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The Herald, 1912-04-19, Page 2TITANIC MEE "S DISASTER World's Largest Steamship Crashed Into a Monster Iceberg New York, April 15.= -El wireless rabesage from the White Star steamship Titanic, received short- ly after midnight to -day, announc- ed that 'the giant new liner had struck ae. iceberg off the Banks of Newfoundland, and was in a sink- ing condition. Transfer of passen- gers to the lifeboats began at -once. The accident occurred at- 10.25 o'clock last night. • Two hours later the ship's wire- less apparatus, which had been working so badly as to permit of only intermitter and fragmentary messages, failed completely. The last words sent by the opera- tor told that the vessel'was appar- ently doomed. `Sinking by the head," and that the women pas- sengers were being rushed into the lifeboats. A reassuring feature was that the weather was calm and clear, .and help only a few hours away. The Titanic's first S. O. S. mes- sage was received by the Allan Liner Virginian, which, according to the position given by the Titanic's operator, was not more than 170 miles away. - The eaptain of the Virginian at once started his boat at full speed for the scene of the disaster, announcing to his brother officer on the bridge of the Titanic that the Virginian should reach him by ten o'clock this morning. The Titanic's accident happened in latitude 41-.46 north, Iongitude 50.14 west. This point is about 1,- 150 miles due Last of New York City, and 450 miles south of the Cape Race, Newfoundland, wireless station. All messages from the ship Were relayed to the Cape Race wireless station by the Virginian and for- warded by tihe Marconi Company to New York City. The Titanic twin ship, Olympic, Which left New York last week, was also in direct cor- •tiiunication with the sinking boat, from a point about 300 miles away, and started at once for the scone. Tb Tst'+i rth ,, wit is on her mei%- • ,xu o rho. Olynip: that tb: ;t ectllicted with the • British cruser Hawke last •Sep4cmber. The Titania. carries 1,470 passen- gers, of whom 318 are in the first cabin, and 262 in the second • cabn. The passenger 1st is a notable one, including J. Bruce Ismay, man- aging director of the White Star Line; C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Railway; W. T. Stead, Mr, and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Major Archibald Butt, aide to President t- Taft ; J. G. Widener, of PhiladeI- phia ; Benjatnin Guggenheim, and others. Steamship men here to -day char= aeterized the disaster as "the most startling, news which has come in. from the sea since the advent of wireless telegraphy." The, first heard of the accident was about one o'clock this morning, 4. RueeeR likdstez Tread softly - Step safely. PLUG D„EVEnri supsmo Oa 5 D, [113111 rtn(,c an PAW RUBBER Sd1'LES Embodg the patented features of Cats Paw Heels. rso Tho Wringer Board extends from the nide, out of tho }ray of the *over. This allows practically the whole top oflhn tub u, gpen up -- makes it easy to put in and take outclothet. Yet/thee todsher hosaslarge an openinrl• Yo other washer ea.•a ks tnorkar tUifh crank handle at side as gait as top heoet: Do you use Maxwell's"Paoorit ".-the churn that makaa quality butter? Write us for catatss jen If your dearer dos not handle thein. '89 DAVID MAXWELL & SONS, ST. MARY'S, 5 it. when a bulletin from Montreal ;stated that the Allan Line officials there had reecived a wireless from Cape Gambell. off their steamer Virginian stating that the Titanic was -calling for . assistance after a: collision with an iceberg. The Vir- ginia•n's captain added that he was. heading his boat for the Titanic, whose position was said to be about 350 miles south of Cape Race, New- foundland. Immediate enquire by the Asao- eiated Press in an urgent despatch. to the Marconi station at Cape Race was answered soon afterward in the following words: "At 10.25 last night the steam- ship Titanic called 'C.Q.D.' and re- ported %having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required.. Half an hour afterwards another message came, reporting that they were sinking by the head, and that wo- men were being put off in the life- boats. "The weather was calm and clear. The, Titanic's wireless operator re- ported, and gave the position of the vessel as 41.46 north latitude, and 15.14 west longitude. The Marconi station at Cape Race notified the Allan Liner Virginian, the captain of which immediately advised that he was proceeding for the scene of the disaster. "The Virginian at midnight was about 170 miles distant from the Titanic, and expected to reach that vessel about 10 a.in. Monday. "The Olympic at midnight was in latitude 4.0.32 north, and longitude 61.13 west: She was in direct com- munication with the Titanic, and is now making all haste toward her. The .steam•ship Baltic also reported herself as about 200 miles east of the Titanic at 1.15 a.m., and .making all possible speed toward her. "The last signals from the Titanic were heard by the, Virginian at 12.27 a.m. The wireless operator on the Virginian says these signals were blurred, and ended abrupt- Nethilstilt 1ma� Utte Ptort ifd "i,Yerle4thesisib The i Titanc iu ]fir bigg-ea-b'eat 4m: the world.'She has on. board more than 2,000 persons --1,470 passen- gers and a. crew of 860 men. LATER. . Titanic Sinks -1.800 Lives Lost. New York, April 15.