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
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