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Show ; employed In the railroad camps. Railroad Rail-road employes refused to work yesterday. yes-terday. The fasting period ended yesterday and wholesome food and wine wore freely partaken of In tin- homes. In the halls with saloon attached the hundreds who sal about the tables I playing cards Imbibed only of lre wa-I wa-I ter. The military brunch of the Greek colony, which was recently organized, has ordered the gaudy uniforms on the order of their army and will In a short time turn out In parade. About i JOO, many of whom have served in the j army, have joined the militia. They have been sworn In according to the i rites of the church and the American and Greek (lags. The militiamen havo all taken an oath to respond to the call of their country and that of the United States. SALT LAKE GREEKS CELEBRATE EASTER Salt Ijikc, May 2. Easter, according accord-ing to the calendar of tn? Greek orthodox ortho-dox church, was celebrated by the Greek colony In Salt Lake yesterday. Kvery one of the 1,5u0 of that nationality nation-ality plomsly observed the day In accordance ac-cordance with the custom of their country. . Th celebration commenced a few minutea nfter midnight last night, when the little church onWest Second Sec-ond South street, near tho Rio Grande I depot, was packed, and many of the devout were turned away. The services, conducted by the Rev. Parthenlon Lempe Ropoulos lasted almost al-most until daybreak. During tho service, ser-vice, when the aunouncement, "Christ Is risen," was made, the Greeks kissed each othT according to the custom of the church. For forty-eight days preceding Waster the Greeks observe tho period on the order of Lent, but to tbir credit It Is said they observe the fasting fast-ing period more devoutly and strictly than Americans. For the week preceding pre-ceding Easter the Greek eaU but little lit-tle and prays often. The English-speaking custom of the colored Easter eggs Is a practice among them. The eggs, however, are all of one color, red. Tho halls and cafes In the colony neighborhood were yestorday deoo-rited deoo-rited with Greek flags and spectacular spectacu-lar pictures. All the places of amusement amuse-ment along the streets were crowded. At the tables swarthy men sat playing cardH and puffing thelr-long stem water wa-ter pipes. It la estimated that there 3-e 5,000 '''"' n rtah Mnnv of, them are |