Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-20
RUSSIAN HALL
IS DEDICATED
Parade and AllDay Celebration
Mark Opening ot
New Building.

Russians living i'm this city dcdlc ated
a hall nn Saturday with exercises that,
beginning IN tho morning, continued
throughout tho day and evening
Exercises began about 10 o'clock IN tho
R,ssiar, Orthodox Church. At this seFSuon
reports of various committees were heard.
I'm the afternoon the delegates went To the
new hall. which IL located ON Apple street,
South Wilmington, where The fraternitiea
az the Russian nation held drills A parade
was lafnr formed and led hv bethany
Rand. covered the following route: Apple
str,-rt to TOhdell, Ia Claymont, To B,
Ifeald. to Fourth, to French. to Front, to
Market. to Eleventh, round the Fuhlio
B,uldjng. 20 French, to Seventh, 90 Church,
To- Apple
After the par ade had dishsnded tho
marchers again assembled at the hall, and
after refreshments hsd bern served tho
final dedication services started with
several patriotic and religious addresses
and singing If the national Russian songs
bv large chorus of men and women
Among the speakers in the evening werr
Jacob Hantow secretary Of the Carpatho-
RUSS ans. who presided over the meeting.
Msvrr Iawron, W =. Cherniak, editor of
''Golos Narvcda," Russian paper Ot
New York, Mrs A Chaplin Of Brooklyn,
and Rev. John Adamisk Of Philadelphia
Some of these speakers addressed the large
gathering in English while others the
Russian language,
In his address Navur lawson said;
You should not he content 81 merely
| exist as rneInhara of the community with
| out taking some part and expressing some
| voice in the management Of public affairs !,
| go that one Of the objects OF vour society
| il TO teach its members the form Of govern
| ment under " hich we live With every
| privilege in this country goes corresponds
| dutv. and Il is not right, just or fair that
we should accept the privilege which our
| form of government gives 10 the indl-
viduaI unless in return we take an active
| interest in that government and perform
| the duties imposed upon us There IN, oi
| rmIrSe. no stronger tie in this world than
| the tie of blood relationship, and this Will
| ALWAYS make YOU have a kindly interest
| in the country from which YOU came and
| it's peoples, but, having come over here
| and chosen to he part of the people OF
| this country, YOU must not forget the
| duties which grow out Of that tact.
| "And so. ! wish to st MlChael's Rus
/ sian Fraternal Society many, many years
of prosperity and happiness, and trust
that its members will bear in mind what
] have said today and make the society
| a strong factor IN our community Tor good
| government
". S. Cherniak, who holds high place
among the Russians of this country, ad-
dressed the gathering in his native tongue
and those present were very enthused
Carpatho-R Russia, he said is the oldest
Russian Kingdom, lying on both sides OF
the Carpathian Mountains, and including
eastern Galicia, Ukrainlan Bukowlna and
the northern part Of Hungary, including
s 900 900 Russians Before the war was
declared these Carpatho-liussians hac
been suppressed worse than any Slavonif
nation IN Austria, he said In the year OF
ls4s the German Emperor ferced on the
kingdom q name that was not at all suit
able to the inhabitants, but they had K
live under this name until 1892, wheI
Emperor Franz Joseph forced on th'
people the name Ukrainians. Living unde
the hardshipa of German aud Austria,
rule, the people of that part of the countr.
never lost spirit. the speaker declared