The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-14
THE ITALIAN STREET MUSICIANS.
Ho,c the Little WretcHes are to be Res
cMed dnd the Big ones PMMished.


cued and the Big ones Punished.
The project to investigate the manner
in which the little Italian musicians that
may be seen upon the streets, playing
in saloons, and other public places, IL
obtain their daily sustenance has been
q matter that has often involved serious
discussion in the minds OF many Of our
police authorities.
The idea too was strengthened by the
numerous accounts gNon in New York
Journals and books of the lnhuman treat
mcnt which they sustained ut the hands
Of those in charge of them. The exact
means of arriving at the above facts with
relation to those in this city has been,
however, at all times wanting, and has
not been reached until this morning.
Officer j. L. Quinn, OF the Third Dis
trict Staton-house, while making his
rounds this morning, was called in to
aueil a disturbance in Il house on Race
street, commonly known as 1.-The Bar
racks" Immediately opposite the Ones
Engine-house.
Arriving at the scene Of action the off,
Ger cleaned the information that the
point in dispute WAS the ownership Of
one of those little Italian musicians.
The quarrel was between two of these
Padroues, named Frank Cisalo and
Joseph Zagelor or Sallec, and during
the melee such facts were exposed con-
cerning the treatment in general of the
lad that the officer thought tit to arrest
the whole party-the two padrones and
their band, including about nine lads.
AT the Station-house the charge OF
lettering was preferred against them,
and the slate there presented following: (:
Frank Cisalo, born in Italy, music teach,
er, aged twenty-three, married; Jo-
seph Zageler, carpenter, born in Italy
aged AZ; Frank Stephens, Joe Bolkeers,
Louis Stephens, Augustus ZagelOr, Dan
Zagelor, all rating beta cen the ages Of Z
and 10 years, were the lads gathered in.
Que of the little ones stated that he
and his brother had been taken to this
country from Italy, ana after many wan
derings finally settled in this city; that
1t was required OF him to bring home a
certain amount Of money every even-
ing, and that if he did not
he would be whipped and sent. away
again without supper into the streets un-
til the amount required Of him had been
earned, while the indications are that the
same facts attach in greater or less ex.
tent to the other cases in question.
Frank Cisalo, one of the leaders Of the
band, stated that he taught nearly every
one now III the city the art of playing,
and from this fact they all looked to him
as their "boss."
This he said was rot the case, however.
He did not own any of them, and was
very willing to submit them to the proper
authority to send them to the House Of
Refuge.
This statement will be ventilated in
the Police Court tomorrow morning,
when undoubtedly more definite facts
will be ascertained, and the proper meas
ures taken to dispose Of them IN such q
manner as to shield them from danger of
being bred into thieves, &C., and to es-
cape the inhuman treatment they sus-
tain at the hands Of these so-called
Frank Cisalo, q rather well dressed
young man, and evidently in this city for
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