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Show I DECLARES THAT TURKEY IS PROGRESSIVE tlabrifl iiio Raviulal, of Minnesota pnd Scuth Dakota, American consul g-in'ral at Constantinople, and lion-oriiry lion-oriiry president ol' the chamber of c'.njmi'i'co for the Levant, -has been HPfiiilius" several days in Washington r.tl Now York before departing for his post, lie has been in the United Si :U "S for his annual leave of absence. .Sir. ltavndal states that Turkey r,v, rs a fine field for American brains and money and is making rapid """"" Hi rides in all branches of business. I "If 1 were to tell you about all the changes which are taking place in 1 the east, including Turkey,' says General Havndal, "1 would probably ( .. 0"" aoned of being untruthful; and at th" risk of such an accusation. I want to talk briefly about a few of them. "Fifty years ago. Port Said was a small Arab encampment; now it has "hI, 000 inhabitants. Piraeus, the port of Athens, has grown in eighty years t r" I K i from a sin'.'le hut to a city of SO. 000. Beirut, the chief seaport ot Syria, has grown to '5,000 in the same time, and many other places show an equal growth. There have been several land booms in Egypt in recent years. ) "When 1 left Constantinople two months ago they were tearing down old ' h. uses by the hundreds to widen and straighten streets and make them more sanitarv." i |