Summer Rates will be charged from 2 May to 31 October.
For the convenience of families and others, a large portion of each ship's
accommodation has been reserved for
The through Steamers for
The Brindisi Express Steamers leave
For all further information apply to the Company's Agents,
Messrs. THOS. COOK & SON (
GEORGE ROYLE, Esq.
Messrs. HABELDEN & Co.
F. G. DAVIDSON, Superintendent P. & O. S. N. Company in
REDUCED SUMMER FARES FROM MAY TO OCTOBER INCLUSIVE.
OUTWARDS to
R.M.S. "Orotava" will leave
HOMEWARDS to
R.M.S. "Oroya" will leave
Egyptian Government Officials allowed a rebate of 15% off the above fares.
Return tickets no longer issued, but passengers paying full fare in one direction allowed abatement of 1/3 fare back if return voyage be within 4 months of arrival, or abatement of 20 o/o if return voyage be made within 8 months of arrival.
Agents.
Wm. STAPLEDON & Sons,
Special Reduced Rates During Summer Season,
OUTWARDS to COLOMBO, TUTICORIN, etc., and RANGOON. Departures from
S.S. Derbyshire 6,635 tons, leaves about July 20.
S.S. Lancashire 4,244 tons, leaves about August 3.
HOMEWARDS to
S.S. Worcestershire 7,160 tons, leaves about July 26.
S.S. Yorkshire 4,196 tons leaves about August 9,
FARES from
Agents
Express Steamers leave
Fast steamers leave
Steamers leave
N.B.—Deck chairs provided for the use of passengers, excellent cuisine and table wine free.
Steamer plans may be seen and passages booked at the Company's Agencies
at
For
*Second class accommodation only, unless specially reserved.—Fares :
S.S. Seti now on the berth, will sail on or about Monday, July 17, to be followed by S.S. Menes.
S.S Tabor for Havre via
Through freight rates on cotton, etc., to Lancashire inland towns, Boston, New York and other U.S.A. towns, obtained on application. Cargo taken by special agreement only.
Passenger Tickets also issued inclusive of Railway fare through to and from
R. J. MOSS & Co.,
Established 1836. Capital £1,000,000. Reserve Fund £650,000.
THE IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE united with THE ALLIANCE ASSURANCE, Co., Ltd.
1, Old Broad Street,
31-12-905. Policies issued at
PUBLIC CALL-OFFICES :
Steamers leave
(Electric Light.) SALOON (Amidships) FARE £12. (Latest improvements.)
S.S. RANGOON 6000 Tons will leave
S.S. BURMA 5600 Tons will leave
S.S. ARRACAN 5800 Tons will leave
Due in
Apply WORMS & Co.,
G. J. GRACE & CO.,
(
CHIEF Egyptian OFFICE —
GENERAL RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP AGENTS. BANKERS.
BAGGAGE AND FORWARDING AGENTS.
Officially appointed & Sole Agents in
RESIDENTS IN
CIRCULAR NOTES issued payable at the current rate of exchange in all the principal cities of Europe. Cook's Interpreters in uniform are present at the principal Railway stations and Landing-places in Europe to assist passengers holding their travelling tickets.
Large and splendidly appointed steamers belonging to the Co. leave
FREIGHT SERVICE, Steamers leave
Special Steamers and Dahabeahs for private parties.
Special arrangements for tour in PALESTINE, SYRIA and the DESERT, Lowest Rates.
Best camp equipment in the country! 10 12-904
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAM SHIPS.
SAILINGS FROM
Calling at ADEN, COLOMBO and MADRAS Outward, and
Fortnightly Service in connection with the Co's Indian Mail Lines and monthly with the East African Mail Line between ADEN, MOMBASSA and Zanzibar.
OUTWARD.—S.S. Fazilka ... July 22 | HOMEWARD.—S.S. Mombassa ... July 21
Queensland Line of Steamers Between
Calling at Colombo, Batavia, Cooktown, Townsville, and Rockhamptom.
The S.S. .................. will sail from
From
Agents at
Agents at
Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son and the Anglo-American Hotel & Steamer
Company,
For further particulars. Freight and Passage apply to G. BEYTS & Co.
