The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-01-07
Leaders Among italians OF City To
Solicit Funds for Relief of
Earthquake Victims
FATHER BANDlZZ0NE LEADS
Committee Of Twelve Named to Have
Charge of the Work Which Will
be Started on Sunday-Get
Message From Premier

At a meeting held at the parish
house OF the Holy Rosary church at five
0 clock on the afternoon of New Years
day arrangements were made for sys-
tematic collection o. relief fund for
the aid Of the stricken people of Italy
and tomorrow the committee named at
this meeting will make the rounds of
the city and make an effort to secure
the starting of the fund which is ex-
pected to amount to thousands of dol
lars. Father Augustine Bandizzone
pastor Of the Italian church, and G.
Guattari, agent for La Patria in Ke-
nosha, were the moving spirits in the
meeting and at their suggestion a com
mittee of twelve was named to solicit
subscriptions. Father Bandizzone will
be chairman and treasurer Of the com.
mittee and he viii have Mr. Guattari as
his first assistant. All of the money
collected will be sent to the Chicago
Italian consul to be forwarded through
him to the Italian Red Cross society.
AT the meeting on Friday afternoon
the members Of the committee received
"a telegram from the Itanan consul in
Chicago expressing his auction Of the
work of the committee and enclosing
a telegram which had been received
from the Itanan premier. The tele-
gram follows:
Is Via French Rome,
Consulate ItaIano,
Chicago.
Catastrofe indescrivible R. Governo
accettera ringraziando offerte sottoscri-
zioni favore provincie colpite.
Tittoni.
The work of the committee in Keno
sha will be done In a decidedly systema-
tic manner. Subscription papers are
now being printed and they will be plac-
ed In every business house and factory
in the city. Tomorrow afternoon the
Woman s Committee under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Guattari will make a. round
Of the city with the view Of collecting
subscriptions from private houses. The
committee will be the first committee
OF Italian women ever working in Ke-
nosha. The full makeup Of the com
mittee is as follows:
chairman and Treasurer, The Rev.
Augustine Bandizzone; vice chairman,
G. Guattari; members of the Italian
Ladies Committee, Miss Louisa Gior-
dano, Mrs. Carmen Brynatti, Mrs Mary
Ruffalo, Mrs. Luigia Gabrielle and Miss
Rose Jamnacco, The English commit
tee named at the same time to work
with the Italian committee is composed
of District Attorney Robert Verne Bak-
er, DR., Frank B. Lansdowne, DR.. j.
Frank Hastings, Floyd B. Rutledge and
Prof. N. A. Rowe
Several small contributions to the
fund have already been received by the
committee, but no announcement of the
amounts will be maze until after the
first general meeting of the committee
which is to be held on Sunday morning.
The work Of collecting the money will
be continued indefinitely, but it is ex-
pected that the first of the funds from
Ken0sha will be turned over to the
Italian consul in Chicago on Monday
with the request that they be at once
forwarded to the stricken districts
through the medium of the Italian Red
Cross society.
The first cable from any Of the
friends of Kenosha Italians who were
thought to have been lost in the great
disaster was received on New Years
morning when Arthur Lamacchia re
eeived cable stating that the members
of his family who were in the Calabria
were not killed by the, earthquake.
There was great rejoicing among the
Italians over the receipt Of the message.
The collection of the fund by the
italian committee will in no way inter
fere with any other fund being collect
ed in the city. The Evening News fund
will be continued and all subscriptions
received through this fund will be sent
direct to Italy through the American
Red Cross society.