The Greek Exodus.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 13, 1912:
To the Editor of The New York Times:
    A special dispatch from London to The Times speaks of an imminent famine in attar of roses as a result of the war in the Balkans. Had the correspondent lived in America he would have noticed that many another honest industry is bound to suffer and languish as a result of that crisis. Already an exodus from these shores of thousands of Greek bootblacks, peanut vendors, flower hawkers, and hotel help has taken place since war was declared, to continue as long as the "holy" raid by the Lilliputian States of the Balkan peninsula upon the domains of the infidel Turk lasts.
            ROBERT BLOOMFIELD,
            Jersey City, N. J. Oct 10, 1912.