Agents,
(HENDERSON BROTHERS,)
Booking Passengers and Cargo through to Ports in
First class passengers steamers. Sailing fortnightly from
Saloon Fares: from
Agents in
For further partienlan of Freight or Passage apply to G. BEYTS & Co.,
Mail and Passenger Steamships. Regular three-weekly Service from
HAMBURG, via ANTWERP &
goods from all
chief German Railway Stations on direct Bill of Landing to
rates of
DEUTSCHE
VERKEHR (traffic).
EXPECTED AT
S.S. Lesbos July 20 from Antwerp.
S.S. Androos July 20 from Hamburg bound for Beyrout.
S.S. Lemnos July 31 from Hamburg bound for Beyrout.
For tariff and particulars apply to ADOLPHE STROSS,
15-2-905
GERMAN EAST-AFRICAN LINE - REGULAR MAIL-SERVICE FROM
OUTWARDS. To ADEN, ZANZIBAR, DURBAN, CAPETOWN and intermediate Ports.
HOMEWARDS. To
Splendid accommodation for passengars of all classes.—First-class steamers, fitted with all recent improvements. stewardesses and doctor carried—Low passage rates.
For all particulars, apply to FIX & DAVID,
First-class Hotel. Situated in Rosetta Avenue, the finest quarter in the Town. Two mintes from Railway Station. Close to Conservatory and the Opera House. Lift. Electric Light Throughout. Perfect Sanitary Arragnements. Magnificent Ball, Reception, Reading, and Music Rooms. Bar and Smoking Room.
HENRI CHAMOULLEAU, Proprietor.
45
FINE TERRACE ON THE AVENUE. - SPLENDID GARDEN. - OMNIBUS MEET ALL TRAINS AND STEAMERS. 28-26
NEW FIRST-CLASS HOTEL, OVERLOOKING THE HARBOUR & OPPOSITE CUSTOM HOUSE
Open all the year round. — Well-appointed Bar.
MODERATE CHARGES. SPECIAL TERMS FOR RESIDENTS 1190A2-5
Full South, Electric Light, opposite Esbekieh Gardens, Large Verandahs, Moderate Charges,
CHAS. BAUER, Proprietor.
The Hotel is beautifully fitted up and is in the most central part of
OF
Established 1821.
CAPITAL PAID UP AND INVERTED ONE MILLION STERLING.
Annual Income . . £895,000.
Total Funds . . £5,200,000.
Agents far
24336--17-6-905
072 Established 1720. - Agents: BANK OF
The undersigned agents are authorised to issue policies on behalf of the above Company at moderate rates.
IMPERIAL OTTOMAN BANK,
Agents : LEON HELLER,
Incorporated A. D. 1720.
Chief Office: ROYAL EXCHANGE,
FUNDS IN HAND EXCEED £4,500,000 CLAIMS PAID £40,000,000
21281-216905
By the 10.15 p.m. train between
Restaurant and Sleeping Cars on Luxor trains:
A Restaurant car and a sleeping car are attached to the 8 p.m. train from
Railway and Sleeping Car tickets can be obtained any number of days ahead at
the office of the International Sleeping Car Company in
The Cigarettes Manufactured by
The Cleopatra Cigarette Co.
G. NUNGOYICH
are on sale at the Company's establishment by Grand Contental Hotel,
Purveyors to H. H. the KHEDIVE.
35750 Patronized by the Duke of Connaught and the Archduke Otto and all the
High Life of
PURVEYORS OF THE FINEST COLONIAL
MEAT, GAME, POULTRY, BUTTER, FISH,
etc., etc.
The Company have opened a shop in the NEW MARKET,
Telephone No. 1. 5. xxx-xx-xx
Weekly departure during Winter Season by the
Luxurious First Class
Tourist Steamers VICTORIA, PURITAN & MAYFLOWER.
Regular weekly
Departures to the SECOND CATARACT by the S.S. IndianA.
THROUGH BOOKINGS
TO KHARTOUM, GONDOKORO AND THE WHITE NILE.
Steamers and Dahabeahs for
private charter. Steam Tugs and Steam Launches for hire.
FREIGHT
SERVICE BY STEAM BARGES BETWEEN
Working in conjunction and under special arrangement with the
"Upper
For details and illustrated programmes apply to "THE ANGLO-AMERICAN NILE
STEAMER and
HOTEL COMPANY."
