The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
FEDERAL MEN VISIT
RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL
Acting Bishop Sought at st.
NichOlas's, but He Had
Left Town.
CALL YELLED IN MYSTERY
RumOrs About Red Cross
Funds and the BOlsheviki
FOllOw-NO Arrests Made.

For reasons yet to be explained but
| deemed sufficient by Federal authorities
| to Justify a visit, the Russian Cathedral
of St Nicholas In East Ninety-seventh
| street. of Fifth avenue. has claimed the
! attention Of the United States Govern
ment In the last day or two.
Either yesterday or Friday a party OF
officers headed by Gottlieb Haneke. Dep
uty collector OF Internal revenue for the
Third district. went to the cathedral In
| search, 1t has been learned. OF acting
Bishop Alexander Nemolavsky. who is
head Of the Russian Church In America.
Informed that Nemolavsky was on his
way to Plttsburg. the party moved on to
the home of the Rev. Leonig J. Turke-
vich. In the Clement Court apartments,
In East Ninety-nintn street.
1t is understood Haneke took away
with him two trunksful OF papers, but
Turkevich. who is dean of the Cathedral
and who recently returned from RusSS-
would not say whether he had.
RumOrS FILE Up.
Another Of the. Cathedral clergy who
was visited also proved to be no master
of English. This was the Rev. Sergius
Snegireff. whose home Is at 10 East
Ninety-sixth street. BY the time news
paper men reached Snegireff they had
collected a vast stock of runors. One
was to tho effect that a Red Cross fund
of 100000 had. been raised for trans
mission to Russia and had never been
sent another concerned smuggling
scandal alleged to have a ramification
within the Cathedral again II was said
in the neighborhood that a branch Of
Bolshevikism in America had fourished
under the Cathedral spires.
Snegireff shook his head when asked
about the supposed Red Cross fund and
had nothing to say in regard to a report
that persons connected with the Russian
Church had recently been fined for
smuggling. But at mention Of the Boil
sheviki he came to attention.
mo. no." he said. This is wrong"
The priest excused himself and in a
moment returned with copy Of the fol-
lowing presentment:
Appeal to President.
To the President Of the United States
Of America:
We. the Russian people. who live
In the New World under the Stars
and Stripes. are true to our second
fatherland. the free land OF Wash
ington, but cannot be Indifferent to-
ward the bloody affairs that are
taking place in the old land, and
coldly look upon the destruction OF
Russia and her younger sister. Car
patho- Russia. For this reason We
have come together this It'll day of
July. 1918, and at a mass meeting
have unanimously passed the follow
ing resolutions:
To ask the President Of the United
States to come to the aid OF suffering
Russia. by sending a punitive expedi-
ton against the Bolsheviki and the
Soviets. to restore order in the land.
that It might continue the war to-
gether with the Allies against the in
sdious foe, and ask the President for
intercession in behalf of the unfortu-
nate Carpatho-Russia by annexing her
to Russia or by establishing an indie
pendent State.
To protest against the shameful
peace treaty OF Brest-Litovsk, con-
cluded by the Bolsheviki. and against
the Ukraine created by the Germans.
To demand the dethronement OF the
Bolsheviki in Russia. and a prompt
call for the Constituent Assembly, and
to convey a reproach, and to express
complete contempt toward the Russian
Bolshevik! In America.
To express complete confidence in
the Russian Ambassador Boris Alex
androvich Bakhmeteff. the only lawful
representative OF the Russian people
in America.
Mysterious Group in Basement.