| Show WHERE THE GREEKS S CONGRE CONGRE- GATE Prett Pretty nearly nearh every day the papers print an Item about the Greeks Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times the story is complimentary Sometimes It is not Occasionally one reads of at Greeks who have havo been arrested for tor stealing coal Following the example of Chief Pitt the police poUce department has a habit of ot reporting as Greek every prisoner of whom they know nothing And the classification classi chassi- lention is by br no means always de do- served It gives some men the Impression Im ha- ha that Greeks are about the tho only offenders against the law and that all nn Greeks are disturbers o of the peace violators of or law prisoners with charges of larceny against them And that is 15 a wrong view to take West Vest Second South has a good many Greeks They have ha stores and hotels and boarding houses and nd d places of at amusement there The They have ha a newspaper newspaper news news- paper and a number of halls haIls where entertainments of ot the simpler kind are given gi In one of at these halls on a recent evening e one hundred and thirty men all Greeks w were re counted It was an an ordinary assembling They wore were gathered gathered gath gath- ered ed about bout little tables anc and for or the lost pirt part they tey were playing c cards r s. s The ne game usually played Is la 2 a little like casino The They play for tho the drinks And coffee cortee and ginger ale are the drinks and the anI only drinks No In In- are sold The place Is warmed by br a n number of stoves and antl andIs andIs Is 13 comfortable and clean Tho The men are perfectly quiet Not Kot a bit of at disorderly disorderly dis orderly conduct was as noted In a visit of or an hour Walters Waiters move among the tables tal taking ing orders bringing drinks and clearing away aware But there is no hurry hum A man ma may drink once and sit there for hours Ono One such has a lantern of ml films 8 and at nt Intervals throws a series of motion pictures on a screen In one onea a n girl was escorted to a stage at the end of the tho room loom and there sang to the tho men She Sho sang in Greek It sounded much like a chant to American ears When she concluded the men applauded applaud applaud- ed a little but did lid not demand an encore Ono o of the Greeks said that would hardt hardly have been prop proper r. r There the they spend their evenings In places like liko the one hero described d hundreds of young oung Greek men take I their leisure Th There r is not in any cit city in the land hand a n better behaved ed lot lotof lotof of men It would be impossible to Imagine a better plc picture e. Doubtless if the they had better entertainment they would favor or it But this is Inexpensive sire shoe it Is comfortable The They can meet I I their frien friends s they can have ha a better I cup of coffe coffee than any French cook can make in a century pay five cents for fOl it and the they can leave the place at midnight with brain normal and bod body whole Some of at these men are educated though for the tho most part the they are arc laboring men The They are hero here in iu America to stay They do not starve and save sa their money and then run home with it when work closes down The They save savo their earnings and bu buy property They bring their wives and settle here They attach themselves to lh the soil The They make the property about them more valuable e And with very few exceptions the they do not make an any trouble for the tho police It Is another view of ot the Greek an anit and it is s a little better deserved than is the more moro common m. m ono one ne which poss possibly the newspapers pers have e been responsible for |