OFFICES IN
Regular Service from
SCHLESWIG will leave
The following steamers are intended to leave
FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO THE AGENTS OF THE
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD at
OTTO STERZING, Agent In
C. H. SCHOELLER, Agent In
Messrs. THOS. COOK & SON (
Weekly Express Mail Service. Steamers leave
Fortnightly Service:
(Departures from
East African Line.
To Aden, Mombassa, Zanzibar, Beira, Delagoa Bay, Durban, about July 4 and August 3.
Syrian-Cyprus-Caramanian Line.
Steamers leaves
For information apply to the Agents,
Special passage rates granted to Egyptian Government officials, members of the Army of Occupation and their families.
31-12-905
Frequent Sailings from
Excellent Passenger Accommodation. Stewardess carried. Liberal table and Moderate Fares for single and retnrn tickets.
The S S. SARDINIA will sail for
CARGO taken by special agreement only. Through Freights quoted for the UNITED STATES and INLAND TOWNS in GREAT BRITAIN.
For passage or freight apply to the Agents, BARKER & Co.,
SALOON FARES:—
CORY BROS. & Co., Ltd., Agents for CITY Line,
Societes Reunies Florio-Rubattino. - Services Postaux. - Departs de Juillet.
CAPITAL: L. 2,500,000. RESERVE (ENVIRON) : L. 862,000.
Gouverneur: Sir ELWIN PALMER, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.
Siège Social au Caire, Succursale à
La National Bank of
(Société des Entrepôts d'Alexandrie)
Bonded Warehouses
IN
Special Departments for clearing and forwarding and for a luggage and parcel Express Service.
Goods delivered against cash for account of shippers. 1-6-906
LIFE The Edinburgh Life Assurance Company.
MARINE Union Insurance Society of Canton (Limited).
FIDELITY National Guarantee & Suretyship Association (Limited).
Risks accepted at Tariff rates. -- Claimes liberally and promptly settled.
Agents for
FIRE AND LIFE.
Largest Fire Office in the World.
HASELDEN & CO., Agents, Alexandria.
R. VITERBO & CO., Agents, Cairo.
PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
(ESTABLISHED 1782);
HASELDEN & CO., Agents, Alexandria.
31-3-906 FRED. OTT & CO., Sub-Agents, Cairo.
(J. & H. GWYNNE, LTD., & GWYNNE & Co., UNITED.)
Telegrams--GWYNNE, LONDON.
Telephone--544 BANK
Codes-- ABC, 4th and 5th Editions, A1.
MORNING & NEAL'S.
Trade Mark — "INVINCIBLE."
MANUFACTURERS OF THE LARGEST AND MOST EFFICIENT Centrifugal Pumping Machinery In the world, suitable fcr all purposes, including RECLAMATION, DRAINAGE, IRRIGATION, SEWAGE WORKS, GRAVING & FLOATING DOCKS, MINES, & ALL MANUFACTURING PURPOSES.
These Pumps can be driven by Steam, Gas, Oil, Water, Electricity, or other power, for Lifts of from 1 ft. to 500ft., and from 5 to 500,000 Gallons a Minute. Makers of the Mex Pumps.
Results Guaranteed.
Over 50 Years' Practical Experience.
All kinds of Pumping and Irrigation Machinery specially designed to meet Egyptian requirements.
London Offices— 81, Cannon Street, London, E.C.
The British Engineering Company of Egypt, Ltd: Rue de la Gare du Caire, Alexandria.
Works- Hammersmith, London, W
23362-11-12-904
(SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME)
CAIRO, 28, SHARIA-EL-MANAKH,
(OPPOSITE IMPERIAL OTTOMAN BANK).
I. —Installation of complete Water supplies for drinking, agricultural,
and
industrial purposes by means of artesian wells.
II. - Deep borings for prospecting purposes in all conditions of soil by
means of the
"Express Boring System."
24,437-12-1-905
LONDON, PARIS ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO MALTA, GIBRALTAR, TANTAH, AND PORT SAID.
Subscribed Capital JS1.500,000
Paid up '' £ 500,000
Reserve Fund... 500,000
The Anglo-Egyptian Bank. Limited, undertakes every description of banking business on the most favourable conditions.
