New Britain herald., 1921-08-19
NEW BRITAIN TRIP
 TAKES FOUR YEARS
turkish Massacre and Famine h.
 terrupt Family'S Journey

Joy Hlled the hearts of Job, I-ehoo ana his mother of Lafavet,e street 1 yesterday afternoon when tbai, f.r, l ny arrived Tn this city after a period 1 ol lout years spent in trying to get
 lo 'he nome or freedom in America
 'olih ana h1s mother came to this 1 city Where they now run a fruit stand 1 on LdldEe'le street. John is here 12
 years and his mother followed four
 years later John had just been mar 1 rled to an Assyrian girl when bo do.
 clded to make his fortune and sta rted l forth for the United States. yes+er
 day he was all excitement for he woe l to meet his II yeear old daughter
 about whom he has read many inter- 1 eStlng things all these years and l whom he had never been
 The story of the trip of Eshoo,s ] Vile and daughter and his brother
 Joseph IS indeed an interesting one
 In 1917 John was faring we'll in this l city and sent for his people. They l started then and four years later yesterday afternoon, they arrived al 1 their destination.
 Victims of The Turks l The Turks were starting their cruel massacre of the Assyr1an Persians in
 1917. The Eshoos were in peril of l their lives. They lost their home ! the1r belongings, and everything of 1 portable value. They were left alone l to De killed when the murderers l "ould come. By some miracle of l late, these three, w.th two other | brothers of Eshoo, escaped from the l hands of their would-be murderers at mSht tune and fled for their lives. ] Travel by day was Impossible and o1y hi in al r.;
 | ed places, wherever there would be 1 the least danger of anyone huntine l them.
 l Many Escape.
 | They were not alone, however. in
 their flight and the roads leading out or the territory were soon filled by thousands who sought escape from persecution and slaue hter. It was for period of 45 nights and days that l the Esnoos travelled on foot over | mountains and hills across rushing streams, fordlng rivers, dragging their l weary and tired bodies ever onward III the hope of meeting friends to care for them. During that period Of mental and corporal persecution many fell by the wayside. The Davis family lived next door to the Eshoos in Persia and were fleeing with them.
 John Davis lives on Main street in
 this city and he Heard the news of
 their death from their friends
 The father and mother and sister
 of the local man, Davis, dropped in thelr tracks along the weary way dead from hunger and complete ex- haustion. One by one, hundreds by hundreds the peasants died by the roadway, but still the rest kept on their crucifed way. The Davis peo- Die were the fastest friends of the Eshoos and it broke the hearts of the now New Britain residents to see one' two, three, father, mother, sis ter, of their neighbors drop in the roao TOT their final resting place.
 Reach Bagdad.
 The Eshoos finally req ched Rardad where they were cared for and fed and provisioned at a refugee camn They spent two years there Mean while one brother enlisted in the
 French battalion in Assyria while a
 second remained in Theran, Persia.
 Joseph stayed with his brothers wife
 and child Five months ago the peo-
 pie stated for this country again They entered Rasra and passed on
 to Bombay where they hoped to get
 passage for France. No steamer was
 available and immigration men were
 not too friendly. Finally they got sailings for Japan and after a whole lot more trouble with immigrant tior officials, landed at Seattle, Washing ton They left the Pacific coast on August 11th and arrived in Chicago on Wednesday. They left for Spring. field, Hartford and New Britain on Wednesday night. John was in Springfield to meet them. Glad were the cries of wife and brother on meeting him. Surprise and admira-
 tion were his part when his now we'll grown 11-year old daughter was pre- sented to her father for the first time. But great as was their reunion at the Springfield station, it did not compare with the final greeting on Lafayette street at 3:30 o'clock yesterday after noon when Johns mother c1asped her 1 boy Joseph in her arms and tried to gather Johns wife and child into the 7Gr,n~, <J, 1J<,1