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Show ITALIANS HONOR THEIR PATRON PA-TRON SAINT. Strains of American national airs mingled with the dreamy notes of the Italian masters and the musical chatter chat-ter of thousands of the dark sons of Italy, the roar of bombs, the flash of sky rockets and the flickering of myriad lights of w hite and blue and green, and the prevalence of 'the Italian national colors, red, white and green the latter easily mistaken for blue in the evening gave the picturesque scenes of the celebration of San Rocco day a strangely strange-ly patriotic appearance, either Italian or American. And the throng, too, that assembled about Mount Carmet church Sunday morning, afternoon and evening, lent color to the varied scene, for beside the Italian vendor of fruit stood the American Amer-ican citizen, gazing at fireworks and at the happy, struggling mass of celebrants. cele-brants. The -police estimated that 5,000 people were "packed in to the square about the church Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock, when the procession of San Rocco started. Of this number there were hundreds of citizens of every nationality, na-tionality, attracted by curiosity to the spectacular celebration. It was a polyglot, poly-glot, conglomerate crowd, an assemblage assem-blage of happy celebrants and curious slightseers, just the kind one lfkes to watch and f-tudy. ' ' The heart of the faithful priest, Rev. Father Lepore, swelled with conscious pride as he watched this, the grandest celebration of San Rocco day in all the seven years the feast has been observed observ-ed in Denver by his followers. For a block each way from the church the streets were packed at early evening and it was not until the last of the brilliant fireworks had been witnessed that the tnrong disbanded. j The fireworks were deserving of especial es-pecial praise, being home products, the design of Frank Lotito, who devised besides great pin-wheels and giant automatically au-tomatically arranged sky rockets a clown soldier, revolving on a platform who shot Roman candles and finally blew up and burned before the wondering wonder-ing crowd, and a display of Roman candles can-dles m the shape of three great crowns burning about he picture of the sacred San Rocco. The fireworks burned Saturday Sat-urday and Sunday night were valued at $600. The celebration of San Rocco, which was postponed on account of the memorial mem-orial services in Washington over the death of King Humbert, began early Sunday morning, low mass being attended at-tended at 7 -and 8 o'clock by nearly 1 000 worshipers. At 10:30 solemn High Mass was said. Father Feda, the celebrant being assisted by Father Pantanella as deacon and Father D'Petre, sub-deacon A special musical programme was rendered ren-dered by the choir, under the direction of Miss Beltrusch. From 2 to 5 p.,m. there was a band concert from a stand in front of the Mount Carmel church, and from 5 to 6 was the auction and drawing of prize!? rafBd off and mon by Carlucio Costan-" - zo, holding ticket No. 193. A picture I of San Rocco, valued at $30, was drawn j by John Kroter, and Jim Amato paid j $30 for the statue of San Rocco, sold at auction. All the money paid for refresh-I refresh-I ments and into the raffles went to the church building fund. ! At 6 o'clock the street parade started ! down Bell avenue, to Nineteenth, to j Palmer, to the church. A band, direct-j direct-j ed by Charles Brown, led the proces-i proces-i sion, followed by the statue of San j Rocco and the committee of ninety-two churchmen in charge. Rocco Tolve being be-ing president of the committee. Then ' came 1"0 bearers of lighted candles and I a throng of Italian church communi-I communi-I cants. The sidewalks were lined with I spectators, all the Italian settlement being out for the celebration. Father Lepore conducted vesper services ser-vices at S o'clock, and then the fireworks fire-works were kept going until 11 o'clock. |