Lone Baby Ends Trip Covering 7,000 Miles

3-year-old Boy Again is Safe in His Mother's Arms.

HAYDEN, Colo., May 20. -- After traveling approximately 7,000 miles alone, 3-year-old Sbiro Chakirido arrived here from Vladivostok and is safely in his mother's arms, while the lad's stepfather, Louis Charos, ex-soldier, is tilling the soil on a 320-acre plot upon which the little family of three expect to spend their remaining days.

Two years ago Mrs. Chakirido and her husband kept a restaurant in a Siberian town. Then came the uprisings and turmoil incident to the "Red terror" that has spelled finis for so many happy homes. One day the Bolshevists entered the little restaurant and killed Mrs. Chakirido's husband. By a miracle the wife and baby escaped to her home, near the town of Chita.

When the American Army forces entered Siberia, Louis Charos, a member of Company H, 175th Infantry, met the pretty widow, and they were married. Mrs. Charos returned to America with her soldier husband upon the evacuation of Siberia by Uncle Sam's men, but was obliged to leave her little son behind.

After months of frenzied search and thru the aid of the American Red Cross, the Charos were able to get in touch with the boy, and little Sbiro was started upon the long journey that has ended in the happy reunion with his mother.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 1.

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Baby Travels 7,000 Miles.

Spiro Chakiridio, aged 3, recently was delivered safely to his parents in Hayden, Colo., by the Red Cross after 7,000 miles' travel from Siberia. Spiro is the step-child of Louis Charos, a bugler with the American forces, who returned from Chita, Siberia, with his new wife a few weeks ago.

When the couple sailed the baby was left with the mother's family. The child's father was killed in a riot two years ago during the revolution outbreak.

The baby was well and seemed to have enjoyed the long voyage and cross country trip. He was cared for during the long trip by a Red Cross nurse.

--The Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, May 13, 1920, page 8.

Comment: The baby's name is different on the second article, Sbiro Chakirido or Spiro Chakiridio. I searched on both last names and didn't find anything. As far as Louis Charos, he's apparently the Louis Charos born May 7, 1894 in Kansas City, Missouri. At a website getting information from the Monte Vista Journal (Colorado) of 4/29/1976, going along with the Social Security Death Index on the date of birth and death, he died April 19, 1976. He is described as a WWI veteran and rancher/farmer. Died at Veterans Hospital in Grand Junction, assuming that has to be Colorado. At Social Security Death Index, his last residence was Alamosa, Colorado. At the website referred to, with info from the Monte Vista paper, they also mention another child of the Charos family, Floyd M. Charos, whose death is mentioned in the 8/30/1940 Monte Vista Journal, "Two year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Charos. Died on Wednesday. Buried in Spanish Cemetery. Born on Dec 9, 1938 in Lariet." No other mentions of Spiro I can see. There's another Louis Charos at Social Security born about the same time, but no apparent connection to this one.