The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

ing black sacks bearing the imprint of a
 New York firm and the label grant, | lated sugar." once the sugar of Greece
 came from Trieste now it journeys all
 the way from New Orleans. Four Greek
 of the opened sacks.
 A GREEK BARGAIN
 The owner stands by, bill of lading in hand. The four retire to a distance to l discuss terms. They all talk at once, waving their hands in impassoned ges- | lures, no one paying the least attention
 to what the others are saying When | one olssents, he does not shake his head, but lifts it sharply upward, clicking his | tongue impatiently. The discussion takes
 a very long time, but finally the bargain
 is struck, and the four purchasers and the consignee of the sugar, their days work done, retire to a neghboring cafe to talk politics over Turkish coffee. ! Close in the shadow of the wheat ship a dozen or so men are unpacking a crate.
 A score of iders look on, deeply ab- sorbed as little by little an automobile | is revealed. The machine comes from Detroit, not from France, as would have been the case before the war.
 Across the harbor a huge, white passen- l ger vessel is moored-the largest passen-
 ger vessel in active service for the trans Atlantic trip, these war times. It is the King Constantine, of the National Greek line plying between Piraeus and New York, making the trip in a fortnight
 She, too, flies the Greek, not the Amer ican flag.
 Along the sidewalk opposite the quays are more reminders of the closening touch between Greece and the United States. Every few steps, in front of the Wretched shops, are stationed the glass show cases of the money changers, filled with their motley collection of strange moneys: Bulgarian, Roumanian Turkish, Egyptian Russian and Servian-the gold and silver in bowls, the paper hung on strings like washing a line against the glass sides of the showcases. In one corner is always a roll of American greenbacks-to American here, home-lke and familiar in company with so much oriental coinage.
 SPIRO COMING BACK | Spro will be buying such a roll soon Spro is a petty officer who belongs to the Killis, which used to be the American ! bait eship Idaho. Spiro does not live in Greece. He is from Saratoga, N. Y, and when his service is over in a month or two he is going back to his candy shop in Saratoga as fast as the King Constan- tine can take him.
 The waiter at the one even halfway pdSSdDle restaurant Ol PlTaeuS IS rom the United States, too. He also is doing his military service, though on leave for the present-like most of the Greek army. So, with bathing in his heart, he works in a restaurant with sawdust covered floor and a row of barrels along the wall | filed with sweet, aromatic Greek liquors, until his time is up 'and he can return to Harrisburg, Pa.
 ] The few forbidding hotels of Piraeus | fly American flags as well as Greek ones just why. is a mystery. American l tourists in Greece are rare these days of 1 submarines in the Mediterranean. But 1 perhaps the manager may have made his apprenticeship in hotel on oadway- reason enough to set out the American ! flag, in the mind of Greek who has 1 lived in the United States. The world around there are no more patriotic Amer i jeans than those who were born in Greece and no more patriotic Greeks apparently 1 than those who live in the United States.