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Show RlfiTlGoi Combines Frenzy of Mining Camp and Word Seaport At Night Time CONSTANTINOPLE. July 31 Constantinople Con-stantinople people now combine all the frenzy of a new mining camp and j a world seaport. It's "the end of tho. trail" for all the Balkan stutes and everything west of Suez on the Mediterranean. Medi-terranean. Caucislan oil men, Donetz Basin miners, Anatolian sheep and cattle kings, Greek war millionaires and Syrian merchants rush to Constantinople Constan-tinople to pop champagne in proof of their success. Soldiers and sail O TO of half a dozen nations swell the population popu-lation and add to the cosmopolitan aspect of the streets and pleasure resorts. re-sorts. Under allied occupation the city has become a wilder placo than it was under un-der the Turks. There are no civil courts. None of tho Allies deslro to assume responsibility for reforms other than are necessary to safeguard life. Italian, French and British troops cooperate co-operate with the Turkish gendarmerie in Me)uii oiijcm ron cvcif uuuj r. juu Is nobody's Job Mldnlpht closing bj enforced pretty generally, but until that hour there is little Interference with dance halls, gambling dives and redllght districts unlo murdjbr Is committed Leadville and Qoldfleld In their dizziest diz-ziest days never offered anything wilder wild-er than cortaln sections of Constantinople, Constan-tinople, where Jazz bands ve with N . polltan orchastras and tslgane singers In their efforts to attract wayfarers Into the beer tunnels and dance halls, filled to ocrflowlng with the painted WOTnen of many nationalities. Half a doen summer gardens offer of-fer vaudeville programs which attract at-tract thousands of persons every night who seem to have far more interest In the drinks and restleas crowds than In the Russian prlmadonna; and barelegged bare-legged dancers whose art Is usually .'!- m igre is their nttlrc. Turks A rain Bedouins, Egyptians and Assyrians. gorgeOUBly clad In native costumes, el-how el-how their way among Cossacks and Georglan; whose uniforms are far more brilliant than their recent military mili-tary achievements Coal-black French colonial?, resplendent resplen-dent In red fezzes and green kh.ik! mingle with Slkha and Punjab whoso lOttfl hair and many colored headdresses headdress-es are wrapped In sombre brown. Civilians, Civi-lians, soldiers and sailors from ill Jumbled together In Constantinople crowds and are so DUSy looking at each other that tenors from the Hc:-rograd Hc:-rograd opera, naughty French singers sing-ers from Montmarto and Austrian strong-Jawed ladles claim but slight attention. Constantinople Itself Is a grand pageant pag-eant every day. It's main thoroughfare, thorough-fare, Rue Grand Pera, Is mon? fascl- I natln than any scone which producers can ever hope to stage. Camel driven dead their patient trains burdened with charcoal, through the maze of stroet-ii stroet-ii '. shrieking nrmy motorcars and carriages, piloted over the rough paving pav-ing at breakneok speed by Turkish ! hotlers. who crack their uh'.ps and shout constantly at high pitch to pede- I trlans who venture oft the narrow sidewalk Turks mounted on tiny donk-eya donk-eya novo Indifferently through this I maelstrom. Occasionally Turkish pea-Hants pea-Hants drive a flock of sheep or turkeys Into thLs ew.lrl of traffic and serene oxen draw heavy carts along at a pace so slow that drivers of military camions curso then In ton different language. Tho narrow, crooked streets of Constantinople Con-stantinople are lllsuited to motor traffic traf-fic md the slow going fatalistic Turk Is little Inclined to change his pace. Consequently there are many accidents! land the Indifference with which fore-1 1 1111 tv cars are driven has dona much to intensify Turkish hatred of1 foreigners. |