New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-02
ITALIANS IN NETWORK.
THEY ARE EXTREMELY READY WITH
STILETTOS.
FILTH IS ALSO COMMON CHARAcTERIsTlC-EA
CHIEF BYRNEs SAYS THAT sIcIlLANs ARE
,.xrp1r11F1-L WHEN THE SAFETY OF
FRIEND Is INVOLVED.

1-xrprTIIFI-I WHEN THE SAFETY OF
FRIEND Is INVOLVED
-,.. &, such a huge and undeveoped land
that II can stand a food Of immigration pro''u''
on,v that the immigrants are hardy 'apor"us i.'
lows who ask more than 10 become soo" ~
o,s as fast as they can learn the language ana se'
-. a,,-,liza,ion napers II. however. they come
. ,,do-h,d native labor and to save up their sur .
nina cash only to go back home and I've happ''S
ever after in Italy or in China the 'hHc' ".h''7
may well consider whether II has any use TOT '"''
There is another objection 10 the Italian '"'ns' al"
! &, America No one doubts for a moment MS en-
- 80 hIs ,r,c,Iitv but he is often filthy one
..,hu,.,, from this cause forced on the writer
in a recent visit to London. one day an lslhs 10"
Health Board official who noticed so'"e 49,,
selling ice cream to the schooi chHdre" !" w
streets thought they were very dir.y PeoP'o' az" a.,
tina, # was not altogether right that they should sen
too cream 10 the little ones in that promHc"o"'
nav lie had their mixtures examined by ioau-
,r, hac,eriologist not forgetting the water
I'm which the tiny cups mat t'e ,
was sold in were rinsed aiter eao" ','''
had eaten his portion. In 'hese '''"' ~,
~ ice cream and in the water used To wa" W
cups the bacerologist found bacteria WHY" a'ou,
him pronounce the consumption OF the s"ce's n.y."
49, aa,,oorous az II would be to drink common fe"-
400 In the water used 20 rinse the cups "e''
eo,n1 microbes that are commonly iouhu III "'e
intcstines Of animals 49,, ,ou,
4 Tribune reporter seeking Information "oo"s
Italian immigrants. who callei 10 SCI -,
pvr,es before his retirement from the Ponce De
.., ,,os treated with the greatest courtesy.
~ p,.rr.s was AT first disnclincd 10 enter INTO
any discussion that might be conS'ru'' az
criticism OF any particular race wheh ms Vr''.'u
was asked on the peculiar difficulties MS '''"
ment met with In handling the ieS'"'''' " ~
italian quarters question or two maze
,,,,o c,o,rar tho kind OF Information really "e-
srea and the Chief revealed glimpse Of the iuhi
~ incarnation at his command and threw a iiood Oh
light on the subject
MR. BYRNES'S VIEWS.
Chief Ryrnes said two things that VIII surpr,S,
most people. among those WI"
themselves well informed. The hrst oil ms
10 that there Is almost no more OF the ON w."
dencv among the Italian immigrants 70 come mr.
solely TO make money to take back 10 i'h'! WIN
,,orn 50 os TO live In ease for the rest OF ther
davs but a genuine determination TO become
American citizens and remain III 'he .o""''
Of their adoption. The second statement II '"".
there is now little Irish immigration Inc H'""N ~
r,a,ians may be said TO have taken the place OF IL
81 Toll YOU" said the chief. people 20 about
,,,h ,he,r eyes shut Irish immigration to Amer
Tea ceased practically dozen years ago
WHY where Will you the old apple "oihe"
even Of we'll. say twenty years ba'k' i"'"'S
wears ago YOU couldn't pass street corner WIN
nd all the i1blt HldN"H az N.Y.
bv Italians Look into Of the gangs OF stree,
s....ners and tell me their nationality. You VIII
find that the great percentage OF inc I""''',S -
Italian Twenty years ago IL "oui ""N' w"
Irish Take 100 new buildings at random as my
are going up in this city. ana you VIII "n' "'"'
sixty 70 eighty out OF every hundred oil 'h' "'h
who do the hard work are ltaI'd"s anu ''''' W
the others are not Irish .
