New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-03
Terrible Turk
Has Vanished.
Says Educator
Treasurer of Robert College
in Constantinople, Home
From Levant, Asserts Ma
ton Is Better ThanPaintcd
Country Rich in Resources
Insists People Would Wei
come Industrial Develop.
ment Under u. S. Mandate

ne terrible lurk VINO mas been IN
dictcd by countless travellers coming
mere from the Levant within the las.
twenty years was eulogized yesterday
and described as good sort Of person
by Samuel Anderson, the retiring treas
urer Of Robert College of Constantine
pic, who has lived in the Near East for
nineteen years.
MIR. Anderson. his wife and three
children returned here yesterday on
the Greek liner King Alexander from
Constantine where he had served for
the last twelve years with the we'll
known American institution of learn
ing The time had come, he said, when
he felt that his children should be edu-
Gated and reared in their own country,
so he gave up his place in Constantine
pie and brought his family home.
Mr.. Anderson, who had a chance to
observe the Turk under varying circum-
stances in peace time and in war time,
said yesterday that, as a people, there
is an abundance of good in the Turks.
He even suggested an American man
date for Turkey, expressing confidence
that such move would be favorablv
considered by the Turkish nation.
Turkey is rich in undeveloped
material, and, if properly developed,
would progress rapidly in the commerce
of the world. l am confident that she
would welcome an American mandate
or some system Of development engi-
neered by America, for the Turk has
an abiding faith in America The
United States is above all other ma
tons in her esteem, for she trusts
America. The Turk feels if the United
States were to have a mandate over
Turkey the Turk would get a square
deal and would not be exploited and
gouged.
turkey, | know, would welcome de-
velopment by America. and as things
stand to-day it is apparent Americans
can get anything they want in Turkey
In my opinion there is a chance for
America to develop the interior of
Turkey with railroads, an equipment
that is scant and inadequate in the de-
velopment Of her vast resources. A
good railway system would develop
Turkey just as the railroads developed
and enriched the great western half
of the United States"
Mr.. Anderson admitted that the
Turks We're eliminating GreekS and
Armenans by rather subtle system
of deportation, and that reports which
he believed were authentic proved that
many Greeks and Armenian families
invited to the borders' were left to
die in the desert. Instances, he said,
were revealed which showed that men.
women and children of undesirable
aliens were put to death at the end of
their deportation.
The passenger complement of the
King Alexander, which took aboard 51l
Greeks at the Piraeus, consisted of
Americans, Turks, Englishmen, Rus
slams, Rumanians, Armenians, Bulgar-
ians and a variety of travellers from
Asia Minor
Among the vessels second cabin and
steerage passengers were 231 picture
brides from various Levantine ports
who have come here to marry. The
usual fotilla of launches containing
the prospective husbands modified
from various parts of the United States
swarmed about the vessel at Quaran-
tine and at the pier in South Brooklyn
Bill Quigley, the Battery boatman
who took out the spring lines from
the Alexander as she approached the
dock, remarked that while marriages
may be made in heaven it looked as if
Greece was running a close second in
the contest
Among the saloon passengers were
RearAdmiral Colby NJ. Chester GU. s.
N, retired), Rear-Admiral lila Iri-
mescu (retired). of Rumania, and Ma
jor Davis ]. Arnold, of Providence.
Among the saloon passengers who
arrived yesterday from Naples on the
Italian liner Dante Alighier were
Mario Solvini, an electrical engineer
of Milan; Evan Mackenzie, Miss Lii
liam Hull, of Rochester,; Fernando
Villa, an opera singer, Eugenio del
Vecchio and Menotti Nannini.
On the Red Star liner iceland from
Antwerp were Henry NJ. Paradise, Will
liam w. Hastings and Mrs Camille van
de Casteele. The iceland carried POS
steerage passengers, 1873 being Rus
slams.