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Smyrna Times
Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware
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Don Alphonso, brother of Spain's Don Carlos, traveling incognito as Don Juan de Huelva, Count de Bourbon, visits Turkestan and marvels at the rapid modernization along the Transcaspian railway, from mud huts to brick houses in Merv and a fancy buffet in Bokhara.
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Don Alphonso, brother of Don Carlos of Spain, traveling as "Don Juan de Huelva, Count de Bourbon," is in Turkestan and is astonished at the progress made there along the Transcaspian railway. At Merv, which five years ago was a crowd of felt tents and mud huts, he found brick houses and macadamized and paved streets, and at the railway station at Bokhara was a luxuriously fitted up buffet with a young and pretty Russian barmaid speaking French and German as fluently as her native language. Twenty years ago no Christian would have been safe in Bokhara. -New York Sun.
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Turkestan
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rapid modernization observed, contrasting with past dangers in bokhara.
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Don Alphonso travels incognito in Turkestan, astonished by progress along Transcaspian railway; Merv transformed from tents and huts to brick houses and paved streets in five years; Bokhara station features luxurious buffet with multilingual Russian barmaid; notes Christians unsafe there twenty years prior.