The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-14
Il AD LIE Y IN
CIR Eel AN
W ATERS
OGDEN YOUNG MAN IN THE LAND
OF HISTORY.
He Meets the Brother of Rev. Elder
kin-Oiffcutics Of Mcdterran-
can Travel.
Athens. Greece. Nov. II. 1909

hy sea Trip from Naples via C1cly
and Crete. terminated at Piraeus and
although I spoke no English Ell
route and we were two days late, ow-
ing to storm. can say 1t was the
most interesting ten days | have eX-
perienced In Europe My last letter
was written at Messina. The next
stop was Catania. where the boat
put In for two days
Catania has little to boast of to the
tourist. beyond ruined amphithea-
ire of Roman construction. The city
is built over all, but a portion OF It,
and I explored the numerous subter-
ranean passages with a Cicilian guide
accompanied by two villainous looking
Greeks. The latter counter their
beads durnG the entire procedure,
however. and were apparently as sus-
piciouS of me as | was Of them.
American Consul Smith. at Catania.
is considerably wrought up over the
moboing of three American sailors a
short while ago. All three were ne
groes. They were fooling around
some OF the damsels OF the Cicillan
underworld and the mob, probably
thinking It was following an estab
lshed American custom, set upon
them Two escaped The other
pluckily defended himself with a
knife. stabbed one of his assallants
and managed to get to a policeman
who arrested him,
Or the two who escaped. one got
back to his ship alive, The body OF
the other was found the next day
floating in the harbor The one who
wsls Jailed was finally released,
through the efforts of Consul Smith,
but Is still being closely guarded un-
til an opportunity presents itself TO
smuggle him aboard a ship for Ameri-
ca, 1t was db!graceful affair and
Italy should be called upon to answer
for it, We paid a pretty heavy In
demnity a few years ago to square
that riot at New Orleans and Italy
should do the same i'm this case, as
well az that OF the Petroclni Killing
at Paleynio short time ago. | have
written a little on the subject for
several Of the eastern papers, and
you will probably see something
! about II.
Leaving Catania for a two-dayS'
run to the Island of Crete, tor Can
dia) we encountered storm which
lasted for more than thirty-;iX hours
and proved just such an experience
as have been looking for, although
for a time | wasn't sure but what
I was going 10 get an overdose. The
waves were something fierce. Al
though the boat was heavily loaded.
the wind wa,o sufficiently strong to
keep her over on one side most of the
time, and as the big waves struck
her broadside with resounding
thump the steel hull would shake and
vlbrate from one end to the other.
For fear Id miss something, the
first afternoon, | housed myself from
the wash and spray In the little steel
cabin which protects the steering
gear aft e.big rudder chains and
levers got to making an unearthly
racket and soon the greasy little
ships mechanist' came in and be-
gan fooling around with a wrench al
most as big as himself, / exhausted
my Italian vocabulary upon him and
he explained matters q lsuppoSe)
I whenever he could make himself
heard.
Finally he ducked out between
waves and returned directly with an
engineer and together. they manipu.
lated a bigger wrench than any I'd
seen yet, The business seemed to
they began TO pull the canvas off the
after" compNrs and examine the aux
iliary hand-gear, / went below and
began trying to translate the direc-
tions for wearing an Italian life
belt.
Our second cabin passenger list of
two had been augmented at Catania
by an Italian lady and four children,
a
six years respectively
At the first sign of rough weather
the mother and the Spanish lady be-
came i'll as we'll as hysterical and for
two meals | helped feed the young
stcrs The next morning only the
6ve-yearold showed up for breakfast
He was very plucky about 1t all, but
when the dishes began to slide off
the table. his nerve failed him at last
and he made for his mother My next
three meals were eaten under inter
cSting circumstances. but space for
bids the relation of 1t. also the ad-
vent of a quantity of salt water
through poorly-secured port hole OF
my cabin during the middle of the
night. | shall also leave for another
time the landing at Canea. Crete In a
heavy surf and the things / saw upon
that intensely interesting island OF
antiquity. Its history is so closely
linked with that of ancient Greece as
well as the tales and legends of myth
olosy that I'm this brief writing l
could not do 1t justice.
A horde OF third-class passengers
came aboard at Canea, also several
for first and second class, bound for
Athens and Constantinople. / drew a
young Greek military student as cab
inmate and | utilized him to good ad-
vantage in landing at PiraeuS and get
ting on TO Athens. He smuggled in
four-gallon bottle of Canean cognac
for friend of his by getting boat
man to take it around the back OF the
customs house While we were wait
ing for the friend" the husky boat.
man demanded additional pay and
seized the bottle.
| helped the Greek recover the bot
lie and was becoming more deeply In
volyed when the friend arrived on
| the scene. This gave me an 5oppor-
tunity TO again assume uIe role -oa a
dignifled spectator and II was NIGH
ty entertaining fight until they dump
ed the husky of y l0-foot~ seawall
into the bay We then leIsureH en-
gagged cab and drove away. I don't
know how long It was. but when we
arrived at the station began to wor-
ry about the boatman's swimming
ability and wanted to go, back and
help him UP that l0-foot seawnlL MY
friends. however. scof1ed at the idea
and opened the cognac.
The language proposition in Greece
Is fierce, particularly when one mas