The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
DANNY'S MUSIC ALL ON STRIKE
CHINATOWN WARBLERS OBJECT
TO ITALIAN OPERA.

S,c,l,an Patrons Threaten to Quilt n BOwery
MttIes Are Not Retired W volunteer
Talent Headed on by Pickets OF sing
ing waiter COrps-TeutOnIc Failure.
When the chorus sin gers OF the Metro
politan Opera House refused to sing a year
AGO because Heinrich Conried wouldn't
recognize their union, the Herr Dlrektor
Thought he had q bunch OF trouble. But
the opera strike fades into insignlhcance
when compared with the proposition Danny
Callahan ia up against. Danny has a strike
on his hands. too.
Everybody who has been out after dark
in New York knows, or should know, Dan
ny's Chinatown booze emporium and dance
hall. It stands on the edge OF the Sargossa
Sea bounded on the north by Doyers Inlet
and ON the east by Chatham Bay. Prince
Louis OF Battenberg refused to leave the
country until he was steered there by Chuck
Connors, and his Royal Highness and
retinue spent q merry hour slipping suds
and listening to the artists who found time
between singing beer to MARBLE q few.
Other Celebrities OF International reputa-
atom have found Danny a genial host. But
that 10 history.
There was a time, not very On ago.
when YOU COUNT And a Wop-that means
an Italian in the latest DOWNTOWN dialect
In Danny's resort even by using a micro
soope. But to-day it's different. The
members Of the Five Points gang. all dark
skinned IONS OF Sicily, grew tired OF fitting
from place 70 place. with no set rendezvous
for their nightly gatherings. A number
of the Pointers used to frequent the place.
and il wasn't long before the entire gang
became regulars. Thy were good spenders
when the graft was coming their way, and
DANNY bade them welcome. He had a
pull, and when any Pointer got into trouble
with the police the little fat proprietor was
on the Job to bail him out.
Everything went along merrily until
the Won patronage increased to such pro-
horizons that Danny and Jimmy Kelly
were the only ones in the place, aside from
the sightseers and the summers, who
couldn't boast OF a Latin name. Even
the attaches traced their ancestry TO Sicily
Big Jack Poggi, chief bouncer; Big Jerry
RamponeIli, erstwhile knuckle pusher;
Giuseppe Loredo, better known as Swatter;
Dutch Mariana, Kid Determines and Rubber
Ramell. With the exception Of Poggi,
all the attaches waited on guests and
warbled. After singing 50 worth OF beer,
each waiter had 10 get up on the floor and
sinG. For his nights work he got 10 per
cent. Of what he sold.
Now there isn't the slightest doubt hat
everything would have been o, X. to-day
II Siobo Beonetti, leader Of the Pointers,
hadn't got the musical craze. When he
worked as a barber several years 9 he
learned TO play the mandolin. Slush Gas
sato. next in Importance to Slobo, plays
the harmonica and also has an idea OF
musio-real music. So when the gang
became soid in the Chinatown hangout the
Pointers decided to demand better music
than that which Dopey AL, who presided
at the piano, and the waite songbirds had
been rendering. Slobo and Slush we're
appointed members OF a grievance COM
mittee to wait pon Danny. and enter a
formal protest. And they did.
A few evening q ago Swatter had just con-
cluded q touching ballad entitled Kiss
Muh on the Cheek, Muh Lips Ia Cracked"
when the committee voiced the Pointers
language that not only the Pointers, but a
large majority OF the patrons, who for the
most part are Italians, were heartily sick
and tired OF the American goods thai
Danny's artists were handing out.
"Whata da hell a GIMME carea for da
'Wherea da Hearta Ia da Lungs Is Closea
RyY . said Slobo. -Notta mooch. Giya
da 'Funiculi Funicula,' Santa LOoch,' La
Bella NEpoli.' Data gooda muse. You
know Caruso2 No? He q bigga GIMME
whata singa like hell. D~onizetti? MOI
Pagliacci7 Nor Puccini7 No? You no
know da fine Italiano dat make da Amsri-