| Show f f X V X N X N rr J T 1 FRANK I 12 G CARPENTER CA WRITES WI I 1 S Or OF THE CAPITAL Ct c cI OP Uh PO LI r I A AND ITS II QUEER POPULATION POP no J 1 I Special S c al Correspondence of the fret News bv b Prank Frank G Carpenter I I these notes In Inthe T tits the tl e city elt of ot Tripoli It Is IH the tho theto capital ca P to nf n f Barbary liar Bar n r that I vast country of oases nail desert ly b Ing between ln Tunisia is add nl l I on un the tho sea sett se 1 I coma hero here from front passing mound around the Quit Gult of Gabes Gabell anti skirting tho Desert ot oC Libya the tho th greater part of or ottee tHo way WR Our bout boul Willi Willin w an ann n little HUll Italian steamer which sails from Genoa to Tunis and then ROCK goat on tat around to Tripoli and buck huck to 10 Naples via 11 SicilY and OIHI We Ve com to 10 un tin chor In III the harbor this thin morning and nul Ull were ht to the shore by b boatmen n nae ns ae fierce looking as its the tho pirates who here heie against n 1 our oUI American sailors yours years ago agot Jt t l will to s In tin the harbor bor of ot Tripoli that Hutt Uncle Ham his hl lust t groat Arent naval n engagement on n F a g e n I t t after C the tile 1 conclusion of ihn tho e war which will et made m ads hint Independent p e of C Gre a t Britain This town lon was then u o great piratical stronghold It U levied Its It tribute on en till all the Ih ships of or the ale and ond Its DitHers lv Christians und and either hold thorn them for tor ransom om or 1 kept thorn In salv t IV They Thoy had hod committed outrages upen up nl mi on our shipping v In d n Ig It during daring I the Ih last su of or John Jhn Adams and aad It was sous III In J ll that n t 1 t v 1 d rl war WUI and i sent C across the Ihl Atlantic null anil over the thu Ih I II Is punish the tho pirates Jeca ul and ond burnt the American frigate Philadelphia rh wade In n tho th r h harbor hue hrc in 4 February ISO IS 1601 t we then Ih n taught these that although they might take lake their licit toll 1011 front from the of or Europe our own little republic across the Atlantic trust must b bt be left alone IT BELONGS TO THI SULTAN SUITAN This land hand of Barbary Barbara now belongs to In tb till the sultan of nt Turkey It 11 leas has a II gover governor nor 1101 ro general appointed by him and ami there t uC ro Is IH I nil an army of or 1 soldiers In the tho bar har barracks racks on of the tho edge of the city which ho be has hos sent to keep kl JP order The country coun COUII country try Iry is so 80 large that the Iho army acids can police pollet little more titan than Tripoli Itself and tho the result la Is that every man u who ho goes Into tho the desert de crt carries carrle 1 a 11 gun with him anti and that Hint all ull the caravans must have their armed escorts escort Nearly overy ono one who comes omes In from the Interior has haa a tt gun Run trapped to 10 his hla tack back During n a R Jour journo goy noy no which I 1 havo have made to one ope of the oi cs I met meet many mau men so HO armed and I 1 urn lUll told that Ihal the country Is every everywhere unsafe c Tripoli Is s for tor the most part port nothing but sand It Is tl os H long us as from New NewYork York to Detroit Dc 1101 I ns us wl wide whit as from Phila Philadelphia delphia to 10 Buffalo and nna it contains cou olus ul til together nn on area arc ten len times that of the slate mute of or Ohio The only cultivated per por portions dons are arc a n narrow strip of ot land Und along the tho Mediterranean sea und and the tho oases oa e which are found scattered hero here and onel there thero through the tha Desert of or Libya The Thu population Is scanty It numbers alto altogether gether get her not more mora than a I million or nr about halt half as ns many mal as aa there thoro are In Chicago and these are made up of or wild Arab tl tribes many of or which are ure lit ul with lIh each other I TRIPOLI AND ND SOUDAN The foreign trade of the country Is with the tho Soudan and Europe Tripoli lUb directly north of or lane Lake Chad and It Itis if JM the tiro chief starting place for the caravans cara caravans vans which cross the Sahara There uro are halt It ft a dozen routes over thin the desert from Crom hero to 10 the tho rich lands of central Africa and a great groat deal of at Ivory Ivor os us ostrich inch feathers and skins are aro brought to Tripoli on camels from those countries Tho The trip takes several months and tho the caravans often otten include In ht their freight female slaves for tor the tha Barbary harems Millions of at slaves sla ve have hate ha 0 been thus thug car carl r l rIp led over oer the tho desert and vast numbers have been sent from here hero to Tunisia and Turkey Tho The caravan routes me arc lined with bones bonC of or slaves slaws who havn hav died on tho the way a and the trade trado would exist now were re It not net that the people fear that the Christian powers might object THE CITY OF TRIPOLI Tripoli the tho city lies lIs In to the Libyan desert on out the tho edge edg of the Mediterranean Ian cnn sea pea cu It IL Is IH not un all oasis of ot mud mUll houses surrounded by b mud walls such as I have described In my 01 leM rs from front the Sahara but it II Is u a desert city Ily of or with great white while buildings and und