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Show IBETTER 11$ il SIGHTFOflTUMEV Crisis in Government in Thai; Country Move for Be-tfer-mejit of Conditions. THERE WILL NO DOUBT BE MANY SETBACKS Vonng Turks Will Lose Prestige if They Outrage Patriotic Moslem Sentiment." I BY D. V. FRANCIS. NEW YORK. Feb. ID. 11 haw been generally gen-erally felt anion? missionary circles thai the crisis" In the government nf Turkey moans a move In tho dlroc Ion of better things. It should be no surprise to thoucht(ul people that the progioss should bo Blow and ul times seemingly halting and uncertain, for though the overtlnow of the former sultan was thorough and complete, novor holcss no great movement move-ment Is likely to progress to a satisfactory satisfac-tory completion without many setbacks. Of tho troubles of the young Turks at the present time I note the following intercs ing sketch In a recent periodical: "The Turkish government has many difficult problems before It and Its present pres-ent situation Is anything but oncouraclng. u The now grand vizier. Hulclcl Pasha, s the BovcnUi who lias hold that position fn the last eighteen months thai Is, since the first rising of iho Young Turks. In International affairs the Cretan ques-tlon ques-tlon requires most careful handling, with Greece in a state of chaos under tho control con-trol of an irresponsible military league and with the prospects of intervention on the part of the great powers. The Young Turks are bound to loso prestige if thny outrage patriotic Moslem sentiment by making concessions oven to superior force. In Macedonia, there Is renewed raclul unrest. un-rest. Moreover, It has as yet been found ImpoFslblo to come lo terms with the Ivni isLKiii i ivii in nit uiiiiuiu in re gard to the long-slandlnc privileges, of churches and schools. The Armenians, who are among the most progressive elements ele-ments In the empire, are not collahonit-Ing collahonit-Ing with the Young Turks because they feel that the authors of massacres at Adana have not been Adequately punished. punish-ed. The financial situation also Is very far from encouraging. Large sums of money are needed for the commercial development de-velopment of Turkey, Foreign capital is a necvcsslly, but the Young Turks are reluctant to grant to any power any kind of economic monopoly. HlhnI Pasha undoubtedly un-doubtedly lost bis position chlelly be-eauso be-eauso he was willing to grant to an English Eng-lish company a monopoly of navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates. Another sore point. Is the riuestion of Ottomaii railways. rail-ways. The powers are at loggerheads over the question of control, and In tho meantime the poor peasants of the empire em-pire are being cruelly mulcted for tho railways already built to secure the guaranteed guar-anteed revenue which must be paid to foreign stockholders. In an unostentatious unostenta-tious way Gcrmnn financial influence Is slowly becoming paramount. Commercial travelers of German firms are to be si-en everywhere throughout the Ottoman dominions do-minions and the financial leadership of Germany scans likely to make lhai country coun-try an important factor In deciding the future of Turkish rule In Asia as well as In Europe." .lohn D. Rockefeller never forgets his affection for the oily of Cleveland, where bo much of his life has been spent. The latest evidence of partiality for the city of his youth baa been shown in a donation dona-tion of $100,000 toward the fund' which is being raised for tho erection of "the new Young Men's Christian association heme. It seems that some tme, age a committee of business men was organized to procure pro-cure a half million dollars to be expended In erecting and equipping one of the finest buildings owned anywhere bv tho Y, M. C. A. When this committee approached ap-proached Mr. Ttockefellcr, ho at once promised to contribute one-fifth of the sum required, provided the balance of rjin firm ...... i .1... u . H Cleveland itself. In some sections of 'he country that would have been a quietus j to the movement, but the Cleveland men 1 took it in entirely different fashion. At J a great banquet which was held to do 1 honor to .the handsomp subscription of Mr j Rockefeller, so much enthusiasm was Hhown that It was felt that before the week was out more than the balance re-quired re-quired would be in hand. One unique 1 feature of the arrangements made to Ive 1 zest to the procuring of subscriptions or was it possible ns a preventative to an over amount being subscribed? Is