Our New Hospital Ship and Its Commander
OIL HAS MADE HER RICH
Russian Nobles
Now Work Hard
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without underclothing or footwear. He
said his sister bad been killed this
winter by the Bolsheviki and that
the capital of the Ukraine had become
a city of the dead.
Mme. Lubinoff boasts a storehouse
about the size of an American house­
wife's paniry, which is tn charge of
Michael Shramchenko, the son of the
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governor of Tchernikoff, who was
! Conducts Relief and Commands Ad­ killed by the Bolsheviki. The assist­
mirals, Generals and Governors— ant storekeeper is Victor Borsenko,
Peel Potatoee and Chop Wood In
who was governor of Novgorod.
Poland for a Living.
Refugees, impoverished by the
Bolsheviki, Help Each Other
in Warsaw.
MME. LUBINOFF IS LEADER
Warsaw.—Driven from palace to
hovel, some of the members of the
aristocracy of old Russia now are peel­
ing potatoes or chopping wood here
for a living.
Five thousand men and women and
A view of the operating room on the D. S. S. I -ief, U ncle Sam’s new hospital ship which was recently conn-
stoned at the Philadelphia navy yard. The Relief Is for use of the officers and enlisted men of the Atlantic fleet children, some of whose resounding
titles once brought them homage of
Inset is a portrait of her commander, R. C. Holcomb of the navy medical corps.
courtiers, are clustered here after hav­
ing fled to Poland before the Bolshe-
ent day schools were built prior to i vikl. Helping them to help themselves
1897.
Is Mme. Ludmila Lubinoff, herself a
The report directs attention to “the refugee, though born a princess of
large number of children between the one of the oldest Russian houses and
ages of thirteen and sixteen years who the wife of the former civil governor
leave the public schools,” and adds: of Warsaw.
“There probably Is no more serious
This remarkable woman Is conduct­
problem or one more difficult to solve ing soup kitchens, sewing rooms and
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now facing the people of this coun­ workshops for members of her unhap­
try."
py class, and taking orders frota her
children
are
represented
In
this
report
Tens of Thousands of Children in
According to the reports from 290 are men who once commanded the
on playgrounds,” It is stated, "and the
United States Are Reported
study discloses that one-half of them cities 6 per cent of the children have armed forces of the Russian emperor
—
1,800,000 children—have each a play­ left school before their thirteenth On her staff are admirals, generals,
Housed in Firetraps.
ground less than six by six feet per year, 19 per cent before fourteen, 38 governors, mayors and members of the
pupil, and many of them have no play­ per cent before flfteen, and 64 per cent old Petrograd court, while her husband
before they are sixteen years old.
has laid aside his gubernatorial duties
ground at all.
"In the geographical groupe,” the to become her secretary.
"These facts of limited playground
A Woman of Action.
space,” says the report, "present one report continues, "the highest per
A beautiful woman, she hides the
of the serious problems confronting cent of these children remain in the
453,000 Pupils Either on Half-Time those who are interested in the wel­ western cities. Next In order are the tragedy of her life under an optimism
Study or in Unsuited Quarters—
fare of American school children. great plains cities, then the southern, that is an example to the unhappy folk
Survey Conducted by Chamber
Whatever the cost, adequate play- the great lakes, and the lowest of al) to whom she ministers. A woman of
of Commerce Committee.
ground space should be provided for are the eastern cities. In this last action, too, for she escaped from Petro­
those school buildings already erect­ group only 29 per cent of the children grad with her two sons after freeing
New York.—Tens of thousands of ed In congested districts. Public sen­ sixteen years of age, and 56 per cent her husband from the fortress of Peter
school children housed In firetraps and timent must become so stroug that it of those from fourteen to sixteen and Paul and arming him with a ficti­
tious passport that enabled him to flee
hundreds of thousands of them either will be considered a breach of trust years. Inclusive, are in school.”
to Warsaw. Here the family was re­
on half time or in makeshift buildings for school authorities to erect a school
is the condition In 429 cities of the building on a site that will not afford WILL EXPLORE PERRY ISLAND united.