walls vans of ot stone tone Approaching It 11 from tho the sea the town looks like a mighty it is I built upon a sloping peninsula the houses running around aroun a u beautiful bay guarded by rocky Islands blonds which rise rl c like sentinels out of or the tho th blue Mediterranean At ono one end cud of the tho th bay ba Is a L huge fortification commanded by Turk ish soldiers and at aL the other is s the Kas Kan Kasbah bah a 0 fortified castle containing the Ih government offices Between the thes these two running around Inside the horns of or the tha Ih crescent are uro white buildings mixed here hero and there thero with structures of green reen blue and rose pink which rising rifling al cl almost most straight up from the water waler form torm forma t a great hoe bow with these forts at al the tha end Behind are aie other buildings of ot three and four stories and over ocr them all may Inay be lie seen the tha tall lean minarets of ot the tho with green caps on their tops Tho The houses housos are aro ur of ut I Arabic architecture und and oriental In n shape and nud when one climbs to the roots roofs of ot the th highest buildings as liS I did today ho sees that each elleh house Is Ia built buill about a 0 little court the walls wILlis facing toeing which are aro orl painted bright blue As J I stood on tho the house top all Tri r Tripoli poll poli t lay below me It looked honked much like u a 1 jumble of great goods boxes cast by lW tho the hands of tho gods down into Inlo the tho midst of the desert Thorn There are ore but butow few ow trees In the tho town At Al the tho right facing tha the sea sonic tamo distance away I Ian it itan IH IHan an of ot date data palms but on the oth other other other er sides as far tar as the tile eye ye can reach there uro are nothing but the bare baro yellow sands of ot the tho desert of or Libya The Tho city lies just south Houth of Malta and Sicily and InO It Is I should soy SO just about mid told midway midway way okay between Alexandria and Tunis tin the two Iwo greatest of ot the tha African on Ilse sou southern them side of the Mediterranean tea Ioa A WALK STREETS But HUI let us suppose that we are down In the tha th city Itself about through tho the streets street The thou IH IN milt mid midday day dRY and the African sun blazes ilk ilka like a furnace In thin this tropical sky Ilk of o the desert It Jt dazzles our eyes und end u nd the tho th white buildings about us catch cutch the rays and throw them back almost blinding In the Iho chief duet streets reels III of o the tho city there thero la is no sun ai of all ull and It Is Id only onh when wo we strike the tho open space spacer that we Wt realize thu th outside Tripoli In u a city of ot caverns Most of or the tho streets urn uro either covered with mat mot matthus tins thus or hoards or ore actually hull I Ilver over lver like lilt grout greut reut vaults anil old lighted kern her and there by hy holes holn In the tho roars It ItIs ItIs itis Is like gulag going through tun tull noli cad and we wo might welder about fur ut hours houn bareheaded without fear of the 1111 therun therun run lIn Tills In is especially HO so In III Iho suet hum now sections The fhe bazar bazars of or 10 or m It IK 11 feet aids with vaulted roofs tho light holes III In thu littler hitler ends ch of which IH 18 a Q foot Now NOt and then Own there herlt t will IV III be he a it break In these roofs roof making a n short space where tits tho sun nun un Million hines but utter lifter that the tho vaults begin again 8 eo n tint that one 1110 could io nu through almost III mast the tho whole and ifill stoop deep under cover The Tho business streets i are arn paved with stone und and along the thu i walls of or the Iho houses run fun ledges about three fret eel t o high hillh upon which till tho shops hOPH see ICCI and where Uw customers sit sll while they thoy bargain A A ARDOR Annan Tho shopping section or Pf C Tripoli i Tr consists of oC a mighty grape arbor Hero lIer the street Is tooled over oCr with w Ith 1 a i lattice latticework worst work upon which grape vines have been beell trained and their cool green leaves temper tho the rays of the tho sun suit This street In la lined with shops some lome of ot which ar are about 15 li feet Ceel Such Much shuns shops Rho lire are considered great business establishments establish establishments ments and their turbaned owners nrc ura among the nabobs of oC the thc city el The ordinary store stare Is 19 not IH UK wide willI nor as long lone us as a n II library II bra r table and there an are III many mallY so small that tine the th nt with within is in could coull not nol n ask k n a friend to tf enter with without without out moving his hIe goods nod Almost nil till Ih streets are arc such uch that t wheeled vehicle vehicles I cannot go through them their ml 1 rain e w tv III ItI not nol even een admit donkeys donke 9 or Most last oKI oKIo of o the freight Is carried by floe por porters tens who go RO about with grunt grout loads on their bogies backs or heads In the thc wider streets little donkeys lure lire the elder beasts of Hr f bunion the camel carry c lT the tine heavier loads W rElt CAM CJ I ELK BIH i One Olle of or the most 1 of fit Tripoli l II Is h 5 connected connect ell w with I t h UK It s vrn ha anni