sentences:  They toured 55 Lithuanian American communities for three months and collected about $19,000 () or 34,000 rubles.More donations were collected in Lithuania and the headquarters, a three-storey brick building at a cost of 155,000 rubles, was completed in Žaliakalnis in 1914.Upon the return, Tumas visited variousl Lithuanian towns and delivered over thirty speeches against emigration to the United States sharing stories of the difficult conditions and poverty of Lithuanian Americans.