Then we woke up to what was going on--it had already gone a good way--and started in to put an end to it.

Petrosino did put an end to much of it, and at the present time it is largely sporadic.

Yet there will always be a halo about the heads of the real Camorrists and Mafiusi--the Alfanos and the Rapis--in the eyes of their simple-minded countrymen in the United States.
Occasionally one of these big guns arrives at an American port of entry, coming first-class via Havre or Liverpool, having made his exit from Italy without a passport.

Then the Camorrists of New York and Brooklyn get busy for a month or so, raising money for the boys at home and knowing that they will reap their reward if ever they go back.

The popular method of collecting is for the principal capo maestra, or temporary boss of Mulberry Street, to "give" a banquet at which all "friends" must be present--at five dollars per head.