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22,1920
rOUD Chambe
Lommerce
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“At the Cradle of the Best Civilization the
World Has Ever Known”—So Writes Sack-
ett as He Visits Egypt; Valley of the Nile
ALEXANDRIA AND CAIRO CITIES OF GREAT WEALTH,
CULTURE AND MODERNIZED LIFE, THE LATTER WITH
A MILLION PEOPLE—IN THE SHADOW OF SPHINX
WHERE ABRAHAM STOOD AND, IN HIS DAY, MARVEL-
ED AT ANTIQUITY OF EGYPT’S PAST—THE CITY OF
THE SUN (HELIOPOLIS), WHERE MOSES WENT TO
SCHOOL—THE TOMBS OF THE KING AND LUXOR, BE-
WILDER WITH THEIR ATMOSPHERE THE INCOMPRE-
HENSIBLE PAST—WHY THE DEAD WERE EMBALMED
AND TOMBS MOST COSTLY THAN ABODES OF LIVING.
mammoth Sphinx as mouments of a
Past as stunningly remote beyond
their times as it seems to us.to-
day; and following the train of his-
tory down to the time of Egypt's
greatest glory, we can picture Cleo-
patra and Mark Anthony, Alexandra
the Great and other world figures of
that time wrapped in wonder at the
achievements of the past
Palatial Hotel on Site of University
Where Moses Studied
(By Fred J. Sackett)
2We made our entry into Egypt on
St. Patrick’s day. This, however,
gave the event no significance. We
left the boat at Alexandria, now the
great commercial port of Egypt, and
without delay boarded a train for
, Cairo. Our ride thru the delta of the
3 Nile was an ever-changing delight
and gave us wonderful opportunity
to see the richest and the most val-
. uable agricultural lands in the world.
Except for the fact that the engines
and cars are smaller and lighter than
American railway equipment, and
that the cars are all built on the
compartment plan, our ride was in
every way as comfortable, and at
about as good a speed, as our average
trains at home provide.
* We arrived at Cairo on time and
r were wholly unprepared for the won-
' derfuL sight that met our eyes. The
railway station is located in the new
part of the city which is a wonder-
ful example of architecture built on
Oriental lines, but up-to-date and
modern in almost every respect. The
buildings are most beautiful in style
and finish, on wide streets, and many
of the homes and residence buildings
are located on spacious grounds fill-
ed with beautiful ornamental shrubs
and flowers. All of the streets in
the new part of the city are wide,
and most of them are paved with ce-
ment or asphalt. The street car sys-
tem ia up-to-date, and as modern as
is possible where each car must pro-
vide first, second and third class ac-
commodations. Public parks, squares
and plazas are numerous and filled
with tropical beauty. At night they
are flooded with .myriads of electric
lights which transform the whole
scene into a veritable fairy land. At
the railway station we found in wait-
ing an ample supply of the most
elegant and modern motor buses
ready to take us to our hotels. As
we rolled along over the beautiful
streets there was little other than the
fez and here and there a veil and the
striking oriental dress of a rather
small percentage of the people in the
• streets to suggest that we were in the
Orient.. /
About half of the signs on the
stores are in English All street
signs are in English, while in every
large and many of the small ones, at
the hotels and banks, and very large-
ly upon the streets, English is spok-
en. There are foreign quarters in
—many of our American cities which
are far less “Americanized” than is
modern Cairo. Cairo is the “Palm
Beach” of the Near East, and as such,
it is liberally supplied with the most
modern, indescribably magnificant ho-
tels on this side of the Atlantic. The
city's best hotels would put some of
the best American winter resorts to
shame. At one of these palatial hos-
telries we were furnished most com-
modious quarters.
The last census, taken nearly ten
years ago, gave Cairo about 800,000
population. The city has made great
strides since that date, and probably
there are over a million people in the
city and its suburbs. Sixty to sev-
enty-five thousand of these are Euro-
peans, and the remainder being Egyp-
tians, Arabs, Bedouins and a small
number of other Asiatic races. Ca-
iro is a city without any manufactur-
ing interests to speak of, a condition
A that is general thruout all of Egypt
" which is almost Wholly supported by
the agriculture of the lands border-
ing the Nile. Egypt derives consid-
erable revenue from the tourists and
health-seekers estimated to number
ten thousand or more in a normal
year. Tourists and health-seekers,
is further estimated, spend in
Egypt from seven to ten million dol-
lars annually.
On account of the enormous crops
which the valley of the Nile produces,
the factors and merchants both at
Cairo and Alexandria who handle
these products do an enormous busi-
ness, and there are many men of
. great wealth in both cities.
Egyptian Government is “Cen-
tralised”
- The government of Egypt is high-
ly centralised. There Is no local gov-
ernment, except at Alexandria where
a modiform of local city government
exists. Cairo is under the National
Government, the chief official being
a Governor appointed by the Nation-
al Council or Parliament; but, since
most all of the departmental func-
tions of government are exercised
by the National Government, the pow-
ers vested in the city Governor are in
no respect as extensive as those of
our mayors. All of the departmenu
of the city government appear to be
well provided for; and, so far as an
observer can ten, they are function-
ing without friction. This is the first
stop we have made at a port sup-
plied with water which we are per-
mitted to drink. The supply is taken
from the Nile, thoroughly filtered and
purified, and is tested four times
daily. One of the drawbacks to trav-
el on this side of the Atlantic is the
high cost of water. Bottled water
here at the hotel sells at 60 cents
per quart. Beer is sold at the same
price, which creates a prejudice in
favor of liquors from which we are
exempt in America.
