Türkiye Dahil Akdeniz Seyahatnamesi - Yazarından İthaflı-Ellis Spear, Our Cruise Around the Mediterranean, The Press of Byron S. Adams, Washington D. C., 1909. 123 s, metin dışında 4 levha, yazarından ithaflı, 22.5 x 14.5 cm, kağıt kapağında. İstanbul (s 31-38) ve İzmir’i (s 38-42) de kapsayan geniş ölçekli bir Akdeniz seyahatnamesi.
Yazarın İzmir’deki Amerikan okulları hakkında verdiği bilgiler ilgi çekicidir (s 40 vd):
What interested us most of all in Smyrna was not ancient nor oriental, for by happy chance, or rather by suggestion of that good angel, Miss Kingman, we went with her and Mrs Halleck to the American Mission Schools.
There are two such schools in close proximity, one for boys and one for girls ; the International College, for boys, under the control of Rev. Mr. McLaughlin, has no debt and is self-supporting, with between three and four hundred students, the majority of them Greeks and Armenians, with few Turks The President of the college, Rev. Mr. McLaughlin, is introducing modern scientific appliances in the school work, having a seismograph, electric plant, and other instruments which they have themselves installed. There is no other electric plant in Smyrna, and probably if they had asked permission to install theirs it would not have been granted ; but after an innovation has once been made "it goes," and the Turks only say, "we wish we had an electric plant also."
We received a courteous welcome from the President, and were taken by him, not only through the different rooms, but also to the roof of the college building, where he pointed out to us all the points of interest in the city and surrounding country. From there we went to the school for girls, where we found friends of friends - the Rev. Mr. McNaughton and wife and sister, Miss Jeslin, and from these and other teachers we received every kindness and courtesy.
This school also surprised and pleased us greatly, the classes from high school grade down to kindergarten doing work the mission may well be proud of. In both schools the work is hindered by lack of room. I can conceive of no better investment of missionary money than the support and enlargement of such schools. Every student they send out into that community becomes in a greater or less degree a missionary.
Mr. McNaughton went with us to the bazaars, and as he spoke the language and had twenty years acquaintance with the place and the people, we saw all that it was possible to see in so brief a visit. We had even, at his suggestion, a Turkish lunch on a counter kindly loaned us by one of the college boys who had become a trader. The lunch was a native affair, prepared in the street, a compound of bread and lumps of mutton broiled on a skewer over the coals in a brazier, to me not unpalatable, but I noticed the ladies did not seem hungry.
Ellis Spear (1834-1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. On April 10, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed President Andrew Johnson's February 24, 1866 nomination of Spear for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from April 9, 1865. He was United States Commissioner of Patents in 1877-1878.

Türkiye Dahil Akdeniz Seyahatnamesi - Yazarından İthaflı

Ellis Spear, Our Cruise Around the Mediterranean, The Press of Byron S. Adams, Washington D. C., 1909. 123 s, metin dışında 4 levha, yazarından ithaflı, 22.5 x 14.5 cm, kağıt kapağında. İstanbul (s 31-38) ve İzmir’i (s 38-42) de kapsayan geniş ölçekli bir Akdeniz seyahatnamesi.
Yazarın İzmir’deki Amerikan okulları hakkında verdiği bilgiler ilgi çekicidir (s 40 vd):
What interested us most of all in Smyrna was not ancient nor oriental, for by happy chance, or rather by suggestion of that good angel, Miss Kingman, we went with her and Mrs Halleck to the American Mission Schools.
There are two such schools in close proximity, one for boys and one for girls ; the International College, for boys, under the control of Rev. Mr. McLaughlin, has no debt and is self-supporting, with between three and four hundred students, the majority of them Greeks and Armenians, with few Turks The President of the college, Rev. Mr. McLaughlin, is introducing modern scientific appliances in the school work, having a seismograph, electric plant, and other instruments which they have themselves installed. There is no other electric plant in Smyrna, and probably if they had asked permission to install theirs it would not have been granted ; but after an innovation has once been made "it goes," and the Turks only say, "we wish we had an electric plant also."
We received a courteous welcome from the President, and were taken by him, not only through the different rooms, but also to the roof of the college building, where he pointed out to us all the points of interest in the city and surrounding country. From there we went to the school for girls, where we found friends of friends - the Rev. Mr. McNaughton and wife and sister, Miss Jeslin, and from these and other teachers we received every kindness and courtesy.
This school also surprised and pleased us greatly, the classes from high school grade down to kindergarten doing work the mission may well be proud of. In both schools the work is hindered by lack of room. I can conceive of no better investment of missionary money than the support and enlargement of such schools. Every student they send out into that community becomes in a greater or less degree a missionary.
Mr. McNaughton went with us to the bazaars, and as he spoke the language and had twenty years acquaintance with the place and the people, we saw all that it was possible to see in so brief a visit. We had even, at his suggestion, a Turkish lunch on a counter kindly loaned us by one of the college boys who had become a trader. The lunch was a native affair, prepared in the street, a compound of bread and lumps of mutton broiled on a skewer over the coals in a brazier, to me not unpalatable, but I noticed the ladies did not seem hungry.
Ellis Spear (1834-1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. On April 10, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed President Andrew Johnson's February 24, 1866 nomination of Spear for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from April 9, 1865. He was United States Commissioner of Patents in 1877-1878.

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