The San Francisco Sunday Cal Little Italy’s New Hero

an idea as big as the Idea of liberty and an Idea that involved only the arti of peace. This was . th« Italian a^riaultura; colony that was to be attempted neaj Bakersfleld, with the object of educat Ing hundreds of the southern Italiam from the old country In the methodi of modern agriculture. This Is a worl that is sure to come to the fron again and again and bear better fruit The colony was well started; but fron the first was handicapped more by lacl of proper backing than lack of enthit siasm on the part of the young leadet of the enterprise, eager for the betten ment of his poorer countrymen alon| the lines best adapted to their indu» try. It was during the Inception of thli colony that young Garibaldi was foi some months In San Francisco strug" gllng with the financial end of the col ony's plans. Here he speedily becami the Idol of Little Italy. After he wai forced to abandon the work and maki plans for the future, conditions In Me* ico, that had always interested him seemed to call for his aid. He ha( long predicted such an uprising. Hi went immediately to the front to con. fer personally/.with Madero, and in. spired by enthusiasm .'and'faith: In '. th< honesty.; of ; the; pretender, •he becamt hie chief of staff, with the rank 01 , - major. s^Efflß ;. '^HHIpHH It may be well to repeat- at thli point that many as are the revolution! In which the Italian boy has taken part like n*ls warrior grandfather he doei ;jt not approve of war. On that last viM JJ to Rome ' the old ;herb, had said that hi looked, forward to the day 'that tin sword; would give place jto.the pruni I I hook. This utterance of nearly 50 yean _ ago the grandson jhas often repeated He whimsically say a that his battli for .the' pruning hook failed, and tha' us long as there j are battles to bt fought for freedom he ;wants as : a rep- : resentative of Italy,to be In the vai with his sword.; . . A trivial but characteristic anccdob that * brings out the 5 gentleness of . th< man is being told concerning this lati engagement in Mexico in 'which: Gari baldi figured. The , story was repeats* when -his death; was reported, andlthi story not" only -reminded 'sorrowing Italians here of the heart of the youni i man himself., but: of his* * grandfather. The Inhabitants of the Mexican ham- let of Casas Grandes ha.l fled befon the approach of Colonel .Cuellar's fed' eral army. Madero's army was en- camped *'three miles from the town The column under Major Garibaldi wsj ordered forward to take the town That little huddle of adobe houses The Local Colony Rejoices rutted streets was fronted in a semi- Over circle by the government troops. Th« lnsurrectos i entered the . town itself : and forced the , advance..; Street • fighting the Escape From the Mexican began,' and the deserted houses wen entered and barricaded !by the insur- rectos. But, for Cuellar's field pleci remorselessly tearing down- walls. Ma. Government Troops of Major jor Garibaldi's little body of \u25a0" troopi. could have held the town unaided. \u25a0\u25a0 Major Garibaldi himself, with a llttl« v crowd »: of*" foreigners, defended « theii Giuseppe Garibaldi, Chief of position from a low square adobe build" Ing set away ; from i the \u25a0 town' proper : ft an open space, and fired from the win- Madero’s Staff, and Grandson of dows and hurriedly contrived loopholes The government troops soon surround" ed this point. ' Italy’s • • "When the "\u25a0 major "'". and his men ha< National Hero rushed into- the: deserted \ building—on« of the i-• superior dwellings— of th« maTrmes, --nattles and Tieath.") The rtte Italian laborers for the United men stepped on a little brightly dressed young grandson from his childhood Statea on th©^ Panama canal, exagger- doll that some child has dropped in he) thought them glorious word's, like the ated reports of existing 1 conditions hav- >haste as she fled. ,Though. bullets wen rest of the world, and determined to ing reached Italy. His diplomatic gifts raining 'in ;upon 'them, the ; young majoi break bounda and follow in his grand- as well as his lovable personal quali- • picked up* the ;toy|ihat' spoke of th« father's footsteps. ties were brought oi!t during this In- disrupted ihome, fleeing/children and Though General-, Rlclottl Garibaldi's vestigation. He was finally formally- cruelties of even V the '\u25a0 most . rlghteom own career haa been devoted to the thanked for his services both by his war. The American -who "reported th« great trade of war, like his father's, home government and by the Panama incident; says .that the vmajor's 'boylsll he objected to the same career for his canal commission. lip trembled as he looked at th« Giuseppe It was about toy,"and'carefully put . It In nil eon, the second. General this time when his sta- crushed *! Riclotti himself, as all Italy knows, bilityand tact were being most praised \ pocket. "I'llhave \to replace that,". hi that when little more than a child had fol- he started oft at a tangent for muttered. \u0084 » " many \ lowed his father to war, shared the South America. Rumors of wars to be In a ' fewminutes ' of\u0084 the Httl« triumph at Naples and the sorrow at fought for the people against petty- \u25a0 detachment of 30 that were holding th< need not here discuss the right or the Our own colorful Little Italy are Just Italy's sTfuggle for TTberty, above all Aspromonte and Mentana. As a volun- dictators had reached h'm, and, be- house ; with \ him had been ',' shot down sides, - •- Vivian Pierce wrong of Madero's pretensions