Evening star., 1909-07-13
GREEK MEETS GREEK
Woman inspires Battle of
ShoebIacks and Watchman.
FLOWER POTS GO FLYING
Board With Nail in Does Effective
Service.
AMAZON JOINS IN MELEE
Only One Much Hurt, But Seven
Are Put Under
Arrest.
AMAZON JOINS IN MELEE

With all the dash and fervor that
marked the irresistible fighting spirit of
the soldiers of Alexander the Great and
with modern Helen of Troy to stir them
to combat. half a dozen Greeks. de-
scendants Of those warriors and geniuses
who brought to ancient Athens the glory
that was hers, hooked up In front Of a
shoe-shining shop this morning and. by
expert and judicious use of few flower
pots and plank with nail stuck in the
end of it, spattered one another over all
the surrounding landscape.
Street cars. automobiles, delivery wag-
ons and pedestrians halted at points OF
vantage while the fray went merrily on.
But the blood-lusty warriors paid no at
tention to the large deadhead audience.
:, The descendants of Athenians or
and. forgetting their quiet and inglorious
modern vocations of fruit vending, shoe
polishing and restaurant keeping, fought
on and on with the old primitive spirit of
their ancestors.
Girl Made All the Trouble.
The modern Helen Of Troy is employed
as a cashier in the Greek restaurant
which is near the shoe-shining shop. She
gave her name as Catherine Miller"
which it is not. She said she did not
want her real name to go in the papers
because she did not like to have her
mother hear of the trouble. Her real
name will probably come out in the Police
Court tomorrow morning.
Some boys in the shoe-shining parlor,
Miss Miller said. had been bothering
her with their attentions. She had told
the night watchman about 1t. The night
watchman, it is supposed, read warning
to the fiirtatiously inclined shoe-polishers
and the scrap began.
1t started about $50 o'clock, just when
hundreds of persons were on their way
to work. 1t ended with the arrival of
Policemen Farquhar, Messer. Holmes and
Connors, and the first precinct patrol
wagon. Seven arrests were made.
Improvised Weapons Employed.
The attention of the passing public was
first attracted to the melee when they
saw hurtling through the fresh morning
air two large flower pots. They were
from the descendants of the ancient
Grecian javelin throwers. whose beauty
of body has been handed down to pos
terity in several tons of marble.
Hard upon their heels came the short
sword man. The nearest he could come
to the weapon of his fathers was a short
plank. But the plank had nail in it
and that helped some toward the per-
foration of a couple of his adversarieS.
And was the spirit of the AmaZons left
unrepresented? Not SO the opponents of
Andrus Dracos, one of the combatants,
could notice it. For Erena Dracos, his
wife was by his side, clouting the enemy
in great shape and accompanying her
blows with a torrent of language unin-
telligible to everybody in the neighbor
hood but the rest of the Greeks and one
professor of the Berlitz School of Lam
guages hard by, who had not come down
yet
Finally the police quelled the disturb
ancG and pinched seven of the Greeks, in
Guiding Erena Dracos.
Just who started the fight the police
have not been able to find out Miss Mil
ler'' admitted that some of the Greek
When she saw the proportions attained
by the miniature civil war she grew hys-
terical and could not talk.
Seven Under Arrest.
Just to show there was no hard feeling
the police arrested everybody in sight.
Collateral to the total of s13o was depos-
tied for the appearance of the belliserents
in court tomorrow. when it will be up to
Judge Kimball and an interpreter to get
at the bottom of the affair.
Those arrested were Andrus and Erena
Dracos Ares Contos, Simon Lambros,
STAN Fellow and Nicholas Perres. Mich
olas Parres was the night man at the res
taurant who is supposed to have gone to
the defense OF the fair cashier.
So far as the police could discover, the
only casualty befell Simon Lambros. The
descendant of the short-sword man.
welding his nail-adorued stick. is the man
Lambros said inflicted the wound.