Giovanni Caruso arrived in New York
from Italy last night to visit his brother j
Enrico, whom he has not seen for two >
years. His coming upset the famous
tenor, the tenor's secretary, the man
agement of the Vanderbilt Hotel, the
bellboys and the nurses and the clerka
at the hotel's desk. It up*?-t everybody
but the physicians wlio have been at
tending the singer since he became ill
with pleurisy. With professional calm
they issued the following bulletin :
"Mr. "'aruso continues to progress
favorably, without fever. Surgical com
plications are under control.''
What the physicians did not t?ay in
their bulletin was that Enrico and Gio
vanni Caruso began talking at and to
each other as soon as Giovanni stepped
inside the sick room with news from
the tenor's old home in Italy. First
they embraced, the sinfter rising to a
sitting position in his bed and throwing
his arms around the brother. Then they
kissed each other on both cheeks sev
eral times and began to talk. Giovanni
speaks English, and Enrico speaks al
most everything, but for their greeting**
they lapsed into their mother tongue of
Italian and went to it.
Giovanni Caruso reached Boston
shortly before noon on the Cunard liner
Oaronia. and came at once to New
York on a special train He wan met
at the Grand Central Station by Bruno
Zlrato, the tenor's secretary, and sev
eral friends of Enrico Caruso and of the
Benjamin family. He was taken at once
to the Vanderbllt Hotel, and walked
across the lobby in the midst of a buzz
of excitement from the porters and bell
boys and clerks, who marvelled at his
resemblance to the singer.
