The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
QUITS ELLIS ISLAND
AS ELSIE JANIS'S son
Mike Cardi. Bersagliero and
Stowaway, Suecumbs to
the Stars Kisses.
WEARS 5 DECORATIONS
Miss Janis Wants GilhOoley
Too; Says She Can Tame Fa-
nous Irish belgian.

Mike Cardrs out of luck! All that
Mike got yesterday was Elsie Janis for
a foster mother, the Janis house at Phil
lipse Manor for home and, In addi-
ton to several OF his foster mothers ex-
cellent kisses, an assurance that she'd
see to, It that colleges and motor cars
and other educational requisites would
be HIS II he'd just continue being rea-
soneble.
Until yesterday Mike was member
OF the Ellis Island Stowaway Club.
which has headquarters in one wing of
the detention building at Ellis Island
Until - Elsie deposited $4,000 OH the
desk of Superintendent Baker In the
immigration offices yesterday and took
Mike Cardi in return for her money
there were fifteen awfully healthy mem
bers Of the club. They all became mem
bers just as Mike dld-by slowing
themselves away on troop ships mo-
ment or so before the transports set
forth for America, and like Mike they
are all opposed to returning to Europe.
Mike has the face of a collar adver-
tisement gentleman. He speaks hve Ian
guages without apparent trouble and
wears five decorations, the French and
the italian War Crosses included. In
the clearest Ellis Island English he told
his foster mother that he was awarded
the decorations for great bravery under
, fire, and he wasn't at all concerned when
he was informed that the authorities
were looking him and his heroisms up.
He comes from Naples. His father was
one Of the Bersaglierl-an officer. Mike
says-and was killed during the first
Austrian offensive on GoritZz.
.1sNY,t
ing Mike Gilhooley at the same time.
Young Gilhooley is the famous Irish
Belgian stowaway who made three at
| tempts to break into the United States.
| Glhooiey is a member of the Ellis ISL
! and Club and by sheer strength Of arm
ana lung its president.
But Byron II. Chl. acting Commission
er of Immigration. declared the toy
| eminent and Gilhooley had not yet come
! to a definite understanding concerning
the latters status. This lad is Il trh,
| hard 70 handle. they say, and while Miss
Janis insists that she can tame jus
such wild men without any noticeabl,
damage to the men, Mr.. Chl said II woulC
be quite as we'll IL young Gilhooley wa!
| left where he was for time
The authorities have received NOR,
than 200 offers to adopt the youngster,
at Ellis Island. one woman wrote fron
Connecticut that she stood ready to taxi
the entire fifteen off the Government
, hands. II is understood. she is yer,
| rich and that she had enlisted a dozel
| of her friends, each of whom would as
; sumo personal responsibility for the fu
| ture OF the stowawsy allotted him or her
1t is about decided TO turn over L
this brave benefactress Anatole Jobey
a husky young Belgian who halls from
Mike Gilhooleys town, Charleroi. but tn
fate OF the others still hangs in the bal
ance. Four OF them will be deporte
Saturday. They are classed as undesir
| ables.
Except four, all are orphans Mix
Cardi says his mother died soon afte
his father was killed and that he, Mike
at once Joined the Bersaslicri and Tough
through the last year of the war.