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The Clinton News Record, 1912-04-25, Page 5April 25th, (912 NOT[D DEAD BRIEF NOTES Glance at the Careers of Some Prominent Victims KNOWN WORLD OVER i lirtander, Mine Owner, Artist, flail. road President, Editor, Author and Merchant The Titanic took with her to the [bottom of the Atlantic men dis- ;ringuiehed both in the United States land Great Britain.. Some were known 'the' world over. A financier, a mine. !be/tier, an artist, a railroad president, et theatrical manager, an editor, an ,suthor and a merchant. ;are in the list 'of victims. C. M. Hays Charles M. Hays 'woe President and General Manager of the Grand 'Trunk Railway. are had been in England der some time securing loans to ear a7 en the construction of the.. Grand ,iTrunk Pacific Railway. He was born 1M BOW( Island, Ill., oa May 16,-1856, emd"ttfter holding various •positions on -&mericaa`roeds entered the service of ;the Grand Trunk Rahway In 1895. ;Itis distinguishing work was tine or- iganizetion of the newtranscontiner tel line, the Grand Trunk Pacific. From'a clerk sitting in the ollice of ,the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com- nauy, Charles Melville Hays, appeared •w.be impelled 'by some unseen; power: until he egentually became one of the greatest,' railroad :filen In the world. itis career, to say the least, was -checkeredand there: seemed to be no •Ohsthcle too, .large for him to over ,came; It Is saki that he refused a knight- , ?bowfin 1910. His wife is the daughter of William H. Gregg of St. Louis, Mo. Thornton Davidson Thornton Davidson, son-in-law of Charles M. Hays was about 30 years ,of $fie ani} a -prominent stock broker 'eontnicting' a buetness at 86 Notre ileame street. About five years ago -he Married Miss Hays. K, J. Allison R. 3. Allison, a Montreal" millfona ,etre, left for England, accompanied by 'his family, last November. The object. ,oef kis trip was to i*terst British ;capitalists in the British & Canadian Utieber Corporation, a $20,000,000 concern with large lumber tracts in. CAPT. A. H,::ROSTRON of the Car•pathia which rescued: the survivor's. STEAD'S STORY Said Great Calamities Punished Any- one Who Wrote Accoune'of Mummy ' Frederic K. Seward, who sat nasi•' to W. T. Stead at the Titauids saloon table, told or the veroran English journalist's plane for his American' vise His immediate purpose was to Ltd in the New Yolk Campaign of the Men .ancl Religion Pore -are Move- ment. 'Mr. Stead talked nmcl ofspiritual- Ism, it . x s p ttuat- Ism, thought, transference, and, the occult,' said Mr. _ Seward, He told a story of a mummy case tit the British Museum which, Ile said, had had amazieg advantages, but which puitished with great calamities any person who wrote' its story_ He told at .ane person atter another' who, be Bald, had: come to grief after writing the storyand added that al- though lie knew it he would never' write, HIe did not (my whether there was ill luck attached to the mere tell- ing of it. Steal also told, Seward said, of a strange adventure of a young woman With an at nicer in an L•nglise rail= road coach v:hieh was known to him. as it happened,and which he after- wards reheated to the young woman amazing her byrepeating everything correctly save for one small detail. COMFORT TO PASSENGER More Men on the. Titanic to Loose At ter Passengers Than to Run Shin The criticism that same ocean boats are built for lusuriobsness rather than seaworthiness Herds some color of support in the otlieial figures et. the lrtantc's crew and attendmits. These show: Officers. ana erovt 02 E ugine-room .. 822 Stewards and victualling depaet men! 471 Out of SGC oiler fie ' were eng a 1Sa6 in actuary running the 'strip. Over hell were to look after the comfort of ea* mangers. MleS. JACQUES F'UTRELLE .RostgnMetre , te; 'WAS yowled, Husband was losd.'