The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-22
Michael Pachetti, chicago's Picture Porter

Michael Pachetti may truthfully be
styled the artists friend. The genial
Italian who frequents the corridors and
studios of the Fine Arts building and the
unVislted haunts In the basement of the
Art institute is known and liked by ev-
cry man or woman in Chicago who
yields a brush or uses Il pen. Better than
that, his services arr valued as are the
services of no other man, and in his par
ticular line of work he stands uniquely
supreme. This particular kind of work,
in which the genial Italian spends his time.
Is art not only for arts sake. but for the
sake of the artist too. Whenever an ex-
hibition at the institute demands the
products of Chicagos artistic fingers,
Mcirael Pachetti is the man alone deem
cd sufficiently careful and trustworthy to
transmit the canvases that decorate the
studio walls and eascs to the larger
spaces of the Art institute galleries. He
carries picture as tenderly as If it were
child, and both artists and institute Off
Gals realize that if Michael Pachetti is
intrusted with a canvas that its safety is
as assured as if its possession were gov
ernment bond. Michael Pachetti has lived
only IA years of his life in restless Chi
cago. Before that time he resided in the
country of bluebells and bonny Prince
Charlie. 1t was in Scotland that he first
two of his children were born, the re-
naming couple looking upon life on their
initial birthday from under the waving
banners of the stars and stripes. Prior
to existence in Scotland, Michael Pa
chetti lived in beautiful far-away Rome,
the city of his birthplace and the city of
that other earlier Michael, who hewed
his immortal name in the marble he made
immortal and painted it high on the CELL
ing of the 'Sistine chapel
1t was 20 years after he first opened his
baby eyes to the beautiful blue sky of
Rome that Michael Pachett left the Eter-
nal city and his wine business and emf
grated to the bleak northern country of
heather, where he engaged himself in the
manufacture of confectionery. But Scot
land was soon abandoned for America.
The italian wanderer had brother who
was a missionary clergyman stationed in
Chicago. Thither he journeyed only to
discover that his brother had been forced
to obey the discipline of his community
and had started only three days pre-
viously for Valparaiso, Chilli. Alone in a
strange town, Michael Pachetti sought
work to support his wife and children.
He saw an advertisement in a newspaper
requesting a man for general work at the
Art institute. His life in Rome had fitted
him for a life among pictures He sought
the officials and obtained the situation,
which he has satisfactorily held ever
since. 1t was the work at the institute
that showed Chicago artists the value of
Michael Pachetti's friendship. He was
faithful. honest and careful and looked
after others belongings as If they were
his own. During the exodus of artists
from the Tree building and the Athe-
naeum and the grand entrance into the
Fine Arts building the services of Nj
chael Pachetti We're eagerly sought and
many an artistic bundle of goods and
chattels were saved from destruction
through his jealous censorship. During
the summer the Italian usually is re-
quested to Join some one of the artists
colonies that pitch their tents in the heart
of rural nature far away from the haunts
of men, and last summer he saw the
scenery of Oregon with the artists who
there congregated.
Faithfulness and capability and genial
nature have made Michael Pachetti the
valued friend of all who come in contact
with the happy nature of the sunny child
of sunny Italy.-Chicago Chronicle.