Selling virtually all she possessed
United States, as disclosed In a report adequate playground space for all the Sir Ernest Shackleton to Leave In
to aid her fellow countrymen, Mme.
made public here.
pupils housed In the building.”
May or June on New Polar
Lubinoff organized the Warsaw branch
The report was issued by the na­
Few Fireproof Buildings.
Expedition.
of the Russian Red Cross, which is
tional committee for chamber of com­
On the subject of Are hazard In
merce co-operation with the public schools the report states : "Only five
Christiania.—Sir Ernest Shackleton, being aided by the American organiza­
schools on a survey conducted by the per cent of the total number of build­ the antarctic explorer, will leave in tion.
Sparing not herself, Mme. Lubinoff
American city bureau.
ings are of the types constructed usu­ May or June on a new -polar expedi­
has not spared the colony of refugees
The committee was organized in ally called fireproof. Only a small tion.
February, 1920, to inquire into school number have fireproof elements to
He will take with him a dozen men, which Included many of the former
conditions. Its executive committee lessen the tire hazard to the children. chiefly those who accompanied him on Russian nobility. In the soup kitchen
la headed by George D. Strayer of At least 25 per cent of the two poor­ former expeditions, and contemplates and wood yard, which she has estab­
lished in a Russian orthodox church
Teachers' college, Columbia university, est types of buildings are of two or being away for about two years.
New York.
more stories, and do not have a Are
The Norwegian whaling boat, Foca at 5 Podwal—a squalid property placed
The evidence presented “shows escape. Thirty-nine per cent of these I, has been purchased for the expedi­ at her disposal—are working men and
clearly that there are tens of thou- two types are without Are extinguish­ tion. and in all probability it will first women of title at tasks which once
sands of children now housed in old, ers and less than ten per cent of them proceed to Hudson bay, where 150 servants performed for them. -
In the dingy little courtyard Gen­
unsanitary, dangerous buildings," says have automatic sprinkler equipment In dogs will be taken on board. Thence
Mr. Struyer In his Introduction to the any part of the buildings. Only 11 per the expedition will proceed to Axel eral Oblonsky, formerly architect at
report. "Many of these structures are cent have automatic Are alarms. Such Heiberg's land. From there Sir Ernest the Russian court, chops wood for a
best classified as firetraps."
facts as these demonstrate the exist­ intends to explore the islands east­ living with several officers of the
Data From 429 Cities.
ence of a real menace to the children ward to Perry island, this being the -rack imperial guards, one of whom
aus lost bls reason and must be
Data was received from 429 cities. of these cities.”
One-half of pres- main object of the expedition.
watched. In a small and dirty build­
The report says: "These facts, ob­
ing Prince Meschersky, who was mas­
tained from 75 per cent of ail the
ter of ceremonies at the Imperial court,
cities reporting, show that In these
peels potatoes for his daily bread.
cities, even excluding those housed
Nobility as Servants.
In annexes where conditions may be
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In the crowded rooms the meals
normal, there are more than 453,000
children who are either on half time Belgian Court Acquits Man Who Shot ty-two years old, and the girl was are served by women of the Russian
Girl Who Tried to Commit
Coline Vandyck, age eighteen. They nobility—Princess Rukoff, widow of
because of lack of building space or
Suicide.
had a love affair and the attempt at Admiral Rukoff, who was executed by
are housed in portables, rented build-
Ings, attics, basements or corridors.
Brussels, Belgium.—The question suicide resulted. The shooting oc­ the Bolsheviki ; Princess Ouchtomsky,
It would require an average of two whether or not a person is guilty of curred In the Bols de Cambre, Brus­ whose husband was reputed one of
the richest men in Petrograd and is
30-room buildings in each of these cit­ a crime In hastening the death of an­ sels’ largest public park.
“Coline ran from the path Into a now cashier in the next room at 4,000
ies to properly house these groups of other who is suffering from a mortal
children alone.”
wound has been decided in the nega­ thicket,” said Hermans. “I ‘beard a Polish marks a month, the equivalent
The report sets forth statistically tive here in the case of a married man shot and ran after her. She had shot of $4 today, and Mme. Koudravatsky,
the Inadequacy of playground space. who shot and killed a girl who at­ herself In the temple, but was still widow of the vice mayor of Petrograd,
"It Is clear that In many cities chil­ tempted to commit suicide. His plea alive. I could not see her suffer and who was put to death by the Red rev-
dren are now housed In buildings In was that she was dying and that he I took her revolver and shot her In olutionists.
