New-York tribune., 1911-02-21

WAS MILLINER IN BRAZIL
Now Means to Take Up Case with
Russian Embassy, 10 Escape
Durance on High Seas,
Liners Agents Say.

Some time this evening or Wednesday
morning the steamship Korona will
bring to this port from Barbados Mrs.
Helena Solof. wealthy Russian wom-
an, thirty-seven years old. who was de-
ported from lew York in the latter part
OF January. on the steamer on which she
is now a passenger. Unless there is
some compromise between the State De-
partment and the Russian and British
governments. she will have to spend the
rest Of her life travelling the seas at
the expense of the Lamport & Holt Line,
which brought her to this country some
three months ago. as her deportation
seems to have made her "a woman with
out country"
Mrs. Soloff w.o was well dressed and
supplied with considerable money, ar
rived here on November so 1910, on the
Lamport & Holt liner Terence. Her
husband. she said, was travelling
around the world, and had promised to
meet her in New York. She had sold
profitable millinery business at Para.
Brazil she added, to join him here and
accompany him back to Russia.
Mrs. Soloff sailed from Para for New
York. but wishing to make a stop-over
at Barbados left the steamer and waited
for the steamship Terence. in which she
took passage on November %. She oc-
cupied the best stateroom on the steam
ship and displayed plenty of money, but
being a Russian subject the immigra-
to Ellis Island.
After being taken before a board Of
special inquiry she was ordered de-
ported as an immoral person. She APP
pealed to Washington. and on four oc-
casions was granted a stay of deporta-
ton. On January rs of this year she
was removed from the detention room at
the island to the immigration hospital,
where she was kept under observation
for two days relative to her sanity.
On January Is she was ordered de-
ported, and the Lamport & Holt Line
was informed that it would have to take
her back TO Barbados. AS the company's
steamers stop at Barbados only on the
northbound trips from Rio de Janeiro
and Buenos Ayres, the line had to buy
Mrs. Solof first class cabin accommoda-
ton on the Korona, which left New
York for Barbados on January 81.
The purser and captain had strict or
ders from the immigration officials to
put her ashore at Barbados. the port
frcm which the Terence had brought her
to New York. The steamer made stops
at St. Thomas. st. Croix St kits. An
tigua, Dominica, Martinique and ST.
Lucia before reaching Barbados. When
the British immigration officials. learned
that Mrs. Soloff had been deported be-
cause Of insanity and for being an i'm
moral person the captain Of the Korona
was told that she could not be landed
there.
Having no alternative. he was COM
PEELED to keep her on board the steamer
and bring her back to New York. Ac-
cordng 10 advices received in this city
yesterday from the steamship agents at
Barbados. Mrs. Soloffs mind was In no
way affected, and she had declared her
intention of taking the matter up at
once with the Russian Embassy in
washington. on her arrival here.
She cannot be deported to Para. as
che vas not brought direct from that
port 10 New York. She has been ex-
cluded from this port and cannot remain
here. Unless she consents to go to Rus
aia. or some other country she must con-
,inue n charge OF the Lamport & Holt
Line on the high seas.