The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-22
GUESTS FROM ITALY.
Party of Distinguished Tour
lists Visiting the City.
THEY ADMIRE THIS GREAT LAND.
How the Currency ef Their Country Ii
epeesizted In-yiews of Lib
erai Travellers

A party Of four Italian tourists. gentle
men Of wealth and education. are stopping
1t the Grand hotel In the city on their
way home from trip across the continent
by the sorthern Pacific railroad. They
are Dr. r. p. Proches. physician 70 tns
foreign colony at Rome; 4. T. Servsdio,
an Italian army officer and engineer:
Albert chaffero, large chocolate manu-
facturer. and 0ctavio Charhonier. son OF
prominent banker Of Turin, IN Northern
Italy.
The party left Rome on June 2s, and,
landing 81 New York, have visited the
principal cities Of the East aud Canada
On their way 10 Chicago they OF course
saw Niagara falls. At Chicago they spent
twelve days seeing the Far, and at Vel
lowstone park they canped several days,
and then came 20 Seattle. They will go to
Vancouver and Nictoria today, and then
go East again by the way Of San Francisco
and the Southern Pacific.
In conversation with o reporter last
night Mr.. ChaFbonier expressed himself as
greatly surprised At the United States.
Said he:
I'VE were prepared Of course TO End
great country. but We had no idea 10 see
things 50 highly civilized. The push of
your people Is wonderful. | cannot real
ize that there was no city where Chicago
nov 10 sixty years ago, and Of Seattle the
same thing strikes me, that city has
grown up here In only few years. In our
trip We have seen great many strange
things OF course. At the Worlds fair
was not Is greatly pleased as had ex-
pected 10 be. Ii 10 too large for any
one 10 comprehend. have seen all
OF the great expeditions of recent years,
but they do not compare with your Worlds
fair. OF course l have not been in the
country long enough 20 pass my opinion
on IL, but the most wonderful things l
have seen are your great systems of trans
portation and the marvellous way in which
you assimilate the riff. rah and scum OF the
nations OF Europe. / know, myself, what
kind OF people we send 10 you from Italy,
aud confess | cannot see what you could
do with them"
Mr.. Charbonier, being the son Of
banker and intending to become banker
himself. was asked about the silver ques-
ton in Italy.
II can't say that the silver question
plays any great part in Italy" said he.
what We are most interested I'm Is the
effort OF the government TO make the pa
per money circulate at par with gold.
For q short time after the gov
eminent commenced to issue pa
per and declared that IL should
be taken for its face value il was at par,
but now gold commands q premium Of
and per cent In our country there are
some men who have way of making
money that might seem strange to you,
They will gather up all the small change
siiver--of course we have no other kind Of
small change-and take il to France. lust
across the line. There they deposit it in
the banks and when they draw ii
out IL IL paid to them in gold.
They bring this gold back and exchange it
for paper, making handsome profit,
sometimes as high as 5 per cent. This
expectation of silver is forbidden by law.
but IL Is done right along, and it has
drained Italy of small change When You
SO into shop In Turin, If you have a bill
OF about the value of your dollar, II
Is as likely as not that you cannot get
change. So great did the pressure become
that the government recently sent TO the
banks OF my city about $4,000 in SILVER to
relieve the distress caused by lack of
small change There is no way OF stop-
ping this smuggling the silver out of the
country. and the government Is now
thinking OF adopting nickel coins as you
have
Mr.. Charboniei is but % years of age
bat speaks English without accent and as
fuentiy as French or German or Italian.
his native tongue, having been educated
In England aud Germany. While in New
York the party stopped with Gen. Howard
who is fast friend of DIR. Proohet,,
the doctor having attended his brother
who was an invalid and died at Rome A
few years ago.
While at New York DIR. Prochet made
careful inspection OF the different hospitals
and clinics. la his opinion the United
States are far ahead OF Europe in the clean
Illness aud perfect sanitary arrangements
OF hospitals ana public institutions
Said he:
II have seen much money sren, i'm hos
pitfalls and charitable institutions IN all of
the countries of Earone, bat here Won
fairly pour money into the erection of
ralatial buildings Tor such purposes"
At the Worlds fair he was especially in.
ierested in the exhibits of anthropology
Of which he Is ga ardent student. From
his long acquaintance with them at Rome
the doctor Is firm friend OF the American
people. and regrets that the educated elias.
of Italians do not travel more. that italy
might know America as America knows