New-York tribune., 1903-01-11
FOREIGN coLoNIsTs IN VENEZUELA.

There are 7s1s Italians in Venezuela, according TO
a recent report of the vice-consul Of Italy at
Caracas a summary of which is published In III
Progressc Italo-Americano of this city. Sgnor
Adslch Gazzureln states that several Of his coun-
trymen living in different places in Venezuela are
engaged in business enterprises requiring a large
capital and employing great number Of working
people, natives well as Italians or other EURO
peans Among them he cites firms importing all
rnentarv articles from the peninsula, others deal
to :, the marble industry or manufacturing shoes
clothing in fact. in all kinds of business In nor
NAL times the Boccardo firm. makers OF harness.
saddlerv and shoes, employs q thousand Worknlen
who after the custom of the country, do their Work
Al home generally, and take il every night to the
stores of the firm Sgnor Boccardo is also the
proprietor of a tannery, where large NUMBER OF
1xorkuen mainly his countrymen are employed
eceivinE daily wages of six and twelve lire G1 20
and 20 4ol and turning out an average Of sixty
tfdes = dav The marble works constitute one OF
the Italian industries in Venezuela, and are run
exclusively by laborers from the peninsula VINO
are paid from five 10 ten lire day Niee-Consul
Gazzureu begins his report with the following re-
marks. which throw light upon the condition of the
italian colonists in Venezuela and the origin OF
their claims the settlement of which is now de-
rnapded from Castro by the government at Rome:
The great number and the Importance OF the
c.sTns presented at the royal legation here in pay
ment Of suffered during the reVo6ons OF
IS9S9oa have CONVINCED me lnsI S; te ,eta6 "a nj
TsI their fruitful labor and, in word, their po-
,
=, aiiv thought in the mother country, where TINS
vast and rich republic is as yet very little known
+-Ies since one needs workers and capital in order
to vivfy the latent resources OF us @ g
Va antageous place for its ever increasing populao
Other motives for friendship between Italy ana
Venezuela are indicated in the "Giornale 4Iala'
nv ex-Deputy Del Buono who has been recently
:; x-.,ez,sla and Eb5 writes thus 10 the 'Gior-
male:
-.,icb are now developing themselves
=, VenezneIa should have constituted, on account
n n Essr-o being in power, specially advantageous
OF Sastc3 situation for the Italians had we
known how 10 profit oy tRen M ala not Enow how
p &C. = differently from Germany and England ana
TO conceal with the ard 81 some 1e o1pI0ecS oui
aI;S@ interests in Venezuela are not TO De com
pared with those OF eTy enc We have there
conuerciaI houses Of the nrst oroer ana e.r asIa
developments
- I,,ch colony in Venezuela is nu-
,,ero,g as the Italian. counting about one thou
v.nd neople most of them from the Island OF Cor
sica which forms one OF the departments %
rance and was annexed TO her few months De-
-. .be birth there at Ajaccio. of Napoleon l.
Noruiths hstanding the small number OF trench COLO
iSts IN Venezuela il is estimated that the total OF
French capital engage there can nnIT the ee pres
erf claims OF France. they are { those resuitlng
sbe had undertaken indemnify claimants whose
cases had already been discussed and granted: ~
ebrarV Is isG2 had submitted arbitration and
"a those which are included in that convention
The first category refers TO eNenezueian dlplo-
,,s-ic dehf the stock Of which issued IN
france in 1897. Its origin dates from 1881 GIleh
t7reTce slnd Venezuela submitted TO the arplIrA-
80 ~ the President Of Switzerland the claim OF
~ 90 600 francs asked by NJ Fabiani as an n n
1ennffy In 1886 the arbitrator granted +SoUo
Frencs TO NJ Fabiani who received titles OF tne
s.fsT,l0rnatc Debt" guaranteed by the custom
-, -.verres But the liquidation Of this DEBT
,-rfcF sp3led also claims besides nat OF VI.
b fian 6as aeen suspended sor TWO Ears & t5uT-
~ rs period too, several French colnalSts nave
sIfTered from the civil war. AMI have entered ne"
Gains against the government of Venezuela