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Show oo TRAVEL IN THE LEVANT IS BECOMING DIFFICULT j CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug 2 Travel j in the Levant has become so difficult I that hotels in nearly all the larger cities are crowded with persons wait Ing for steamer and railway accommo dations Strikes In Bulgaria. Serbia and Italy, together with the lack of through trains and the impossibility: ! of getting checked baggage through! because of theft, have ftorced travelers I to rely chiefly on steamers to French I ports The steamer lines have alflo been badly disorganized by labor trou-Ibles trou-Ibles and most ships are many days behind their schedules. Although the United States shipping board has many ships Into Constantinople Constanti-nople and the other large Near East-1 crn ports it has no regular passenger sailings and women are not permit jtcd to travel on most shipping board I boats unless thej are In government service Consequently Americans have 'great difficulty Is getting through sail lr.gs to America Major E E. Booth, I w ho was formerly w ith the shipping I board in Pari6, has been transferred to Constantinople as director of ship ping board affairs in the Near East 'and is endeavoring to get changes effected ef-fected which will make travel easier to and from America. F C Tobey, representing the Harrl man line, which Is about to establish j sailings to the Bisck sea, was In Con-' stantlnople recently and said it is likely like-ly that line will iMabllsh monthly passenger pas-senger sailings fiom New York to the Levant The Bureau of Fisheries has found i a source of glue in the flippers of fur seals. I |