• Brntish;,bolurnbia. Fit was 32 years .ef age and was the soft, of the late ale Allison of Chestervifle, Ont. He s'ae o$vner of a 400 -acre Model pure- bred. stock farm at Chesterville, Ont. Dr. Pain' Dr. Alfred Palri, Hamill n left that etty hast Labor Day to take a post - 'graduate course in't3uy's Hospital, 'London, Eng., and was 'r'eturning to take up the practice of mediclae in pis -native city. B. Guggenheim "Benjamin Guggenheim is credited Title having Drat [turned the attention ,of his fathers and brother's, to the smelting industry, in which they seen 'became the dominant factors.. This !was the foundation of the enormous 2o.rtune''which the famidy has built up. Hugo• o Rqss Hugo Ross, a Winnipeg broker war • hist returning from a tour OL Europe, ,and: had sen;: postcards front Rome, 13er'1In, etc:, to Toronto friends. ' He had resided in Brandon, Vancouver, and'Wihnipeg, as well as in Toronto'(, where, he Tvaa in :rho mining business. He lost heavily in spec:Matfon.. Two or three'years ago be made a lot of money in Western Canada; he imine. d'iately: came east and paid all nig creditors, T. G, ,Widnsr, the Philadelphia MRS. J. J. ASTOR Wife of the New York millionaire. Shewad placed in a lifeboat., by icer • husband wee retiree to the deck. and went., Bowe with the shill. 1 'A TRIMMER'S ESCAPE Albert Snow,a trimmer in the crew of the Titanic, related one or the nar- rowest esculrea of any of the survivors. He ;said he wee on deck and loaning over the railing when the Titanic struck. Ste was litcl ed'over into ate water. He threw off his ,coat as he struck the water, and after, ewlrrtrning about he name up on;gall overlurned' lifeboat. Tae crarwled upon ibis,' and with bis body only shielded 'y his shirt and trousers and a rriiSlcr mu around file 'neck, he suffered until» picked up 'ty the Carpathian. mFo rNE oEuix Of BflpVE MEN Survivors Describe the New York Millionaire's Conduct In the Torrible Disaster That Colonel Jacob Astor, one of New Yorlt'swealthiest 'mem and'scion of otte of the oldest families, (lied the death "of a brave omit 'there is ample testimony from. the survivor,!, though' Tori sonde of their details chess stories cotiflibt. Sifting these stories it: 1s evident,that Colonel Astor, after asps• ing his wile aid other women, did actually got into the boat,witb them, 'but subsequently left the boat some de- claring thee eclaring.thee thiswas at the request of an' officer, and others saying that it wan at his own' volition, 'after lea had scan that there were other women stilt on the strip. From other facts iii sue MRS, W. E. CARTEL Philadelphia, whose husband was lost in the Titania wreck.. vivor's stories, It would also appear that the boat in which be tried to save his life had room for many more passengers, some say 16, when she left the ship's sole, and ]lance it would up, pear that Calooel Astor might have remained except for his desire to ser that others werenot loft. Piecing together the stories about (lel, Astor, it is clear that he and bee wife were in their callln when the ship struck the iceberg, that they at once came on deck mrd that upon the order for the women to get in the boats stirs, Actor at first demurred, be. lieviug that there was not sutiiofont danger to wa rout. risking her life In such a small craft, , Col. Astor theme upon insisted elite Hilda Slater seems to have remembered particularly this scene.' r'I saw Colonel Astor," she said, "hand bis wife into a boat tenderly, and then ask an (Hirer 'whether be might also go. When permission was refused, he stepped back and 000lly took out his cigarette case. 'Good- bye, dearie,' be called to her as he lighted a cigarette and leaned over the rail. '111 john you later.' The version of this incident given by Miss Margaret Hays differs only a little from that of Miss Slaters. She Said that at the time Colonel Astor helped Mrs. Astor into this boat there were no women waiting to get into boas end ,'that a ship's officer stand- ing by thereupon invited Colonel As- tor to get into the beet with his wife. "Colonel Astor," 'says Miss Hays, after looking around and seeing that this was true, got into the boat and his wife threw her,: arms about him. Tire boat was about to be lowered when a woman came running out of the companionway. Raising his hand, Colonel Astor stepped the prepara- tions M lower the boat, and stepping out, assisted tate woman into the seat ho had occupied.