in now fastened, it is necessary to revert his grandfather's glorious part there- teer In the Franco-Prussian war, where South Amerind had always called and he himself , wounded. Afew Ameri- generously los- to him grand rcans In the party made a side rush and Little Italy of North beach Mexico. Enough that Garibaldi be- to his illustrious grandfather and his in, he absorbed child from he had enlisted on the because of his father'a eagerly as a ing side of Napoleon, Italians will re- romantic and stirring exploits there. * escaped ? from 7the Ibuilding, that wai has a new hero. And his name lieved and believes he la fighting for father, General Garibaldi, the elderly- his militant father. Not a detail of member his capture of the only Prus- How many revolutions young Garibaldi now .drawing" the heaviest fire ! and ~ \u25a0 , is Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Second, political liberty of a nation when veteran of the Italian regular army, that Roman siege, hope- sian flag of the Sixty-second Pomera- figured in in South America and had a gaping roof. Major Garibaldi the lmmemorable Cen- post grandson great fights during the war. ,It was tral America no one and . the, others: held \ to; their and THE of the hero of the he under Madero. And he Is who, it will be remembered, led the less from the- start, but necessary In nians taken knows. There aro -}. , a Great of would have • died there, .. as ' the first Italy. If you walk down present deed that recalled the Liber- records his work for Venezuela, a f S liberation of at on Madero's own staff as last red shirt leg-ion on the fields of the eyes of the leaders to awaken the hearts. cause that appealed to erroneous dispatches said they did, > but any ator to Italian hi 3heart and I arm) Montgomery avenue day. you will major, commanding a legion, and one There is no clearer proof of world to the truth that Rome was In- It was General Riciottl Garibaldi also his sens© of justice; he for the advance *of Madero's main Greece. and struggled in foi realize that our Little Italy, separated of the most valued of the pretender's the influence of heredity on a career deed eternal, escaped him. who led the last red shirt expedition, the van against Castro until that dic- to the rescue.' Had it not been that tator Cuellar's field piece the insurrectoi by of miles from eternal staff. youth—he boyhood young Giuseppe where Italians wore the costume fled from the country. The 'thousands than la the case of this is The of was of Italy made imper- held * the. unaided. \u25a0 the liberator an Venezuelan revolution especially ap- would have' town. Rome, nevertheless never forgets the The fact that young was up haunted, not \u25a0• The ;*•Americana \u25a0 who escaped and ! Garibaldi little more—brought on the splen- so much by the trimphant ishable tradition. This was in 1897 in pealed, for the Latin tak.."i easily to heroes that made Italy, nor her spir- so short a time ago in San - Francisco did Garibaldi tradition. The same tevew march the thousand, not by the the Greek war. The generosity of such struggles in the dark. Intriguing tramped a couple of \u25a0 hundred- miles its.. in them. In all the littlo In Interests of projected Italian <^f Italians in risking their own lives Is necessary to expel tyrants the American line, and gave " the newi itual share the the to right wrongs that is driving tins aldls gift of a kingdom to of the : \u25a0 agricultural colony Bakersfield;' freedom of others has become Castro brand. that deceived!' Americans and Italians book and print shops there are always near . but by that splendid failure at for the * men, who "- the Idol of Italy, which Iwas ; al- young descendant impelled the grand- a tradition, and in imitation of the In all the in until recently. One of these engravings or chromoa of the three Little father as a young man to give up the urite picture of his time spent South seen. Garibaldi fall*wounded,; told ready familiar with his South American it moment when, dead leader several hundred volunteers America little Uruguay, the republic had the "exploits, f comparatively secure life as captain of regi- 'the' Incident of the doll. "And you car great ones that made liberation has made,the Interest in his: all hope over, his red shirt soiled, cut enlisted in General Garibaldi's freed by his granlfather, was not vis- ; a merchant vessel for the exalted role Many English by bet he'd have got that other doll • of Italy possible—Garibaldi, Mazzinl fate with he insurrecto army of thrill- and blood stained, Ids sword too bent ment. of the volunteers ited him. Wfasn he left he left in • ing Franciscans, of liberator. part spo- hurry, first off If'he'd lived,? he said. " Cavour, with the red, white and Interest to all San to enter the scabbard, he faced the also taking tn the war nave a for the small remaining group and met It was from his father, Riciotti Gari- S' Cuellar's:army was in reality driven both Italian and American, who assembly of the Roman republic at the ken of the conspicuous valor of the of silent smiling enemies of th« coun- recaptured hv*V«. gre«n tricolor somewhere displayed.. the young man ;in this city. He was baldi, that the boy Giuseppe heard the capitol for and Italians, who, it was said, deserved try had no love for him, and back, and the jtown) . stirring the last time begged through dero's main army. Young Major-Carp taken to the heart of Little Italy in the intimate details of those South leave to fight on outside the city. more warlike allies. a traitor turned traitor he