Identifier: turkhislostprovi00curt (find matches)
Title: The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Greece -- Description and travel Bulgaria -- Description and travel Serbia -- Description and travel Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Description and travel
Publisher: Chicago London : F.H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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roduced, for thenatives take little interest in such sports. The foreigncolony is small, and limited almost entirely to thediplomatic representatives of the European countries.A few Austrians and Germans are engaged in businessaffairs, several Belgian engineers run the electric-lightand street-car lines, and there are one Englishman andtwo or three Americans, mostly missionary teachers. The city covers a considerable area, and looks as ifa building boom had been suddenly checked, which istrue. Prince Alexander was a great promoter. Underhis administration Bulgaria made extraordinaryprogress, and Sofia started upon a promising career.Stambouloff took up the work where Alexander left itat his abdication, and carried out many of his schemes,but since the Bulgarian Bismarck was relieved asprime minister, little has been done in the way ofpublic or private improvement. The stagnation issaid to be due in a measure to a lack of confidence inthe stability of the present government, and to the
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THE PEOPLE OF BULGARIA 197 fact that Prince Ferdinand is interested in otherthings. One must infer that he takes little pride inthe appearance of his capital and does not encouragethe expenditure of money upon public works. Shortly before he retired, Stambouloff purchased anentire block of ground opposite the palace, uponwhich he intended to erect a magnificent building forthe offices of the government. The plans were drawnby an Austrian architect, excavations were made forthe foundation and cellars, and a large quantity of cutstone was delivered by the contractors, A few daysafter Stambouloffs retirement work was suspended andhas never been resumed. Several train loads of granitelie scattered over the ground; the cellar is half-filledwith water during the wet season and overgrown withweeds during the dry months. Every stranger whocomes to Sofia instinctively asks an explanation, butPrince Ferdinand, who always has this reproachfulpanorama before him, seems to be entirely indifferentt

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