- Mrs, Astor oiled out and wanted to get out of the boat With her hesband, but be patted her on the back and said sometb.lng in a low tone. As the boat was being low-, vied I heard him distinctly' say: ';The ladies will have to go flrstl'" 'Still another who seems to have witnessed this incident, but whose version (lifters • slightly, was Colonel Gracie, who declares that the conduct of`Colonel Aator was deserving of tile kigltest praise. : Colonel 'Gracie says that it 'was he who lifted' Mrs, Astor into the boat, the Colonel assisting, "ISa she toolt her plate'," sails Colonel Gracie, "Colonel Astor requested pee, religion of tido second officer to ge with her for her oeta protection, sire'. replied the tinker, 'nota mens: ctSreallall gqcaredafor•.' ''on boat unto the wenreu a "Colonel Astor. then inquired the nt ober': of the boat that was being lowered away and turned to'tbe work of -clearing the other boats and 'in re, assuring the frightened' and nervous women." • SUNK 6Y ICEBERGS` Yr. Ship"Lost 9.883—Canadian , ,1864—lin, 1869= -Vicksburg. 1.878--Marfiot 1,881—Nortit Star 1887--nledway 1007=Valiand 9.898—Snowbird . 1900-311adyinion. 1903—Albatross h907 Islander. , 1'012-Tifante ... Place 'Lives Lost. .Mid -Atlantic 15 Off'Cape Race.. 15S , Off Cape Race, 81 .Grand ]3anks , 20 .Cabot Strait. , . 6e .Off New'r'ct. , `;9 .Grand ]clanks,, 7•0 .Cape J.a.ee.... ,Grand f.3lirr s, - ,011!.Alasl:i:.. it .11/TA-Atlantic; 22 ,011"Sape Race.1519 • CLARENCE MOORE Washington's .prominent millioaairo sportsman who was drowned, TOGETHER ` iN DEATH Millionaire and Peasant Each Kissed Their Wives Good-bye Nardjr Narsani, Armenian peasant, died with the Titanic, and John.Tacob Astor, multi -millionaire, died as he- roically. Each bade ,his wife an at- fectlonate.: farewell and returned to the deck to die, Perhapsthe Toaster of millions and the peasant Nardji stood together et the rail as the sea carried off their ]topes and loves, but that chapter in the Titanic tragedy will never be writ- ten, the story of just, what happened when the small boats floated off ;and lett•"n}illtonaire and peasant, savant and deek^pand, to wait for death. When Marea Hanalei stepped off the steerage ganeanay of" the (arpatbia she -was at ow tee ward Of charity. the . jewels—a kite's ransom—of. Madeline Force Astor, went down with the ship. But Maria Nelsen! lost everything she bad In: tine wotrd,' the linens she had made against the say of her marriage, the feather bed lining; —they Were, her marriage dote -and Nardei had sated up 8100 in addition to the price of the.steamship tickets,. and this too was lost, Hays and Hawkins Audi C, M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk line, and Jim Hawkins perished. Six months ago old lean Hawkins died in. Ireland and left his son and widow a little farm and a hone. They sold these, and mother and son had W. T, STEAD Tho British author and publicist, a victim at the wreck: started for America. They were go- lug to the North -\Vest. Jiur was to work as a farm hand, "And we were going to have a lawn ourselves some day," said his mother. "Jim'waa a strapping boy, was Jim. He could have been saved, but ire gave his place to a lady." Not for a day Will the operations of the Grand Trunk line pause be. cause of the death of Mr, Hays, but elm Hawkins' death makes iris mother the ward of charity. Father McGrath, the seatnan's chap- lain, stoodat the dock and saw the mother of JIM Hawkins and the widow of Nardjl Namara and the willow of John Jacob Astor disembark from the Carpathia. The priest exclaimed: "the great man dies . and atter all his death causes bat a ripple. Those he leaves behind need not stiffer.. A poor man dies, and the course of. Jets cdeatti tea- Cies out like the circles made, by a Pebble that you throw into the water.,, Curtailed the Bookings '(Inc 'ttitania accident has hart its effect on bookings in • New York, 11; was repotted that the Cunard Com- ping had had eleven hundred eancella- tions of passengers since the Titanic went down, ,It is said that other cone parries are suffering corresponclingly. CAPT. E. G. CROSBY Milwaukee, who