The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-01-24
CREECE'S PAPER MONEY PUT UP
FUNDS fRON rms COT NTRi
ADVANCE IRIS JALtE.
Minister Moses, on Ills Way Back 10 Ills
Post, says the Money sent Back HaS
Changed Finances There - American
Women Are social Leaders In Athens.

rs about opening said Mr. Moses yester-
day. and | shall be in Athens when il is
ready for business II takes about three
weeks to validate the elections. there
beng no returning board in the country.
Nine days after presenting my creden
tials. which happened almost two years
ago the revolutionary movement began
in Greece. and my friends joked me about
1t. because some of them used to call me
sort Of stormy petrol in politics" con
.tnu"d MIR Moses. who is a newspaper man.
During the first year was there the
Military Leagie was in the ascendency
lh"r" is now a very strong government,
and in tho elections it has just won on
emphatic victory
The opposition comes chiefly from
IN" Ihessalan Deputies. who represent
'he very radical agrarian sentiment
IN" present Prime Minister. Vcnizelos.
Is 'retan, and was The lender Of the
r"'an revoutionaries about twelve or
thirteen wears ago. when he had serious
di'hCulfles IN Crete with Prince George.
'he second son Of the King of Greece.
VINO was High Commissioner. The King
has given Ncnizelos his confidence IN
~" reform movement the latter has
undertaken. Norizclos'S chic! supporter
IL the Minister of Finance. Coromlas
who is still accredited Bs the Greek
Minister to Washington. and who last
summer married the daughter of former
Senator tockrcll of Missouri The wife
OF the American Ionsul-Gen.ral is a
daughter of Senator .Io. Blackburn
Countess MerCati the wife of the chief
of tn" Crown Princes household. was a
Cleveland girl and the wife of the Italian
Consul-General. Coun, Naselli is an
American, and 80 is the wife of the new
Bulgarian Minister
So that while our real American colony
IN Athens is not large. there are many
former Americans over there. know
OF only two or three American families
resident there There y woman who
used to be a Miss Palmer of New York.
who is married to a man in Ithaca not
New York. but Greece They affect the
old classical Greek costume. and she is
frequently seen about Athens in flowing
robes. With the exception Of the Dun
cans. Robert. his wife and the little
Mcnalkas. they are practically all the
people | have seen in Greece who wear
classic robes
As a matter of fact. even the national
costume. the fustanella. sort of petit
coat. is practically gone. II is seen only
on the household troops and an occasional
peasant who wanders 10 town from some
far of mountain.
The only nation in Europe that appears
10 hold to a national costume is the
Montenegrin. There everybody from
the King down wears il. | was over
there last September at the time of the
Kings Jubilee. when they raised the gov
ernment from principality to kingdom
IL was proposed to the Queen at the time
that she adopt European dress. but she
fatty refused.
The reason why SO many Greeks are
coming to this country nowadays is that
they regard America as the land of prom
Use. workman over there gets only
three drachmR 100 c.nts) day. They
hear that over here one gets eight drachma
AT least, and they want to come in con-
sequence. The Greeks in this country
sent back last year more than q. .0OO. 600
drachmR. and the result Of the backward
flow Of their money during the last few
years has been that il has forced Greek
paper currency. which had deprecated
80 per cent after the war. to par and
above.
My bankers told me last July that they
had actually Just bought 100. 600 francs in
louis dor for little over 90 in Cro.L
80. ,rh;s ;. y, ~ n
P'pe'' "'e '''''e"se III .he |alhe OF
money counts as factor in the higher
cost Of living which is now troubling
Greece. One of nv collea g,es in Atbops
wbo h,o hoon ,b.r, so,,,. g.,
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p"'i'he receh,'y 'hat ne could not get
as much Greek money for his ga lary
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