Evening journal., 1906-08-28
STOPPED AT DOOR
OF PROMISED HOME
After Worldwide Trip Young
Woman Can't See Her
Husband

When the British steamer I1ilarius sails
for South America a few days hence one
of her passengers probably will be Mrs.
Rosa Laslafskey % years old, comely
and clever, bound for Buenos Ayros.
In going to the Argentine capital Mrs.
Laslafskey will be faring even further
from her home than she is here. BuenOs
Ayres is as strange place to her as 1t
she never had been there. Her home IS
in Russia but her husband is a prosper
Gus tailor in Providence. Mrs. Laslafskcy
was in Bucnos Ayres only long enough
TO wait for a steamer to take her to the
United States after her arrival in the
South American city from vessel upon
which she had been placed by a man who
had taken all her money
Story is Sad.
The womans story is sad She must go
back TO the port from which the Hilarus
took her because surgeons Of the United
States Marine Hospital Service assert she
has trachoma. Her husband is moving
heaven and earth in an attempt TO pro-
cure his young wife's release. But he is
not yet a citizen of this country. so the
chances are that Mrs. Laslafskey will
have to sail on the ship for Buenos Ayres
again The woman's husband sent for n, r
more than four months ago, he having
established a good trade in Providence
She left ST. Petersburg for Hamburg, and
in the latter city met a steamship agent
who agreed TO see after her transporta-
ton to America For 800 rubles he pro-
duced a steamship ticket and he gave the
ticket and seventy pesos in Argentine
money to Mrs. Laslafskey. Then he put
her aboard steamer which he said
would take her to New York.
Learned Her Destination.
When two weeks out Of Hamburg she
learned that her destination was Ameri-
ca, but not North America. and that she
would land in Buenos Ayres She was al
most distracted and several times at
tempted 20 throw herself over the ship
side. The other passengers tried TO com
/ fort her but accomplished little. For a
month she was taken care Of by Jewish
! families, and at last, not able to stand
/ the suspense longer she pawned what
/ little she had and bought her passage
on the Hiarius for New York. The
steamer was bound for Boston, making
New York her second stop That pleased
Mrs. Laslafskey, for she was told Bos-
/ ton was only an hours ride from Provi-
dcnce whore her husband was.
When the Hilarius arrived in Boston
/ the immigration doctors we're unable tC
agree upon the womans case. She ap-
peared to have bad case Of trachoma
a dread disease that prevents any alicr
from landing on these shores. She wa.
ordered TO stay on the Hilarius and wa;
taken to New York. where the Marin.
Hospital doctors agreed she had the
malady.
AS the ship steamed up Boston harboi
the young woman, not dreaming that sh'
would not be permitted TO join her hus
band. was gowned in her best and looket
charming. She was prostrated when DIR
Stafford Of the Marine Hospital in Bos
ton decided not only that she could no
land, but that she must not hold commu
nication with her husband. The grief O
the young wife was pathetic, and it wal
even more SO when she arrived in New
| York where she thought friends nigh
be able to get her through Ellis Island
Unless the relatives she processes L
| have here can prove United States citi
zenshlp there is no one who can order tn
young woman admitted to the country
not even the President for the law OF
trachoma subjects is strict.