Current accounts opened with commercial homes and private individuals in conformity with the custom of Bankers.
Fixed deposits for one year certain received at 8 per cent. per annum. Deposits at interest for shorter periods are also received at rates to be agreed upon.
Letters of Credit for the use of travellers are issued payable in all parts of the World.
Approved bills discounted.
Bills, documentary invoices, etc, collected.
Drafts and telegraphic transfers issued payable all over the World.
Foreign exchange bought and sold.
Advances made upon approved securities and upon cotton, cotton-seed, sugar and other merchandise.
The purchase and sale of stocks and shares on the London Stock Exchange; and on the local and Continental Bourses, undertaken.
Customers can deposit their valuables, bonds, etc., for safe custody in the Bank's fire-proof strong-rooms, and the Bank will attend to the collection of the coupons and drawn bonds so deporited as they fall due.
Mercantile credits issued.
Annuities, pensions, dividends, etc., collected.
All farther particulars and information can be obtained on application.
The officers and clerks of the Bank are pledged to secrecy as to the transactions of customers. 18-9-905
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING.
REIMS.
SOLE AGENT IN EGYPT AND SUDAN,
NICOLA G. SABBAG
ALEXANDRIA, 2, Rue de la Gare du Caire
Telephone; No. 559.
24528-15-3-905
GENERAL DRAPERY ETABLISHMENT.
(Central Tramway Station), CAIRO.
P. PLUNKETT, PROPRIETOR.
DIRECT IMPORTER OF BRITISH AND IRISH TEXTILE MANUFACTURES.
LADIES' SUMMER STOCKINGS.
IN SPUN SILK at P.T. 20 per pair.
LISLE THREAD, in plain and lace open-work, in black, white, tan and usual shades, to suit boots worn in Egypt, frpm P.T. 5 per pair.
Every pair is marked "Au De Rouge" which is a guarantee that the Color is absolutely fast and stainless.
24916-15-11-905
Sharia Wabour El Moya.
Comfortable apartments, with or without board. Terms very reasonable.
Brewers, Burton-on-Trent and Romford.
Pale Ale & Double Stout, specially brewed for export.
Agents: Messrs. John Ross & Co., Alexandria & Cairo:
48047 30-2-904
Cairo and Alexandria
The Perfection of Quality and Value.
In Sterling Silver, "Welbeck" & Silver Plated Goods
Provisions, Wines, Cigars, Crockery, Brushes, &c., &c., at
Price List on Application.
16-11-904
First Class Hotel. Modern in all respects.
Fire-proof, Drained to the Sea, Lifts, Electric Light, English and French Billiards, Fresh and Salt Water Baths.
The Coolest Summer Residence in Egypt.
Special terms to Cairo Residents and their families desirous of enjoying the cool air and sea bathing during the summer months.
Dragomans in Hotel Uniform Meet all Trains and Steamers.
22941-23-8-905
Ramleh-Alexandria
15 Minutes by Carriage or "Palais tram from Sidi Gaber Station.
The most charming Sea-side Residence in Egypt.
First Class Family Hotel with Every Modern Comfort.
Unique Situation on the Beach.
Lovely Garden. Lawn Tennis. Large Terrace. Electric Light. Sea Baths. Own springs. Perfect sanitary arrangements. Stables for horses and carriages.
Moderate Charges. -- Special terms for Government Officials and Officers of the Army of Occupation.
252-17.1.906
G. RUNCKEWITZ, Proprietor.
26045-80-9-5
One of the finest and most up-to-date residences.
Rooms furnished and not furnished. With or without board. Situated in the Sharia Soliman Pasha and Sharia Dair-el-Binat, Ismailieh quarter. High class cuisine, electric light throughout and lift. Rooms and apartments to suit every one. For further particulars apply to
Chas. Bauer, General Manager, Cairo,
Cairo Branch
General Agent: Gustav Grob, E. E.
Electrical Machines & Materials.
Kasr-El-Nil Street, Suares Building, Opposite the Bank of Egypt.
P.O.B. 855.
Telephone 811
85240-15-1-906
Soda Water, Lemonade, & Ginger Ale.
As Supplied to King and Royal Family.
Agent: - John B. Caffari.
Guaranteed Distilled.
