Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — LONG BUSY PUCE OF TRADE [ARTICLE]

LONG BUSY PUCE OF TRADE

For as Today, All Eastern Roads and Caravan Routes Meet at Altppei From time immemorial Aleppo has been a meeting place of roads and caravan routes, alike from tbe West and from the uttermost East Figuratively and literally, all roads still, today, In Asia Minor, and from the South, lead to Aleppo, while in its greatest bazars la to be found merchandise from the ends of the earth. Brass and silver work from India; Chinese ivories and porcelain; lac* quered bowls from Japan; carpets and rugs from everywhere where carpets and rugs are woven, from China to the Bosporus, and so on, almost indefinitely. Nothing else, as one writer justly remarks, gives such an idea of Aleppo’s Importance ■ as one of the great clearing houses of the East as these enormous, unending, vaulted bazars, lined with shops and thronged with people. The grand bazar of Stambul is great of Its kind, but the Aleppo bazar Is altogether greater. “You may wander in it for a couple of hours and never seem to go over the same ground twice; always fresh ramifications come into view and give a choice of fresh turnings to be taken.”