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Show JERUSALEM SOON TO BE A MODERN CITY Special Cable to The Tribune. JERUSALEM. April 25. Work will bo started soon on four lines of street railway In this holy city. With new waterworks, up-to-date lighting, and movlng-plcture theaters. It lo safe to say that many devout persons soon will have a distinct shock on visiting the scene of Christ's labors. In ccrtoln respects Jerusalem bids fair to be thoroughly "lUuropcanlzed" at no distant date, Its Isolation, onco considerable, consid-erable, in splto of the oxlstenco of Kuro-penn Kuro-penn religious foundations and the annual Influx of pilgrims, has had to yield during dur-ing the last forty years to a host of new Influences that have Invaded conservative Palestine. Chief among these are the Increase In-crease of tourist traftlc, the construction of railroads from Jaffa, the growth of education among Mie Arab population, and last, but not least, tho rapidly increasing in-creasing Immigration of the Jews, who numbered but 500 souls In all Palestine a century ago, but now form GO per cent of the S0.000 Inhabitants of Jerusalem. Tho municipality of Jerusalem has now granted a concession for the electric lighting of the city and for the construction construc-tion and exploitation of an electric street railway svstem to the French Perler bank, which also seems to have obtained an option on the construotlon of the much-needed much-needed waterworks |