Colonel Kesselaeff of the Imperial
which there Is less space on the play­ killed her rather than watch her suf­ the neck. Then she was still, and I
Russian Guards runs errands for Mme.
ground than Is supplied In the class­ fer. He was arrested, but acquitted shot myself.”
Hermans recovered from his wound Lubinoff, and refugees who collapse
rooms In which they are taught," says of the charge of murder by the Bra­
and was In prison for eight months from exhaustion while waiting for
Mr. Strayer in the introduction.
bant Court of Assizes.
Medical testimony their food are attended by Mlle. Car-
“Three million six hundred thousand
The man was Jerome Hermans, thir- until acquitted.
given at the trial was to the effect that agestoff. a former wealthy resident of
the girl’s suicidal wound ultimately Petrograd, now a nurse.
Working in an American Red Cross
would have been fatal.
warehouse are twenty officers of the
Imperial Guards regiment headed by
M. Riekshensky, a lawyer of Kieff,
who arrived in the Polish capital
Wherein Cupid Gets
Many Schools
Serious Menace
REPORTS FROM 429 CITIES
Not Crime to. Kill Dying
Indian Princess Christens New Sub
Best of Father-in-Law
;
Philadelphia.—The romance
of Oscar Shenderoff, dental stu­
dent, which got mixed up when
his father-in-law “kidnaped” his
bride of a few hours. Is mended
again.
Shenderoff married eighteen-
year-old Myrtle Stewart, daugh­
ter of William Stewart, retired .
printer of Denver, Colo. That
night her father summoned
them for an interview.
He urged his daughter he al­
lowed stay with him all night.
Shenderoff returned the next
day to find that his bride had
disappeared. He went to Wash­
ington, where he knew her fa­
ther had friends.
Boarding a car in Washing­
ton to begin his hunt, he was
startled to see his bride on a
corner waiting for a street car.
Then came the reunion and
Shenderoff and bride returned
here without bidding "dad” fare,
well.
Barking of Dog Saved Man’s Life.
Muskegon, Mich.—The barking of
Princess Tocoomas, an Indian, who In private life la Mrs. James O. Ger- his dog attracted men to the garage
maine of Norwich. Conn., christened the new American submarine S-48, when of Severson Casper, where they found
It was launched at Bridgeport, Conn. She is ahowu here with her Indian Casper unconscious from gas fumes
party ; and the Illustration also gives an unusual view of the bull of the new from his car, the motor of which was
vessel.
running. He was revived.
3,700 CHINESE WORK ROADS
Employed In Railway Construction,
Relief Body Reports—Town’s
Girls Sold.
Pekin.—The engineering department
of the American Red Cross famine
relief organization reports that up to
the end of December, 3,TOO Chinese
had been employed In railroad con­
struction.
The men are in charge of division
engineers—sergeants from the Pekin
guard, who have as assistants privates
from the guard.
The line under construction extends
from Techow to Lintsing on the Chi-
hli-Shantung border.
In one district a census of families
showed that before relief arrived all
girls between nine and fourteen years
of age In two villages had been sold.
A shipment of foodstuffs brought
by the United States transport Mer­
ritt was moved from Chingwangtao
to Tehchow with little delay.
Twenty-one years ago Miss Ella
Tarrants became owner of a 200-acre
farm near Bowling Green, Ky., willed
to her by an old lady whom she had
nursed for some years. For 21 years
Miss Tarrant and her family made a
bare living raising tobacco and corn.
Not long ago oil was discovered on the
farm. Today Miss Tarrant's income
from the many wells which have been
drilled Is about $100 a day.
RULER IS VICTIM
OF ROYAL FLUSH
?
Amar Alayam, Tribal King of Ar­
menia, Lands in Jail
in Minneapolis.
POKER SAME HIS UNDOINS
Seeks to Rally His Tribesmen to Re­
gain Heritage of His Fathers—
Turns to Gambling to Sup­
ply Necessary Funds.
