The sun., 1889-11-19
GIVE BACK THEIR LIVING!
CRIPPLED, TATTERFD, AND HUNGRT,
THE ORGAN GRINDERS GITHER.

| the number Of three or four hundred, had their
mass meeting at Brooks's Assembly Room. 361
Broome street, last night, to protest against
the ordinance prohibiting music on the streets
1t was sight to make Aldermen ashamed Of
themselves and able-bodied citizens ashamod
OF the Aldermen. The hall is q shabby base
| ment room. unventilated and I'll lighted, as
dismal as the crowd that, half standing, hall
sitting. filled It toithe doors. Il was the most
picturesauely miserable collection OF the lame,
the halt and the blind that was ever got to-
Gother In New York. with its fierce, dark faces,
its shaggy heads, its empty sleeves, and its
pinned-up trousers legs. 1t was desert OF
rags and tatters. with crutches sticking up
here and there above the general level Here
is a census OF the flrst row:
No. IA Rray-haired man with q nhayen.
honest face. moro Irish than italian, holding
two orutches at his side.
No. GAN old man with shaggy gray hair to
his shoulders and gray beard streaming over
his breast; one shaking hand constantly
shaded his eyes, from which at every exposure
to the light tears ran down over the SCARED
face. He was Giovanni Galassa. aged ca, OF geo
Bleeoker street almost blind and crippled with
made WITH his organ ohii ior his livelihood he said
that with his pains and his eyes and his hun
he could play no more. buthe had not the cOur-
No sbh%m INV r. aSTorSt TesSout @ blind an,
Soi. HItcSeooE. He lost one eye In service and
he has hopes % in an that at dire dreotfgn For twenty
years he has supported himself and his wife by
stfsee Ii nse Which they have to
No. i"Harriot Ann Teaboat. his wife. who led
is trying to make enough now to keep him from
st&SEving & axtnn PIT cand Most-,ooo . r,,dd,o.,eod
man Of s0i. East 11Qth street, who, with an
other Ran to garry thS re- has been able to
snee The "HSe lHp @ srpped Elm an
sfash "H Ge @ used to worf sal IN tho % Street cesn
No. 6.EFrancesco Cucci with one leg. q wife.
three children. two crutehes, and % q month
lSst lis leg Ave. years, q ago on railroad in
Canada. but has been able to support his wife
dy With hand tSSa %1 nSw h
Nos. and s-Mtddle-aged Italians. each with
IN No 20 oIJplos III f PeIret of 1872 Blocker street
stunted Frenchman: whose eyesiRht was de-
earned living with hand organ until the
AldermTen "a stonped him: or r..n
OF 162 Bleecker street. stunted In figure, and
lures @ " He He has has supported i o. himself for thirty
sspitefui visor, that he wanted nothing Of the
city but q chance to earn u living; he asked no
chairty and wEulddnt have 1t: whereat all his
No. ia feeble-looking young italian, with
N No. I i2NAn - Italian boy. not over II. with an
empty sleeve where his right arm should have
No. 1s-A young italian with no left arm.
There were a dozen rows Of men Just like
this seated In the benches and the aisles. The
a6o9t the platform and the rear Of the
fSe9 w1S ali ,s stoed up anS Sre sad S9 Spd
other italian things when John Cavagnaro, the
ina tma2pnlnist ot 2l6 Centre street was nominated
My God exclaimed one sympathetic
siSeves, and siE6tless eyes. It's like payday
y f{Inei 9iivs called The meeting e order, John
Joseph Garum. Antonio Ginacchlo. Giuseppe
Moltnart. A. Lagomarsino. John Muzzio. Vito
huentfai italians had oi Come With Nj. cavas- Cav @
naro to show that they were In sympathy with
Mr;. Oayagnaro. talking In English for the
gEn'aerstald w Italian, said that he had come 70
ths L he Hs RSd Sdr psced 81 f
himself IN good position. It was no more than
Il ne hsa hra
MI9bileii New Orleans: ana other Southern
@ass T Sad 0D osn awsd
office. Nicolo Malatesta, who came from the
same toy toTn no,n a. Mi CGVagn9rS had been Alder
his father had turned hand organ. [Bravol
0!syH,i I'VE are not as unimportant as We used to
be-" he said: since we took to getting natn-
rallied. At the next election we'll keep our
9ss snS Ast
BrexS BTsSo You betta TS jan IN The tRe faGd seeoGd
E1n SssS1s s we control enough votes to
TyolOe-What's the matter with the Third1
a.. Yes, and In the Third. too; We are strong
Mr.: CeyaGnaro switched of into italian here
and told his audience that the Board Of Alder
house or the Casino. but that TIE HI 8 BUN ibrayoii
twice every week day and once on Sunday, and
that the Aldermen would have to get out from
sad hsd
SeS SSe st 4 shey
as for other folks. and the poor people were |
going to have their opera back again before
Jimmy Oliver. the sage of Paradise Park,
was called up after Mr.. Cavagnaro had finished
With If
waters, and after making himself solid with |
the the audience by telling them they we're sure to |
not o-moriow he cast an anchor to windward |
In Lthe direction Of the labor organizations by
6sgt TO so feS ad
" an Alderman, Is not such big man that he
and md TIE a;,i Sun lbrayo and the other papers
on this question every day. And I'm with eml |
we been listening to band organs and street |
bands all my life. and must confess that like 1
hem NObSSdy can can think Of anything wicked
i comes from q hand organ. [Bravol Bravis-
'tmoY want to see every one Of you and all
.he friends you can get down at the City Hall
:o.morrow. You'll more than I'll the Alder
manic chamber, but that's iall right; fiil the |
corridors. too. and the park. If there's enough
!, A. Terenzini told the audience In Italian that
.he Aldermen had been against them. but that
he American, and the italian press were with
when the press was on tho other side.
Luigi Canale, Rray-haired. gray bearded
Did patriot who keeps drug store In Centre
street, read q short speech in italian. He wore
. black skull cap TO keen his head warm, but
here was nothing chilling about his speech or
The way he read 1t. II was filled with patriotic
sentiments. Every other phrase he emphasized
BY fierce circular gesture. as though he were
grinding hand organ or wringinR an Alder
. country Of liberty the excited audience
would shout back at him. Brayo!"" LibertAl"
and other Italian remarkB.