ALEXANDRIA: 7 Rue de la Poste.
CAIRO opposite the Tramways Co. Works, Sharia Sahal, Kasr-el-Nil
Old Bourse St., Alexandria.
Greatly enlarged and improved. New Chef. Unrivalled cooking. English specially catered for
2063-14-1-906
OBSERVATIONS BY THE SURVEY DEPARTMENT.
The weather is unchagned and the barometer is rising again
Table d'Hote Luncheons & Dinners Served on the Terrace.
ORCHESTRA PLAYS 6 TO 11.30 P.M
DELIGHTFUL SITUATION - SEA BREEZES.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.—Alexandria, Cairo, and the Interior of Egypt (including delivery in Alexandria or postage to subscriber's address) P.T. 231½ per annum, P.T. 116 for six months, P.T. 80 for three months. To other countries in the Postal Union P.T. 273 (£2.16s.) per annum. Six months P.T. 136½ (£1.8s.), three months P.T. 92 (£0.19s.) N.B.—Subscriptions commence from the 1st or 16th of any month.
ADVERTISEMENTS.—P.T. 4 per line. Minimum charge P.T. 20. Births, Marriages, or Deaths, not exceeding three lines, P.T. 20. Every additional line P.T. 10. Notices in news column P.T. 20 per line. Contracts entered into for standing advertisements.
SUBSCRIPTIONS and ADVERTISEMENTS are due in advance. P.O. Orders and Cheques to be made payable to the Editor and Manager, Rowland Snelling, Alexandria.
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The Egyptian Gazette
An English Daily Newspaper, Established in 1880.
Editor & Manager: R. Snelling.
Price: One Piastre Tariff.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1905.
The Porte's vote to the Ambassadors says that the Sultan is firmly resolved not to depart from his views as to the superfluity of financial control by the Powers in Macedonia, which constitutes an infraction on his Sovereign rights The authorities have been instructed not to recognise the financial delegates of the Powers, who have been sent to Salonika.
At the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce here the Minister of Commerce intimated that the Government is preparing to improve the internal communications, and that the introduction of foreign capital will be facilitated. The Vice-Minister of Finance urged the merchants to do their utmost, for the development of foreign trade.
A Ukase orders the immediate preparation of regulations for the elections for the National Assembly.
Depots of arms and munitions are continually being found in Finland.
Sheng Koung Pao, the Chinese representative of the Germano-Chinese commercial treaty negotiations, has arrived here. The negotiations will begin to morrow.
In consequence of disputes between the Germans and Czechs the troops dispersed the demonstrators.
Thirty-eight thousand electricians have gone on strike. The tramway service is suffering.
Two inter-insular steamers were lost in the recent hurricane in the Philippines, and 144 persons were drowned. The damage done to the hemp plantations and warehouses is estimated at a million sterling.
The State funeral of Count de Brazza took place yesterday and was largely attended.
The poet Heredia is dead.
Of Creole origin and Spanish tastes and sympathies, Joaé-Maria de
Heredia was the most exotic of modern French poets in choice of
subjects, the most sonorously Latin in style. Much might be written
on the metrical and artistic merits of his work ; enough that be
looked on life and history as a pageant, end was swift to seize
every colour and every grouping that pleased his eye and to
reproduce its beauty in stately verse. A master of metrical form, he
was at his best in the sonnet. His series of poems on ancient Egypt,
the sonnets that describe the loves of Antony and Cleopatra with the
extraordinary battle-piece commencing his chock avait ele tres rude,
les tribute" , are
The Austro-Hangarian diplomatic agency has transferred its offices to
We are informed that the Crédit Lyonnais has received one million of pounds sterling in gold.
We hear that a number of the employes of the Sacrerios company have been dismissed for reasons of economy.
We are informed that the Zagazig agency of the Bank of
The Council of Ministers will meet on Monday next. Among the agenda of the day will be the appointment of a successor to Hassan Bey Wassif, ex-Moudir of Girgeh, imprisoned for the part he played in the Rifaa affair.
