Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-12
TEUTON|C SHIPS
NO LONGER PLY
TO PORT P|RAEUS
Big Grain Vessels From West
ern Hemisphere Now Crowd
Docks, Where Orient and
OCcident Meet,
ASSOCIATED Press Correspondenee.)


Piraeus. Greece, May l5.--Ihe
mort Of piraeus possesses today a
vastly different aspect from that OF d
wear and a half ago. The conspicuous
Offices of the Hamburg America,
Norddeutscher Lloyd and Austrian
LLOYD lines, deserted and iorlorh
where once so busy, mark the pass
ing Of "A considerable factor III the
marine activity of the port OF Athens.
only three smokeless, negleeted-iook :
ino, vessels. moored stern to nj the lar
sea wall, represent in their lnterheo
inaction the sea power mat once WA
Germany in these waters.
Grain ships from America or the
Argentine tank steamers, huge iran
sports sNarming with Greek soldiers
tiny coasting vessels, towering trans
Atlantics--all these crowd the Greek
harl,or. Along the quay lies the mn
nance Of the Foresight, British aus
match vessel. flying the red Union
Jack; beyond the custom house Is
moored an Italian passenger stehih,
ship displaying the red, White anu
green. occasionally a hulking, round
shouldered workman of Messaserles
Maritines packet slips into port WIN
the French tri-cOlor flying ana stps
out again within few hours. saw
for these whore once the German
Austrian, Turkish aud Rumanian
flags abounded now all the busy ba~
sin reveals only the blue and white
stripes and the white cross on blue
ground Of Hellas ON the quays 100
where once German was current
tongue, one hears now some itailan,
very little English, scattering ol
French--and all the rest Is Greek.
East Joins wcsi.
A queer spot, Piraeus, guarding stu
much of the primitiveness that Ath-
ems in a measure has outgrown. Here
the east is cheek by jowl with the
west Dirt, the mark Of the east, Is
paramount Vet sitting before safe,
the amber stem of narghila caught
between his lips, a white-skirted
farmer from the Attic hills watches
an automobile sprinkling cart-~of a
model 80 improved that perhaps few
American cities boast the like-~lay
the dust and splash the passerby with
equal effectiveness.
surrounding a long haired religious
fanatic, mounted on a munlclpal ieI-
use can far better than those to DC
seen in New York, is a crowd that IN
cludes sturdy Cretans In baSSy bloom
ers and high boots: Macedonian refu-
zee women in colorful peasant cos
tune; and neat. blue-clad sailors OF
the Greek navy, whose smart appear
ance Is due probably to the work OF
the British naval mission but whose
seamanship dates from the days or
Jason and Ulysses
4 Funeral of the People.
The electric ears Of Berlin are not
more perfectly appointed than those
or Piraeus. Behind one comes fun
eral--a funeral of the people. The
long haired, long bearded, black
robed priest rides in a broken down
cab at the head of the procession,
an acolyte in white surplice and black
toQue crossed with gold braid, sits
on the box beside the coachman,
brass. cross-capped staff in his hand.
The hearse follows, cheap but pre-
tentious affair, veneered in yellow,
with glass sides to display the colin
within. AS il passes the Greeks on
the sidewalks uncover and tap their
breasts in vague manner intended
TO form the sign of the cross. execut~
ed backward in comparison with the
Roman Catholics, following the am
A covey of ncwsboys who might
have learned their business in Park
Row race down the street crying the
latest edition at the tops of their
voices one word stands out We
nize y" The Piraeus newsboy
swallows the end of the Cretan's
name--after all, the merest suggestion
suffices, so we'll known 1t is.
Walking Soda Stand.
One of the newsboys stops TO buy
a glass of lemonade Of an old Turk
who carries his shop around on his
back II is a huge copper turnip with
a stem a yard long that curves over
his right shoulder On a hook at his
waist Is a smaller copper pot con-
tanning water with which the vender
rinses the glasses hanging on hooks
at his belt To pour the lemonade
the old Turk merely bends over, hold
Ing the glass aloft in his right hand
The movement Tits the copper turuip
and out runs the liquid
As the cool OF the evening comes
the sidewalk cafes are crowded. The
streets swarm with beggars little
girls with faded flowers who push
their way among tl-, tables and seek
to pin their posies on the coats OF
likely looking gentlemen too polite to
push away the scrawny little hands.
A man with monograph under his
arm sets 1t up on vacant table and
takes a battered record from under
his coat--'Waiting for The Robert +.
Lee" or Get out and Get Under.
When the concert is over, the me-
chanical musician eXacts his toll from
all and sundry within hearing dis
lance. Prosperous mendicants. these
But IN the shadows, shy and fright
ened, yet desperate with hunger,
babes in arms. urk the wives of
Greeces modified but inactive army, !
creeping out TO aecOst the moro for !
tunate with their almost unintelligible /
sing-song of misery.