Private Orphanage

Back from a naval mission to Brazil came Rear Admiral Newton Alexander McCully, U. S. N. Reporters were not surprised to find him accompanied by six children, none of whose faces bore the slightest resemblance to the face of Admiral McCully.

Reporters, recognizing in these children six of the seven Russian orphans whom Admiral McCully adopted in 1920 when on a naval mission to Russia, asked how his private orphanage was getting along.

Said Admiral McCully: "My orphans are proving themselves an increasing delight." . Reporters again were not surprised, remembering Admiral McCully's remarks on the same subject in 1921 after the children had been detained at Ellis Island: "We are very close together. Indeed I never knew how close until night before last when they were parted from me here at Ellis Island. I went back to my ship . . . without them. Entering their room on the ship, I found some of their little playthings. I had to sit down and I shook with the realization that the destiny of these children and my own [destiny] are inseparably linked."

In 1921 the children were released from Ellis Island when it was proved, Admiral McCully being a bachelor of large independent income, that they were unlikely to become public charges. Now their ages vary from 10 to 19 years. The oldest, Nikolai Smnov, is enrolled in the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Va.