New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-07

lodging houses along the Bowery. sometimes
hundred Will register from one house
There was A time in de Sixt'' when cleo
ton always meant a half hundred wounded and
one or two killed The carnage has considerably
decreased in recent years, although the mem
cries of the past still powerful An llIuslra-
ton Of TIN fear in which some of Mr.. March s
Iieutenants stand was given few days before
the last election, when boy was sent out oy
the Republican leader to post up portraits OF the
Republican candidates in all the stores and
saloons on the Bowery. The boy demurreo' ana
finally blurted out
Mr. March, I'm skeered; some of those Sui
Iivan fellows will knock me down.
You deserve to be knocked down if that's all
the nerve you've got was the leaders quick
answer But it proved impossible to get boy
who would go alone, and at last man was sent
along guard.
The Italian population in the district is grow
ing the most rapidly. and when some one nlaoe
the 1ocular remark in Mr.. MARGINS once re-
Gently that italian would soon be the national
language if the Italian Immigration was h''
checked, Mr.. March said:
81 want to say a word for the Italian who
gets good deal of abuse sometimes IL is
true that 10000 Italians have come here IN the
last ten years, and they are still coming. Mole
than two hundred thousand native porn itai-
ians live in the city of New-fork but tiie'
do not come here with the intention. as COM
monty supposed. of taking their earnings pa1h
to Italy. Only % per cent Of our Italian iniri-
grants return to their home country Fifty per
cent settle down for good and all. Twenty-Five
per cent get homesick after few years, ana
go back only TO return again to this country.
The highest ambition of an Italian is TO own
real estate and he saves up his money until
he can either alone or with others, buy piece
Of property. This holds him to this country
italians are clannish. but how can they
help that? They of Latin civilization, and
they feel sort of ont of place when first thrown
with the blunt Anglo-Saxons. In time they
closely associate with other peoples. The great
enterprises in which labor is required at the
present time give employment to many Italians.
The italian is frugal and yet not stingy- He
is of quick temper and sometimes is impatient
with the laws delay but his horror OF the
American court subdues him after he has lived
here while
Since Mr.. March made this statement in re-
gard to his couutrymen romance occurred
in his office which shows that the impulsive-
ness Of his race is hard to subdue. Mr.. March
had hired domestic for his country house who
decided to leave his employ she found
how far Lowville from the Bowery. She
accordingly appeared in the bankers office
one morning and wanted her pay. Mr.. March
spoke somewhat sternly to her. which, before
he was aware, brought tears TO the girls eyes.
Mr.. March then that of his office boys
was weeping too. The girl left the office
whereupon the Office boy slipped out through a
side door. The next day Mr.. March thun-
derstruck to have the boy approach him and say:
We'll, 1 married her
Married whom" exclaimed Mr. March.
Married that girl you talking to. Soon
as I saw her 1 paralyzed with love. 1 fol-
lowed her &c the corner, told her could
let her go out of my sight; so got married"
Mr.. March succeeded George w. Wagner in
the leadership of his district, and through his
efforts has brought the Republican vote up to
$500 The district is strongly Democratic, and
at Tammany Hall they used to say:
Big Tim Sullivan the town south of
the line (Fourteenth-st), and he gave De Sxt
to Little Tim d"
Mr.. March believes. however. that the Repub-
licans through persistent fighting will be able
GUST the Sullivans even from tie With, which
they regard as their personal property The
Republican leader is nevertheless. a good friend
of both Big ana Little Tim" Sullivan. and at
his last outing to Greenwood Lake n. J., these
and most of the other Sullvans We're present.
OF short stature, with a King Humbert mus
tache, which is growing gray. hair intersprin-
killed. with white, Mr.. March shows that for his
forty-one years his business interests have aged
him When he made Port Warden by
Governor Roosevelt many of his friends
toned him not to increase his responsibilities.
But Mr.. March dashes through his work II to
catch train. and keeps four or five assistants
on the run long he IS there. After the
days work is over. he goes upstairs to the rooms
Of the James E. March Association to conduct
q meeting or meet his captains.
In the last campaign Mr.. Marchs rallies were
unique they were enthusiastic. He especially
stirred up the With by his beauty parade" and
beauty dinner" they were called when
fifty of the prettest girls in the district went
to one of the meetings IN automobiles.
In the Mckinley campaign of 1900 and the
fusion campaign of 1901 the Italians In line
under Mr.. March's leadership showed the result
Of the change in name from Antonio Maggie to
James E. March.