Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-15
CLASSIC GREEKS
BOUND FOR Home
Tawny Descendants OF Historic
Ancestors Read Signs OF
Times and Depart.
RAILROAD OFFICES ARE BUSY.
ou, OF itolln- Have Saved Their
N.uc' and Arc independent
BilU't Want Cashiers Checks.

Pete Themistocles Rnuematicac and
eli h.s friends are going home, In 9TH
cr words there is now on an exodus
of he 'ineal descendants OF Eschuylus.
Alcibades and other equally historic
gentlemen These various descendants
bad descended so FAR that for con-
sheraton they coudescendcd % swing
picks on the lines OF the street car
system or act az pr0pclliug equipment
fur WhcelbarroWs on the Western Pa
cifc grade but now they are leaving
The pick and wheelbarrow and buying
tickets for Athens and other flourish
rag Ccnterg ia Greece. Pete. etc. and
his friends have been saving their s. "a
day more or less for months aye,
years past-and now with the hlthy lu-
ere stuffed 100 hidden belts are hleing
to the old folks at home Dozens upon
dozens az the swarthv skinned suns of
Greece are lined mp before ticket coun-
tcrs every day. 10 rs estimated score
Of Greeks are leaving salt Lake fur
their native country daily
The reosou2 The present financial
strinrency is held responsible. The
Greeks while they arc seldom seen
sitting iu private offices NJ big brown
stone buildings labelled RANKS. f0l-
see railroads and big corporations nee
tIenchiug and curtailing. and without
waituc to ho discharged. are resign
ing and intend spending the next few
montAe and their hard earned dollars m
a country. which iu having no finance,
has no crises.
IN short. thousands of Greeks are
leaving Tor Greece, intending TO remain
until conditions have become normal
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OFFICES FUM1GATE.
Railroads are having or mcn-or have
hccn-oWing 90 the present strlnGcucy
and approaching winter. so it's Eood
bye Pete. Pete has not been buying
automobiles, so has plenty OF monof
&C. huv railroad and steamship tickets.
AS "a result railroad offices fumigate
every evening to keep from resembling
I'd garlic cellar A dozen Greeks. head
ed bv one who can make a run ana
iump az handing out English. swarm
into "a railroad office, ana the dialogue
iuns something like this;
Greek suokcsman-"Good daya. we
vantu railroad Jackets. To Athena.
Pafroad CIork-"what Hue?"
G. S.-"We bin worNn' de street car
r. C.-"No. 1 mean how do you want
to go?"
&. S.-"Right quyeek.'
n. Chow shall ] route you
All tine creeks Together" Hun?
n C.-"Oh lord-this is awful Tor
thirty-hNc month
Trio necessary transactions are mn
aIiv e'oeea and another dozen come in.
Repeat dialogue three times every hour
WANT THE REAL MON
While on the subject Of Greeks, a
funny thing happened IN the U--'. L'@ht
e. Railway offices yesterday. A num-
her of ox-pick wlelders who had collect
"a quite fine assortment Of pay
checks. appeared at the cashiers win
dow and asked FOR dca mon.' Dea
mon was forthcoming an right but in
the form Of cashiers checks. silence
fell over tine small mob in front of the
barred window as the man behind
started pecling of slips Of papers. The
spoFcsmeu of tho Greeks finally asked
for "real dlngle-dingle mon" When
the cashier made IL plain none Of the
dinglc-dugle was ON hand, there were
several hrst-class representations OF
how Demosthencs must have talked 10
the sea waves, while conqueriug an im-
uedimeut in his speech Not until Man
aGer Wells came to- the front and told
the boys an about Il would they ac-
cept the slips of paper offered In cN-
change for their time slips