Show C V CA r rs AM er U emu A 7 A wo ak 0 11 X 4 4 www W ka 1 1 70 1 V street of the damascus gate gale Is full of strange JERUSALEM and interesting nooks and corners that are almost unknown to the outside world and that most of the tourists never see sec in iii new ago age ph J Balden writes entertainingly of some of them the church of the holy sepulcher Sepukh cr and its surrounding honeycomb of cloisters may be said tip approximately proximately to have separated tile the christian and the moslem quarters of tile city two gates closed at af night shut oft off the church from the town one below christian street beside the jallel omart omari and the other a small one leading to the blau the jamilel emarl Is the real mosque of omar it was built in A D to commemorate the first prayer prayed said by the caliph omar ibn el khattab after his entry into the conquered city the small gato gate op opposite across tile tho court leads straight into the moslem quarter no jew I 1 Is ever allowed to pass in front of the church or through either of the two gates gales once anc e or twice an inquisitive inq sitivi son eon of judah hns has tried the experiment but he has not lived to tell the talo tale of ilia his adventure so BO roughly was waa ho he handled bandied by the mob outside the small gate in themos the moslem quarter are shops for the sale of glass heads beads and bracelets kept by men of leebron TEI lI ebron and soon you come into the street of shoemakers the trade was established here in old days when the abattoir wits was in tho eaurl stan among the ruins of the ancient hospital of the knights of st jain the lauristan Mau was given by sultan abdul aziz its as a present to frederick william crown prince of prussia when lie he visited jerusalem in 1809 the german church of the Ite redeemer deemer Er lOser karche was wilf built here after the war of bf 1870 the slaughter house had previously been removed to waste land jut just inside llie ilia walls up by tho the zion gate the hides of beasts were thrown upon the road ana people walked on them till they were tanned enough for shoemaking european boots and shoes were then unknown to the majority the moslem n and nd christian Christ liin men wore soft red shoes of sheepskin the women yellow slippers of tho same the mission schools and don convents vents had cob ob biers of their own who had bad been taught tho the ways of europe european eln in such matters round hound the corner to ilia left below the abyssinian conventi convent were the sweets shops great was our delight when ni at the new gew year every boy in the school received a cako cake enriched with clarified butter and sweetened with honey and sugar but Ha halaweh Uala lawch weh sweet stuff made of sesame meal and honey was our perennial joy But butchers and dyers all along behind the morriston Mou riston run nin three streets parallel to one another appropriated by the butchers the and the dyers respectively in ili the butchers butch ets street the dealers le alers all moslems sold nothing but mutton and goats flesh As tile the streets are arched over semidarkness reigned and often we have tumbled over fat tind and lazy dogs which were attached to almost every meat shop these logs dogs not only kept k pt good watch at night but also kept the greasy street in n tolerable condition by licking up tile the blood and eating acnes hut but for the pre presence senco ot of the street at hand the shoe shoemakers makert street with its old skins the butchers street with all its and the dyers street with blue colored stuffs hanging from the roof would have made the whole region smell ns its foul ns as the town slaughter yard once or twice a week we were sept to tc felch fech meat needed for the kitchen on our donkey doniey the butchers street I 1 forgot to say eny hardly men measured three yards toross but with tho the carcasses banging out before the shops there was hardly room in thu the butchers street for avo vo to pass abreast tile street resembled tt it in this respect and there the merchants hung such things ns as cords nets and girdles but into the lie ri street treet and often sat tn in front of their shops the suk el bizar grain market Is a broader street and lighter since it la Is not vaulted in but as ninny more mora people congregated there progress was ns as difficult its as in the butchers street this wa althe busy part in every other region of the moslem quarter hardly a soul was to bo be seen at some hours of the day except in harat bab the street of the damascus gate and harat bab mirian street of our lady marys late gate where grocers did an active trade the fel fellahin fellah labin ln from the eastern country buying necessaries there just before leaving the town A conventional thin yell veil or net was wa dropped over the shop entrance had and projecting baskets ot of rice nuts lentils etc from arora 11 a im to toa 1 p in signifying th atthe owner was away presumably at prayers in the adjacent haram the protection was more reat real than any police meas measures utes could hav bave oe cured in the crowded grain market jn in the suk el ea balzar tho the throng was wa sometimes so BO great that it was impossible to advance a step g especially was this the case when a long string or of with grain made its way to the wheat bazaar the small email square underneath a vault which gives the street strict its nahne wheat and barley lentils and or maize annize are here poured on big heaps beeps and sold to the public the official appointed to measure out the grain in tile the about eight or sn sa halt half a Is quite a serious and important person nee filling his measure lie he will begin begill by announcing allahl ahad god is 13 one rind and continues saying this till t the lie first Is to ili tho the sack two three lie ho says at every measure till lie he comes to seven when lie ho says same ila ha pardon instead of seven the number seven being that of tile the princes of tho the jann jam gen geals ls must not be named while handling for fear the annn should carry off on the blessing eighty eight ya el amaneo afaneh lord loid give me honesty the crowd lg Is exasperating at times timely though comical incidents occur occasionally sio slon nally tilly As I 1 slowly pushed my way forward one day stopping to avoid huge seeks sacks a european snob anxious to escape being crushed stood in a orner corner wi wearing Naring a new straw lint hats tire are as a rule disliked by orientals orient als the Hair european in derision to Is often called abu 11 l baranet father of hats A durney tah hat attracts no alve ice in a crowd A camel waiting to pass looked round casually put out his huge lips seized the strange straw bus basket liet and in one bite ate half the hat to the distress of mr air snob and tho delight of the bystanders by standers the north and northeast portion is as for far ns the temple area was ans elusively moslem like the butchers and ilia thorold alio ald and sliver silver smiths tile the blacksmiths and the coppersmiths per smiths and other workers had their separate streets the last lait named near tile the dyers but many began to feel tho the influence of it a new period and left their old quarters bidding farewell to the ancient oriental tradition |