Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-14

STATUE OF GARIBALDI, WASHINGTON SQUARE Monday for the cerimonies attending the un- yelling of the statute commemorating the Guisippe Garibaldi, in Washington Square. Flags of many hues fiuttered in his honor, | bands played the march which cheered his hosts to victory, and a dancing, dazzling | throng of men and women and children | shouted their vivas and braves while his name was linked lovingly with that of Washington. | and his deeds of valor were rehearsed to eager cars. Great was the day to our Italian American people. After six years Of labor and on the sixth anniversary of the death of the sailor-patriot who caught up the frag- ments of disrupted Italy and made her one this darling project was accomplished, | and among the monumental treasures Of the metropolis, n fit addition to Washington. | Lincoln Lafayette and Mazzini, was bronze | and granite figure of their idol, lesson of | liberty and courage for their children and | children'5 children forever. It was a gay mass of color which clustered about the drapcd heroic figure of tho hero, for each | organ "a ion had its flag and its uniform, and tho latte: all run to gay tints, with much plume and feathers and plenty of gold braid and \ epaulett $ and buttons, also of heroic mould.
 There were two score organizations repre- sentcd by greater or less numbers, some com | ing f. om as far south as Richmond and as far | west as Chicago. Five thousand unmedalled l Italians fought with the three hundred police | whom Inspectors Steers and Williams had on duty :rvng to pass within the reserved lines and ak part in exercises from which their numbers precludcd them.
 Tho Italians that come hero arc not a peo- pie that arc at all desirable and New York, which catches most of them, is already suffer- ing to some considerable extent by their inva- sion. They have a habit of herding as n Texan would say, that is they do not spread out, but live in localities so that all the Ital- ians may be found in one of five or six DOT tions of the city. Each of their districts con- thin several thousand of them. No other peo- pie can live in their midst, but tramps and the lowest grade of people generally found in a large metropolis. There arc many reasons for this, one is evident to any casual observer and that is, dirt and filth. No part of the city of New York is so dirty, nor was any part so dirty ever before, than those where these Italians have settled. The Chinese are clean. and all of our European emigration is cleaner than this Mediterranean scum. I am not only speaking of the men, but the women and chil- drrn too. From their general appearance, one would say thnt soap and water had never been secn by them. There arc thousands of these men employed in building the new croton aqueduct, and every morning and evening they ride to and from the work on the elevated trains. During such hours as they travel they have the inside of the cars to themselves, us tho other inhabitants of Man haitian prefer the platforms of the cars to be- ing compelled to sit for half an hour inside with one of them as q neighbor. The Health Boasd watches them constantly, and every day its inspectors get into trouble with them in their endeavors to make them in a measure live up to the laws of hygiene. They have | &t,,& l., of like the cholera, the Italians would suffer the most and immediately.
 Or all the many swindles invented for the purpose of raising money, probably the most unIque one was perpetrated on the Third avenue bootblacks last week. Along Third ay nue there is q boot-stand on every corner, over which a smiling native of Italy presides with artistic grace and poor English. A I smartly dressed individual with shining hat pulled up in front of a stand at the corner of Eighth street. He did not want a shine, but he had an invention, a simple little thing which would improve the polish of the boot, make 1t last and save considerable elbow grease, which to the hard working knights of the brush is great feature. He was in the boot-blacking business himself, but was one of those very philanthropic individuals who really cared more for benefitting his brothers in the trade than for making money. The stranger drew from a bag which he carried in his hand long strip of white cloth, smooth l on ono side and furry on the other. He ex. plained that after the boots were polished the
 polisher should take the strip of cloth at the | ends one end in each hand, and placing the furry side next tho boot rub it quickly back and forth and tho chemical properties of the strip would heighten the polish and make 1t last. His love for his fellow-craftsmen obliged him to offer this great invention for
 ton cents a strip. In a minute a white strip ! of cloth was flying from the chair, and the
 stranger went away with the gross receipts of | of two shines. Tho stranger was hard
 worker, and in an hour had reached Twenty
 third street and was going right on. In the
 morning, from Harlem River to Chatham
 Square, on every chair could be seen the white 1 cloth, which an examination showed to be only a common piece of Canton flannel, which | cost a few cents a yard. A yard would make
 about thirty strips, and it is reasonable to
 suppose that the stranger made good invest
 ment when he went into patents and dry
 goods. Some of the bootblacks have discov-
 cred the hoax, and if a man with a shiny silk hat sack coat and trousers with a loud stripe l climbs into one of their chairs for a shine he
 had better look sharp or he may have some
 thing besides his boots polished.
 CHEvALIER BIoND1N, the "King of the tight
 rope," had a rouslng reception at the Hoffman
 House last week in honor of his return to this
 city after an absence of twenty-eight years. rT.-- ls.,~x <-l>s