The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-08
MODERN ISRAELISTIC
HEGIRA TO AMERICA
RUSSIAN FATHER BRINGS HIS
TRIBE TO PROMISED LAND.
% HAVE REACHED HERE.


NEW YORK, N. Y.-When Sroule
Ostrovsky, erstwhile leading legal
Light OF Belair- Cerkoff, Russia, had
completed the morning roll call of his
family he was a bit winded and some
what husky of voice When he had re-
covered his equanimity somewhat he
strolled to a window of the admins
tration building on Ellis Island and
after a keen-eyed survey of the piano.
rama OF city and waters he sighed con-
tentedly and stated happily that he was
nearing the journeys end.
Sroule Ostrovsky arrived in the port
of New York in the steerage OF the
steamship Orbita of the Royal Mail
line, and he wearied naught for COM
pany. Sroule was lost in a crowd-his
own Crowd-for he heads a party OF
twenty-eight, OF which sixteen are his
own children. w. ]. Bryan's campaign
slogan of yesteryear-sixteen to one
seems to have been adopted as the.
household cry Of Sroule Ostrovsky.
The patriarchal Ostrovsky began his
argosy toward the promised land last
March, and the march of the children
of Israel through the wilderness was
not hedged about with more trials and
tribulations than that of the little band
of latest arrived argonauts. When
Sroule and his children and relatives
have been passed upon by the immi-
grafton officials they will set forth to
Akron o., where they will make their
home beside that of Sroule's brother
Abraham, a successful business man in
the rubber tire town.
Victim of RED Terror"
Up TO two years ago Sroule Ostrov-
sky was a prosperous citizen OF Belalr
Cerkoff His law practice was an eX-
tensive one, his home a big one, his
bank account a rapidly growing one
and his family an almost regimental
one. Then came the red terror and the
peaceful Russian town became the
place of robbery, rapine and murder.
The looting of the bank by bolsheviki
ended the savings of Sroule, and it was
with difficulty that he was able to find
food sufficient for his big family. Pes
thence soon came upon the place and
Sroule Ostrovsky's wife was taken to
the burying place on the hillside.
Last March the reds again descend
ed upon Belair- Cerkoff and following
the raid Sroule called family confer
ence. They decided upon an immediate
departure from Russia and an effort
to reach the United States. With their
few valued possessions tied up in bund
les Srou1e, his sixteen children, his
three sisters and their husbands, his
brother and wife and three nieces set
forth afoot across Russia and into Ru
mania.
From Rumania the party went over
land by rail-a tortuous, broken jour
ney-to Antwerp, Belgium. The party
was compelled to remain in Antwerp
for two months while additional funds
reached them for the journey to Ameri-
ca. Furthermore, they had difficulty
and great delay in obtaining vises to
their passports. These secured, they
journeyed to Hamburg to board the
steamship Orbita.
Nightly Roundup Big Jab.
During the trip from Hamburg the
family and relatives of Sroule lacked
not for company. When they sat down
for meals they occupied one of the
longest tables and when night came
Sroule spent an hour rounding up his
charges and seeing them safe in bed.
Sroule Ostrovsky is SO years old and
a man OF education. He does not speak
English, but through an interpreter
stated that he intended to master the
tongue as soon as possible and that all
his children would start Immediately
to learn the language.
1T will be impossible for me to prac-
tice my profession in this country"
stated the patriarch, but l have suffi-
cient funds to establish myself in some
sort of business. I shall not have to
worry about labor, for | am bringing
plenty of help with me-" The immi-
grant smiled benignly as he swept his
hand in the direction of his sixteen
children, their uncles and aunts and
cousins.
at is good to be away from Russia,
continued the patriarch. "All is unhap
piness there, but in this good land we
hope to find peace and prosperity"