The Brindisi Mail, which arrived at
Bimbashi
The Sanitary Department has ordered the veterinary inspectors to make a careful and thorough inspection of all the districts comprised in the province of Fayoum and those which lie to the north with the view to ascertaining the state of the towns and villages and to make certain of the entire disappearance of the cattle plague. It is believed that these steps have been taken as a preliminary to granting the necessary permission for the re-opening of the markets belonging to the Egyptian Markets Company, which have now been closed for over two years.
English playgoers in
It is reported that H.H. the Khedive will visit the Mansourah Agricultural
Show on the 20th and 31st inst. and return to
The Judicial Adviser is expected to arrive at
Mr. M. de C. Findlay, C.M.G., acting British Agent, and Mr. Rumbold, 2nd
Secretary to the British Agency, will return to
Amongst those arriving at
We greatly regret to announce the death of Mr. Samuel Gurney Sheppard, Chairman of the Aboukir Company, Limited, which occurred yesterday morning.
Lieutenant C. E. G. Woollcombe-Adams, Royal Artillery, who has arrived in
El Bimbashi A. J. B. Percival, D. S. O, Camel Corps, has been appointed local Kaima kam, whilst acting officer commanding the 15th Sudanese.
M G. M. d'Ory, the new Spanish Minister to the Khédivial Government, is staying at Shepheards Hotel.
The members of the British Association among whom I recognised Professor
Berry and Six Benjamin Baker, arrived bore this morning from South Africa by
tho S.S. Durham Castle. One hundred and eighty members of the party are
leaving for
A serions infringement of the pharmacy regulations, which have now been in
operation for a little over a year is reported from
A serions collision occured yesterday near Kassassin station between the passenger train which left Ismailia at 6.20 a.m. for Benha and another coming from the opposite direction. An official telegram recieved at the Ministry of the Interior stated that a third class carriage and several goods waggons were completely smashed, and that 23 persons had been more or less injured, one very seriously. On the news reaching Zagazig a special train was at once despatched to the scene of the accident, conveying the commandant of police, the substitute of the Parquet, and a medical officer. Most of the injured passengers were taken to the hospital at Ismailia.
The Sanitary Administration has decided to extend the drains for rain water which were commenced about three years ago, and is at present engaged upon studying the possibility of adopting some method whereby these drains can be made available when the time comes for a proper system of sewers for draining the houses to be undertaken. As the streets of the Capital that are not yet supplied with drains become impassable, sometimes for days, whenever there is a heavy rainfall, it is to be hoped that the work now in contemplation will be taken in hand without any farther delay. That the city was well drained one or two centuries ago was fully proved by the discoveries that were made at the time the first drains for rain water were being constructed, and which greatly simplified the task of the engineers and contractors entrusted with the work.
An official communication was sent yesterday to the Press bureau whereby the
Ministry of Public Works notifies for public informaiton that the statement
published recently by some of the local papers to the effect that it was
intended to prolong the Nubarieh Canal, for the irrigation of some of the
lands situated in the northern parte of
The S.S. Persian Prince from Antwerp, left
The Khedivial express mail steamship El Kahira will leave
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I notice several intereating bat absolutely ridiculous articles in local and other journals on the subject of the probability of there stillbeing quantities of explosives, lying loose as it were, at the bottom of the canal. After the explosion you will remember that certain rough roundings were taken which revealed little beyond the foot that the middle of the canal had been partially filled up, and that a large hole had been blown in the east bank. Careful and complete lines of soundings were made on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and since that date divers have lean engaged walking about the canal bed round kilometre 18, finding the pieces of ship which are scattered about. The thorough examinations made have shown that not a single trace of the forward part of the vessel is now to be found anywhere near the spot where the vessel originally lay ; the desert for a mile round the scene of the explosion is smothered in pieces of steel torn out of the ship, and coke and pig iron, of which the major part of the Chatham's cargo was composed, cover the canal banks in all directions. Bearing these foots in mind, is it likely or even probable that even a portion of a case remains anywhere near the spot to testify to the explosion
The divers who have been sent from France are now engaged breaking op the largest pieces of plate and frame which have been found; explosives are being used, and I hear that it is hoped that the worst part of the work will be all over by Thursday. The dredgers, of which there are six on the spot, are working behind the six divers and their accompanying derricks and shear legs, removing upwards of 5,000 cubic metres of sand per day. The largest piece of metal which has been so far lifted from the canal bed measures the astonishing length of over 80 feet and weighs something over 80 tons. Again, is it possible that any cases of explosives remain anywhere near where this unfortunate ship lay before she was blown up. The idea is ridiculous and absurd in the extreme.
