New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
POLISH NOBLEMAN
A REFUGEE HERE
Count and Countess LedO-
chowski with Their Baby
Fled from Warsaw.
TRAVELLED PART OF
WAY IN SLEIGHS
Ex-Governor Warfie1d of Mary
land Meets His Daugh-
ter at the Pier.

The Count and Countess Vladimir
Ledochowski arrived here yesterday on
the Norwegian-American liner Bergen
ford, after having covered thousands
of miles under the greatest hardshlps.
Driven from their home in Warsaw
more than q month ago, the count and
his wife, the latter the daughter OF
former Governor Edwin A. Warfield OF
Maryland, told yesterday of the diff
Guilty they had experienced IN leaving
Poland to take refuge in this country.
With their baby, they first fled from
Warsaw to Kief, five hundred miles
away. There they were met by the
news that the Germans were advanc-
ing. and when they felt it woul d no
longer be safe for them to remain IN
the city they planned to leave Russia
entirely. On October % the party, in.
GLIDING a maid and nurse, prepared
TO start. But because the servants
were Austrian the Russian government
refused TO permit them TO proceed. Un-
der guard, they were taken to the AUS
trian border and deported.
In the party's fight, practically the
entire western part of Russia was
traversed. From Kief the count and
countess went TO Petrograd, where the
former obtained passports. and the
Gulf of Finland was then crossed.
From Tornea, on the Swedish border,
travelling alternately by sleigh and
train, they made their way to stock
holm. Sweden was then crossed by
rail, and the Bergenfjord was boarded
in Norway.
Mr.. Warfield, speaking of the party's
experiences, yesterday told Of the ex-
ceedingly cold weather encountered in
Finland. The count and his wife had
only a small amount of clothing with
them when they were compelled to
travel in an open sleigh for many miles
in the face of a sharp, cutting wind
and temperature Of IS degrees below
zero.
What food could be obtained was
scant, and frequently none could be
had at all, the countess said. She and
the count agreed that conditions in
Poland were extremely distressing
perated from their long and tiresome
journey the count will take up the
work Of raising funds for Polish relief.
On the way from the pier to>their
train the party stopped at the Waldorf
Astoria en- route for their home, at
Oakdale, the Warfeld country estate
just outside OF Baltimore. Governor
Warfeld hurried into the hotel and sur
prsed the man at the desk, who knew
him, by his peculiar demand. What he
wanted, he said, was bottle Of milk!
The clerks looked puzzled, never hav-
ing seen a Southerner before, who
shouted loudly for milk.
"And it must be the best you can
get" Mr. Warfield said.
The milk was brought, wrapped In a
neat package.
as this the best to be had?" the
former Governor inquired.
"None better" came the reply.
~ want it," was the explanation, "for
little Russian refugee who is waiting
outside in an automobile" The refugee
was his little granddaughter. He was
afraid she might go hungry on the way
to Baltimore.
The count and countess have been
abroad since their wedding, in May,
1913, which was an event in Baltimores
social season. When they sailed at that
time throngs Of friends made their de-
parture from the pier second we'd
ding reception.