Minneapolis. — Amar Alayam, by
right of birth a tribal king of Arme­
nia, Is a prisoner in the Hennepin
county Jail, held there on the charge
of giving a worthless $50 check to
redeem his losses at poker and afraid
to summon his clansmen to his aid for
fear they would repudiate the leader­
ship of a man In a felon’s cell.
At least such was the story told by
Alayam to Floyd B. Olson, county at­
torney, from whom ho besought a
recommendation of probation that he
might once more rally his tribesmen
and seek with them to regain the her­
itage of his fathers.
Ten years ago Alayam, according to
the story he told Mr. Olson, became
the king of his tribe in Armenia upon
the death of bls father, Abu Alayam.
Abu had been a strong ruler. He
had amassed lands and fortune. Dur­
ing his lifetime he had held at bay
the emissaries of the Turkish sultans
who had sought to despoil his lands.
Upon his death the Turks came.
Looted by Turks.
Alayam was but a youth of twenty-
two at that time. Marauding Turks,
backed by the power of the Sultan,
seized upon the richest of hfs inheri­
tance. It was useless to resist their
strength by force. For money they
promised to release the farms of his
fathers, so, gathering about flfty of
his young men. Alayam came to Amer­
ica, the land of fabled fortunes.
After the custom of the Armenian
immigrants. Alayam was spokesman
for his tribesmen In the new land. It
Year’s Round of Red
Tape All for Six Mills
Nuremberg. — An automobile
carrying the license No. 11 B
488 passed through the town
of Schwabach last November
without paying the toll of 40
pfennigs (normally eight cents,
but at the present rate of ex­
change three-fifths of one cent).
Unable to ascertain who
owned the car, the Schwabach
police chief reported to the
German ministry of the Interior,
which turned the matter over
to the Bavarian foreign minis­
ter.
Then the report went
through Munich police depart­
ment, the Schwabach board of
aldermen, and a score of hands
to the agricultural council of
the Palatinate, which found that
the automobile belonged to the
state of Bavaria and therefore
was not subject to the Schwa­
bach municipal toll.
On January 20, last, the
Schwabach town government
was informed of the result of
an investigation that had last­
ed more than one year. And all
about 40 pfennigs.
was through him that they hired out
for various occupations. A tithe of
their wages they gave to Alayam, who
hoarded the money that he might go
back to ransom his kingdom from the
Turks.
Almost enough money was raised to
accomplish the purpose when the
world war came. Upon the heels of
news of the war came tidings of the
ravishing of Armenia by the Turks.
Tales of the suffering of his country­
men caused Alayam to abandon his
dream of going back to his kingdom.
The money saved for that purpose he
sent overseas, a contribution to the
Armenian relief funds. Many of his
colonists returned to enlist as soldiers
to fight against the Turks. The rest
were scattered.
Still those who remained continued
to give a part of their wages to Ala­
yam and he stayed on In this country,
feeling that the money he could raise
here would be of more value to his
countryman than his presence in Ar­
menia as a common soldier.
Turns to Gambling.
The end of the war was also the end
of Alayam's resources. So many of
his colonists had gone back to Arme­
nia that the contributions of the re­
maining were scarcely enough to af­
ford their chieftain a living. Desper­
ate at the thought that return to his
fatherland might never be realized,
Alayam began to gamble, seeking, he
told Mr. Olson, to multiply the tithes
of his colonists into the fortune he
needed.
But Instead of winning Alayam lost
With money gone he gave a worthless
check for $50 for a last stack of chips
and those, too, were lost. Alayam was
arrested.
In his plea to the county attorney
Alayam begged for a recommendation
of probation. He could call his follow­
ers together then, he said, and would
depart with them for their old home
Albert Parsons, the “wild man" of the Loaf river bottoms, Mississippi, his In Armenia. Even without money
fifty-year-old wife, whom he says be caught In a bear trap 23 years ago. and Alayam was confident he could rally
his two-year-old baby girl, who strayed to civilization, like people of another his father's tribesmen and, with the
age. They had been driven out of their home, a shack on a strip of land in power of Turkey weakened, regain
an Isolated section, by high water.
again his heritage.
Mississippi Wild Man and His Wife