The harbour of
The work in connection with the salvage of the dredger Pharaon II. is at a standstill. It will be remembered that a mouth ago efforts were made to raise her, but that they were stultified owing to the collapse of ore of the double lighters. These are now all ready, and much improved, being internally strengthened, but the remains of the Chatham claim all the attention of the engineers staff, and it will probably be some time before this unfortunate craft sees the full light of day.
The Austrian Lloyd Africa which arrived to-day had on board the Austrian Consul, who returns after three month's leave.
A Board of Trade inquiry was concluded at Newosa le-on-Tyne on Saturday the
16th ult. into the circumstances attending the stranding of the steam ship
Foyle, of
( Concluded. )
The numismatic department contains 70,000 coins of all kinds. The curator of
the museum is Hamdi Boy, a very energetic and enlightened Turkish gentleman,
thanks to whom a Dumber of valuable relics, which would otherwise have been
neglected, have been preserved. As excavator he discovered the Sidon
sarcophagi, and as a writer on archaeological subjects he is well known to
most archæologists visiting
The collection in the new building is divided into sarcophagi and bas
reliefs, which,coming from very different places and belonging to as varied
epochs, form a complete series of ancient necrology. The sarcophagi are in
an unbroken series ranging from the Ionian primitive period to that of the
Byzantine era. The archaic period is represented by three sarcophagi of
baked, colonred earthenware from Clozomeræ (now a plague lazaretto on the
Golf of Smyrna) which, together with the two in the Louvre at
The sarcophagi of Sidon belong to the fifth and sixth centuries of Greek art To this same period, and to the third century also, belongs another interesting series of anthropoid sarcophagi.
There are two sarcophagi which have scenes borrowed from the legend of Phsedrus and are good specimens of Graeco-Roman art Amongst other Byzantine relica, mast be mentioned a fragment which very probably belonged to the sarcophagus of Constantine I. and his mother Helen.
But that which gives to the museum its especial character is the unique series of Phœnician sarcophagi from Sidon.
Here two hypogœi side by side, hewn out of a bed of sandstone, the Ramleh of the Arabs, were laid bare and explored. One contained a diorite tomb of Tabnith, son of Eshmuuazar, King of Sidon. The other, divided into seven sepulchres, contained seventeen sarcophagi, one of which is that beautiful masterpiece, the tomb of Alexander. This sarcophagus, unique for its perfect preservation, is in an elongated form of a Greek temple. It is of Pentelic marble and is 3.18 metres long, 2.18 metres from base to roof, and 1.67 metres broad The base, on which it stands, juts out 14 centimeters; this base consists of a border surmounted by a moulding (torus) adorned with tresses, then a lintel, a scotia, a row of heart shapes, and a row of pearls. The cornice, projecting 065 metres from the body, consists of a double meander surmounting a row of ovals and pearls. This ornamentation in which plain surfaces alternate with the richest mouldings has been sculptured with a delicacy which gives the profile of the tomb an incomparable beauty of style. Between the pedestal and the cornice is the body of the sarcophagus properly speaking. It is 58 centimeters high, and is adorned with beautiful reliefs emblematical of the life and character of the great warrior to whose memory the tomb is evidently dedicated, one of these representing a cavalry engagement (probably that of Issus or Arbela). This beautiful shrine is in one hall of the building, and forms the centre of attraction to all corner. In the hall on the other side there is a sarcophagus, also from the royal necropolis of Saida, which rot so gloriously beautiful, may, nevertheless, for perfect work and life-like expression take the next place It is that of the Weepers. Unfortunately par of the roofing, the side, and a head, have been broken off. Like that of Alexander it is in the form of a Greek temple, and instead of the frieze sculptured on its ride has Iconic columns, five on the large sides, and two on the small. In between these columns, are figures, in relief, of women in every expression and posture of grief. The ornamentation is not at all so profuse as in that of Alexander, but it is the perfectly natural expression and pose of the figures, wonderfully done, which contitutes the beauty of the tomb. The set includes an Egyptian sarcophagus in black marble of a very fine grain, — the tomb of a woman, belonging to the fifth century. It is polished and was originally covered with hieroglyphics, which have since been obliterated. Although similar to the Egyptian style in the matter of shape, it differs as to the material, which is in this instance marble, whereas the Egyptian tomb was usally of wood.
