IT WAS A TWO WEEK JOURNEY TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. WE LANDED IN NEW YORK PASSING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. FROM THE PORT WE WENT TO UNION STATION ENROUTE TO JOHNSTOWN, PA. ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILWAY, A STREET CAR TOOK US TO OUR NEW HOME AT FRANKLIN, PA., FIVE MILE EAST WAS HOME, DECEMBER 17, 1909. THERE I FOUND SOME PEOPLE FROM MY OLD VILLAGE AND WE STOPPED AT THE HOME OF JOWN BUCHAN.


AND I MEET THE FIRST WOMAN I’VE EVER SEEN SMOKE CIGARETTES

AN OLDER MAN NAMED NIKOLA MACESIC WHO TOLD ME THAT MY FATHER WAS HIS KUM (Godfather). HE INVTTED ME TO COME AND STAY WITH HIM UNTIL I FOUND A JOB. HE WAS MARRIED TO A POLISH WOMAN WHO COULD TALK A LITTLE SERBIAN. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD EVER SEEN A WOMAN WHO SMOKED CIGARETTES. ALMOST EVERY OTHER DAY SHE SENT ME TO THE STORE TO BUY CIGARETTES FOR HER. THEY COST 8 CENTS A PACK. I REMEMBER THEY WERE CALLED OLD GOLD. I STAYED WITH THEM FROM DEC. 17 until JULY 15, 1910.