Salt Lake Herald | 1899-08-24 | Page 5 | On the Athens Acropolis

d ON THE ATE S ACROPOlS GREEK NWSPAER MAN VIITS SAT LAKE George Scholomiti Onln Tour Trough the Unite States Finds Interest lug Material Gerg Sdl010mi a reporter on the staff pr the Athena Acropolis is in Salt Lake Mr Schblomlt is touring the United States in the Interest of his paper and is keeping the Greek public with conversant through the Acropolis political and other mater in this coon In Although he has been here bui six months 11 Scl110mit has almost succeeded in masteru the intricacies He talks of the English language readily and fluently and is Yen en thuslatc over what he has seen ThIs new olld ot yours Is a great country he said last night People who have never visited It can have no comprehension of its magnitude I am astounded In what I have seen and pleased beyond measure I I find there are about SOOO Greeks il the United States but not one in Sal Lake so far as I have ben able to discover There are large colonies in ChIcago and New York jesides a great many along the Atlantic and Pacific coast dUes Sal Lake is certainly a very beautiful beau-tiful clyo Today I ae vIsited and admired your magnificent Mormon tabernacle tab-ernacle Besides I have been out to the lake and other p1act ot Interest I am told that thIs statqlas only been setle about fifty yearand the progress prog-ress made 11 tat tme Is most aston Ishim Mr Sc Tomi aldtJ his country was slowly recovering from the effects of the TurkoGreIan war Ye went I Into that war he adknowlng well enough we could not hope to be vIctorious vIc-torious but our cause was just and we had the sympathy of the whole civilized world The people of Greece will always feel very kindly toward the United States betau e of the substantial I substan-tial aId given by citizens of this country A fund at 5OO was raised here and sent over to us and other help was furnished wIll remain In Salt Mr Scholomlt wi Sal Lake for a day or two before resuming his journey westward He will vIsit San Francisco and California and will then go by steamer to Portland From there to goes to Butte to vIsIt his brother for the second tIme on this tip after which he returns to Greece The trIp will be a leisurely one and the traveler expects to reach home about the first ot next year