THAT first generation Of Irish Immigrants Is M
dead And the second generation win the az
yantages OF education. has taken an altogether p''
ter position In life here In America u = Only INV
idle and the dissolute offspring OF lrlsh p"i'h'hF'
that work In the street gangs now, the neef-Ao-
wells who wouldn't study when AZ school. ana
have at last got down to being next door 10
tramps."
srcILIANs STAND BY ONE ANOTHER
Then CHIEF Byrnes spoke 81 the little dis,n'-
ton that IS made between Italians ana -
cilians although there is h. says. vast difference
between the two The Siclans. De thinks are
much the more manly 81 the TWO. and a bigger
finer race While IT Is occasionally possible 10 get
at the truth from an Italian when Information is
wanted about "A crime In which couniryfnAn II m
yolved II Is absolutely impossible" 10 90 this Win
Sicllan under the same circumstances. MT HFFn'S
declares and while a police authority may De "N"'t
the necessity often 81 using lnformers he DOESN'T
o,,,rc,, ,.f over his lonihing and dcicstaton ~
tbese psoplc no matter how frequently he may nave
TO make use Of them. The Malta j. r1ply Hyhg
out, according 10 thu authority. ana with i'"
more years Of American association the last en-
bers OF an organization started by mobiles IN sicll}
not for private vengeance and indiscrinnate muir
der but primarily 10 restore Us promoters 10 Inc
rank and estates they had losi-will be extinct
The Italian question. 40 presented III IN" 'hi'''
States Mr.. Byrnes believes Will settle Itself; the
Italians are simply going through the same process
OF evolution that the Irish underwent. AS soon as
an Italian gets his eyetceth cut" he went on MS
padronc's opportunity IS gone for good. The Italian
then becomes American
Captain Berghold has had charge for tho last ten
months OF the principal Italian colony that situated
IN and about the famous Mulberry Bend In this
precinct there are gathered. In herds. one might
almost say twen,y-three thousand people.
large majority Of them utterly poveriy-stricken
over eighteen thousand OF the population crowded
into the district over which captain Berg
hold presides foreign born. and Italians form
about n third OF this heterogeneous mass OF Ameri-
cans Chinese negroes. Russians. Poles and monde
scripts Captain Berghold says that he has been
Obliged TO change his opinion OF the Italians. He
used TO think that they came here simply to get
money 10 take back TO Italy with them NOW he
says. the Italians are mainly arrivals who come TO
hold says that the chief difficulty he finds with the
Italians Is that they get na9 80 m man I hn1
in some little dispute over the way an apple should
be pared or over the filling Of pipe with tobacco
life Is thrown away
THE LITTLE ITALY IN HARLEM.
CAPTAIN westervelt of the One-hundred-and-
fourth-st. police station. who knows something
about the Italians In New-York because the
Little Italy," or Harlem colony Of Italians. at
One-hundred- and thirteenthst. Il in his precinct,
says that there Is a great difference between italian
immigrants, and while he would not favor gen
eral law preventing them from landing, he thinks
that some restrictions would be good thing. The
Italians Captain Westervelt says, almost all
hlthy TO a degree. but one time when he was
obliged 10 search a tenement house peOped with
Italians he was astonished TO find one family that
had apartments clean If they belonged 10 "A
model American family. Another thing the captain
observed during this raid, and that the
derful frugality OF the Italian colOnsts Many Of
the families were poor beyond the possibility of "A
doubt. extremely poor indeed. Of Them but
all. without one single exception had their cellars
or storenouses well filled with wood and provi-
sons Captain Westervelt said that he had never
considered what should be the provisions OF bill
to restrict Italian immigration. and he didn't have
the remotest idea how could be got up that
would meet the case by letting In the desirable and
keeping out the bad Italians. He thought that the
intelligence OF the newcomers ought to be con-