Looking Back to Man's First Civil-
ization
Cairo is the turning point of our
trip; and, o naccount of the many st-
tractions. which it and Egypt offer
to the tourist, our itinerary provides
for a stay of eleven days. Thus we
are afforded an opportunity to see
most of the ancient monuments of the
valley of the Nile, and, likewise, to
get a good rest before we turn our
footsteps towards the end of the
journey. The chief attraction to all
who are interested in the history of
the development of the world is the
great antiquity of the civilization of
the valley of the Nile. Heretofore
we have measured the age of historic
monuments by hundreds of years.
But here we speak in terms of thous-
ands of years, lightly ignoring, as of
recent date, any object which was not
old when Christian Era began.
At Heliopolis, the ancient city of
“On” of the Bible, the site of the
Obelisk now in Central Park, New
York, and of its mate on the Thames
Embankment in London, now stands
what is claimed to be the largest
and without doubt the most beauti-
ful, modern hotel in the world. It
was erected in 1911 at a cost of more
than $3,500,000. There is still stand-
ing here one of the most ancient and
most beautiful obelisks of the old
time, erected in the time of Abraham
—at least 4000 years ago. In its
shadow Abraham, Joseph, Jeremiah
and Plato have stood. It is the only
ancient landmark left of that seat of
learning.
Sackett Visits King “Tutt's” Tomb
At Luxor we visited the ruins
of that wonderful temple of Karnak.
As proof of the fact that in its day
it must have been a structure of un-
paralleled grandeur, there yet stands
some of tis columns which are ten
feet in diameter and seventy-five
feet hight. This temple enclosed the
“Sacred Lake” on which the sacred
boat bearing the statue of the Great
god Ammon was floated once each
year. Here also are the ruins of the
temple of Luxor, a large and immeas-
urably ancient edifice, but far less
imposing than Karnak. The great at-
traction here is the Tombs of the
Kings, some forty in number, near
the site of ancient Thebes. Among
these is included the recently discov-
ered tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen,
containing jewels and precious stones
valued at more than $15,000,000. The
two tombs which we explored are
wonderful examples of early Egyp-
tian decorative art, all of the corri-
dors and halls being lined with
scenes portraying the life and the
history of the achievements of the
Kings occupying the tomb. The mum-
my of King Amenophis II still occu-
pies his tomb, lying where it was
placed nearly 4,000 years ago. It is
exposed to the view of visitors thru
a plate glass set in the top of the
sarcophagus, a rather gruesome relic
of antiquity. .
been carried on that it has been said
that the British Museum is a much
more promising place in which to
study Egyptology than Egypt itself.
Why They Embalmed Their Dead
One of the most interesting fea-
tures of the ancient Egyptian civili-
zation is the extent to which they
developed the science of embalming
as a feature of their religion. The
prehistoric religion of the earliest
Egyptians was doubtless animal wor-
ship. With the “dawn” of civiliza-
tion, this seems to have developed
into a modified monotheism, and an
evident belief in, or hope for anoth-
er life. This led to the plan of pre-
serving the bodies of their dead and
supplying them at the burial with
sustenance until the "opening” or re-
sumption of that life. This led to
the practice of embalming, or "mum-
mifying” bodies, a practice which re-
liable authority estimates began 4000
years before Christ. It is estimated
that since that date, and up to 700
A. D., not less than 760,000,000 have
been so treated, a number equal to
one-half the present population of
the world. At first this seems in-
credible, but the figure is based up-
on good, and reasonable data.
Altho much has been uncovered
enabling Egyptologists to take a long
look back into the past ages, the
half has not been told. No other
similar area on the face of the globe
has locked within its limiU so many
secrets, as yet unfathomed, as this
“granary of the World.” this “cradle
of the best civilization that the
world has ever known.”
Cairo, Egypt, March 27, 1926. :
Monday, May 3rd, Tyler’s Third
Trades Day. Don’t miss it.
SOUTHERN QUEEN
C U LTIVATO R
There is no
Substitute for
Experience
Even Abraham Marvelled at Egypt’s
Antiquity
There is some conflict of opinion
as to when Egyptian history began;
but we have good authority for the
statement that the first known King
began his reign 5004 B. C., and later
discoveries justify the belief, that,
here in this ancient -valley, was a
civilization equal to any we have
known for, uncounted ages even be-
fore that remote period of the past.
Based upon the oldest reckoning, the
famous Pyramids of Gizeh were erect-
ed more than 3000 years, and perhaps.
4000 years B. C. The record is rea-
sonably clear since the time of Moses
which does not reach half way back
to the first King of Egypt. Eight
hundred years before the time of
Abraham the ancient Egyptians were
writing upon papyrus, compiling a
record which modern students have
learned to read as easily as our schol-
ars read Hebrew, or Arabic. In the
light of this knowledge, we are able
to stand in the shadow of those won-
derful monuments of antiquity and,
drawing aside the veil of years, imag-
ine Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph
and Moses standing, in their respec- - ..
tive days, on the same ground, ad- to the Museums at London and Rome,
miring these same pyramids and this To such an extent has this “Piracy”
Egypt’s Ancient Glory Now in Mu-
seums
Cairo, being less than 1,000 years
old, has little to offer of interest to
the archeologist. Other than its State
and National buildings and the Cita-
del and Military Barracks, its prin-
cipal offerings of interests are its
mosques, some 400 in number, none
of which, however, approaches the
mosques of Constantinople in magnif-
icence. A great deal of old Cairo has
been excavated, and the work is still
going on. The Museum here contains
many ancient relics, unearthed here
and at Thebes, or dug from the ruins
of other cities in and near the Nile
Valley. By far the great portion of
the most valuable relics of antiquity
from this center of the civilization
of the remote past has been taken
To such an extent has this “Piracy”
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