Evening star., 1919-12-21
DEPORTATION ARK
TAKES ESQ ALIENS
ON VOYAGE TODAY
Berkman and Goldman Ready
, With Many Others to Go
] to Red Russia.

NEW YORK. December 20.-Sailing
under scaled orders. the Army trans
port Bulord, the ark which will car
ry back TO soviet Russia, Emma Cold
man. Alexander Berkman and more
than 200 other radicals. will leave here
early tomorrow.
\ thick veil of official secrecy was
thrown about the preparations for de-
parture, and all passes to the Brook
I'm piers where thr ship is docked were
cancelled
The Buford. which prior to 1898,
when she was pur, h3sed for use as IA
transport. was the British steamer Mis-
slssi ppi has been stocked with stores
and provisions sufficient to last 800 per-
sons sixty days TIL destination of the
ship is not known even to the captain
His sailing order will be handed to h m
sealed TO ee opened twenty-four hours
away from port.
The normal crew Of 125 men. includ-
ing Officers. has been increased by en-
bStt men to serve as guards, and other
precautions haze been taken to prevent
any possible trouble during the voyage
Time of voyage Uncertain.
The Buford is a slow ship. and the
time ii will take her to reach a port
where her passengers can be disem-
bark d is problemical In addition to
the slow running time of the vessel.
there must be taken into consi sidera-
storms and frozen seas in the district
TO which she viii sail. for the radi-
Gals have been prom iSed they will be
sent to red Russia"
Nearly 25e reds were at Ellis Is
land tonight awaiting deportation.
The mum ber had been increased dur
ing the day by the arrival of hand
cuffed and well guarded delegations
totaliing about $50 from Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, the Cleveland district
and Hartford. Conn.
Three women were among them
Sdis Goldman. Dora Lipkin and Ethel
Bernstein. The las, two. who are in
their early twenties were arrested in
November in a rad on Russian soviet
eld4uarters in New York. Harry
Neinbe berger. attorney for Miss Bern
sfein. today asked Attorney General
Palmer that her fance. Samuel Lip
man. who is about to begin a prison
Sentence OF twenty years for vIoiat-
ing the espionage law. be permitted
TO accompany her to Russia.
Although not knowing definitely
~ hen they world be deported. friends
OF Miss Goldman and her companion
Tor thirty years. Berkman. kissed
them goodbye today. Mrs. Stella Bal
lentlne of Rochester, N Y, her niece.
added fur coat to the bountiful sup
ply Of clothing which Miss Goldman
has been acquiring since her sur
render dentist treated her teeth.
Stream of Supplies.
Three days ago the whole red colony
at the island was notified by Byron H
Jhl. acting comm. ss.oncr of iIniiira-
fion- to be ready to leave the country
at moments notice. Canned goods
and clothing fo. the depoItees th.n
poured into the island on every boat
Berkman and Miss Goldman tonight
each had trunk and three grips.
Today's arrivals assumed a jovial
oemeanor when they left the trains
Lany of them sang the Information
ale. All were well provided with
american money and clothing to with
stand rigorous winter in Russia.
Many wore two suits. One flashed a
roll of bills that an associate said
contained more than So. 900. The cash
resources of the party from Pitts
burgh alone were estimated at S1c0,-
600. Many of them had acted like real
capitalists in saving high wages in
steel mills and mines. Twenty-six
former steel workers from Youngs-
town had total of $s5 900.
Berkman and Mss Goldman are as
sumed TO have plenty of money. They
nad no difficulty in providing bail for
600 each till they were ordered de-
ported.
"Soviet" Grew Steadily.
Since countrywide raids in Novem.
Der. the soviet at the island has
been steadily &! owine. Son.e III. ee
score radicals held there after being
arrested in New York and New Jersey
conducted a futile hunger strike and
1or time refused TO attend depor,a-
ton hearings before immigration in
spectors in an effort to have the Of
hc1alS pc. nit visitors to see them
without wire barrier intervening,
The barrier was erected when some
visitors were caught passing firearms
to several radicals
inauguration of an Investigation at
the island by the House committee on
fnmigr2 ton into delays in deportation
or anarchists was followed by rapid
increases in the red colony. EARLY
this month Berkman and Miss Gold
man, who had b en- out on bail pending
hnal approval of their deportation by
the Department of Labor, were sur
rendered and legal formalities in the
districts where other anarchists were
arrested were readily completed
Charles F. Ruthenberg executive
secretary of the communist party OF
America and Isaac E. Ferguson. said
by the police to be the party's ma
t1onal treasurer, were arraigned in
court here today charged with GRIM
fnal anarchy. and held in $4,000 bail
each. Both men wee brought from
Chicago to face trial here They are
alleged TO Eave helped draw and pub
lish the manifesto of the communist
party last jay. which i-oposed -. It