One of the most noteworthy features of these monumnets is the variety of the style, which is peculiar to such different epochs and countries. For in these contiguous hypoœi were found Egyptian and Phoenician tombs; others snob as that of Alexander, and three other email sarcophagi which probably came from Attica ; another is undoubtedly, from Lycia ; the tomb of the Satrap came from an Ionian school of sculpture; while the 'Weepers'' is the work of an Athenian. Moreover, as regards date, the "Satrap" tomb belongs to the early part of the 5th century; the Lycian to the end of that century, while the "Weepers" and the tomb of Alexander belong respectively to the beginning and end of the 4th century. Thus this collection of monuments, containing as it does relics of such a diversity as regards data and origin, is valuable inasmuch as it provides information concerning the funeral customs of the Phœnicians, who, as is known, had no art of their own. They often appropriated tombs made in other lands, as in tin case of King Tabnith, who bought in Egypt for his own use, a sarcophagus which had been need by an Egyptian general.
On this tomb is the following inscription in Phoenician "It is I, Tabnith,
Priest of Astarte, King of the Sidonians, who lie in this tomb. O man I
whoever thou art that shall discover this tomb, do not open my sepulchral
chamber; nor trouble me For there is neither silver, gold, nor treasure
A study of these monuments, taken alone, is of great aid in treeing the development of Greek style. Firstly, what has been a veritable revelation for science is the existence, at the brilliant epoch of Greek art, the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. of sarcophagi, in the form of temples decorated with bas reliefs. The most ancient sarcophagi of this style, which are known, are those of the Amazons, at present in the Vienna Museum (a moulding of which is in the Stamboul institution), and belong to the third century ; all the others are of Graeco-Roman style. Moreover the Sidon tombs may be considered the most perfect of funeral sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Finally each marks a date in the history of Greek sculpture. The sarcophagus of the Satrap is the most perfect specimen of an art which must have flourished on the coasts of Ionia from the middle of the fourth century until the time of the Median Wars and of which the explorations at Eoheaus and Mitylene give one but faint impressions.
The sarcophagus of "the Weepers" is the most beautiful example of the funeral art which inspired the sculptors of the fourth and third centuries.
Finally although tbs sarcophagus of Alexander has only definitely decided the question as to the polychrome of Greek sculpture and shown us to what perfection the masters of the end of the fourth centery, the contemporaries of Lysippus and Bryaxs had brought the art of decorative composition ; it, must be said that this sarcophagus is the greatest achievement of the art of the century for explaining the history of ancient sculpture.
The series of antrhopic sarcophagi, embracing more than four centuries, worthily completes this collection of Phœnician monuments and deserves profound study. In this series one traces the growth of the art from the time when the sculptor sought to imitate the mummy coffin with a more hardy substance than wood, that is to ray, in stone and marble ; then his attempts to give his work the form of a statue and portrait and then even to give it a human form reproducing the members and even adding an expression of natural detail ; finally, the Egyptian art and realistic work are abandoned for the pare conventional Greek type, in the formation of which the influence of Polycletian sculpture is noticeable.
As the last representative of Phoenician funeral art attention must be drawn to the lead sarcophagi of which the museum has a large number; they have nearly all been brought from Lebanon and Homs, a town in southern Syria, and belong to Phoenicia.
They were cast in moulds of sandstone, so that the ornamentation on their faces is in relief and elegant; and, varied as it is, shows a mixture of Phœnician and Graeco Roman art All belong to either the first years of the Christian era or to the last of the B.C. period.
Mention must be made of a funeral stela coming from Symi (Sporades), belonging to the series of funeral stelae of the primitive art of the fourth and fifth centuries of the Archipelago and Attica of which tbs warrior of Marathon is the most famous representative.
There is also a very full series of bas-reliefs representing fanerai banquets and family scenes; the former represent funeral banquets held on the tomb of the divine dead, ana the latter represent, for instances, a family divided by death and reunited in the next life, but all of these are of very rough workmanship sod very hastily sculptured.
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