The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-19
Purchase of Work Cards.


turned away.
Purchase of Work Cards.
Giuseppe Bevilacqua and Ferdinando
bought tickets to work in Central Park.
They live At lp2 Mott street. Bevilacqua
has been in this country for years and
speaks English nuently Latorelli does
not understand word OF our language.
The men are both prosperous looking
and intelligent.
to go to work in the park and were sent
to Francesca Saline. young tailor liv-
ing at 3 sullivan street. to purchase
tickets. Saline did not have any tickets
on hand, but he was able to get them.
He also procured a ticket for another
man called Gennaro. who Is still at
| Park.
one OF these tickets cost the buyers
SIS, and the other two were bought for
$50 each. There was partial payment
bought The rest OF the money being
promised in few weeks.
| Saline, but Giuseppe Satiriale, Of ls
Canal street, a fruit dealer, who hopes
years. He was formerly employed in
the Street-Cleaning Department. He
was able to save enough to establish
fruit-Stand and to maintain his family
in comfortable circumstances.
Bevilacqua made his bargain for a
ticket with satiriale although his com
they had obtained the tickets Saline d.
rected the men to take them to the
Arsenal In Central Park. There they saw
dressed to John McChristle. the foreman
OF gang. which was working In the
park at One Hundred and Tenth street,
near Columbus avenue.
Employed ms william Murray.
Bevilacaua says that McChristie took
the men to come around on Monday for
work. They saw McChristie on Satur-
day. March II, Bevilacqua's ticket was
ray. of 60 oliver street When he bar
gained with Satiriale he expected TO be
employed as a gardener or assistant
gardener in the park, and to be SWITCHED
off In this way was the frat OF the sur
prises that were in store for him.
on Monday, March 49, Beviacqua went
to work in McChristie's own gang, which
comprised about fifty men, only three or
four of the whole number being Italians.
McChristle took I.atorelli to Foreman
Hines, who had charge OF another force
OF men in the neighborhood. His ticket
bore the name Of Michael Conway, OF ll5
Monroe street and he was put to work
under that name: Both foremsn We're
Italians.
The men, say that, when they were at
the park they talked VIII other labore er
Judges" they said Some OF them, very
few who had obtained them In this
them. Others among the men had paid
$40 for their tickets, and there was one
man they knew who had paid as much
as 500
satiriale talked freely, Of the transac-
who found him at his fruit stand at AIS
Canal street last night.
? sntiriaIe Admits the Sale.
I He said that Bevilacqua and Latore.l
: were peasants from mis- own home OF
3 Aveilino. in Italy They wanted tickets
and az TG to Saline me 'T thsm emu sano under
, him $40 to do so. He heard Saline say
. that he got the tickets from two mer
whom he found in a saloon opposite the
Saline then offered them to Bevilacqua
: and Latoreli for $50 each. but he finally
i sold the two for stS;
to him n few days later and complained
hey had paid him S. for Gou,h be Oh '6
, nothing, He told them that the tick.
!, cts had always cost him money, and II
i they wanted their money back they
i, must bring him the tickets, which he
= could sell to other Italians for $50 each
Saline also did not deny that he had
, sold the tickets, and his story OF tbs
y
Sa tirialc. He said that he bought tht
tickets in the saloon OF William knabe
, at l2O Centre street.
Does He Live by the Traffic?
. BevilaCQua and Saline make othel
charges of a serious nature against Sa
tiriale. They allcge that he does a larg,
| traffic in tickets for work under differ
ent departments OF the city government
r and that he really makes living b,
. the sale of them.
They say that the old man worked IL
+ the reet-Cleaning Department TO
u many years. and that having aCquire'
!, enough money while there to ESTABLISH
>. n fruit business and live comfortably
he sold his own place in the Depart
ment to an Italian for S5. Satirial
himself worked in the Department un
der an English name, II is alleged, an
the Italian who bought his place from
him works under the same name at tn
present time.
There are other stories told OF the oil
man which bear out the statement tina
he is n large dealer in tickets, particu
larry In those of the Street-Cleanin
Department.
This Ticket n Month Old.
The red ticket FOR which the Italian
paid $50 each, was about three by tw
inches in size and ran az follows:
DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PARKS