New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-02

the cause which he represented and succeeded In
raising 1900 in money, besides immense guam
titles Of clothing He then FASTENED back to Greece
in charge OF a vessel laden with -four. and arrived
IN time to prevent thousands OF persons from starv-
ing These contributions from a foreign land DID
more than merely relieve the physical wants OF the
sufferers: they inspired the sruggers for freedom
with new hope and with the courage wnich comes
from gratitude for sympathy. Depots for landing
the provisions established In many places.
and Howe freighted small vessels with them and
sent them up into the sheltered. winding bays.
People came twenty, thirty and forty miles to get
food and clothing. Several vessels followed this
first one OF Howe's. and many distributions were
made at various points along the coast
The Greek soldiers were often eager 10 secure
some OF these provisions FOR their own use. and
were not always consdcrate as they might
have been OF the poor peasantry. Howe relates on"
dsagreeable experience in this connection which he
had with Coloco,roni. the old Greek ch.cf,ain, who
was one OF the few OF the patriot commanders
whom ne dsliked 'Colocotroni." ne says tried
10 get possession OF 800 barrels Of -four which b3d
landed near Patras and had 20 beard me oIa
savage He threatened TO shoot me, but was TOO
mad to be afraid. and he cooled OF J had DIS
patched messenger to the American ship OF war
Ing whener she would come. had told the old
robber that she would fire into the town. Present
was Tho famous frea,e constitution ami the officer
who thus protected Howe Captain Patterron
''Colocotroni," continues Dr. Howe stopped the
distribution 10 the poor by force. and was pre-
pairing 10 divide the spols with Griyas and Font
oumaris (they had not yet quarreHch when
spirited remons;rance rom Captain Patterson pro-
o: the committee" Glowe himself.
The last service which Howe rendered TO the
He applied TO the Government for large tract Ok
land on the famous stnmus. and founded COLON
OF cxes. He allowed 10 occupy - 900 acres o!
land, be free from taxes for five years, but TO
practical help was given 10 him by the authoriiiss
He 10 rel
or rather upon those furnished to him by the loyal
committees in America. The colonists co-operaied
sturdily, however, ana everything went on wei.
Cattle and tools were procured. the earth We
p!oughed and sown. and many cottages. a school
near the present railway station OF HeXamila, on
the way from the new town Of Corintt to Argos.
II extended southeast from leXama toward
t,ar tban a 10 SswGor.b Which was only
founded In 1888. Old Corinth lay on the northwest
side of Acro-Corlntb from DR.. Howe's village In
speaking Of this time Howe says: III was perhaps
the happest part of my life. ! was alone among
my coonlsts. who were all Greeks. They knew
wanted to help them, and they let me have my own
way. | had to journey much 10 and from Corinth
Napoli. etc. always on horseback, or In boat and
Gfen by night ~ WA, tg ana peSe Tn mere
selves against armed and desperate s,ragslers
from the bands Of soldiers now breaking up. We
had many 'scrimmageS, and had several narrow
escapes with life" In one OF these Journeys fror
Corlnth to Napoli in $3.50. Howe delayed by nie.t
OF the swamp. which assumed very severe typo
and brought him near to death. Finally his u
spring of 1880 but it was with the satisfaction OF
knowing that Greece free
Dr. Howe wrote a book upon his adventures 81
Greece az this time, calling It An Historical Sketch
Of the Greek Revolution" but he was never salts
fed with the work. IL was written in five months
OF the year 1895 in brief interval from active sery
mos, Interesting material This was rather hastily
put together. Howe would never revise g. and u
is said that in later years he bought up many
ing OF II abruptly. upon being called on 70 return
TO Greece, and although he brought II down 20 The
accession
Greece on January 49, 1875 he described very
virtually with the naval battle of Navarino october
20, 1921, when the Turkish feet was destroyed by
the combine squadrons of England. France and
Russia. Fighting continued, however for many
months thereafter, and the country was long dis
turbcd BY factions and harassed By maraudlhg
Thus closed DR. H9Tes cGnneei2a 1 with the
the end Of his Interest , in or efforts On oeHat Of
fed He revisited the scenes OF MS work there In
1874. and was received everywhere With an enthu
his memory was held by the people But what
seems IN many respects the most remarkable
than this In 1855 when the news came that the
oppressed Cretans making another desperate
Howe, although then slxty-fve years old. immedi.
ately threw himself into the cause again with AL
youth. When he arose to speak in Boston, at
meeting held there in aid Of the Cretans and be-
gan. Some forty-five years ago | became GREATLY
Interested in the war for Greek independently" a
murmrr OF aitonis iil ran through the hall
and those who had known of IL nj tho time had
forgotten his Greek fighting In the twenties. When
through MS own eXertOns and those OF others
37.0cO had been subscribed for the relief OF the
Cretans Howe sailed for Greece arriving at Athens
in the beginning of June. 1861 Distributions ~
clothing and food were made among all the Greek
towns where Crean refugees had fed for shelter.
but DR.. Howe did not content himself with this
He went 10 Crete with a shipload OF provisions.
taking with him a leader of the enterprise which
he had planned brave Greek officer, Captain Elias
Stekouls. "On the night of June H." says D..
Howe. THE bags OF food were landed on the Crcap
shore almost under the range of the guns OF the
blockading squadi on, and before daylight they had
all disappeared. They had been expected and q
crowd OF men. with few mules and dOnkeys hal
come down from the mountain fastness's and been
waiting for them upon the beach since sunset. tn
sacks were Immediately loaded upon the animals o.
the mems shoulders, and carried up 10 plac
of safety without the loss of single one. ~ sun
set the Turkish officer on duty on the blockadirg
ship sweeping the horizon with his sr}glaSs. saw
nothing but stones and sand upon the beach. ard
reported Ais well" Al daylight he looked again
and only the sand and stones. and again re-
ported, ALPS we'll" "
The Cretan instruction failed again. Il Ia
done forty years before and Or. Howe returned 90
this country in the latter part OF 1866. lie pub
shed report OF his work. showing that over
10000 had been raised for the Cretans IN New
England and New-York substantial evidence .t
the sympathy with which Americans thirty years
ago regarded struggles Of such nature. ~ for
DR.. Howe himself despite the two failures which
he had witnessed in person he never lost hope thai
Crete would eventually be free Greece herself
had become in the frs, revolution