lost his lite ort the Titanic. Bonaire, tirade Iris money out of street cars. He was oncea butcher. His house in Philadelphia. le one of the greatest palaces in America, filled with the ffaeet private collection of ataaterpieces in painting held by any, pare on the :confluent;, The ,wbitneys, the Wldners and others began to .buy up horse ear lines a quarter, of a cen- tury ago` and made many !millions, W. T, Stead Wililarn' Thomas Stead was ;one of the best known cosmopolitan British journalisi:s, was born at Embleton, in the County of Northumberland, Eng- land, on July 8, 1849. His father was a Congregational minister, and all throughhis journalistic life he bore the impress of his nonconformist training. Stead came prominently .be- fore the Drftislr and world public in many ways. An ardent Radical, he. bitterly opposed the Boer war and. 'loved public opinion strongly opposed to 3iis,,attitude. On the ,cessation of the war he actively engaged in a uni- versal peacepropaganda and canto more prominently before the foot- lights as a bitter, opponent ot the Boer war. Later Mr., Stead developed strong spiritualistic procltvittes. H. M. Molsop , Harryfifarkland Nielson; born in Montreal ea August 9, 185G, was edit. sated in Montreal and in Germany and Paris. He belonged to the famous Molson family, who have been pro- minent in shipping, and banking chelee M Montreal for upwards of a hundred ,years, Mr, Molson was et the time of iiia death a director of the Molsons Bank and of t'ne Can- adafn '!'transfer Company, Ile was a matt of wealth, but took a keen in- terest in civic affairs, serving for a number of Years as an Alderman of the city. A quiet, unassuming man, he was very popular with all 11,b9., knew him, , H. B. Harris Henry B. • Flarris, who came into promieenco in the New York theatri cal dell only about half a dozen years ago as manager and produchr, was a retoran before metropolitan fame came to him, and a member 01 an old theatrical gamily, Ile was born in St, Louis, December 1, 1865, Re- cently lie had no leas than sixteen companies on tour during a single sea- son. Clarence Moore Clarence Moore of Washington, D, C,, was ons of the best-known sports- men in .America, ere was master of hounds o1 the Chevy Chase Hunt, and on itis visit to England from which he. was relurneag he was said to have purclutsed twenty-five brace of !rounds from the best packs in the north of England. F. D. Miliet Francis 1), Millet, artist and writer, was :been at Mattapoisett, Mass., in 1846. He enlisted as a drummer boy toward the end, of the Civil War, and gas promoted to the post of assistant 1 the Surgeons' Corps, which he held or a year. When he war was over e 'entered Harvard, 'After gradua- tion be went into literary work, Major Butt Major .Archibald W. Butt, military aide to President Tatt, was granted a leave of absence by the War Depart- merit: on February 20 for one month and twenty days, apt[ settee from New York for the Mediterranean on April 2. Be was born in Georgia on Sep- tember 2d, 1865, and was a graduate of the University of the South at Se- et/twee, Tenn. J. C. Smith James Clinch Smith, a brother -hr - law of the late Stanford White, was known as a sportsman in New York and. Paris. Ito had a Hate stable of polo ponies, running:hoisee,.and trot - MISS - DOROTHY. GIBSON Quo of the most noted of xlmericaa • 'models, who was rescued. cents will to a 8?it address an bernoaal HENRY: B. 1' crala e manager', a Manic. HARRIS victim ot'tee TI tarp, and built 10 face trach II zn n ried Miss Berl ho Carnes of Chiraeo. •I Straus Isidore' Straus was a 11!11 ierl:iir•e 1rierchant aad philanl •ophl$t lir, was a director in Many organisations anti. charitable -institutions r'egai•dlOIs of creed, arid a director it several bank- ing and flniancial hlstitutioris. Col. Astor Col. Sohn Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor 'faintly, 'was ct mem- ber of many clubs. Ile put uD and owned more hotels and skyscrapers than airy ether New Yollrer At oat; time, he was a director iii twenty or more largo corporations, inciuding railways; Itis fortune has been esti- mated at from $100,000,000 