Show transformation OF CAIRO EGYPT cairo april IS Nothing in cairo is BO eloquent of change as the streets could see in ane fifteen vears ago one bazaar the true eastern city with its narrow crowded lanes ita w of filth and rubbish ts brilliant splashes of eo or and i barange Bt range unmistakable smell so the old resident will tell you but now in the and the lane ld 10 11 aa well as in the warrens behind the library you will see puffs of patent medicines sun helmets and greek shops with polyglot inscriptions and glass fronts even now there is much that is oriental surviving in these quarters while a few hundred yards away you are in wide and airy thoroughfares swarming with the same mixed population that clogs the SIo oski but in all elso differing little from many madi lerran eart cities THE CABMAN bizarre contradictions of cairo are strongest in any of those streets where trams with conductors in uniform convey men whose proverb is that haste is from the devil and where a scribe sits by the roadside arrayed in cheap chea p tweed sui tings and a bow tie it is the same with the beasts this cairano daiv an his fellow goes abroad on a white ass and their country cousin sways on a scornful camel which carries him early in the day over the kaar cl nil bridge into the town all the streets bear names in roman and arabic characters and the egyptian cabby has his circle his fares by time and distance and a fixed tariff for special drives all nicely painted in english french and arabic on a white enamelled iron peate after the manner of london but a comparison between the cairens arbagi and the driver whom we know at home breaks down at this point unless intoxicated or commanded to drive to some obscure street in the ordnary ord cabby can find his way in cairo however your arher is certainly illiterate and almost certainly ignorant of the names of the streets which are only a few years old if you bid him convey you to no 75 in the sharia X he will look blankly at you and will ask your direction instead of sitting back with folded hands and looking albut you you must peer from side to side for the correct turning and stimulate your incurious driver by exclaiming at intervals ya macnak to your right and shu malak to your left till the desired house is readied this presupposes that you know bouy any for if you do not you are helpless unless your repeated queries addressed to the pass passi i pr by arc fortunate enough to meet witt an answer that i of use EIGHTS OF NOISE akere is another difference to my mind a happy difference between cairo and london not to mention othera european capitals there arc newspapers in cairo it is true but they ade hiir light under a basliel bus liel and you are afen ofen compelled to seek them in place of their pursuing you the urchin who at about six in the evening of a summery day di embarks at a fairly quiet suburb the roads of 5 australian Austry lian all out accompanied by matador like havinga of a bundle of pink and green does not exist at cairo there arc newsboys and newsboys who cry their papers at nightfall in cairo but as far as my own experience goes thy arc generally only to be heard around certain streets and having no winners ho latest betting to their voices lack that frenzy ii c of the londen camilot cam clot but if are few in airo the city ha enli c art of producing noia in its donkeys boys who nhoun by day and its mu gl ian who celebrate wedding feast s by night to the untrained european ear each of the performers on the tom tom or drum tambourine end nuie appear to be extemporizing in de and the combination of extraordinary tra sounds cannot 1 wilfo have a tranquillizing tranquill izing effect between the hours of eleven lit night and one in the morning A m among the better class moslems ia signal for a musical orgie which may last for an entire week and the stranger listening with a tolerant n terest to the festivities of monday and tuesday evening feels a certain ampa f tience when alic quavering cries of single ers and the thud and clash of brass and R parchment disturb hi first sleep on abs tbs f third and fourth nights 1 HORRID AND unrelieved BARENESS to alie the native quarter of cairo means old cairo and llie bazaar but hew two districts are by no means as oriental today as other less known divisions of ue city A tram run through old cairo and the bazaar f changing ant between alie rue beuve neuve and chri sharia mohammed ali and west and southwest south west ot the citadel there ia a mare of lanes and alleys which bear but little trace of western influence tourists in visiting thesia quarters follow as acle atam well known routes under the conduct of a donkey boy or dragoman by whom they are hurried to tin fifo que of abu bulun tulun or alie moi lie by the quickest route if on the other hand ones intention ia to go aimlessly among the twisting streets na 11 the native life with iti curious fluture of the romantic and the taw y ahn cairo 13 perhaps i best ap ja from the muth the ground lout the walls on thi side i one f 10 heip an unending ei of broken and tam hildru S onla d lick and ten wolf ti 1 T dy hir 