—A .message from. the steainer Olympic report- ing the sinking of the Titanic :end the rescue of 675 survivors, which reached here late to -night, express- ed the opinion that 1,800 lives were lost. "Loss likely to total 1,800 souls," the despatch read in its .concluding sentence. -It is hoped and believed here that this is an error, unless the Titanic had more passengers on board than were re- ported.. The list as gives out showed 1,310 passengers and a crew Of 360, or 2,170 persons in ail. :De- ducting 675, the known saved, would indicate a loss of 1,495 persons-. The Olympic's despatch follows :— "Carpathia reached Titanic posi- tion at daybreak. Found boats and wreckage only. Titanic sank about 2.20 a.ui.., in 41.16 N., 50,14 W. All her boats accounted for, contai:.•iing about 075 souls saved, crew and passengers included. Nearly all saved were women and children. Leyland liner C'aliforni.sn remained and searching exact position of dis- aster Loss likely to total 1,800 souls. A message received at a later hour gave the number of survivors as 866, which would reduce the los- ses to 1,304, with the qualifications stated. More than 1,500 persons, it is feared, sank to their death early to -day. when within four hours af- ter she crashed into an iceberg the. mammoth' White Star. liner Tit:anic, boundr fornSou i th am ton td New York on her maiden voyage, foun- dered. off the Newfoundland Banks. Of the approximately 2,200 persons on board the giant liner, some of.. them of ;world-wide • prominence, only 675 are known to have been saved. The White Star Line offices in New York,- while keeping up hope to the last, were .free to ad- mit that there had been- "horrible loss of life:" WATER TWO MILES DEEP, Halifax, N. S., April 15: ---The place where the Titanic sank, ac cording to an official of the Marine Department here, ere is about five 1 ve I. hun- dred miles from Halifax, and the water at that point about seventy miles south of the Grand at least two miles deep. I way between Sable Island ail Race and in a line with tri gerous sands, ' which, Knight have been a pia e had there been time Co run tame there and beach'her northern side. tz, A RELIABLE MEDICINE FOR; YOUNG OH Baby's Own :Tablets are medicine for all little °nese! are guaranteed by a `'gov:sa; analyst to be absolutely fro opiates and other harmful -d that is why so many metria give their baby nothing els. way of medicine, Concord Mrs. John Thompson, Coutt says: "I have given xny b4 needed, Baby's Own Tgti: think they arethe constipation I have ever ,,t� would not be without the,M house." The Tablets are medicine dealers or by ina cents a box from The Dr. • Medicine Co., Brockvillees, VICTORY FOR ITAI yil ,Yta tw •s- iP. the hear len and. for I the; d '25 ins, Newly -Arrived Troops S : rifest Turkish Forces Around are: A despatch from : Rouse,Ronse,x, ,says' In accordance with the preairangcd plan, while the Italian SliseAdrgn was creating a diversiAiG e v Imre, herdingthe Tnrkisla ; ei ixias around Zuara, to the: est is Tri- , poli, a large force of- troops direct from Italy landed and tacc upcl, an important strategic point Op- ;...the coast of Libya. The, operation : is reported to have been a brilliant success, the Italians not losing a single man. _ ATTIE E'SBITT ARRESTED Fe er President of Wrecked fanners ners _Bank Captured at Chicago da•0^ etch from Chicago says: 1)r", 'X. Beattie Nesbitt, wanted in 'Parente on a. charge of participat- ing in a •conspiracy to wreck the 1+ as'lners Bank of that city, was ar- rested in a South Side restaurant on Thursday ' night. The prisofner was located in a South Side hotel three days ago by detectives from Assistant Chief Sehuttler's offiee, and was shadowed day and night. Thursday Detective Wallace ar- rived from Toronto, and the same night the suspect was arrested. Detective Joseph Cahill and Mat- thew Bards took the prisoner to Schuttler's office, where he was confronted by Wallace, who de- clared the man was Nesbitt, The latter protested that the case was one of mistaken identity. He de- nied that he, eame from Toronto. After a. brief examination, 'the suspect was taken to detective headquarters, with orders that he should se 'pttt from seeing any per- son except `,police. officers, A fest, minutes lwcer, .however, he was placed in an automobileand:rushed away from the City Hall to some outlying police station, where it is said he was locked up. Nesbitt is said to have been living in Chicago for some, time under the name of Coleman. 