Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-22
RED BLOOD WINS OVER
BLUE IN NAHANT FIGHT
Butchers Presence Resented in
New England's Exclusive
Summer Resort.

Lynn, Mass, July 22.-Red blood
has scored against blue in a swift
victory for the rights Of the individual
over class prejudice.
Yesterday in the Police Station of
Nahant, Mike di Carlo, Italian butcher
from Lynn. whose presence at Nahant
is resented by the ever-so -aristocratic,
pleaded noli to the charge of dis
orderly conduct they brought against
him and had his case filed.
Mike di Carlo poacbed on the pre-
serves of aristocracy by buying a
house in the heart of Bostons most
select summer resort. and there en-
pertaining his friends, frequently chill
dren, thirty or forty at a time. His
house parties We're not enjoyed by
his exclusive neighbors. They wished
to be rid of him. Mike is philan-
thropist. The sign in his front yard,
ANY workingman, regardless of
creed, color or nationality, can have
n room here free for week by APP
plying to Mr.. NJ. di Carlo" is known
far and wide.
The police We're notified and raid
ed his house for liquor, but found
none. He received mysterious of
fers TO buy his property at large
figure.
The climax came last week after n
Fourth of July outing Mike gave for
children from Lynn tenement houses.
Mike and his seven children and his
one grandchild and their friends had
IL jolly time that evening, talking and
laughing and eating watermelon on
the piazza.
The next day. as they were piling
into trucks and wagons to go back
to Lynn, Mike was served with a
summons to appear and answer to n
charge of disorderly conduct The
friends We're indignant and SO was
Mike. 1t looked like rank persecution
to them.
II guess no big swells around hero
are gonna put me out this-away," he
said
\ lawyer was sent for from Bos-
ton to plead the case. IL is not
money but ancestors Mike is alleged
to lack. The other side made prepara-
tons too.
Nahant residents who have occu-
pied mansions near the ID Carlo
place for two and three generations
and who don't like changes in the
population agreed to appear at .
o'clock before Justice Walker II.
Southwick and make clear their com
plants.
Nine o'clock was early for them
to get up. \ mist still hung over
the water and the sumach bushes
near the window were heavy with
dew. But before they had to hang
out the ). X. q. sign. Outside row
of softly purring limousinos drew up
I at the curb. People were standing
three deep around the court room
walls.
Arrogant little flappers in white
tennis shoes and sweaters stared
rudely; collar ad. youths in riding
breeches too. A lady with an acu.line
nose sat up ve-y straight, her arms
crossed stifily Ike a sta-ue OF Buddha
Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr.. and Miss Mary
/ Sigournev. sister of the tennis s.ar.
We're on the side lines. Things loo. ed
very bad for Mike. but It was all over
/ in "A minute.
Mike. minus his family and his
white butchers coat. stood next Il
Lawyer Pine. He was all dressed up
in pink striped shir:; with the god
emblem of the LOYAL Order of the
Moose in his but .onhole. He held his
straw hat in his hand. His broad.
kindly face looked anxious. but his
voice didn't fail him.
The reading of the coplaint was
waived
Your Honor. I plead 'nol" said
Mike, in answer to Chief of Police
/ Larkin's charge that there had been
too much noise at his Nahant parties
for the poor children OF Lynn.
Judge Southwick. after listening 70
the promises of the attorney that his
peaceful quiet of the colony, dis
missed the case. He said:
Charity begins at home and / ad-
mire Mr.. Di Carlos impulses"
The gallery was too polite to gasp
Their attitude was one of icy indif-
ference. One or two shrugged their
shoulders in resignation. But Mike
could hardly wait to get down stairs
to his waiting family
Angelina, Josefina. Maria. Sara
where are you? It's all right. Come
on; we have big celebration" ex-
) claimed Mike.
i And then the rriumphal procession
started back to the butcher shop al
Lynn. where business was going OF
/, as usual. They all piled in-firs
Mike and his chauffeur in the Odds
mobile touring car. fruit of twenty
five years toll, first in the coal ant
wood business and then meat and
poultry.