wind " American campaigns over the wild >ot baldi is at present with this main army first jplace. for . the sake of« the great "Pavunque saremo, cola sara Roma!" But the youthful Giuseppe, his mind of their plots. It is not a country * peace virgin country for while : awaiting the outcome „of liberator and for the sake of hie father, reaches of that the ("Wherever we go, there will be full of dreams of conquests and war where there is much war in the open. .Certainly, hon- liberation of the Rio Grande territory shirts, negotiations, ; it*is , said. General Riclotti Garibaldi, the Rom< plumes and red was denied a But he had heard of another country young .;\u25a0 splendid fall of Rome and the ored old military:leader of .; Italy. ",But and afterward Monte Video. It was when Mexico is free in fact and ; the And the words that are printed on military career by his father and was that needed him, Central American Garibaldi ;to i San Francisco, a« tey are before ,the boy • had been "\u25a0 in San : Fran-} amidst such scenes that General Riciot- of second Giuseppe to the university, destined for a Honduras, return* march of the thousan ; * the heart this Gari- •ent in the toils of another dic- he ;has promised to do. Little Italy will Hill in skirts; and "by the time they cisco many days, he was'loved; tor him- ti had been born. It was there in baldi are those unforgettable civil engineer. After this schooling, to tator, who had absorbed the green •self, quite apart, his illustrious Montevideo that Garibaldi the lib- words of banana put on her gayest red, white and are \ from \ his grandfather on the day the retreat please his father, he tried to follow the and oil and every other trade, and recalling to many forbears: and i romantic past ; exploits. erator formed his first Italian legion, began, when lie bade farewell calling of peace, but it could not hold with a little well for * the ) man who is • to the drilled mercenary nations, because of his name only, 'So when : the -\u25a0 news vcame\u25a0 that th» the legion that was to make the red thousands upon thousands in the him. Impressionable, lovable, hand- army was bleeding the not young Major killed •hirt famous the world. The Piazza people. Af- , the 5 exploits of the dead hero. Therefore, it is especially fitting to Garibaldi had been around of St. Peter's and bade whosoever would some after the dark Italian fashion, his fairs in Honduras are too well known ; this :; moment th« hero is Giuseppe In the "death trap at Casas Grandes not dark, red shirted soldiers, the black foMow him: fiery Imagination to send also and The fact that iat i that this new was him too recent to need detailing. The liberation of '. Italy, \u25a0 which his grand- ' and that our , only did General Garibaldi i and X the regimental flag with its flaming vol- wandering the earth, spite Garibal'ii. the grandson: ; "Fortune, who betrays us today, will over in of United States was drawn into the ris- largely helped to bring about, welcomed Italian government cable to the San cano thereon, were the first things tha going ing father so : Little Italy In San Francisco smile on us tomorrow. lam out his own efforts, to follow hia chosen of the people owing to the execu- f Is being celebrated with an exposition remarkable young man on his Francisco l'ltalla here to have the facts little Riciotti remembered. And he from Rome. Let those who wish to profession. tion of the two Americans, special "point-to King Investigated taught significance flag Groee and at Turin, lends ; •, errand of peace only a little over a but all ->rth beach was the of that continue the war against the stranger That he has tried other callings is no Cannon, in November of 1903. it was \u25a0* Victor"Emmanuel's proud boast * when, mourned.; young —Italy mourning \u25a0 • Now.that the fact that with the oacred fire. come with me. I offer neither pay .ior idle statement. Like his grandfather, !n this fracas that young Garibaldi fled he epoke the other day at the openlnal/* Garibaldi'survives [has in her heart, the longing for liberty. quarters provisions; hunger, deepest been established nor 1 offler he has the feeling for the arts the roofs in disguise, pursued by -f of: the Roman jubilee, ,"Italy Is devotdlJL- there Is a' revival ;of Interest here in This tattered rag, the ftftg of that thirst, forced marches, battles and of peace, esp'dally the science of agri- corrupt government spies. independence of every race." his career in his future. That first legion, preserved In After for- to the and now Eolo^no death. Let him who loves his country culture, as Ms own work, apart from eign interference restored peace* in the Here in -this alien land, far from the career reads like " a romance and is as priceless, woke In the second Giu- In hii heart, and not with his lips only, his career ai a spectacular soldier of republic, the young '"plaudits:of; those crowds of his coun- in zealot for worth telling. seppe, as it has wake.l thousands of foHow me." fortune, demonstrates. liberty turned northward, tired for the trymen, this youngr descendant of the To see Justly the grand- the longing "Far- \u25a0 eraployed by • career of the Italian lads, to emulate the forzate. battaar- He was the government time being of war as the ;| great \u25a0 '.is trying .to make sot, South Ameri- liberator that then, on whom the eyes \u25a0i Italyand dead hero. All the sacred traditions of lle c murte '—("Hunger, thirst, tare** at lta.Jv to investigate the condition* of cans played the same, and absorbed in proud statement good.