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1C Jerusalem Reproduced (Continued from Page Eight.) Ins; the exposition the temple area will be Clven over to the Muhimmadana, the gen eral Visitor of course Lelnn; admitted. Here the follower of Mohammed from Jerusalem will carry on their forma of worship. Among the wonderful thins to be shown in thia transplanted temple area are the tomb of David, the great king of Judea, and the throne of King Bolomon, his eon and the builder of the tempi?. The mosque la octagonal In form, eich aide measuring sixty-seven feet. Various colored marbles form the lower portion of the wall, arranged In Intricate and beauti ful patterns. Fifty-six pointed windows of mrgnlllrent atalned glass plerrpn the tipper portion. The great dome la covered with lead, surmounted by a tall gilt crescent. Underneath the dome la a remarkable limestone rock of Irregular i'.lM::-:' 7 :,X - ' t l -" ri. t : j j . . -.. v,- ' r , . . : s , 1 , L "' r-, i CHURCH OF THE hape, which is believed to b the natural aurfuce of the rock of Mount Moriah, upon which the Immense platform supporting the mosque and the temple area Is built. : Aa Iron railing surrounds this sacred tone to protect It from the touch of pill rims. . At one corner of the rock Is an excavated chamber, , which, according to Mohammedan tradition, was successively the praying-place of Abraham, David Solomon and Jesus. in the "New Jerusalem" at St. Ixiuls the Golden Gate will be restored. This famous gateway, the exact location of which has been lost for ages, was used In Solomon's time and for centuries there after as an entrance to the temple area from outalde the city. The Golden Gate will form the mid-northern entrance- to Jerusalem. St. Stephen's Gate la at the northwest corner of the wall. It waa near this en trance to the Holy City where the stoning of Stephen took place. The gate leads Into the Via Dolorosa, mentioned before. -It leads also to the Inner gate of 8U Stephen, through which, at the exposition, the vis itor will pas Into a hall In which a dio rama of the Mount of Olives will show memorable scenes In the life of Christ, the Garden of Gethaemane and other to- -calitles of sacred Interest being shown. I Jn the several acres of land lylug be- '. tween the Church of the Holy Sepulcher aol the temple area there is rapidly build ing a great array of smaller houses.. cx-V act copies of the buildings that occupy the corresponding streets In Jerusalem. When completed about .of these houses will appear, more than a dosen streets be ing completely reproduced. Among theaa throroughfarea are the Moorish street. Chemists' street. Coppersmiths' street, 811 versmlths' street, Jewlah street and others. The name of each thoroughfare afTorda an Idea as to Its character. In Jerusalem the workers In one occupation pre-empt a whole street; that Is to say, all the cop persmiths have their shops on one street, all the chemists on another, and so bn. ' In then streets, which are very narrow, the World's fair visitor will find native artisans and tradesmen of Jerusalem ply ing their vocations. The silversmith will Wve above his shop, Just as he doea at THE ILLUSTRATED DEE. home.. It Is not at all unlikely that some of the natives who come to fit. Ixuls. will be privileged to "occupy the very house that corresponds to' their own, and In that case they will feel quite at home, for the "New Jerusalem," with World's fair crowds In attendance, will bo very much Ilk the old Jerusalem at Eastertide, when thouaands of pilgrims throng Its narrow streets, These streets themselves are calculated to antonlMh the Occidental pilgrim. Hardly any of them exceed ten feet In width, and some are much narrower. , In the center Is a ditch or trench for the pasange of . beasts of burden. As the trenches aro wldo enough .for only one beast at a time, It is quite probable that here, as In the real city In Palestine, there will be various fierce rivalries for the right-of-way be. tween the owners or renters of camels and donkeys. Fifty camels from Jerusalem will be brought to the new city. A consider ible HOLY SEPULCHRED number of donkeys the real Jerusalem sort " will belong to the neccasary furnishings of the city. These animals will provide a ' source of amusement to the visitors and . profit to the concessionaires. The pilgrim to Jerusalem, tiring of walking through the narrow streets, may hire a donkey or a ' humpy camel and ride triumphantly be- tween the rows of houses, his legs almost touching the walls on each side at some ' 4ar.lcularly. nairow points along the WJyV ' Across the moat that bounds the Citadel, Market Square is being laid out.' This is -a wide space leading off from the Street of David. Here the Inhabitants of the "New Teruealem" will buy and sell goods neces sary for culinary uses. The picturesque ness of the market place need not be pointed out. , ' " . . In the Mohammedan quarter of the city a big Arabian cafe will be located, where the hungry pilgrim may dine In true Oriental style. Across from Market square Is a row of buildings more - modern In pattern than , most of the structures In the city. These 'are the Austrian postofflce, , the United States consulate, ' and the Cook's Tourist cfUce. On the other side of the square . the. outer gate of the citadel admits to a bridge spanning the moat. Climbing the , ln;icr terr.n