, Russians
abound.
And what contrast! 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 bells
of Pera, throwing down sheaves of ru-
bles In notes Of thousand, two and
five thousand which. they feverishly
change at the rate of six cents per ru-
bic instead of the once nominal so
cents. ssss
American ways and energy have
even penetrated into the Turkish
homes. Many Turkish women now go
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 agltate 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. Patrols 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 short
cup of Turkish coffee, 30
cents, about the size Of thimble.
One furnished room costs 500
but no extra charge Is made
for the various kinds of bugs that In
fest it. White bread can be had at 30
cents per pound; American flour is
very popular in 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-
IN and Israelite-and each and all
want to do business with the Ameri-
,ans, There Is market for every
hing that grows or makes, And the
Turk, who does no business, but
smokes his cigarette, sips coffee and
cts others toll for him, Is ready to
ray the price. For he is by no means
10 poor az he gives his neighbors, far
md near TO understand,