11 M few r and i ed to the mound ac y that thrusts it pelf in ry 1 l sw and squalor man 1116 aa of falade of arram in are no icae or but anlys cea 5 A k ij tn aich are and aw abe the rich 0 the al placed 01 ol be in wall it rn si ot ning taki a for t paled ra arble bul pa in T only a hor outer wan pw 1 nc ved badenes ba renes nd tl ledoor d battered owr rs the betl and bilard ahil of the the daut four feet at t from aroni h to differ y ia bi ans la 18 anaba ns all the baud and dust have not yet quite cov crea THE EAST when at last you find your way among the houses and shake the dust of the graveyard from off your feet and clothes you find yourself in narrow streeta full of sharp turns and crowded with beasts and men underfoot tho road is nothing but dust in one place but in another slippery with trampled green orange peel and the slops that arc thrown from the houses the smell of manure and wood ashes ulli tho air save where now and again you catch the acrid smell of long unwashed clothes there are no buildings hero that strangers conic to there arc only men bitting with their up to their cosm on the roadside and shop fronts where marvellously tawdry hand the sort of thing the amatory coster gets from his hang in rows on clotheslines clothes lines in this quarter europeans arc rather infrequent visitors and the native population is poorer and rougher than in the so you will occasionally notice that tire little groups sitting outside alic arab cafek spit on the ground with disconcerting unanimity as you pass and the children dear little innocents whom you try to avoid treading down cry to allah to burn your herthe fat favorite curse in the country after long wanderings in these streets you get some relief into the better quarters they may bo defiled in alie eyes of tho purist by european advertisements buy they alq cleaner circumstances I 1 suppose must alter basei casei else why do we shrink in horror cronl the unclean and unwashed at home while cicro we dub them highly picturesque because they acar long blue nightshirts night shirts as dirty as and swear at one another and ourselves in a tongue we cannot comprehend the magic edit has been celebrated by scores of poets as a captivating and luxurious goddem the spell 0 choso whoso beauty is more powerful than the wisdom of the west it may be but doea not alie goddess at times abear to us in the guise of a slatternly general with more than a partiality to dirt pittsburg Pitta burg april 17 the suspension of operations in tho window glass industry tomorrow will be almost general due to the decisive action taken at a special meeting of the window glass workers association when it was learned that a number of concerns had refused to join in alie movement for a shut down alie board determined to dorco them to close their plants the workers who arc members of the organization were ordered to quit work if this order is disregarded by any of the mem AAA AVA A faw A al bers it means thai they will be dropped ll 11 from the loll 1011 april 17 jhc thc annual meeting of the american academy of political and docil socil So cil science began here today the principal to bo dia cussed is of closer relations between the united states and latin america chicago april 17 the big brone statue of atlas which has stood oh the fourth floor of the old times building for more than a third of a and which was placed in the structure by wilbur F storey has been stolen and the police were notified last night to make careful search for it Thesta toe weighed more than a ton and how it was carried from the building without attracting the attention of occupants or the police is a mystery tho statue came into the possession of carter it II arrison rather of the mayor with lie basei ot tho times building and newspaper about twelve years ago ditl t the death of mr liar rison it went to the estate editor storey bought the statue in europe it ii said paying 1500 for it new york april 17 tho directors of the norten eurit iea company held their meeting today according to statements made after the meeting the only thing that came up was of a strictly routine character II 11 was paid the question of appealing against alie decision of the united states circuit court wai discussed but that no definite steps in this matter were taken san diego april 17 A dispatch lias been received confirming the unexpected news of the death at banff B C ol 01 clarence 13 Ebe noan field secretary ot the christian endeavor society mr was well known here and at tho timo of his death was on his way to san diego What eom wash april 17 apt donovan of the Belling hain bay british li ailway announced on lila from a meeting with the directors of the road at kan francisco Me gari D 0 mills alrin and P X cornwall that a branch line would immediately be constructed from iiama ton on the main liap to lyndan buffalo N Y april 17 the taw ibis afternoon says there vi reason to believe the found murdered in a barrel in new york was prof antoni of chicago who waa brought to buffalo last december to appear as a witness andrea on a charge of attempting to pass counterfeit money |