1907 Peter and a group of friends attended a lantern slide show at their club, the eccentrically named Independent Order of Oddfellows. A visiting Australian architect showed slides of Sydney, including some of the recently completed Anthony Horderns building on Brickfield Hill. Peter saw, in Australia, both a working environment of enormous potential and an appealing home. Disillusioned by what he saw as corrupt American business practise in the building trade, he quickly began planning his move.

On October 11, Maria and Antonio Cicutto’s eldest daughter, Egidia (Edith), was born in Toppo.