The sun., 1910-05-15
OEE WELCOME SMALL CROAT
kATARINE FOUND A FATHER,
A MOTHER AND 4 NAT,

Not 10 Menaian New CIoahes ana sAOss.
HlmRly Jumplns NJ HeE m Ths strange
laRa-Nnng wanted TIE Pretty Little
OvphaR Whan Ellla lSlAna Detained.
Katarins Babso. a assven-year-Old pretty
httls CrOatian. lsRt Ellis Island Yesterday
and h0r Old-World name 20 become the
daughter Of Walter n. POhkov. q con-
suiting engineer Of the Dock Department,
Who lives az 100 CleFmOnt avsnue. and
who has no children Of hin own. There
were lots Of other residents Of this town
and many elsewhere who wanted the
httls girl. but Commissioner of lmmi-
grafton Williams decided that Mr. PolakOv,
who speaks CroatiAn. and who like the
little girl IL a member Of the Greek Church,
was the very best adopted father 20 give
her. And she seemed 20 think likewise
~ she walked through the iron gatsway
% the Barge Ohice holding his hand and
smiling at him and everybody around.
Katarine had a dim impression whore
she was going. She certainly did not
lO0h ~ tho little girl Of q well 10 do
Amssian citiash ought TO look. - she
had no hat Gin lAcs she cannot recall
ever having worn One) and her httle blue
dress had undergone many waahlng9
and mandings. She was bound Tor a
department store first. When she got
there abe just did not know what she
should chOss wherewith 10 adOn hersa,h.
and Mrs. POlakOv had 20 arrange every
thing. She never had been inside Of .
blg store before and she simply looked
amazsd and daz1aod. But she got q fne
lot Of things. aud she left that Old World
blue dress behind without a sigh aud
emerged into the street with, woll-it
certainly would have made the little
nrls in the littls town Of Croatia that
she came from look around twice 20 see
that hat she wore and that beautiful
dress. Cinderella of the glass slipper
surely was no more gOrgeOusly erf0yed.
There were no KlaN slippers. 10 BE- sure,
but what shiny shoesi And who would
want 10 wear glass slippers anyway
kAtarine arrived Al Fills Island on
April ~ with Mrs. Veronica Pohr the
widow Of an American OtiKen who had
been visiting her old home and was re-
turning with her two chiidren MIR.
Pohr had merely enough money % take
herself and the little ones 10 Baltimore,
/ AAN Wv AAAA4 - k1R4 MNAAN AAA 49, N-@e~@
possession % kntarine with the intent1On
6f helping her earn a living In Baltimore.
RAtarine had lost her mother and father
and was willing 10 take q chance almost
anywhere. Commissioner Williams got
interested in the case and decided that
MFp. Pohr would have enough 10 do 70
take care % her OWn little brood. He
held the little girl in the hops that some
one in need 0f her and who woud adopt
her would show up after he had made her
plight known 10 the newspapers.
Some Of the pagers printed pictures
Of KAtArine and told what a nice little
girl she was and how she would like 10
have a nsW American father and mother,
There we're many fathers and mothers
Wild 20 get katanne Most Of them could
not speak the only language she knew
and only one was a member Of the Greek
Church. That IA Why the adopted father
selected got ahead Of the others. Irving
=. Dorf Of s07 Broadway put the legal
touches on the proceedings by which
little Mias Babec hecame little Miss Pola-
kov. which h not such a wrench 70 her
hnE,Iistcally a. bang transformed into
MiRR smith or Brown or Jones might he.