enters the citadel through a' wide, pasHags between the Tower of David and the Tower of Hippicua. Within this citadel Herod erected his : palace, building noble towers at three of the corners, to serve for defense and ornamentation. Josehus. the great his torian of antiquity, aayn that these towers excited the admiration of Titus, the con quuror, after the destruction .of the rest; of the city, and wero left standing, partly as memorials of his conquest and partly as shelter and protection to the camp or gar rison which he ' left behind upon his de parture. ' Herod 'named these 'towers, after Ills wife, whom he had put to death be cause of his Jealousy; his brother,. Phaaae; lus. and hia friend, Hippicus. The Tower of Hippicua still stands. The towers .named for Phasaelus and Marlamne, the dead queen, have perished. though , newer, structures have ariaen In their stead. One of these, called the Tower of David, la being reproduced oppoaite tb Tower, of Hlppirus, and near the Jaffa gato also arise, In atone-like stair, the Tower ef I j.nnsaciue, At the remaining comer of the cltaM Is (he Jewish synagogue. In which the Hebrew natives from the Holy City will worship during their sojourn at the World's fair. Not far awsy, across a garden. Is ore of the wist curiously Interesting features of the entire reproduction. This Is the Jews' Wslllng Wall. Here the Jrs are wont to gather, against a wr.ll which s-pa rates them from tho temple area, and prsy for the restoration of the sacred en closure. Vntll comparatively recent yeira the Mohammedans refused to permit the Jews to approach even this near to the sacred enclosure, but after much persua sion It was permitted the descendants of the builder of thp temple to approach this wall and wall out their sorrow because of the loss of the sanr?'l soil of Zlon, and pray for Its restoration to the Jews, ItOHEnTCS LOVE. Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Page Twelve.) 16,000 ton bigger than the Kaler Wllhelm der Gmsse. The ships are 630 feet long, 73 feet wide and G6 feet deep. Each has ac commoda linns for 8,000 passengers. Includ ing the crew. They will travel to Asia by the shortest route, which Is that from Puget sound to Japan, and will make tho beet time across tho Pacific. We ought in tH more goods fn farther India and Hlndonstan. The markets them are not appreciated by im. Farther India Is now being opened up by new railroad, and It will be connected with China. Gen eral Grant predicted that Rangoon would at some time be one of the great ports of the world, and his prophecy Is coming true. It is already a trade center, and hne con alderable imports of American goods. Tho most Important ne!d, however, la Hindoo etan. That country is one-half the slxe of the United States, and it has a population of SOO.OOO.OOO. or one-fifth of.&lltthe Inhabi tants on earth. Its people are Industrious and business-like. They are good farmers and raise quantities of wheat and cotton, as well as rice, opium and oiher things. They have enormous factories, many of them managed by the Engllnh, and they manufacture for export. Their foreign trade already amounts to $700,000,000 an nually, and - they export goods to ' the amount of $400,000,000. A large part of the Indian exports Is In cottons, which are shipped to eastern Asia, aa well as to Africa and Europe. The best of modern machinery la used In the milts and the labor Is exceedingly cheap. The foreign trade of India shows what can be made of a colony when properly tiind'e 3. The English have developed In dustry and trade there and of late it has gone ahead by ' leaps and bounds. The Hindoos are buying ten times aa much aa they were In 1840, twice as much as they bought In 1800 and 20 per cent more than in MX In 1840 the imports amounted to only $28,000,000; in I'M they were $231. OOO.tOO, and this year they will be probably $30,000,000 more. At the same time the ex ports have Increased from .$51,000,000 In 1810 to $;03.(00,000 in 1902, so that the balance Of trcde is largely In India's favor. Of the Imports we supply only about 1 per cent, although, we use 7 per cent of the. exports. .Our trade might be greatly Increased If American gooda were put on sale. .' Our consuls, to Calcutta and Bom bay are urging that drummers be sent to India, and the .Calcutta man thinks we should establish a museum or sample ware house there for the display of American products. He says that all sorts of our tnach'nery and e'ectrlcal supplies, Amer ican shoett and. food stuffs, as well as hard ware and cutlery, can he sold. The East Indlaiu want . cheap umbrellas, watches, clocks and toys' of all kinds. There are openings' for American farm tools and for heavy farm "machinery. India haa., wheat fields aa large as the state' of Ohio and It produces at times as much aa 7,000,00 tons of wheat in a year. It needs ' reaper, mowers and threshers. It Is a country, of railroad, but moat of the rolling stock Is supplied from Europe. Within recent years a few American en gines have been tried, and that with suc cess, r . - - Going westward from India we come to Persia.' with the Turkish provinces adjoin ing.' The sultan has -granted 'a concession to. the Germans to build a railroad from Constantinople to the Pen lan gulf, and this" may lead, to, the Introduction of German goods Into Persia. 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