| Show THE CITY OF TANGIER SAID TO BE THE WICKEDEST an THE WORLD I 1 irist ol of cut throats gather from all a OTO the tha worlds world itene gaide X and Sou danese slaves copyright aw all rights reserved reserve tangier morocco dec 31 most ilos t Ameri americana cams set get their idea of 0 tit tangier 1 from rom FL a popular story which describes the ue life here of 0 certain fugitives from american justlee justice sate safe from arrest because ot of the lyck lack ly ck of an extradition e 1 treaty its a pretty good story stori and might easily be true but OB as there are only three genuinely american families in au all morocco and these are ot of tin tilt high eat cat the traveler from the states can call look philosophically upon the edest and the most picturesque city in the world the lack of an extradition treaty Is con convenient venlen t but america Is a tons long way oft off it most 0 st of 0 the cheerful exit cut throats and D arol abla le whose exploits cast it a hole halo of 0 glory elory over tangier society are from the nearer dearer countries especially from which la Is only a tew few miles away front gul franco france and italy tangier Is 1 as european in its government as shanghai jt it Is ruled by a a sanitary council composed of all the foreign ministers to morocco acting with the or moorish minister i ot of foreign affairs AlT aIrs tile the sultan himself almost never comes to tangier though the one vessel which Is at once royal yacht and the entire moorish navy lies in Us its harbor the door stands open all day long lone A span lard jard tried it not long ago in a m moment the owe alloha amed edans ans were upon him with daggers whipped from beneath beneat li their lowing robes and s a lew few days thereafter was a llast cla ia funeral in tangier one cannot even enter a school tho the little moorish boys sit rocking back and forth all day long singing the koran in chorus a nut but as the whole performance Is visible through the door the deprivation Is in endurable those twin relics of barbarism slavery and Tamy exist in in tangier aangier under tile the benign rule of the sanitary council 0 of the christian powers whereof minister Nl colson 1 Is president S slaves 11 1 L ve 3 ca cannot annot b be e bought a and d sold in except by private agreement there la 19 no slave mart as at zorador Bof fador and other interior towns but lung lone caravans of slaves pass through and their roes rags jostle the stirrups of the august foreign ministers as aa they tacy ride horseback through the vile and narrow streets they drive the camels in tile the caravans from the so soudan U which halt outside the city rates gates they do much of the th hard and heavy work they aro are exclusively employed in the hitrec horecni ns of the wealthy moors they are even owned by Euro europeans peana there Is no admixture of blood in these ahr se slaves they are as black as a coal al arid and as 5 as beggars while the moors especially the wealthy orion onea who live indoors tire arc no more swarthy than many englishmen and are often beautifully clad the rule rula of the sanitary council extends three miles beyond the walls of tangier further tho than n that a european Is not permitted to go co without a moorish soldier ns its escort sometimes people try it awhile apo a spaniard was murdered in this way his big government secured a money payment from the sultan but the murderers were never punished piracy Is still in an occasional pleasantry of moorish life the prosper corin colln a vessel en 2 41 7 bir v az k ot 1 Q t f I 1 K n rl I 1 11 M I 1 11 i Z E I 1 1 az RM t T I 1 I 1 ll 11 I 1 1 1 I 1 Z A 1 I III a I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tj I 1 ai i I 1 1114 kill I 1 t sj I 1 I 1 1 1 ija r 1 A IN I 1 I 1 id 4 7 4 I 1 I 1 q I 1 ij I 1 0 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 I 1 I 1 aj 11 I II I 1 I 1 9 I 1 1 I 1 A 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I is I 1 1 J all M W I 1 I 1 I 1 Y A 4 0 1 r I 1 s k N 7 I 1 11 1 0 ia 1 I I 1 zeli ze li I 1 d 4 I 1 w afi ai I 1 41 9 fl I 1 I 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guese french or american aini oil zi 21 though liow low they aliey got col their naturalization papers Is a dim oriental mystery these people are constantly a pealing to their re respective lve ministers to protect them and constitute a first hasti classi class nuisance nul sanco to every one concerned it ir is 13 not wonderful that they v value alue their citizenship papers so ao highly since his Sheree She flan majesty liaa has it a playful way war of th throwing rich men into jail until they arrange a satisfactory division of their wealth A sultan having fib solute dower of life and death Is 13 no joke many a ve wealthy althy moor goes clad in to avoid his kantat Pant atas with wilh their assessment lists here as elsewhere in the east the poor jews jewa get the worst treatment they are obliged to wear a distinctive garment a long ions blue or black cattan caftan and to live in a special quarter of the city reserved for them in tho the interior towns town s they fire are compelled to go BO barefoot a all 11 the year round it Is not at all strange that the jews of tangier aro are mobley citi citizens of great britain france or spain though they may never have set et foot in those countries A renegade moor Is not a christian no do matter of chat country he may mar bo be a citizen no christian Christl Ln may enter a 1 mosque evert even in tangier though the raged graced ja in the french spanish trades trade was recently looted by reellen pirates and the foreign ministers went in a body accompanied by their drago mans to demand restitution on behalf nt prance france and spain from mohammed r rl torres the Shere ellan minister of 0 tate nite they v will ill set get it some day these dragomanos dragomans drag dt omans are splendid crea aulls tulls in robes and turbans looking as SC if they had just stepped out of the th Ar arabian ablan nights they squat on their heels in the ministerial ante fante chambers run errands and are otherwise useful and ornamental when I 1 got