In 8200,- 000,000, 200;000,000, • Rev, J. S. Holden The Rev.. j. Stuart holden, rector of St, Paul's Church in I.,ondon, was coming to New York for the purpose of opening a mission on the Brooklyn Heights. ,J. Futroile Newspaper writer, theatrical mapa- GEORGE D. WIDENER The Philadelphia traction magnate, a victim or the wreck ger and author, Jacques 'Futrelle's chief claim to distlnctfon hoe come in recent Years through the authorship of fantastic writings. George E. Graham George 113. Graham had been in Eng- land on business as Winnipeg pur- Chasing agent fey the 1'.. l:';aton fro!, lie had lived lite :temente until six years ago: when ltii'-tettyivetl, to Whi- nipeg. Misfortune in'•...other ways seemed to have been the';lot of Mrs. Graham durieg the last vetel'e • Ii is only a few months ago tiro! ,lief` fitly child, a boy two and a halt Tale's old:,, died, and following eloee upon this conies the greater blow , THE DOMINION HANSARD $OMETHING,ABOUT HOW THE ' COiMMONS IS REPORTED. In the Forty Days the Debates Were Reproduced in Very Condensed Form, But the Use of Shorthand Has Changed the Whole System --- New the Speakers Are Taken lifer', batim and Read It Nord Day. The oflleilrl "rept r k of the debates of the Caleuiian House Commons are Galled "iTansartl,"'grid seldom,. Or eve-, is any other name he.• rd, either °in or out ot Carliarnent: Th, early' reports of the debates of our 'Parliament ate very cendonurtl in comparison with those of to -day, most of the speeehcs being reported in the third person, and sometiree giving Dot more than an outline or the gist of the argument. The use of shorthand, or, stenography-, lois chang- ed ' all'thet; and for many Y 3 cors 'now "these' repotts have •contained every word of every »epeecli or statement« made in the House f):114Lt the opening. to the etosing of tee' session. It et because of this fellness .'and : accuracy in reporting, and the length: of recent aessio:ns; that three 00 torn' large, vol- nnes'are :required to contain' the, ode Bial reports of the ctebutee, 'better knewe ae the Canadian kl rnsirrrl to - distinguish it ,trout the leaosard of the Imperial Parliament. Our Rouse of Commuus employs, eight official reporters-stx tie report the speeches delivered irr English, "and two for the French speeches. These Jerre the essotttial. part of the Mansard staff, but besides these there arc a +number of typewriter-opeatw•s and a couple of editors. •A little below the long fable that stands in the gangway or central aisle of the House of Cernmous, are twe small square tables foe the Ilse of the Harreard reporters. As soon as the Bpealeer , coiop sitting ofis thent Heuserho;ha Tir an:ane! and repeensr- a ter takes dee ser.t at one of the two tables, note -book and founetin pen at land, really to begin his work.. lot all that assembly of talkers, noted, .for its waste. of'.words, there is not ie tongue too ;h st for the nimble; fingers and wittgeti-pone of the Hansard res porter. :,Seeming!- withtout effort, and netirrally as hreatlting;'tlei, reporter's flying pen writes line after line,' and page, a8t • page of those :peculiar' strokes and dots, Tools and hookat wetiob irralreeup, shorthand is it ap- ,pears to ,the eye of those iiiiorant oft the alt, but which to the expert xe- ;present every sound utter'el; ilud faom ;which react lie reproduced (Mary word' sp$keen,n, t xhark of reporting is titken tet 'rotation by the six 1tliglish reporters, • eaoh4ones "spelt" or "take" being fife teen minutes In' duration. 'A minutee. or so, before the first tuuui's time fa: up the second man enters the chain- iber and takes his place, at etre second; entail table,, the inert ae 5001111 tontintte ling his wtitieg until by a signal. Mona' .the nein rli•r'ivel he knows that. the second men is ready • to tette up, the '^tead.of the speech unit eerie* on the QQj�ort, without e break lei loss of a fiigle word, , • The first reporter then ..letivrs bb iamhet, t 54trurIne is 11,. ,,fTlrr, ,thg PROFITING FROM DISASTER '$ British::Passenger Augmenting Life- Ist saving 'Appliances . di All Allau steamers C'airadawerds 'sr this week carry extra lifeboats sutn dent, in lace to accommodate every soul aboard. 