44 VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY. Thousands Have Been Billed by Eruption in Honduras.. A despatch from Mobile, " Ala barna, says: Thousands of person: have been killed and whole Indian villages swept away by the erup. tion of Chiriqui Peak, near Boca: Del Toro, in Honduras, according to She story of Captain Olsvik, of the United Fruit steamer Fort Mor gan, which 'arrived here on Wed. nesday. • WOMEN NEED CIN PILLS. Port Dnferin, N. S. "I was troubled with Sidney Dir.eases for several years. My back was weak. I had terrible headaches and was so rest- less that I could not sleep at nicht. At last a friend told me about Gin Pills. I, at once, got a box and after taking them I felt better—after three boxes I was cured. "ETIIEL DALCOAIBE." Write us for free • sample of Gin Pills to try. Then get the regular size boxes at your dealer's or direct from us -50c. a bo:. 6 for $2.50. Money refunded if Gin Pills fail to cure. National Drug & Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Dept. W.L., Toronto. SERVICE TO FRANCE. NCE. Line to be Established Between Quebec and Havre. A despatch from .Quebec says: News was received in town un Wednesday evening to the effect that a direct service between ()lic- hee and Havre would be inaugur- ated during the coming season of 1»igation .by -the Compagnie Gen- al Traneetiantiquie. The steam- ssitl s,arlSfrca.li'Quebot essoes', eotIrj iveeks, and will go to Hai re'di hast:, instead of calling at New York as MR. i. L. HUGHES. School Inspector' 13f Toronto. TEA AND COF1'%E units One in Three. It is difficult to make people be- lieve that tea and coffee are poi- son to at least one person out of every three, but people are slowly, finding it out, although thousands of them suffer terribly before they discover the fact. A New York hotel ` inaii' tays- "Each time after drinking coffee I became restless, nervous land ex- cited, so that I was unable to' sit five minutes in one place, teas also inclined to vomit and suffered from loss of sleep, which got worse and worse. "A lady said that perhaps, coffee was the cause of my trout*, and. suggested that I .,try Postuni; . (Tea is just as harmful as coffee, becanee it contains caffeine, the sain4 drti found in coffee). I laughed at fuel thought that coffee hurt me, -but she insisted so hard that I finally had some Postum made. f have been using it in place of cofl:ee aver since, for I noticed that all my for- mer nervousness and irritation dis- appeared. 115egan to sleep perfect- ly, and the Postum tasted, as'rgood or better than the old ` coffee, so what was the use of sticking to a beverage that was injuring me?. "One day on an excursion up ;the country I remarked to a' young lady friend on her greatly improved appearance. She explained f e41. 1, .a t1 . some time before she had quit'jing coffee and taken Postum, She^rias gained a numberof pounds an,c"'. former palpitation of 'tiee,,.• humming in the ears, trent the hande and legs and eithe s - agreeable feelings had disappe She recommended me to q,1il, fee and take Pestum and ^lvaS much surprised to find 'that' I already made the change. "She said her brother had', received" great .benefits' from ing off coffee and taking 6nli tum." "There's a reason." Ever road tho above letter? A new appears from time to time, genuine, true, and full of huri'an ll at first intended. The first sa;liess from Quebec will take place on May 11th,_ the Niagara, 15,740 tons, be- ing the pioneer vessel. Cabin and steerage passengers and genera' cargo will be carried. T HONEST TEA IS THE BEST POLICY. , • In order to find tiut to what ex- tent the different food products are used by its millions of readers, the "Woman s World" (circulation over 2,000,000 copies monthly) re- cently inaugurated a most interest- ing coupon canvass. One of the questions propounded was, "What tea do you use?" and the replies received demonstrate that Lipton's Tea is the most popu- lar of all package teas, showing its sale to bedouble that of the nearest competitor and consider- ably over one hundred per cent. more than the next two mentioned brands taken together. Surely Honest Tea is the Best Policy. The grants tci the' veterans of '66 will be distributed