The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-02
ONE LOST A HUS5sHl.
THE OTHER hE3 TICKET.
TWO ITALIAN WOMEN N \
SCENE .AT THE STATION.
Sang Eirgos. Which Were Changed
To Notes of Joy When the
Lost We're Found.

| Two Ittliau women. dressed in the hrll
! "-laEs which characterize natives ~ S,lJn-
| crn Euruu-. rv ;he:r sxc!anatinns ana lam
cnrati-us Attracted a good deal Of st;er-
tj,7 last u:-hi in Union Station. on ;cas
lr,i-r - IT, Moro. Colo She h,d one C.,ili.
The other. with three children and hey hrIs-
band. was going 20 Los Angeles. Cal The
troubles p the i;-t arose from the fact
,Aat she haG misplaced her ticket ard tn.
-.ru..l was exercised because she had IrSt
E..~ husband. After a succession of sc,r :
which would DO credit To- - comedy J.
form nee. all was sgt riGhf. ;h. hrs,h.Hl
and the ticket were found IT, ihsir Us ,.uI
owners
The name Of one woman WIS Zar.'salr
Nlcaluro and Of tn. other saIr"ta Cyuio.
s:E"rt C,udor was the one with the hus-
baud, and his Christian name IS Rusarius.
s..,uara AlacalUro arrived H. tie station
shortly after o'clock on the Pennsylvania
Her queer costume. the coIo:s OF whicn
WI" p combination Of red and greer. and
her abasAed demearor as she stood IN the
M.dway Attracted Watchman Hickey %
the station. who approached her and asked
for her ticket. She could not understand
At first. ami Nr. Hickey had to go through
a series Of resticulatlors 20 convey his
meaning. Finally she Graspei what he
meant and began to search. Every fold IF
her dress she examined withou, finding she
;icl;et. Then her lamentations began. and.
before the whole c9ncourse Of people. she
sang an original d.rse 70 lost ticket Her
child. who stood beside her. was infected by
the same spirit Of hcpelessness. and she
also burst into loud cries OF sorrow.
The Cet'dors had been escorted into the
immigrants woiting-ruom. About 7:so o'clock
the husband went out for n loaf OF bread
AS I: rcared $50. tho time for their train
to depart he DID not return. Then Signora
Ccudor began 20 think that sha had been
deserted and she captured Caller Brown
and un!oaded her troubles On him. Her
position was affecting. alone she was.
with three small children, without money
and without tickets. as her husband had
these laS,.
The time passed for them TO start. Then
she became convinced that she had been
deserted and she sang a d!rso to a lost
husband. The Nacaluros were then In the
immi grants room, and IN concert the
I--l.ans expressed, with many dramatic
gestures Of despair. their woe.
About 10 O'Clock the trst relief of the
troGJ!cus scenes came. The husband
turned up lie had got lost Ia the city.
and on showing his tickets 10 n policeman
had been retlrn.d TO the station. The
their combined eXC!amliions of JOY sounded
{. song to Il found husband.
Then IN" attention of the onigOkeTs the
CeuiOrs. ana the station officers Was di-
roctei To the MaCalUrUs. SignGra Ceudor
looked at signora MacaIura and jabbered
something: tnen S!gnora NIcalUro. with
gesture and numberleS- words. jaatcrea
something to SSnora Cc1l!Or. suddenly
Sianora Ccudur reached into the bosom Of
SiEEvT;t NacGluro's dress ana drew forth
Il CnlOrrd handkerchief, the SIZE OF "A table
cloth. This Was tcd into al sorts "t
knots. The untying Of one knot revealed
an Italian passport covered with Italian
hicroglyVriCs. Another corner disclosed
some; hing else ana so on. The last Of all
revealed. crumpied into the smallest pos
sible sIace--the ticket Th'n the sky was
clear: al! the Italians rippied 4 broken
apOStroPhe TO q found ticket.
After Il time the disturbance settled down.
All The evening trains had gone. and the
two Italian families made up their minds
TO a night In the immigrants room.
The MacaluroS go out on the FriscO at
s:i5 this morning. and the Ceudors depart
at $50 on thu Wabash.