A CREEK PATRIOT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 19 September 1911, Page 2

A CREEK PATRIOT.

When one contrasts Greece as it was once and Greece as if is to-day, there is something very pathetic in the bemade to his native country by M.r Marino Cargialegno, merchant, who died in England recently, and leftover half a million. Few wills of late years have contained such interesting bequests. Mr Cargialegno, who was a native of Cephalonia., but a naturalised British subject left £10,900 for barracks for the Greek Army, and £40,000 for tiie improvement of the Greek Navy, the money ; o be used in the discretion of the King of Greece. The sum of £40,000 is Alt for the institution at Athens of a school on the lines of Eton and Harrow, the testator /“sharing in the desire expressed to me by his. Majesty King George that education in Greece should •be rendered more perfect by the establishment of a public or secondary school upon the model of the English public schools, whore boys will receive a regular course of teaching, as well as of good breeding.” The many other legacies to his native country include £BO,OOO for a hospital in Athens, £ 10,000 for a/ school for craftsmen in Cephalonia, and £26,000 to mild a model prison in Greece, the testator expressing the hope that it ■,.i1l 1)0 conducted on English lines, and £16,000 to the Royal Theatre, Athens. The, residue of the property, which will apparently amount to not less than £IO,OOO, he left to the Crown Prince of Greece for use in ,iis discretion for the improvement and embellishment of the city of Athens, ;r the establishment of any-institution I'm the promotion of scientific, litcriry, or moral knowledge, or for the ic!\ aueement of the arts and trades; ele concluded his will by saying;— “It is not the desire for posthumous .ime that leads me to name inany of the legacies after my own uafnc, hut a stimulus to others and the desire gnd ardent wish that others of my -mntrvnien in Greece and abroad will fallow my example and benefit by similar bequests our beloved couniy in future times.” Though Greece has i’ ■.i!on very far from her high estate, it can still produce large-minded pe.t-