Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

joyed unbroken monopoly In the ice, coal hay
and grain business in the section. Galluci him.
self handled the labor end of the combination,
and within few years extended his control to
gambling and vice. He was a generous despOt
with money. He paid his single gangsters $40
week. The married men got SIS. Without
comment or complaint these men was sup
posed to STAY or MAIN whomsoever Galluci
pointed out Galluci became known a. Don
Giosue.
Then, one by one, his lieutenants were killed
the Lomonte brothers and Nocolo and Vincent
Terranova The Morellos went to Atlanta prison
for long terms for eOunterfeiting. The Don was
tried for murder; the jury disagreed and he
boasted that that result cost him a neat $25, 900.
He had too much power and too much wealth !
He was a real, untouchable king. But, like all
despotic kings, the slightest affront might wreck
him. Staggering along James street, the man
who had boasted that nothing could touch him
was accosted by detective, who took his re-
vofver from him, in broad daylight and in
front Of hundreds Of his countrymen-and Don
Gi0sue was ruined q king.
On May IL, 1915, the dethroned Don and his
son, Luca, were sitting IN coffe house when
volley Of bullets ended their careers, and the
dynasty Of Galluci was completely broken. Be-
tween 1910 and 1919 162 murders, most Of them
never solved wrecked the artichoke, ice, coal,
hay grain, gambling and labor rackets Of New
Yorks Little Italy.
CCARCELY any attention was paid TO the
~ round-face A1phonse Capone, who had be-
come q somebody In the James Street gang.
Capone had acquired . scar, they say When
the war came Capone was sent to France and
got as far as Brest. He came back in 1919
and made q valiant effort to muscle into q
labor racket ON the sugar docks Of Brooklyn.
He may or may not have been aware that
Bridge street bad man named Wild Bill Lovett
was getting $25 out Of every $50 week wages
that the sugar handlers were earning. This
much however Is certain: wild Bill met Ca
pone IN . spaghetti restaurant known as the
House Of the Death Dinners.
wild Bill backed Capone into corner ana
Swiped him on the fat chin with stih ringer.
at don't like you," said Bin. i might be
after taking you IN a. partner IN my sugar
handling racket except that don't have no
use for the kind Of stun you've been pulling
around here. Shove on in - hours or we VIII
carry you on. See?"
Capone saw. He left Brooklyn for Chicago
next day. but while he was travelling Wild BIZ
was shot down and killed In Brooklyn, along
with three Of his hardest working henchmen
An that Capone had learned about rackets IN
the James street gang, but had never been able
to work for his own benefit, he put into erect
IN Chicago. The things that Strapone Gahu1
and Caranouvalla had been able TO do IN
small way with artichokes, fuel 1000 wee.
gambling and labor Capone did IN Chicago nus
IN, a vaster scale and with greater formal1ty
and publicity.
Giro Terranova only survivor Of the Galluci
DYNASTY. became the artichoke king OF New
york City. Last year he was arrested and ms
kinrlv stock fell. with that arrest and the
wide publicity which attended it the prices OF
artiehokes fell throughout the city, while there
was also q welcome decline in the price OF
grapes Christmas trees, lines, lemons and cnest-
nuts Only recently the last Of the orothers
MoreIlo was shot and killed When news
cameraman touched OF hashlight as Giro
Terranova sat in an automobile between two
detectives he clasped his hands over his heart
and gasped The hashlight explosion did sound
like q pistol shot. It was q cold, sharp day
The Capone rackets now organized are too
well known and too ramifed to be described
here This comment, however. does seem ap-
propriate: With the exception OF beer and
booze running, there Is nothing Capone con-
trolls that does not follow the Galluci pattern,
nor are the principles of his trade and labor
rackets different from the little trade protective
society M. Vidocq operated. If Capones control
has weakened-and there is some evidence that
it haS--thiS is due to the affront offered MS
regal presence when he was jailed year ago
in Pennsylvania and to the more recent diff
cuties which beset his brother Ralph, treasurer
or bagholder of the Capone enterprises, who was
convicted of income tax frauds few months
ago in the Chicago Federal courts.
IL Is not certain IudC NdpOuS u1tiOuuCCO eAC
word racket to crime. He must have heard
the word when he was small boy in James
street. New York, for it was here in those
earlier years that the expressions dollar beer
rackets" and dollar chowder rackets" were in
common use. A man bought ticket for a
beer or chowder racket for dollar and drank
and ate all he could carry. Much noise and
boisterous merriment of racket (see Webster)
ensued.
merchant, knowing the mischief that could
be done by the James Street and other gangs.
willingly bought tickets to their banquetS