New-York tribune., 1910-08-29
TO DEPORT WHOLE FAMILY
Trouble Arises When Schoolb0ys
Laugh at Youngsters.
ALL HELD AT ELLIS ISLAND
Relatives Appeal to Secretary,
Offering Bond, to Prevent
Return to Russia.

II the other boys in Public School 14o.
In Norfolk street between Delaney ana
Rivington. hadn't laughed at little simon
Schenker. he and his mother and sister
and brother wouldn't now be awaiting
deportation at Ellis Island. Or IL those
heartless little urchins had only "afteo
a short month or two before provoking
Simon to the point of refusing to return
to school the family might still be liV-
ing in peace at No. 80 Essex street
But everything has broken wrong
for the Schenker household. Not only
[ have mother and children been ordered
/ back to Russia but the father. TAXING
/ advantage of their absence from the old
I country. has married again, ana they
must go back to face this family skel-
eton-that is unless the fervent appear
of relatives to Secretary Nagel to-day
/ proves effective
Mrs. Chave Rachel cchenker. who Is
thirty years old. came 70 this coun-
try from Russia less than a year ago,
landing in Philadelphia With her were
her two little sons Simon. eleven years
old and Pesach eight.
They were looking for the husband
and father. who. Mrs. Schcnker under
stood. was somewhere in the United
States. She half expected he would
meet her and the children IN Phila-
delphia, but after waiting there two
weeks for him IN vain she came &c New
York.
Soon Saving Money.
Here she had well-to-do relatives .
brother and three brothers-in-law, who
quickly circulated throughout the East
Side reports of her skill as a midwife
and nurse Soon she had many patients
and was saving money Two monthst
ago she was able TO send the price OF
her passage to her daughter Hanna, six-i
teen years old. who came directly from.
Russia to New York II was her daugh-.
ter who brought the news that the
father was in Russia when they had,
thought him over here, and that he had
married again
But with good wages. with her chill
dren about her and with influential rela--
tives ready to be of service, Mrs.
Schenker considered that life was pretty
we'll worth living. after also long as
she was separated by the Atlantic from
the old. cruel associations Then there
fell this latest blow. the worst Of all
seemingly without warning.
Boy Only BashfuI and Tir1id.
Morris Becker. proprietor Of A laun~
dry at No. 211 Stanton street. Mrs
Schenker's brother-in-Iaw, describes his
nephew Simon as an unusually bashful
; and timid boy. but perfectly normal
mentally and physically.
This extreme bashfulness. he said yes
! terday made it difficult for Simon to
make himself understood. either in Yld-
dish or in English. in the presence OF
strangers His halting, partly intelli-
gibIe speech made him the laughing
stock of the other boys at Public School
40. which both he and his brother at
tended.
He complained to his mother. who
didn't pay any particular attention 20
him. since the boy never seemed at a
loss for words in her presence. But
Simon stood the ridicule as long as his
childish sensitiveness would allow. then
rebelled and refused TO go back TO
school.
The mother went to Miss Anne NJ. At
kinson. principal of the school for coun-
sci. and the principal advised her to ap-
ply at Essex Market court for police
man. who would frighten the boy into
obedience. So the mother went to Es-
sex Market court but the magistrate
told her she should take her boy TO the
Children's Court
At the Children's Court her case was
heard, the boy was examined and then
they were sent home. but not before she
had told the Justice that the family had
| becn in this country less than a year
Prisoners at Ellis Island.
A few DAYS later man and woman
iappeared at the Schenker home and told
the mother according to Mr.. Becker
that the whole family was wanted at tina
Children's Court But instead of TAX
ing them there the brother-in-lav says.
the man and woman, who proved to bs
! immigration inspectors. took mother ant
children to Ellis Island. This was seven
weeks ago. and since then they have
been prisoners there.
About six weeks ago. Morris Becker
. SAYS, the immigration authorities or
dered the whole family deported. Hins
; Becker Mrs. Schenker's brother. who
lives in East New York, and the three
brothers-in-Iaw. who, besides Norris
Becker. are Louis Hondelman. of East
New York and Samuel Elegman. OF No
161 East 10th street, went over to the
island and tried TO persuade the officials
, that the boys affection arose entirely
from timidity. but all in vain
Tney said they would guarantee that
he would never become public charge
Then they appealed to Secretary Nagsl
of Commerce and Labor at Washington
IL did no good.
| The relatives have now decided on a
second appeal 10 Mr. NageL They sent
a letter embodying their plea TO the Sec
retarv of Commerce and Labor last
night and will telegraph him to-day
They want TO forestall the deportation
of the daughter. Hanna who otherwise
must sail on the Nieuw Amsterdam to-
morrow. The mother and the little boys
have been ordered deported on the Cam
inc Thrsrx