Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-14
F0RME R BEAUTY
IS MAINTAINED
BY ADR|ANOPLE
DeCadence of Two Centur-
les and Many Wars Have
Failed to Destroy the
Charm Given 1t BY Turks.

IsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRED
Adriauople, Thrace, June 13.-The
decadence of the two, centuries,
present political and economic dis
indignation. wars without end, and
an uncertain future, have been
unable to destroy the ineffable
charm the Turks originally gave 10
this city of eighty-odd thousand
souls. Adrianople is still a holy
city in faith and in appearance.
Romance still abides here.
1.-THE orient is the only place left
to Europe where cities seen at close
range are beautiful" remarked
Jules Sebotin, a French aviator,
while visiting the most beautiful
of all mosques, Sinan's masterpiece
here, the mosque of a thousand
windows but one, erected at the
order of Sultan Selim H., in the
sixteenth century.
The first impression of the city
had been one of infinite beauty.
kans in an airplane, the city had
been seen with a rush, a place of
spires, and slate domes and red
roofs, planted at the intersection of
three rivers. 1t had been a well
coined sight. 1t had come at the
end of four hours ride and it was
journeys end to tired aviator.
Seen From Aloft. t...
Seen from aloft, the city, sur
rounded by poplars at its outer
rim, its house gardens within the
city showing green vines and flow
ers. its outlying fields bare, aroused
memories of Mardin on the noun
tains, Diarbelir by the Tigris and
hosts of other Turkish cities, al
ways sleeping in beauty, whether
by sunshine or moonlight. ..-
The longer the stay in Adrian
ople, the more the charm of this
beauty grows, charm that is as
great afoot as aloft.
Adrianople Is a city that has the
tone of country friendship about it,
not unlike a county seat of the
south. The center of the agricut-
turai exchange business of eastern
and western Thrace, it is frequent
ed by peasants and traders of
Turkish, Greek Bulgarian, Jewish
and Armenian nationalities. There
is record of but one American ever
having done business in the city,
and he came there from Paris and
bought up all the brooms.
While no day knows what the
next may bring forth in the way Of |
political strife and crime, todav !
tile city preserves this tone OF |
friendship and order. Strangers
as they go along the streets, or
vist the shops, are treated with
kindly concern. The Turkish Off
GERS salute courteously and there is
no CLINT of hostility in the eyes of
the Turkish soldiers carrying their
new rifles, recently distributed
them by Colonel Defer Tayar Bey.
His martial law, is administered
with gentleness, though there is no
doubt that the silkeh glove hides
the mailed fist,
The decadence, of Adrianople
goes at a dignified pace. There is
little or. none of the SETTLING
squallor and dirt and noise and
poverty of Constantinople. There
Is none of the clamor of CONSTANT
rople's street cars and automobiles,
There are a few ragged beggars
children who besiege the stranger
but for the most part Adrainople
andures it's shabby gentility with
pride and calm. Here there are
none of the fallen houses and :
iusty streets which characterize
he majority of the cities of Asia
Minor. u.t; kH
Surprises Any Day.
Any day the city may surprise
he world by tremendous massacre,
out meanwhile its life goes on as
as the flow of the rivers. s
Undoubtedly the life of Adriani &
IpiC 10 Win pVtp
cry which seems to cling inevita !
ny to the sinful, idle, sleepy
,rient but of this mystery the
tranger sees only the charm.
Prayers are called from the min :
rets, as of old; also the old and !
lew baZaars do a slender business
n selling American and European
alicoes and homespun cloths and
turkish silver-mounted pipes andI
cigarette holders. rugs, junk, to f
'assing peasant customers; or else. n
phen these are lacking they swap G
With each other, after the happy Ii
manner of all the orient. .. p
Decadence seems to have height n
ned the beauty of the majestic old
mosque of Sultan Bayzid. The b
Yindows are broken in, the locks a
re rusted in the doors, the grass p
!, growing up between the flag 9