The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-27
PIGTOWN PINES FOR ,CoLER.
ALL THE THINGS THAT MAYOR
COLANDRIELLO STANDS FOR.

VI rlutpubn JuBb cabt OF tue Ming IOuHty
Penitentiary, and known also as Little
Italy and Grow Hill, awoke yesterday
morning with q thrill and announced to it.
self In Italian. 'To-day's the day!' For Con-
tractor Tommy .~Calandrielle, the Mayor
Of Pigtown-cogniZant that things political
were inert and election was approaching
a~paoe-had announced that yesterday he
would stand for q whole day Of parades,
fireworks, a rafie, dams Of beer, strings Of
chestnuts, and Bird s. Coler.
When the beauteous and best Borough
President Brooklyn ever acquired told Mayor
C~alandriello he would try to be among those
present at the Mayors party, Tommy, in
tox1oated with success, decided straight
way to 60 the limit and ask Senator Pat
McCarren to sit at Mr.. Coler's right on the
gorgeous speakers stand erected In front
Of the Mayors saloon. Then the Italian
leader got the inviting habit, with the re-
suit that on the eve Of yesterdays oelebre.
ton Mayor Calandriello, standing back Of
his bar and with his right hand solemnly
raieed, kissed tho cash register and swore
to his awestruck cohorts that on the plat
form, besides himself, Coler and McCarren,
would be Democratic Leader Kenny Hester
berg and Republican Leader Kracke Of the
Eighteenth Assembly district, Deputy COL
lector MoCooey, Alderman Hand, Police
Captains Toole and Reynolds and Pete
Froscia, the barber.
Not since the body Of a murdered man
was found on the hill over looking Pigtown-
on-the- Pike last month has there been such
a deliriurn Of excitement as that which
greeted the posting. back of Mayor Tommy's
bar, Of the list Of notables expected at yes
terdAy's racket. Malbone street in the
vicinity Of Noetrand aven ue was a mass
Of American and Italian bunting. Arches
Of red, white and green lights glowed from
curb to curb and tables groaning with
slabs Of pink watermelon, pinker lemonade,
strings OF chestnuts and strings OF Coler
buttons rose as II by magic.
In the morning light Italian olubmen Of
Pigtown, uniformed like the Indian durbar,
began to saunter along the sidewalk. Rosie
de Prisoo, belle Of Pigtown, blossomed out
early and, daintily picking her steps across
the street, let all the world know that they
are also knit with red stripes runningaround,
like barber poles. And on the glowing
speakers stand was a chair gay with tinsel
for Mr.. Coler, and decorated at the back
with a picture Of st. John and flag formed
by eighteen lighted candles, with five more
to represent stars-which, by addition.
make %.
"why-a da oele rash2' repeated Mayor
Tommy. "Tell-a da ape everathing-a
slow. Fall electsh-a come, Give-a da
oelebrasht' joll-a along da gang. Al-a-ways
joll-a along da gang-just-a like signor
Bird-a Cole. Good-a politeeks.'
And don't fergit t say a void for John
P. Malloy, Johnnie from-th Bush inter-
Signor Malloy, one Of the residents
Of Flatbush's Little Italy, who speaks
English with only a slight accent. Sixty
half bar'ls O. beer an thoity-two ka gs, an
all bought by good Of Tommy, Mayor o
Pigtown-put 'er there, good Of Tommyl
Every kag tapped by John P. Malloy. Put
hat down, k%id-every ka 6 tapped by john
ME -from-the-'Bush.'
An write down all about the fancy chair
for Bold added Signor Dan Higgins, an
other member Of Calandriello g Eighteenth
Italian Club. That's IT," he went
In subdued tones. as he reached up and
reverently patted the seat of the chair.
the chair that II hold t'-night the
form Of Bold s. Coler.'
Hours must intervene, however, before
joyous moment would arrive when
conducted between the beer kegs and
placed on the throne beneath the picture Of
St. John.
In the meantime the only way Mayor
Tommy's constituents could restrain their
impatience was by parading. There were
lead by Mayor Tommy and a band, under
the direction Of Prof. Antonio Petroccione,
ma estro della Banda Musicale Vittorio
Emanuele III. Fornisce Bande per guam
tunoue oocaaone sia per BALI, pic pic,
telephone 1897 Spring. The leader and the
that strolled behind wore the
OF gay military uniforms that ft
like a blister.
The parade began and ended near the
sixty half barrels and the thirty-two kegs
and by this time Signor John Malloy, the
Taper, bore an o%verworked expression on
his face that bulged from the line Of beauty.
The cohorts began to look about anxiously
FOR the first signs Of darkness and Signor
Coler. Mayor Tommy, busting among
The voters, pleaded with them to restrain
them that night and
fireworks and the Borough President would
soon be with them and that in the meantime
they could satisfy their hunger for higher
things with %chestnuts.
Darkness and the dams Of beer fell to-
getD9T, unQ dS Ine nOuT LOT DlRnOT lOlcT g |
arrival approached a great stiffness had
settled over the crowd. Then, while tapers
we're being lighted and little groups gath
sred and stamped with Impotence, a
treat ory Of viva da Signor Coler! Viva
ia Bridal split the sky as a commotion
started on the western edge Of the crowd
and the cohorts surged that wav, 1t was
,nly the arrival Of the wagon with the fire.
works, however, and sadly the expectant .
.eturned to the beer and the chestndts and
he glow Of the twenty-three lights.
Something had to be done to hold the
,rowd in check, 90 Mayor Tommy decided
O speak to his followers.
"We turn-a da distrio' da way-a we want
,e said. Sometime l joll-a da Hesterberg,
sometime / joll-a da Kraoke. Lot-a fake-a
business, an eef thing-a donna turn-a right
.be-a good-a Republican. Joll-a along ala
la way. Lot-a fake-a business, yes?H ard
at down.
"Hoo-rayl" observed Signor John P.
Sixty half bar'ls o 'kags, .ThoiLy-
wo kags O. Coler, an good Of Tommy
I'landri'llo stands fer 1t all. Put 'er there,
rood OIL Tommy. Gents, there's the hand
hat shook the hand o. Bold s. Coler! Hoo
ayr and also eat down.
BY tn 8 { me there were 5000 or 1000
versions In the crowd, all attracted doubt
ess by the news that they were TO see
md hear Mr.. Coler, although some of the
'r~ivolous came perhaps because OF the
rec beer and the fireworks. They were
gathered under the arches Of colored lights
bout 0 o'clock when the cry, "Vivi do
went heavenward again, and this