New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-04
letters.

letters. Fearing to allow the surprised Grim
inals 10 take vengeance for discovering their
plans the two men left Naples. In the station
at Rome one Of them was met face to face by
the Italian Of the rowboat looking for them on
the train The two Englishmen were followed
SO closely that they actually had to leave South
ern italy month before they had planned
These are actua! happenings. They probably
could be multiplied by the hundred every month.
The Camorra IS so closely woven into the Ne
apolitau life that no one d-res 10 check it. II
q strange finds the price Of one cigar dealer too
high the dealer across the street viii not dare
to underseI his noishbor for fear of being pun
ished. Foreigners have no way of getting JUS
tee. It IS usual method of storekeepers to
hand 4 neatly mended broken article to a
stranger and manage to have the stranger drop
# A handy policeman is called in, the customer
IS told 70 pay 20 francs or some other price five
times the value of the article. or else go to jail
and also pay fine. Ten minutes after the
damage is paid the article is mended again and
In place for the next uuwary customer.
This freedom in criminal pursuits the Italian
from this part OF italy has learned before ne
goes to New-York. He doesn't know any better.
He is used TO holding up pedestrians in narrow
streets. cutting purses. kidnapping and knitting.
It is bred in his bone. IN Naples he lives in
herded quarters and is packed in even tighter
than IN the NeW-1OT stumS. His home is
cliffiike tenement house where he can only
sleep. He eats n the streets, lives there and
fights there. He tries to earn money without
working for it. DULLES weaker ones into giving il
10 him. begs it in behalf OF the church and
levies tolls as society on the street railroads.
the professional men and tradesnen.
Any one can see the condition OF the people
here in an afternoon stroll through the poorer
sections Of the city. where the w0rs 10 the visitor
is always to pay attention TO anybody and
keep eye out for a knife. The s4ualid part
Of Naples is along the docks, between the shore
hotel and the Villa NazioraIe secllon. and in the
business parts. In each Of the rooms in a teue-
ment house live two or three families of from
six to ten each. 4 narrow balcony gives the old
crones chance to air themselves under cheap
rattan blinds. Between the houses are ai.sharts
that are only narrow Sits n the wall. usually
draped with washing, for the Italians are for
ever washing
Here and there a long, narrow path between
blocks leads 10 a back street. filthy beyond ex-
preston, and crammed with shouting people. In
the hot sunny street below scores Of cheap
vegetable grOcers, fishwives water sellers meat
dealers. drive their trades. under sun umbrellas
their goods in carts drawn by patient donkeys
or sick looking horses. even women and girls
while on the first floor leading to the street ara
charcoal shops wine shops, cheap tobacco
places or that Unfaing resort of the lower
classes of the Italians-the national lottery. All
day long these streets ring and echo with neigh
borhood Quarrels and the walls Of thousands OF
sCualIIng babies And far into the night the
same bedlam continues. The Italian who lives
in New-YOrk finds himself in a quiet place COM
Jared with Naples