Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-04
CONSTANT|NOPLE
RESEMBLES NEW
MINING CENTER
Oil Men, Sheep and Cattle
Kings Flock 10 Turkish
Capital and Spend Their
Money in Lavish Manner

tbV MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WRIT
Constanlinople. Aug. 3.--Con-
stantinople now combines all the
frenzy Of a new mining camp and
a world seaport It's 1.-THE end of
the trail' for all the Balkan states
and everything west of Sue2 on the
Mediterranean. Caucasian oil
men, Donet2 basin miners, Anatol-
ian sheep and cattle kings, Greek
war millionaires and Syrian mer-
chants rush to Constantinople to
pop champagne in proof of their
success. Soldiers and sailors of
half dozen nations swell the pop
ulation and add to tho cosmopoli-
tan aspect Of the streets and pleas
ure resorts
Under allied occupation the city
has become a wilder place than it
was under the Turks. There are
no civil courts. None of the allies
desire to assume responsibility for
reforms other than are necessary
to safeguard life. Italian, French
and British troops cooperate with
the Turkish gendarmerie in keep
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body's job Consequently Con-
stantinople is very wideopen
town. Midnight closing Is enforced
pretty generally, but until that
hour there is little interference
with dance halls. gambling dives
and redlight districts unless muir
der Is committed.
Bait for WayfarcrS.
Leadville and Goldfield in their
dizziest days never offered any
thing wilder than certain sections
of Constantinople where jazz bands
vie with Neapolitan orchestra and
tsigane singers in their efforts to
attract wayfarers into the beer tun-
nels and dance halls filled to over
flowing with the painted women of
many nationalities.
Half a dozen summer gardens
offer vaudeville programs which
attract thousands of persons every
night who seem to have far more
interest in the drinks and restless
crowds than in the Russian prlma
donnas and bare-legged dancers,
whose art Is usually as meager as
their attire. Turks. Arabs, Be
douins, Egyptians and Assyrians,
elbow their way among Cossacks
and Georglans, whose uniforms are
far more brilliant than their recent
achievements.
Coal-black French colonials, re-
splendent in red fezzes and green
khaki, mingle with Skhs and
Punjabi, whose long hair and !
many colored~s headdresses are
in sombre brown Civil |
ians, soldiers and sailors from all |
parts of the world are hopelessly |
iumbled together in Constantine
pie crowds and are so busy look
ing at each other that tenors from
the Petrograd opera. naughty |
French singers from Montmarte /
and Austrian strong jawed ladies
claim but slight attention.
Grand Pageant Every Day.
Constantinople itself Is grand |
pageant every day. Its main
Rue Grand Pera, is
more fascinating than any scene
which producers can ever hope to
'tage. Camel drivers lead thfir
,atient trains, burdened with char
,oal. through the maze of street
,ars, shrieling army motor cars
md carriages, piloted over the
'ough paving at breakneck speed
~ Turkish hostlers who crack
heir whips and shout constantly
Il high pitch to pedestrians who
'enture off the narrow sidewalks.
Turks mounted on tiny donkeys
move indifferently through the
Occasionally Turkish
peasants drive flock of sheep or
turkeys into this swirl Of traffic
md serene oxen draw heavy carts
long at a pace so slow that drivers
# military camions curse them in
en- different languages.
The narrow, crooked streets of
are ill-suited to
motor traffic and the slow going
atalistic Turk Is little inclined to
hange his pace, Consequently
here are many accidents and the
with which foreign I
cars are driven has done
much to intensity Turkish hatred
Z foreigners,