cot past the particular yusef nho guards the door 0 ot f the united states representative I 1 round found in mr burke the ex ck principal of the village school which I 1 once attended c d after swapping reminiscences of deacon this and squire that I 1 mr burke who alio Is a veteran diplomats diplomat though not long in tangier talked lovingly of 0 the country there is no telegraph here except to the spanish posse possessions along in ceuta ceata rind and I 1 ia and t to 0 the T country prats ot of the foreign ministers said mr burke the moors have no use for or it some day or other I 1 must go to fez to pay my respects to tile the ultan just junt by way ot of a joke 1 I asked the minister finister It 0 of forel foreign n affairs whose establishment Is in liere here what railroad I 1 should take for or fez re he held up his hands in holy horror there aill never be a railroad in morocco he said eald 1 I asked it morocco was a very populous country oh yes sall said the ministers minister 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how many inhabitants do 10 yo you count in your census oil oh there are acts so ao many we could never dever count them but its a great country he replied arid and that on unimpeachable authority Is 19 all I 1 can tell tel I 1 you about Mo Ilo greatness said id mr burke our american at the court of his majesty bajes ty Is a at t present boarding in Taj igler the british brita t german and french ministers live in great state in big biff houses with spa clous gardens on the outskirts of the town any one can do ahls pretty cheaply no one pays taxes on house property in tangier the public needs are met by money squeezed from import and export duties of one sort or another two american ladles live absolutely sol alone on the southern verge of 0 the town in a beautiful house houe ed entirely or by moorish servants it if one Is luck lucky ry enough to be bidden he can go ill there e re of an afternoon and havi have real yank yankee e e tea biscuits handed him by moorish servitor 4 with ba bare re leg less robes and turbans these ladles ladies think it perfectly safe to live alona thus right on the boundary between the dark continent and the most wicked city and have done so for a long time such are the disappointments of life the wickedest wick edest la Is not so BO very wicked after ill all in spite of the slaves and concubines the refugees and rone rene kadee gades uio the escaped Sp spanish arLigh joll birds from ceuta ceata and the beres moors moore with their daggers ever ready tor for the ili insulter of their falth faith tangier te 13 a very safe and quiet place it Is so ao easy to live by cheating the tourists that it worth while to steal from them the moors are proud and honest handsome and courteous impre aing ono as being just what they are arcken gen clemen of long pedigrees pedigreed grees and excellent ba blood 0 od one never sees a drunken man jn in th the narrow filthy street any more than he sees a car or a wagon mohammedan prohibition does prohibit the only sails satisfactory factory drunken man I 1 have sten awn in two weeks was t tha he red faced british captain of the steamboat that ferried me over the strait from gibraltar many of the moora aro scarred and gashed from bloody encounters on the caravan trail but there Is no fighting in Tati tangier gier though every third man on the street gos goes armed with a long pun gun tor for use outside of tho the walls the moorish seclusion of women though not so strict here as in tetuan or fez prevents tiny any flaunting of social vice As tough it a cafe chastant chan tant as aa one ofte often naces bees nourishes flourishes across the way in gibraltar under benign british rule A moorish oate date Is as decorous as a church only men attend Nh whether ether its al a l attendants musicians or guests they pile their slippers in a great hear heap by the door and sit about cros legg legged ed smoking and drinking coffee while the musicians play the and the guelbert guen gu enbert berl avid and other queer instruments and sing the song of the conquest of spain both in past and future tenses tc anses there la Is no noise or disorder unless there Is a moorish funeral or wedding in progress by the sound bound you cant tell them apart the wickedest wick edest city Is at night as quiet as the grave you may walk the streets street 9 unmolested I 1 it if you will until the cara ca ravani begin picking their way out of town bv lantern an light before the dawn until the c camels amels in the soko square totter groaning and grunting to their feet and slump away into the reddening east you may iselt tile the fortress in ili which thirty i or forty poor wretches ret ches axe are confined in one noisome fetid room an here da dai light never i penetrates and learn that they are held tor for no crimo crime worse than a refusal to pay day up you may grin at the slaves and jabber at the bazar keepers and cameras at the Ifo Moor olg sunless ariless they see you first and be lust just as disagreeable as you like tourist fashion tor for a week ot of sundays and not ham haae halt the trouble that a moorish fentiman gen tIman in his big ila native garb would have in new york I 1 heard in tangier of knockout drops or dives or dope joints or stale br beer cellars the respectability of tile the place Is considering its ill repute most disappointing but it Is picturesque enough in its mixture of 0 europe and africa to make up for all tho the blinding white walls slope upward in the sun to the height crowned with its citadel veiled women nit flit through arched doorways door waya into exquisitely tiled barents harems where no shod toot foot can step A group of loud tourists goes shrieking past riding on tiny donkeys donk don keys nys witt with I 1 grin n ing trotting behind A splendid pasha in spotless white robes goes croes past mounted upon it a splendid white barb and away above the muezzin tower of the mosque on the hill two palm trees peep forth the only green things in all the varied scene tangier Is good fun though but indifferently bad JOHN I 1 LAN LANGDON I 1 HEATON ir |
