The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-08-28
RUSSIAN ORPHANS
WERE DEPORlED
scHILpRE n SENT WAY ROM
MEXICAN sE4oREs BY
BOARD OF INQUIRY.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-The thirty
Jewish children who were made or
Ephafs in the recent Russian maassa-
ores, and who arriTed In New York on
Saturday on the Hamb urgr Arnerican
jIlner Amerfka, to be cared for by the
Jewish charitable organizations OF
this efty pending their adoption by
Jewish families in this country, were
ordered excluded by one Of the boards
Iof special inquiry Gu Ellis Island yes
tfterday.
The ground Son ssbich the children
we're barred was that they came un-
der the class Of aliens tliable to be-
come public charges and that as the
liew on this. point Is very stringent the
heard had no ,alternattFe but 10 order
thei1 deportation. 70
The action Of the board came as a
great surprise and was taken after
secretary Waldmann Of the United
Hebrew Charities had made plea In
behalf; mf the children. in which he
told the board that If the children
were permitted to land they would be
cared for and placed in homes where
! it was certain they would be brought
Up to the good, lawabidtng Americans.
Every courtesy was accorded to Mr..
Waldmann by the board, OF which In
sp. ctor Parbury is Chairman, but the
board could not see the case in the
light he did and took the action stat
I'd.
The law under which the children
we're excluded Is Section 2 of the inn
migration law Of March 8. 1903. This
section enumerates the classes OF
aliens whose landing on American ter
rltory is prohibited, on OF these class
es helng what is known as those lila.
hle 10 become public charges" The
section mentioned is further qualified
in the following language: "Also any
person who is assisted by Others to
come. unless 1t is aft1rmatively and
satisfactorily shown that such person
does not belong to any of the exclud-
ed classes"
Mr. Waldmann said that an appeal
would certainly be taken to the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor at
Washington, and the opinion on Ellis
Island yesterday was that the appeal
would be acted on favorably by Score.
tary Metcalf and that all of the chill
dren would be permitted to land, with
the possible exception of the two
Kackrnann children, who are detained
for further examination By the medical
division on the ground that they may
be afflicted with contagious disease
of the scalp. which bars an alien from
landing here.
Assistant Commissioner of Immlgra-
zion Murray, who is. Acting Commits.
sioner while Commissioner Watchorn
is in Europe, when asked about the de-
cfston of the board. replied that the
board no doubt acted as II thought best
and that any further action in the
case would have to be taken at Wash.
ington.
Miss Sophie Per1mann OF Berlin, who
brought the children to New York,
was also ordered excluded. Her ex.
cIusion was due to the custom that
when children are excluded one of
their parents or their guardian must
go back with them. Had Miss PERL
mann came alone she would have been
admitted.
David NJ. Bressler of the National
Relief Committee said last night:
I'VE have received more than 15o1
offers from Jewish people all over the
United States who are willing to adopt
the children. This shows that the
children are not likely to become
charges on the public.
"The entrance Of these orphans into
the country was something entirely
new to the immigration authorities.
They naturally thought that the only
thing they could do was to deport the
children. They must have felt shaky
about taking any other course. Their
order to have the children deported
will be undoubtedly Cancelled by the
authorities at Washington when the
facts are shown them.
"We will keep the children here a
few days after we receive the order
from washington resembling the or.
der for their deportation. We do this
to give them chance to recuperate
and to be properly clothed. We have
found temporary shelter for themafofi
this purpose. After that we will send
them to their future homes. We have
allotted only one child to a family, be,
E1ieving that It will receive better care
IN this way"
should Join That