The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-22

| Born Here. We said when TIE Came ~
q staWawAy on the IiamburE-sent
Back. He Genes ~ q SIOwaNay On
the AbruEEi. Bringing Ills Proofs.
They had to let Mr. Fish in this time.
Mr. Fish. lately Gennaro Pesoe. II y
years old and speaks Fast Side English
with tho fiuency Of native. lie said he
was a native when he got here several
weeks ago on the steamship Hamburg.
on which be had slowed away. lie was
half starved when he came out Of the
stokehOld Of the Hamburg The German
officers hksd the ragged, saucy little
American. a. they regarded him when
he refused 10 talk In the language Of his
mother. whom he had lett in Naples.
and they made a little blue sailor suit
for him. 20 when he was held up by an
inspector ~ a stowaway hs looked as
II he were quite nc 10 land When he got
here he said he had an aunt in Brooklyn
but could not remember her name or
where she lived. aud the Italian Society
was unable % find her Ellis Island would
not take his word for Il that this was his
own. his native land. and hack TO Naples
he went. declaring with a laugh that he
was coming again. for nobody could
keep MIN out Of his own country
He had been only ten days in Naples
when he decided that the Duca degli
Abr,izzi was the ship that would have
the honor Of restoring him 20 his Uncle
sam. Before slowing himself away on
her he had obtained from his mother
and put on paper the name and address
Of his aunt, Angelina Ragucci ct Marcy
avenue. BROOKLYN His mother wanted
him TO stay, but he said that Italy was
no place for a native American and that he
had too hard time earning living there.
He wAnted 10 rell papers again in New
York. II may IN well 10 say here that
the reason Gennaro was not living in
the United States was that his father
died several years ago. and his mother.
who does not like America, decided %
go back 90 her old home She took the
native with her 70 his disgust, just as
he was beginning tO make a living in
the newspaper business.
They treated the sioWaway handsomely
on the Duca degh AbruKzi when hs re-
vealed himself He still had the sailor
suit the Germans had made for him and
he looked a bit riratical. staggering with
the confidence that be- would not be sent
over the seas again. They called him in
Italian what IN English might b. termed
ihe audacioua little Nankse. but they
liked him immensely and were glad 70
hear that he was returning TO his own
country. but they made him work his
passage by giving him a job in the pantry
The inspector who took his pedigree
this time also had talked with him before.
They recognized each other, and the boy
grinned and remarked. You see. the fish
has come back
What's thati' asked the inspector.
who u not an expert In Italian
-PesCe. said the boy. means fish.
My name u Fish now that they know I'm
an American"
Then he went on through the gate with
an Italian society man, who took him over
20 Marcy avenue 70 Aunt Angelina and
Uncle sam
IL was said that Commissioner Williams
remarked when h. heard Of the boys
persistency that he would have lot him
In anyhow on his own assertion that he
was a native and his indisputahle Fast
side English merely because Of his pluck
and persistency