Turkish Monte Carlo Is Planned
Roulette Wheels to Click in Ex-Sultan s Palace at Constantinople High Class Gambling House to Attract Tourists.
WILLIAM JORDAN RAPP
ROULETTE wheels are soon to click where Sultan Abdul Hamid once sat, plotted and condemned many to torture and death; for the Sultan’s palace at Constantinople is to be turned into a high class gambling house. Turkey essays to attract moneyed tourists within her borders and she believes that a gilded gaming house that was once the residence of despots will bring her the publicity and the paying guests.
The story of this novel project is told by William Jordan Rapp in the New York Times Magazine: