New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Last Batch of Radicals
Taken i'm Nationwide
Cleanup to Depart at
Dawn Aboard Buford
Berkman Goldman
Bid u. S. Farewell
Ellis Island Colony Rein
forced by us on Eve
of Beginning Journey

Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman
and about $50 other alien radicals are
to be herded aboard the army transport
Buford some time before dawn TODAY
and at high tide, if all goes we'll, they
will have what a good many Americans
hope will be their last look at the
Statue Of Liberty.
The destination of the Buford is not
known, even to the captain. His sail
ing orders are to be handed to him
sealed, to be opened twenty-four hours
away from port. The normal crew of
1926 men has been increased by a guard
of soldiers, and other precautions have
been taken to prevent trouble with the
passengers on the voyage. All that is
known is that the United States gov
ernment will deposit them somewhere
in RED" Russia.
Three Women to "SaiF
Besides Miss Goldman there were
two other women on Ellis Island last
night who were to be put aboard the
Buford, Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lip
kin. They were arrested in Novembcr r
in a raid on the Russian People s
House, in Fifteenth Street. Harry
Weinberger, attorney for many of the
"Reds," appealed vainly yesterday to
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
to permit Samuel Lipman, who is about
TO begin a twenty year prison sentence
for violating the espionage law, to ac-
company Miss bernstein to Russia.
The pair are sweethearts, and Mr..
Vein berger in his request to Mir. Pal
mer pictured Miss Bernstein as an
other Evangeline.
The male radicals are all that re-
main of hundreds of undesirable agi-
tators rounded up in country vide
raids in November
More Join Red Colony
The soviet colony on Ellis Island was
augmented yesterday by the arrival of
more than 175 Reds" whiskered, hand
cuffed and shackled There were 36 from
Cleveland. SO from Pittsburgh, 26 from
Youngstown, 10 from Philadelphia, 10
from Buffalo and 10 from Baltimore
These arrived at Jersey City in special
cars over the Lackawanna Railroad,
and were taken on barges to Ellis
Island.
Flfty-three others, New England's
contribution, arrived in New York from
Hartford, Conn. and from Grand Cen
tral Terminal to the barge office at
South Ferry were carried appropriately ly
in two sightseeing buses. Ilney were
chained in groups of ten.
The Buford, which prior to the Span
ish-American War, when she was pur-
chased for use as transport, was the
British steamer Mississippi, has been
stocked with stores and provisions suf-
iclent to last 500 persons sixty days,
Ship Closely Guarded
She is a slow boat, and the time it
will take her to reach a Northern
European port is problematical. Elab-
crate precautions prevented curious
persons from approaching the vessel or
the South Brooklyn piers where she is
docked. The "Reds" and their baggage
were to be carr,ed from Ellis Island on
ferryboats to the Buford's dock.
Ellis Island swarmed yesterday with
agents Of the Department of Justice
Every package brought there by
friends and relatives Of the prospec-
tive deportees was carefully scanned
for dynamite, INT or seditious utter
ances.
Only the day before these vigilant
guards deleted from one of Emma
Goldmans letters request for a pair
of corsets. They were even more vigi-
liant yesterday, and when Mrs. Stella
| Ballentine, of Rochester, N. Y, Miss
Cnld 4 -
and fur coat to Ellis Island both ar
ticles were scrutinized before they
were given to the woman anarchist
Many Gifts Distributed
Every time the little immigration
Bureau boat Travelled from the Barge
Office to the island yesterday it was
crowded with persons taking last min
ute gifts of food and clothing to the
Reds" Last night Berkman and Miss
Goldman each had a trunk and three
varying amounts, down to few whose
piece Of soiled cloth.
Most Of them, however, seemed to
have plenty of money. One of those
who arrived yesterday displayed roll
Of bills that an associate said contained
more than $1,000. The twenty-six men
from Youngstown, who have been work
ing III steel mills, had between them q
total Of $4,000. They were members
of the East Youngstown branch OF the
Russian workers, characterized by Fed
eral agents as one OF the stronges,
branches of that organization.
Passengers on small craft floating
past Ellis Island as darkness fell last
night could distinguish the voices OF
the members Of the "Red" colony
raised in song. They were singing 1.-THE
International"