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Show :Hcw BIccR Ambassador's 'Hew Yorft Experience "Stop. I do no understand. You aay In thla country the people go away when the leaves coma to tha treea and come back to live when they are blighted blight-ed and daadf That 1 true." . "Strange. It la a very etranga country. coun-try. Why do you atop the the carriage?" car-riage?" "We wlah you to see the eubway. which ia a railway under the ground." "But you told me there was a railway rail-way up in the air." "There are both." "Then there are three cities, one up in the air, one on the ground and one under the ground. Is it not so?" "That Is ao." "Strange very strange." At the 'entrance 'en-trance to the city under the ground El Hadji paused. "I should have preferred." pre-ferred." he said dubiously, "to have seen all of the city on the ground first." He traveled In an express downtown. In Wall street he created aome excitement excite-ment among the messenger boys, as he was escorted to the office of William H. Ellis, the Pasha's personal manager. El Hadji and Mr. Ellis discussed business busi-ness matters. It was then proposed that the Paaha should go through the stock exchange ami the treasury, but the crowd outside had become so great that he had to be taken out another way. a. a The party went to the Park Row building, where the Pasha had his first experience with an express elevator: "It is like some great bird that, aa a child, one reads about In stories. It comes and takes you in its beak and carries you away with a rush of air and a who-o-o-o!" From the top of the Park Row building build-ing the Pasha viewed the city. He did not turn a hair, but was very silent. Then ha said, calmly: "Do such buildings ever fall?" .El Hadji Abdullaht Aly Sadlk Paaha. I Hakel of Harar. Abyssinia, and personal per-sonal friend of King Menellk. awok In his rooms at the Hotel Breslln soon after af-ter o'clock yesterday morning. Broadway was rattling and booming beneath tha windows. The Mohammedan Mohamme-dan chief of Abyssinia suddenly remembered re-membered that he was not dreaming, and that ha had come to America to study the ways of commerce and to promote further trade and good feeling between King Menelik's merchants and "King" Theodore's. - As he got out of bed the first thing the Pasha noticed was a pair of patent leather shoes on the floor. The Hakel of Harar sighed. Alexander Tarplnian, the Interpreter, came In. - "Must I again wear these shoes?" asked the Pasha. "Indeed, Most Excellent Hakel. It is the custom of the country." "Kismet!" said El Hadji, and forthwith forth-with began to get his broad feet into the shoes. The Pasha was not used to shoes; at least, not patent leather shoes. He labored much over the buttons, but-tons, but said nothing until he had the shoes on. Then ha reached out a hand for his Koran. He spent two hours at his devotions. A Jerome band went past the hotel. "That Is the way they enthrone small kings in this country," said the interpreter, inter-preter, i "Then there are many kings?" . "Ay. many," said the interpreter. "But are they not all subservient to King Theodore?" "Indeed, they are. He Is a powerful king." "May his end be happier than that of King Theodore of Abyssinia," said the Pasha, returning to the Koran. After a while the Interpreter silently left the room, for the Hakel of Harar and Mohammedan, chief of Abyssinia was now at a part of his devotions where conversation was forbidden. "Oh, no," was the chorus. "Strange. But it cannot be so. Time Is the Master and Allah." At that El Hadji Abdullah! Aly Sadlk Pasha dropped on his knees, and facing the east threw out his arms above his lowered head. The party then went j back to the hotel. At the Breslln El Hadji ate a hasty dinner and retired to his room. Seven reporters' cards were laid before him by Mr. Crelghon. The Pasha waa In the act of removing the patent leather shoes. "I will see them," he said. As Mr. Crelghton was going out to summon the reporters the Pasha said suddenly: "No, no," he said. "I forgot. The Muezzin has called thrice." And he dropped on his knees before the open Koran. The reporters In the, hall waited one hour two hours three, then departed. El Hadji was then only entering that part of his devotions where no one must speak. New York Times. It was 10:30 when El Hadji came out of his room ready to begin his day and his breakfast. He was gorgeous In a frock coat, a white waistcoat, carefully creased trousers, with a red fez surrounding sur-rounding his shining black face. The Interpreter was shocked; so was Mr. Crelghton, an American who has business busi-ness interests In Abyssinia. It was pointed out to the most excellent excel-lent Pasha that it would be disloyal to Menellk to cast off the raiment of Abyssinia. But had they not said he must wear the shoes? Well, they would allow him the shoes. El Hadji retired to his rooms again, looking as If he wished they had objected to the shoes, too. Half an hour later he was In the dining-room of the Breslln, looking like the first tints of the rising sun in a garb of white muslin, heliotrope silk, flowing "chookoo." and over all a Klorious sun- set a turban done In green, gold, blue and red. The patent leather shoes looked odd against this outfit. After breakfast the Pasha, accompanied accom-panied by Alexander Tarplnian, Hugh H. Crelghton, and John Maddlgan, who is an American and a business man in Abyssinia, got into an automobile to tour the town. The auto turned east in Twenty-ninth street. "This?" began El Hadji. "Is an automobile," said the Interpreter. Interpre-ter. "And he ?" indicating: the frlver with a tilt of his pointed black beard. "Is the chauffeur." - "Strange." said the Pasha after a pause. "Is not the word 'chauffeur French for something In the robber class?" "I hardly know how the word Is applied ap-plied here." said the Interpreter, hastily hast-ily changing the conversation. "On our left. Most Excellent Pasha, Is 'The Little Church Around the Corner Cor-ner " said Tarplnian. "But it is not on the cornor," protested protest-ed El Hadji. "So called because it is convenient for girls who wish to be married quickly." "Strange. Do they keep husbands there?" . Tarplnian despaired of making Dr. Houghton's famous church clear to the Pasha. Another trouble loomed ahead. It was the Martha. Washington hotel. "You say that men are not allowed in that hotel. Why?" demanded the Hakel Ha-kel of Harar In his direct way. "It Is a hotel for women," the interpreter inter-preter said. "Strange," murured the Pasha. "This is a very strange country." . The automobile turned up Fifth avenue, ave-nue, shot over to Broadway, then east on Forty-second street. El Hadji looked at Bryant park. "What has happened to the trees?" he asked. "The leaves are falling off." ."It Is now autumn, Most Excellent Pasha. It will be winter for five months; then the leaves will return." "Do the people live here while the trees are without leaves and fruit?" "Yes, but they go away In summer." |