This Ihla town wI ot or tf uJ has hll no writer wilIer mains or nr sent r Thorn rI h hh I siro Irl no nl hydrants h 3 r atul tho water voter ti us d ti c como 0 air Ir entirely from Wells In hl fir In i near the th thelly city elly Some Som of or It Is fa f carried In goat goit skins on the Iho of M men nien nH II some or t tIt It In III clay IllY Jars has on the of or f mud 1111 a great groat deal leal In on om the tho humps t of The he camel cs mela d by b t tIre the wells wello while the harrol ire 1 romel curries two twit barrels nt at 11 a 1 loath loail ono one on on ml each side Id of or Its hump und anti on the tho th horn ben of ot the tho sad saddle n tile dIe Is III hung hUll tho measuring tub tul turn upside down The hater Is i sold olt nt at so much per por tub Ul t and r the tho owner haw haH bs hits regular iu to whom n hu lie h furnishes their deity dally supply SEWING SI The only modern tiling thing I have hll seen eon In Tripoli is h the American sew lIew sewing ing lug machine which I Is 18 used In Ih street of oC toe til tailors Every Iver bustles here has hus Its Ib own ern section und tine ono long bug street Is I tilled with tailors who sit It Iro 1 on cn the doors of oC their little cubbyhole chops as they the sew ew Some om of them use ue Lime machines which they place pia co on nn little tables beside bRIe them thou old and some Emo have table machines of or ofa n II American malt make Where here the ordinary table machine Is used u d It takes up halt half the shop Nevertheless I have seen spen more mitre than a n store score of nr such machines In action They Che ull all ex exported ex exported x ported by hr one company which soils sells ell its IlA machines everywhere over ov r the world and that thai notwithstanding we wp have other machines equally good which are aro never Hover seen see II abroad broad I broadI IN I THE TILE BAZARS nut let lei us take u n walk through h the hazarI bazars and observe these pirates at work They are a busy bURY peo pen people pie and lIld have hae many tures al ul although thought though everything is IH turned out by h 1 hand Here for Instance Is li the ba bazar 1 bazar zar ot or the jewelers It consists of ota a street streel walled on both sides with little rooms not much bigger than an nn up liP upright right piano In the center of or every cyer room romp Jf OIn there 1 IS IH a little furnace fed through n a bellows worked by b n boy boa ho Here Is one In n which n a Arab holds a pot of or mol mel molten molten melten ten silver sliver over nver the tire tiro Now Nov ow hv he II takes It II oft off and casts the white while metal Into luto bracelets and an l anklets In the tho next shop I a n turbaned man sits Hat flat on an the thedoor floor door and pounds a gold fold bar into ear car earrings rings as aB big around as nil n a saucer while over the way are smiths making mailing sliver silver anklets each ench of which will weigh tev sev ev etal pounds All are fond rond of or gay In ornaments anti and the Bo Ih D of the desert Use vet Jewelry as IS their savings baulks turning their earrings into Inlo the lie gold find nna silver worn worst hy by their daughters and wives Many of the articles are of great weight Some of ot the earrings are as large around as us ones wrist mad a n silver liver II brooch of common wear is the size of or ofa ora a tea plate fastened on by a n prong hinged to Its back buck AMONG THE rUE SHOEMAKERS In the bazar of ot the shoemakers I saw flaw scores of cobblers at al work upon slippers The American shoe Is proc practically unknown in Mohammedan countries and the Arab gets along without shoe strings or shoe hoe buttons Both Hoth woolen women and ind uncut men wear slippers and they are or of the brightest of ot colors the III favorite for tor mens wear bein a I lemon yellow ollow The Tho man USI usually usually ally bends down the back hack of the heel und unit wears It under nuttier his foot root The wo wn women men use only red slippers and IInO the richer ones often orten have slippers of vel vol velet vet nl et embroidered with gold All loot foot wear 1 Is made mad by Iy h hand and the shoe shoemakers shoemakers makers hummer IH is u II round paper paperweight weight affair shaped somewhat like an sit glass glOSH Ink bottle The he shoemaker holds this by b the knob and rubs and pounds with It at ul will lull The shoe shops are nrc small the thu ordinary cobbler usually has haR three Ihno or four boy hys og sitting beside him hint work working wo k hug ing away Tripoli makes a II great deal of o cloth There are arn or streets here heie filled with weavers In which mere work worl on hand looms In haa just about tho same saline way wa as us S they thc did In hl the tho time of Mohammed MILLING AT TRIPOLI I 1 wish I could show you Jou the roller patent process of making lour In this el Mohammedan city elt Trip nil oil Is 18 the Minneapolis of ot Barbary arbury timid It manufactures meal for tor all nil allover over oer the country It hill has many mall mills which are ure worked day III In road find day out mat the year rear through Each mill until looks morn mora like a stable than anything else and Indeed It Is often otten stable unit und mill combined In the center ceder of the tho stable are arc two huge stones as big around as an anu |
