The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
ALBORA'S LITTLE BILL,
An Account That Is Creating
Stormy Times in the
Italian Colony.
TO NIGHTS MASS MEETING.
So Turbulent a Time Is Expected
DR.. Perrone Will Not Invite
the Consul.

The rumpus in the italian colony over
the 10th of September funds is expected to
reach climax tonight at the mass-meet-
ing in the Garibaldi Hall. There, in the
face OF the colony. DR.. Perrone stated yes
terday that he and his friends expected to
stamp out and annihilate the futures of
the members of the executive committee
who persisted in indorsing l.. A. Albora's
excess OF $3.50 on the sum he was allowed
for decorations.
On the other hand, friends of Calegaris,
president OF the executive committee, de-
clared that the call to hold mass-meet-
ing was instigated by envy, hatred, malice
and all uncharitebleness, and tn at Albora s
bill was only made an excuse to create a
rumpus.
Calegaris. in describing the situation,
said yesterday: when the festival was
to be celebrated the Consul called the pres
idents OF the various Italian societies, be-
cause it has been proved that when the
colony is called collectively time is lost in
talking and nothing is accomplished AL
though l was invited to that meeting, 1
did not go. An executive committee was
appointed, but the subsequent meetings
were poorly attended, and the president,
A. Nardlni, resigned. Several mem bers
asked me individually to accept the presi-
dentship--they begged me, in fact, to do
1T. L wassathe only one who could save
the situation, they said, and organize
decent parade. Let the people who saw
the parade Judge whether l succeeded.
Il accepted conditionally. | wanted to
enlarge the committee to forty members.
That was done, and we decided to cele-
brate from the 10th to the 23d. At this
point some of those fellows whose names
you see on the programme started move
ment to celebrate the Goth under the pre-
text that that was the date of the occupa-
tion of Rome. To avoid conflict | met
their president, DR.. Perrone, at the Consul's
office. We met and he agreed to submit
this proposition to his adhere nts:
That the school and the poor of the
colony should have the Goth and that the
committee of the school, joining our COM
mittee, should celebrate the Goth, 2lst and
22d in harmony.
CDR. Perrone said, "If they don't accept
I'll resign, and I added, If my committee
will not accept I'll resign
His committee refused and my CON-
mittee accepted, but he did not resign.
In other words had the right to say he
did not keep good faith, but to avoid dis
cord l said, Let us abandon the 10th
to them My committee even helped
to make their 20th success. We
bought lots of their tickets. We declared,
when we gave them the Goth, that
our principal object was to make a grand
celebration, we also added that if there
were any profit we would give it to the
poor and the school,.
Certainly we had counted on certain
sum, and when we came to pay we found
the bills considerably more than we had
anticipated. Albora came up with bill
OF $555 for decorations, etc., when he had
been allowed $780, but he has bills for it
all, and what were We to do? We could
not go to court.
while disapprove of his action cam
not say he was dishonest. At the meeting
when his bill was presented some of the
mem bers objected, but he took the floor
and explained, and Valenti, the man who
had disapproved most, made motion to
nay in full. AS an individual I was in fa-
vor of not laying; as chairman l was
obliged to put the motion to a vote and
the vote was carried
DR.. Perrone, the president of the school
committee, had very different tale to un-
fold. Said he: "It is true that Calegaris
wanted the two committees to put in their