The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10
new YORK'S. TITLED ITALIANS
PLENTY or THEN %ATTERED
~ THE VARIOUS COLONIES.
Son OF the Crusaders In tine (1rcuS-A
Cavalierr In . Clothing Factory
Accomplishment OF Ncapo'us"
Danker-The Lot OF These Na"a"
Exiles Is q Sad One OH the whole.

Cavaiiere In Clothing FactorS
--AccOmp,ishn,enta OF q Ncapolitar
Danker-The Lot OF These haNan
Exiles Is . Sad One OH the Hnoie'
There are plenty Of educated young
men scattered through the Italian colony
or, rather, colonies, for there aro nan d
dozen distinct Italian colonies In New
York" said n man who knows the Ne"
York Italians well. MANY OF them ne
long to titled families, which is not strange
for in Italy most educated. well-to-do
families have title somewhere In the con-
nection. more or less distant,
| Some Of them are younger brothers
of men who bear title well kno IN
Italy and more or less mixed up with Italian
history, and have inherited all the family
property to keep It up. Others have
, title Of their own which they don't use.
Their stories are very simple. they
come to New York for the same reason
: that American young men have been gong
/ West for the last generation. to find better
openings to make living. Also at times
| thew come because. when there comes
| an end to the paternal purse 1t is easter
| to go to work among strangers than under
| the eyes OF aristocratic friends.
| sometimes there is material for fiction
, in their stories. | know one young fellow
who IL riding horseback IN the Barnum q
Bailey circus to-day whose father Is
Count and the head OF very old and we'll
known. though not wealthy. family of
; Italy. This youngster was an artillery
officer in the Italian Army, and got mixed
up in a duel.
THE duel is still a necessity among
gentlemen in south Italy. II is usually
n matter Of form. They fight with the
sabre, which il not a thrusing, but cut
ting weapon.
1.-THE seconds stand ready. and AT first
show of blood. if it is hing but scratch
on little finger, they bring their weapons
down between the combatants and cry.
the luelists shake hands amicably. They
will engage in these little stage encounters
on the slightest provocation.
-But when they fight with swords it IL
a more serious business, and every once
in a while some promising young, officer
gets run through. The army authorities
have been very severe in trying to break
up the practice, and when this young TEL
low got caught he was sentenced to year
in the ranks Refusing to accept TINS deg-
radiation, he skipped out to America. he
was therpupon set down as deseIter'
HE found that his equestrian training
in the army was good for $50 a week IN the
big show, and so the son of the c r,saders
became circus rider, under Very Plebeian
American name. He starts on the road
next week, and by the tim, he gets back
from the summer circuit he will have ac-
ouired a pretty good working knowledge
of American towns and railroads.
There is another young fellow working
in ready make clothing factory WHOSE
father is a baron and the head of an i'm
portant department of he Italian Govern
mant. whose grandfather was at one
time commander-in-chief of the Italian
Army. The son has the title OF ca VALERIE.
which is inherited by younger sors 81
barons, although il is also conferred by the
Government for all sorts of things.
1.-THE cayalere went int business Tor him-
self after he had finished al the university
and served his time as an orfcer IN we
army. He might have done we'll enough,
for he has a good head for business, but he
thought too much Of having good tune.
He neglected his business until it went
to smash one day, and then in despair ne
cleared out for America without seeing one
lit was foolish for, with his family CON
nections, he could have done better In Italy
than here His father still urges him 10
return. but his pride will not allow him 10
do It until he has made sta Ike
He began at the bottom, learned 70 "a, III
a machine in a clothing factory and WORKED
twelve hours a day Now he has group
of four worllmen under him, and IN zen
wears, II he keeps ii up the way he has begun
he will have tailor shop on Fifth avenue.
His experiences have taught hun les
son which has been salutary, If not pleasant
He has an uncle, the brother of the baron,
who is married to a rich American woman
and lives in the sos. But they never IN
vite their nephew from the quarter 10
dine: ,;,,, Nan.
h,n xrh a running "A little ltallAn
hank over by the East River. And when
l say ancient ! mean exactly that. lnese
old Italian families 60 back for Their origin
TO the dim mists that followed the preak-
up OF the Roman Empire.
Naples, however, was originally rreeK
colony, and it was never thoroughly Latln-
lied. You will find the qualities OF the
old Greek mind cropping out IN hlgh-ciass
Neapolitans. l was not able TO understand
this titled young bank IN his bo ses' av
Rome and Naples.
.The scholarly Frenchman there COM
ments on the astounding facility with which
this type OF mind acquires knowledge when
the necessity for study In his sixth chap
ter Tame says: In short. like the Greeks
they divine everything and instruct them
selves without masters. My guide at
Pompeii learned English and French in two
years without assistance from any one.
nun SllupoSi - Go
young Neapoltan of q who Knew san
scrit. Persian. and dozen other, tongues
and was conversant with Carlyle, Hegei,
Spencer, Schopenhauer and Mill, and with
current French and German productions
relating to law, philosophy. linguistic
study and exegesis. His erudition and
comprehension Gays the French author. |
are those of man OF 90 This explained
to me my young friend on the East Side. |
He ia "a, but in maturity, grasp, knowl.
edge Of the world and pessimsn, his mind
Is that Of man Of TO-
He has n general, comprehensive grasp
Of all the great systems OF thought IN phi |
losophy, political economy and religion.
He knows all the best in literature. music !
and art. He can repeat cantos OF Dante |
by heart. He has been admitted TO the oar,
and he knows more medicine than half the
young doctors who are practising
He can write poetry, he can draw: he
can play the fiddle, he can discuss Mar
coni's inventions with the comprehension
of a trained electrician. The wonder to /
me is how he has had time, in his twenty
four years, to get all he knows INTO his
head. especially as he tells me that he
never paid any attention 20 lectures at ,
the university. and was always getting dis
ciplned for characterization.
,"This sort of mind in an American would
always be found divorced from any praoti-
cal grasp of business affairs, think: But
my Neapolitan friend has one fixed idea
to make fortune in America and go home
and rehahilitate his family