Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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Lewis: Grace Church, yes. To build it on . . . told you
the pxice, of course. There were pillars in Grace Church.
George Benson was Sunday School Superintendent for years.
Charlie, he was a bachelor; he never married.
It was all like people, see you'd have to know them -
the only time, even though you get mad at a family was
neglected by carelessnes of one of the parents - they always
seen that they had something to eat or a job or something
like that. Of course, Cavacos the same way. out. One
time today, there were two factions of Greeks in this
country, and Cavacos brought them together. He was a big
chu~ch leader: not only in Maryland, but all over the
country. And Mr. Gus liked me ever since X was a kid and
as I got older belonged to some organizations and traveled
around tagether and he was influenced by things that happened,
It was funny in 1939 my w ife took her kid brother
to Atlantic City over Labor Day. Got down there couldn't
get reservations, so coming back out Atlantic City and I
stopped at the little hotel, Greek people, and I asked them
if they had anything. They said no, and I said, do you have
any idea where I can go close up the road?
brother with us. He said, what part are you
from? I said Hampden. He said do you know Cavacos. I
said, I know M r. Gus xeal well: I said Mr. Gus so-and-so
and so-and-so. Wait a minute - went out and talked to his
wife and them people gave us their bed and put a curtain
up there and my brother-in-law so we could have privacy.