Show DEVELOPMENT O F TURKEY Former Form r Vice President Fairbanks In Inthe the course of hIs tour around the world dropped Int Constantinople th other othery d y and for some hours with with the n nev w sultan Of t Turkey Abdul AbdulHamid AbdulHamid Hamid who Is now doing penance ina In a fortress In AsIa Minor would rot not have been so free with the tho dl American visitor Only one American cItizen over made a complete hit with Abdul when in the of his power as commander of the faithful General LQ Wallace When the author ot 01 Ben Hur was minister to Turkey he hei hei i elved a prese present t from the sultan a beautiful girl of about 19 summers summers and a lIke number of win winters winters MrS Wallace being In nople and present In the house when the gift ot of the Mohammedan ruler ar arrived rived there was nothing to It but to send her back which Wallace Vall ace did At least that Is the s story Ory current some years ago Great changes have t taken ket place oln in Turkey both In Europe and Asia since the time of General Wallace The march of progress Is more notable in inthe inthe the iad of civilization than In the European portion of the tle sultans do domain domain main For Instance Damascus has an electric street car system Jerusalem boasts of a chamber of commerce a anew anew new town tow n clock and a fire engine A 4 concession for a railway from Jaffa through Gaza to the Egyptian frontier has been applied for and other lines Unes are contemplated Asia Ashi Minor Is open openIng lag Ing up It If Saul of Tarsus were pow now On the road to Damascus breathing out and slaughter he could be accommodated in a raIlway carriage and the wild Ar Arabs bs who descended upon the plain during the caliphate ot of Omar some six centuries later would find even greater cause for astonish astonishment meat ment in viewing the modernized Da Damascus Damascus mascus than the vines and fig trees and the luxurIance of the vegetatIon in the vicinity in the seventh century In Constantinople the new sultan has endeavored to bring the ancient capital In touch with civilization Mod Modem Modera era em inventions and contrivances are not despised as they were In the reigns of Abdul and his predecessors Until re rc recently the telephone has b en rigidly excluded from Turkish dominions on political grounds Now the porte has accepted a scheme by an American group for the establish establishment ment of a telephone service In Con Constantinople The world do move and at last Turkey and China are making strenuous endeavors to take their places In the line of march |