The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-07
BAND LURED TONY. FAR AWAY.
ITALIAN TOT STRAfS TO REGION
or STRANGE TONGUES.
Whole Family sat on Headquarters steps
I'm the Dawn waiting for Little Wan.
derer to Awaken-CsR Found Him in
the Land Of Dreams-His Ride Hume.


derer to Awaken-CsP Found Him in
the Land Of Dreams His Ride Hume.
Tony Alberto who is 81 years old, came
over from Sicily with his parents six months
ago and went to live with them in the big
block OF tenements with balconies on
Elizabeth street, Known az The Barracks
There were more people and more little
boys and girls than Tony had ever seen
before in his life. There were SO many
that Tony often got a bit confused out in
the crowded street but he always felt
safe. because he knew that when Papa
Alberto came home at night with the music
wagon he would come and find him some
where in the mass and take him up to the
big bed on the top floor OF 30, where they
lived.
Tony has black hair and black eyes,
and i, such bright little fellow that a
lot OF the other mothers and fathers got
to know him and used to help his own
father find him when it was time to go to
led. Next to the number Of little girls and
bows that he found it was the funerals
that Tony wondered at most. They were
always coming through the block band
in front, then the black hearse and a lot OF
men walking beside it.
Tony used to see the bands disappear
around the corner OF Blocker street, and
he often wondered what was around there.
He didn't quite dare so around 10 see,
father might not be able to find him, but IT
was awfully hard to let the band go out OF
sight.
On Wednesday Tony was out playing in
the street, pushed about here and there
bv all the people, when along came a funeral
that made the children scurry to the side
walk There was the band as usual playing
one of the Italian funeral marches, and this
time Tony trotted along beside it, swept on
by the populace Before he X knew i he wa
the world as he had known It. On went the
band, stin playing. and on went Tony.
Pretty soon it began to be harder and
harder to keep up with the band. Elevated
trains rushed over his head with rattle
and a roar that made him dizzy. and big
trolley cars would have knocked him down
if he hadn't made his tired little legs move
faster for the moment. There were almost
as many people on the streets as there had
been on the block he knew, but somehow
little girls and boys, too But when Tony
stopped and watched them play and spoke
to them they said something back that
he couldn't understand. It'll.
1t began to grow dark after a while
Tony had been travelling since noon.
it ali seem stranger still. He saw little
children being put to bed, and 1t wasn't
no crowded in the streets. He sat down
often now, but somehow he didn't attract
There was hardly any one that Tony had to
lock out for now, for all the little people
like Tony had gone of to bed, and so had
their parents. leaving big New York alone
with Tony. In the door Of dairy he spied
space between them and the door. He
toddled in, and then New York didn't have
even Tony to keep it company.
Tony didn't know anything for long
time-just how long nobody knows. The
the roofs OF the tsnements when Police
man Seip Of the Union Market station:
whose beat is on Avepue d, approached
the door Of the dairy at the corner OF Fourth
street and started to try it, Something
made him look down behind the pilk cams