sentences:  Tumas arrived to Laižuva on 1 March 1911.Just three months later, in May, priest Konstantinas Olšauskas invited him to visit Lithuanian American communities and collect donations for the construction of the headquarters of the Saulė Society which organized Lithuanian schools in the Kovno Governorate.Aboard the SS "Kronprinzessin Cecilie" they arrived to New York on 5 July.