The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-04
Started by Barre Italians For
Quake Sufferers
i'm THEIR HOME COUNTRY
Subscription Papers Are Being circu-
lated--Granite Plants Are Giving
and There win Be Dances for
the Charity.

The Italian people Of Barre are taking
up the relief work for the earthquake
sufferers in Italy with much energy, and
AT is expected that quite large sum
of money will be raised. The Italians
in this city all come from the northern
sections OF Italy and have few OF no
relatives in the devastated territory Of
Calabria or Sicily; but they are stirred
by the feeling Of common nationality
with the Calabrians and Sicilians. Vari-
ous meetings and gatherings were held
Saturday night and yesterday to devise
plans for the relief work, and the con-
tributions are already coming in.
Dances viii be given, subscription pa
pers viii be passed around and gran
ite plants are making their contri-
button. Some manufacturing firms have
already raised sums Of various amounts,
and these win be sent without dalay.
Among those which have made such
contributions from firm members and en-
ployes are the following.
Rizzi Bros and employees ..... $3.50
Parnigoni Bros. and employees -. $50
McCon X Carroll and employees N. 800
S45.00
This amount viii be sent separately
from other contributions, 1t ID expected.
The Italian Pleasure club has devils
ed two ways to collect money. They
will give a dance in the Woodmen's hall
on Tuesday evening, January IL, with
Gilbertson's orchestra furnishing tho
music. Another dance will be held later
in the Socialist hall on Granite street.
All the proceeds from these affairs viii be
turned over to the Red Cross society.
In addition to this, members of the
Pleasure club are going out with sub
scription papers for q personal appeal 10
the people to give.
The Italian people are not alone actiye
in the work Of relief, for I'M addition To
the contributions by several of the
banks of Tie city, tile Musicians Prptec-
tive Union, No ASS, yesterday afternoon
donated the sum of $40. ss
An italian Relief Meeting
4 group Of about 100 Italian working
men gathered at the Hotel Northen SAT
urday night and plans Of organizatieti
were discussed for the collection On
funds for the relief Of the sufferers.
Several Of the prominent Italians Of the2
citv addressed the meeting and tho fpl1
loving committees were appointed to aol
Iieit funds: Angelo DiveTsi and j. B.
Sanguinetti to solicit from The business
men of the city, and Giuseppe Movalli,
Salvatore Botelli, Giuseppe Sassi and
Peligrino Bernacca to solicit subscfip-
tions from the workmen Of the granite
plants,
The contributions, by unanimous vote,
viii be given to the National Bank Of
Barre and from that bank to the Ameri-
can Red Cross society. From the Anleri-
can branch OF the Red Cross society
the funds will be transferred to the
Italian branch Of the society without
going through the hands Of the Italian
government.
The soliciting committee will meet
every evening beginning tonight, and
ways and means will be discussed and
new propositions for the raising Of funds
viii be heard. These subscriptions are
open to all who want to contribute to
the sufferers and work for fraternity
and brotherhood with sincerity and en-
ergy.
Other Collections.
Up to Jan. Q, tho following money
has been collected by Henry Solary for
the suffering people in Sicily: Basilio
Dente, $500; Giovanni Tomasi, $500;
Antonio Tomasi, $500; q. Zaccaria Pc
dnzzi. sl.00; Henry Solary, $l.e0; Clio
vanni Cacanna, so cents; Giuseppe Pa
setto, so cents; Eguenio Pinchetti, SO
cents; Faseli Antonio, so cents; Luigi
cents; Antonio Chioldi, so cents; Me-
dardo Chioldi, so cents; Giorgio Ciar-
deli, so cents; Pietro Perotto, so centss
Allegrinini Giovanni, % cents.