'rte C.P.R. manager states all their ships are to bo equip- ped with such life-saving' appliances as will accommodate passenger and crew in case of emergency. It is also probable that tine Cunards"Royal Mail Steamship Company and the Booth Line will follow stilt. [Hansard stat!, and sitting down .be' de his typist, clictetes to hint from. ia shorthand notes the portion of the Is , peech he has repotted, its there are x reporters, and se each is on dutyl en the chamber only ten minutes ata tittle, there is we interval of fifty mine Utes between each of his 'takes" -1 ltitat th, be lepot•ts for ten minutes ands their as two-thirds of anhour, int which to transcribe his notes And so; the reporters work in station; hour after hour, from three o'ciccic in ,the afternoon until The House adjourns, which seldom takes place until night to well advanced, and which some., times does not deme until tiro grey' light of early ,: morning is breaking• through the stained-glass windows of the Chamber, - The Feeneh 'reporters divide the French speeches between then, anal they have always :to be on the alett,i so that one can come in the moment, a member begins to speak in Freneh,l When a number of long speeches are+ delivered in French, ono after the. ether, these reporters have a busy' timer but this is not a frequent oe.' cutrence, and' during many sittings :r they ;trill. have .:nothing to do but watoit i nd wait 1011 speeches in Frenett,, which may be but are'not delivered-; As +Joon as a. 'reporter has tran•1 scribed his notes with the asuistarroe of lois typist, the, "copy" or transcript is earefally 'edited, and then it is promptly despatched by messenger to the Printing Bureau. Hour afters hour. throughout the sitting this "copy" is sent from Hansard office to the •Print. reg Bureau, and there typesetting nit' f erators, workiug with the sane de- epatolt time ie to be seen in: thecone. posing room of a newspaper, set up' the "matter' from tehich .Hansard is printed. 11 that night's entente the 'Mingo ie of normal length, the -'sports of'th'e !lobate will be prined ane:'. distributed by ton or eleven o rheic, the next eternity. `. In sass mid ioi.'m a page 01 eirineard. le about the same as that of th ordi- eery at540tine,—reit inches by seven. the matter being arranged in two an/ - wants. Ofcourse, the size of meek day's issue will depend on to length -the sitting of which it is a report,; fifty pages hieing about the :10 rorerlug 11e title line reads House of Com,' rte Debate,"; then in a tine below the number of the session and 11 Parliament; for instance. the Han- s v S sir t ne. t o sioii will d 5 l Stat 'h zt e hi. t i line Inst 4es,i�Tn, 2welith_Nariia- 10911t being the first session of the twelfth Parliament.' since Cenfedera. tion. Than follow the volume number and date, and then the aircieut and, brief uatroducfiou to the report of 'kilo debate "Thr Fe -maker toot ,Abe chair tit three o'elocld" After this intr•oduc tion follows r report of all stela and Clone unttlj floe inetihn to aklionrn..is' earl fail, lind the Slloalcer leaves the C110.11'. • MRS. GEORGE D. WIDENER Philadelphia, who was saved and her husband was drowned. 1VD'AT` ISMAY Dili' NOT Sit Bruce Ismay, managing dil'erter of the White Star Line, on he stand be - tore the seluate luvestrgating 100111 rmi'ttee: "I eau 00 ,passengers• iia sight 'w11en n ti 1 entered the lifeboat." sere "1 did not see what happened to the t ?e lit bo ts," e a "I not d J t t CCTe td see atter /caving g the Titanic whether she. broke in two." "I did not look to see if tante waa a panic." After .1 lett the bridge 1 did d Trot see' the captain." "I saev clothing of any explosion." "I saw oro struggle, do confusion." "t saw no ,women waiting, wheit 1 entered the lifeboat" The Western Union1'elegraJl1 Coni• pany handled all messages.free. of charge for survivors of the Titanic diaster. They had Otiices an the Cu- nard pier where the, Cal'patiria dock'. Britain's Merchant Navy, „Steamship, companies i41 the British 1 1 Isle, ;uwu ever 8,000 vessels bcbreeit. thexu acri1p tt Oanad