Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-09
TUCSON ROSSI QUITS FAMOUS RESTAURANT
 FOR EASE ON FARM
RelinquiSh Establishment Where He Long Reigned to Faithful Employee Who Win Continue Business Without Booze.

ous establishment. known throughout One country as the best cafe between 1 st. Louis and Los Angeles, will cease Co be under the direction Of the smil- ing. rolypoly little Italian who estab- ished it tweny-two years ago.
 Bossi has decieded 10 retire and, as a reward for thirty years of faithful service. has given the cafe and an its appertenances Co phnlippi Trapa- nj. who will conduct 1t under the fam liar name of "Rossrs" and will take charge tomorrow.
 The former proprietor will retire to his "Macaroni" ranch on the west boundary of the city and will devote | his time Co farming and mining, two . pursuits which with him have been more in the nature Of fads than busi. ness propositions
 When asked his reason for giving 1 up the restaurant Rossi replied. "I | | am quitting because ] am blue. 1 do | not have any pleasure any more ! around my place | have lots of frierls | and now since we have had prohibi- l tion when one Of them comes in all | l can do is to give him a drink of wat | er-and that's no way for me to treat | a friend There is still money to be made l out of the restaurant, but not the way ] | ran it. l could have sold 1t but | would rather give it Co philippi; he will work hard himself and win be able to reduce the expenses and make a good living When 1 ran it it took twenty-five people to keep 1t going. Alexander Rossi is one of the most familiar figures about Tucson today. For the past twenty-seyen years he has taken an active part in all the events. big and little which affected this section. Starting out as chef in one of the old-time Tucson cafes he worked his way up until today he is one of the men prominent is every phase Of civic endeayor
 For many years almost everyone who was in trouble sent for Rossi and the easy-going little Italian helped them in their need. Countless times he has gone bail for men whose ac- tions brought them within the pale of the law. and in the last twenty-seyen years he has been forced to make ! good only on two occasions.
 In speaking of the way in which prohibition had destroyedP1s business he added: well you cant tell. am going to busy myself with my mining claims and then, perhaps, after 1 few years. the people will want a big cafe again and vote wet and l am stin a young man-I will come right back and open a new Roasis' in Tucson.
 Finds New Italy
 Rossi is stul active and scarcely shows his 57 years He was born in Castelleune, Lombardy one of tho provinces of Italy. in lSj). Twenty one years later che glowing tales of the new land of unlimited wealth and opportunity brought him to Phila delphia. where he worked in the Kitchen of the Bingham House and then the Union League club But Philadelphia was just a big city like the populous centers which he knew in his native land SO when a friend wrote him from Prescott that in the great territory of Arizona everyone grew rich without working and tho climate eQualled that of b own sun. ny Italy. Rossi packed bag and bas gage and arrived in the mile-higI city in 1883.
 One month and a half after his arrival the sherman House in which he was working, burned to the ground and the ambitious Italian chef had nothing to show for his labor SO, in company with a few of his friends he started to wander around and finally drifted into Tucson.
 During his wanderings Rossi was cook for the crowd and many of the meals were prepared in abandoned mining shacks and even in the open One night the crowd came to a de serted shanty and while Alex made a fire and got things ready for supper two of the others went out and bag ged a few rabbits
 Beneath the old adobe chimney a straw which boasted the undivided lt- tention of an Italian chef and a brace of Arizona rabbits was brewing and when the time to partake oft he re- past arrived the hungry crew did it justice, leaving nothing in the poi but a few bones-but these few bones unfolded an awful talel They proved to be the skeletons of two snakes Forthwith and instanter there were things doing in that crowd and, look ing up the chimney. they found that the heat of the fire had brought tc life a nest of rattlers, two of which had unfortunately lost their equi librium and surreptitiously entered the stew-and the stew had been de voured to the last drop
 One of the party threatened to kill the chef, but mind was more power full than matter and he suddenly be took himself from the hut and wa. deathly tick in mind and body An othar f1ar1h har rIffs,I.s1 fg, Al. I4.r..., e a,