Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-04

der General Manos, were encamped
in and around the town. while the OPP
posite side was held by a Turkish
force, whose numbers did not appear
to be accurately known.
But all these were discoveries sub
sequent to their first arrival at Arta.
They found themselves in the narrow
crowded streets. without a place TO
sleep in. Such quarters as there were
had long ago been exhausted, and it
was necessary to obtain private hospi-
tally. unless they were prepared to
pass the night in the open air.
There are no hotels in Greece, out
side the principal towns. When
stranger arrives in a Greek village, his
first step is to go to the local demarch,
or. mayor, whose duty it is to billet him
upon some .inhabitant who is ready to
entertain him. There is no fixed tar
siff, but the visitor is expected co make
a present on his departure roughly cor
responding to the value OF the enter
tainment he has received But the
demarch of Aria proved to be unable
to rise to the requirements of the four
travellers. Every house and every
room in the town, he assured them,
was already occupied.
They had letter of introduction to
the Greek General, but neither was he
able to afford them any consolation. In
fact, he told them without much am
biguity that their presence was rather
an embarrassment than help. They
were unable quite to make out his real
feeling, but though he courteously of
fered to attach them to his staff, and
enable them to obtain a good view OF
the operations of the war, he appeared
to consider that their coming to join
his force was both rash and foolish
AS Vaughan ascertained within the
next tWenty-four hours that the gem
erals idea was to retire TO village
five miles in the rear Immediately on
the outbreak of hostilities, and super
intend the campaign at that exceeding
ly safe distance, he at once desided not
to avail himself of the generals offer
to place him on the staff, preferring to
take his chance with the soldiers,
where there was actual fighting to be
done.
Fortunately they were not left to rhe
doubtful hospitality of the General.
AS they sat in a little smoking cafe,
waiting for something to turn up,
their forlorn state attracted the atten-
tion OF a sergeant of cavalry, who
turned out to be the proprietor of shc
hotel they bad patronized in Patras.
This gentleman, WIN lad been called
out by the CONSUMPTION, and had been
given a sergeantcy apparently in def
erence to his superior education and
social position, rather than to any par
ticular training in military matters,
kindly undertook to provide for them.
He introduced them to a distinguished
officer, commander of a regiment
stationed at Arta, and this gentleman,
whose name they had at first some diff
fieulty in mastering, consisting as it
did of about seven syllables, took them
straight away to the house of friend
of his own, the leading merchant of Ar
ia, who no sooner learnt that they were
English volunteers, than he most hos
pitably agreed to take them in, plac-
ing at their disposal sumptuous
chamber. as well furnished as any En-
gllsh bedroom.
Here they remained for the next two
days, during which the army waited in
momentary anticipation of war being
declared.
The situation Of Aria has already been
briefly described. Colonel Pappayiann-
opoulos, their friend, was in command
of thousand men who were posted
along the banks of the river below the
bridge. The ground thus occupied by
the Colonel's men consisted of olive