an enormous clock which has been' erected 1 in tho center of the public square, and 1 upon one of its din Is Is recorded moment by moment the exact amount that has been subscribed. With so much ingenuity 1 and enthusiasm onllyfcd no one can doubt the satisfactory result of the-enterprise. Skyscrapers in London. Some people think of London as bo- hind the times, but very frequently we j are brought to recognize thai that is a 1 mistaken notion. When I was last In 1 London the number of buildings being j torn down to mako way for loftier and more modern structures Impressed mo as being In excess of anything 1 had ever -seen in this country. Just fancv the 1 Strand being widened and graced on etiljer hand by modern skyscrapers, which j if not quite as lofty as those with which New Yorkers arc so well acquanted, nev-1 nev-1 ertheless have their upper stories eon- ccaled in the clouds (or should I say London fogs?) quite as often at anv of the towering office buildings that grace Manhattan island. However, (he most 1 recent thing that has ntlractod inv al- j ten I Ion Is the fact that, while UisgllsH- men boast of- their quiet dav of rest and 1 the chance stranger who find:: himself in 1 the great metropolis of the world on a Sunday morning may come near starving 1 to death while ho looks for an open res- J taurant or eating place, nevertheless (he modern craving for news has called Into being th? most unique arrangement that 1 I think has ever been called forth by I lie 1 genius of man. Since February J.. per-j per-j sons having mail sent from the country on Fpturday or arriving from abroad ran j havo their letters opened in the London Hj postoffice and tho contents telephoned at a charge of 6 cents for every thlrtv words. The sfiider of the letter must address 1 It to the central telephone office, I.on-don, I.on-don, and mark the envelope with a bioad line from top to bottom In addition to Hj enclosing enough postage stamps to caver H the number of words to be telephoned. Evidently qqr brother John has had a different experience with telephone -opera -Hl tors from ourselves. I can Inst fancv 1 having 'Ventral" open my id ten; and give me the contents according to her own tmprossion of what that contents t ought to be. The only thing that saved many a well-meaning telephone girl from B an untimely end, under the present slate of affairs In this country. Is the fact that Hj desperate thoughts on tho part of a long j Buffering public at one end of a telephone wire cannot always find Instant exprcs-Hj exprcs-Hj sion In desperate deeds at the otlur end. Why our well favored English brolher will not rent content with tho glorious privilege of being able to telegraph twIv Hl won! s for twelve cents, with one oent for each additional word, at any time, on nnv day or on any night; Is surely a mvstorv, B but I fancy that if he doesn't gain any-thing any-thing olsc from the new arrangement he will certainly gain a deal In the matter H of experience. 1 St. Paul's chapel on Broadway. I)itwcin H Fulton and Vescy streets, was at one Hj time an uptown church, and occupied by H a. congregation of Now 'York's most fash-H fash-H lonablo folk. At the present time there is Hl little evidence of fashionable residences j in the immediate vicinity of the church. H although a great number of people still H have their homes in that highly -nu-H gristed business quarter of (he Pieat city. B The people who attend the middav serv-I serv-I fees through the year and who llterallv I throng the church for the IL o'clock de-I de-I votiops during Lent, hail from all quar-B quar-B ters of the New York .suburbs, and many 1 of them are still among the class which H we often hear spoken of as the well-to-do. H Recently the vicar of the chapel, which 1 you will of course remember belong? to H Trlnltv parish, made' some wrv pertinenf H remaiku In regard to the effect of weai.h upon the people of the present day. These remarks he summed up In a leaflet Which is being distributed to tho people who make a good use of the present season sea-son of Lent. "No ago in tho history nf fho world has ever lieen in greater need of a well-kept Lout than this age in which we live. Tin money current is running strong and In threatening fashion. fash-ion. More people than ever arc clothed In purple and lino linen and faro sumptuously sumpt-uously ck'ory day. More people sit down to eat and rlso up to play. As a direct consequence of these conditions many more people than ever before Suffer from dlsi-jnteni and from a sense of bulng wronged," |
