The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-11-25
IT'S LIVING
GREECE ONCE MORE
A WRITER IN BOSTON TRANS
CRIPT DESCRIBES INDUSTRIAL
ACTIVITY IN THE KINGDOM.

While the unspeakable Turk Is taking
in the submissive and not yet slaught-
cred Christians of Salonica and Mo-
nastir, and doing nothing to retrieve
the ravages of the basni-bazouks IN
Macedonia, Greece, just below this mis-
governed dominions recovered from the
effects of her last war against the
sultan is advancing slowly but surely
along the path of prosperity. She has
not the best government in the world,
though much more honest and frugal
one than Pennsylvania enjoys at pre-
sent; but she knows how to make the
most of her resources, and how to
draw on those which her sons have ac-
cumulated in foreign lands. A recent
writer in the Boston Transcript gives
some interesting details, rather more
recent than those in Prof. Richardson's
book about the Grecian countries, con-
corning the extension of railways and
the promotion of archaeology in various
parts of the small kingdom, which he
traYersed last summer from end to end
He saw a few threshmg machines at
work on the grain crop of Thessaly,
but mostly the peasants were using
the scriptural and classical threshing
floor, where horses and mules tread
out or bruise out with the "tribula''
grain in the open air; and were win
moving out the chaff, as in the New
Testament. But in the same province
and just below 1t, near LAMA and Mt.
Oeta, tracklaying and tunnelling for
the railway from Athens to Mt. Ossa
was going on; and, in the Boetian di-
vision of that line, trains will be rum
ming before winter to Chalcis and Lee
badeia, passing through a corner of
the battlefield of Chaeronea. There
the excavators have discovered the
tomb of Philips Macedonian dead, slain
in the fight of 1888 B. C.,-the tomb of
known, and marked by the Chaeronean
lion which is soon to be set up again,
if not already in place.
In the Peloponnesus the railway to
Olympia has been extended along the
west coast to Kyparissia, and is to be
connected with the line from Kalamata
to Tripolis,-from which Arcadian town
a line is planned to Sparta and Gythe-
ion on the southern coast. The wealth
of the late Mr.. Syngros has construct
ed a broad new driveway from Athens
to Phaleron, and in the plains near by
new beds have been opened for those
famous streams, Ilissus and Cephissus,
that every now and then rise in flood,
and do much damage, which the new
channeling is expected to prevent.
Patras has an electric road, and is
building a new and architectural GUS
tom house for it's increasing commerce
in currants and salt fish. Delphi,
which can be reached from Patras by
a circuitous route, part rail and part
steamboat, but is more accessible from
Lebadeia, has it's new museum of an
Equities open, built with the bequest
l., 1t 1AN1ggf
as well as with many of the French
finds, including the bronze charioteer
and the marble-carved Hymn to Apollo
The museum at Olympia, also given by
Syngros, has been renovated and re-
arranged, with the statues of Roman
emperors and the family of Herodes
Atticus (the Carnegie of the Anto-
nines) in good positions.
The rich National museum at Athens
now exhibits the bronzes fished up
from the sea, the heads lately found at
Aegina, and the Karapanos collection
from Dodona, which used to be seen in
the owners private palace. The new
national library has its books in posi-
ton, and extensive building and re-
building is going on in Athens, where
the stadium of AVeroff is nearly fitted
up with its new marble seats from Pen
telicus near by. 1t was originally built
magnificantly by Herodes Atticus, who
owned extensive estates in Attica and
about Marathon. In Argos, Mycenae
and Epidauros excavation and replace
ment has been going On,-the Dutch
having undertaken to explore the low
hill Aspis, near the ancient argos. At
! Corinth, also the American work is
1 advancing. But the chief interest now
centers about the discoveries in Crete,
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Gently issued Annual of the British
school at Athens, with II illustrations,
| large and small.