At 3 Via Palazzo di Città, Joseph Plant, the brother of Lucia Matta, had opened a coffee shop and liquor. The manager offered a job as apprentice John Bosco: in exchange for cleaning the morning before going to school, and assistance in the evening in the billiard room, offered him free room and board under the stairs. This met the local jew Jonah (Jacob Levi), a young Israelite Bosco Youth convert to Christianity.