Weekly journal-miner., 1915-04-07
ROSSI GIVES HIS
 RESTAURANT TO EMPLOYE
(From Sundays Daily.)

longer Rossi's. The famous estab- lishment, known throughout the coun- try as the best cafe between St. Louis and Los Angeles, has ceased to be under the direction of the smiling, roly-poly, little Italian who establish ed it P years ago.
 Rossi has decided to retire and, as reward for 30 years of faithful ser vice, has given the cafe and all its appurtenances to Phillippi Trapani, who will conduct it under the familiar name of "Rossi's."
 The former proprietor will retire to lis "Macaroni' ranch on the west boundary of the city and will devote his time to farming and mining, two pursuits which with him have been more in the nature of fads than bus mess propositions.
 When asked his reason for giving up the restaurant Rossi replied, "1 am quitting because I am blue. l do not have any pleasure any more around my place. 1 have lots Of friends and now since we have had prohibition, when one of them comes in all can do is to give him drink of watcr-and that's no way for mo to treat friend.
 There is still money to be made out of the restaurant but not the way I ran it. I could have sold it but would rather give it to Phillippi; he will work hard himself and will be able to reduce the expenses and make a good living. When I ran it it took 25 people to keep it going"
 The Wandering Chef.
 Alexander Rossi is one of the most familiar figures about Tucson today For the past ? years he has taken an active part in all the events, big and little, which affected this section. Starting out as a chef in ono of the old-timc Tucson cafes, he worked his way up until today he is one of the men prominent in every phase of civic cndcavor
 For many years almost everyone who was in trouble sent for Rossi and the easy going little Italian help ed them in their need. Countless times he has gone bail for men whose actions brought them within the pale of the law and in the last ? years he has been forced to make good only on two occasions.
 In speaking of the way in which prohibition had destroyed his busi- ness he added, Well, you can't tell, am going to busy myself with my mining claims and then, perhaps after a few years the people will want a big cafe again and vote wet and | am still young man-I will come right back and open a new 'Rossi's' in Tucson"
 Finds New Italy.
 Rossi is still active and scarcely shows his y years. He was born in Castcllcone. Lombardy, one of the provinces of Italy, in 1860. Twenty enc years later the glowing tales of the new land of unlimited wealth and opportunities brought him to Phila- Gclphia, where he worked in the kitchen of the Bingham House and then the Union League Club. But Philadelphia was just d big city, like the populous ccntcrs which he knew ir his native land, so when friend wrote him from Prescott that ill the great territory of Arizona everyone grew rich without working and the climate cqualled that of his own sun ny Italy, Rossi packed bag and bag gage and arrived in the milchigh city in 1883.
 One month and a half after his ar rival 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 few of his friends, he started to wander around and finally driftcd into Tucson.
 The Fashion Restaurant.
 In those days Tucson was the Tue son of Frederick Remington, Bret Hartc, and Alfred Henry Lewis. 1 There were things doing every min ute of the "A hours of the day Army | officers from Fort Lowell, miners from everywhere, boomers and ten derfcet, prospcctors and threc-card- | monte men fratcrnizcd in the gamb- ling halls, in the streets, and in every | nook and cranny of the busy little frontier town. Everybody had money | and the new railroad, which had | pushed its iron arms through from California in 1880, brought in many | traveller who willingly paid his ten cents per mile.
 The "Fashion," run by Clifford, was the most pretcntious establishment in the largest city in the territory, ,,,1;.1, 4l,,t HE, 11,;a,,H