as applied for. THE IIiIS1I IIO1VEE ISE BIL Control of Customs and Excise not Conceded the New Irish Parliament - A despatch from London says: The cardinal principle of the pre- sent Hpme Rule' Bill, Premier As- quith stated on Thursday, is the supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament, while at the same time realautonomy is conferred on Ire- land in regard 'to Irish concerns. The bill provides for the estab- lishment of an Irish Parliament, consisting of a Senate and a House of Commons with power to make 'laws for peace, order and good gov- ernment in Ireland. The bill provides that the mat- ters to be •excluded from the control of the Irish Parliament are the Crown, the army and the navy, Im- perial affairs,, the Irish land pur- chase, and the old age pension and national insurance acts, the Irish constabulary, the•post-office savings banks and public Ioans, in addition to those excluded by the Home Rule hill of 1893, which left the customs and excise under the con- trol of the Imperial Government:,: The Irish Constabulary is to be automatically transferred to the Irish Government after six years, and power is given by the, bill to the Irish Parliament to demand the transfer of the old age pensions and Insuranee Act to its control on giv- ing a year's notice to the Imperial Government. The Irish Parliament is debarred from altering the, Home Rule bill or the power to appeal to the Privy Council, Provision is made for the protec- tion of religious equality in Ire- land, and stipulating that the Irish Parliament cannot make laws, directly 'or indirectly, to establis or to endow any religion, or to pass hibit the free, exercise thereof, or to give a preference or privilege to any religion or. to make ,any reli- gious ceitemony a condition of vali- dity of any marriage. The Lord, Lieutenant of Ireland is to have'the power to veto or sus- iend any bill on the instruction of the Imperial Executive. Any question regarding the inter- irretationeef the Home Rule bill is to besettled by appeal to the Judi - vial Committee of the Privy Coun- cil. The Trish Senate is to consist of forty members, and the House of Representatives of 164, of which Ul- ster is to have 59 and the Universi- ties two. The Senate is to be composed of nominated members. In the first instance, the Imperial Executive is to control the nominations with a view to assuring the representation of the minority. The nominations are to be for a fixed term, and as the members retire by rotation the vacancies will be filled by the Irish Executive. In case of disagree- ment the two Houses are to sit in joint session. The Lord Lieutenant is to be head of the Executive. There will be no religious bar, and he will hold office for a fixed term, The authority of the Executive is to be co -extensive with that of the Irish Parliament. The 164 repre- sentatives are to be elected by the existing constituencies, • but no con- stituency is to have less than 27,000 population. The collection of all taxes is to remain in the, Imperial service, and they will be paid into the Imperial Exchequer, which is to, pay over to the . Irish Executive an amount equivalent to the expenditure, on Irish services at the time of the passing of the Act. An additional sum of $2,500,000 is to be paid to Ireland the first year, and this will diminish by $250,000 yearly until it is reduced to $1,000,000. `The postal., services are to be handed ovet to. Ireland. The Irish" Parlianien•t_is to have power to reduce or discontinue the Imperial taxes, excepting the in- come tax and the stamp and estate duties. It will also have powei''yto. alter' the excise duties, -:but except in the case of beer and spirits it is debarredfrom adding ,to, the ;eus toms duties anything which will give a greater increase than 10 per cent. The Irish representation at West- minster is to be 42 members, one for every 100,000 of the population, THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPI i9APPENINGS FROM ALL OVE THE GLOBE IN A N UTSHEr.L, Canada, the E npire and tite.Wori in General Before :Your Eyes. CANADA, The Canadian Northern Railwa made a successful test •of its :fir las-electric car -on Friday. One hundred dollars a square fd was paid for a block of land on S Tames street,. Montreal. The Government has renewed I. Atlantic mail contract with the tan Line' for another year. The Headquarters of the Port Rico Railway Company have bee :hanged from Montreal to Toronto The Government is to spend an other million and a quarter on ne rolling stock for the Intercolonial New Zealand decided to sen twenty cadets to compete at th National Exhibition at Toronto, } eral act] of: tl for. ecc0 base way sine the ace bre] gen rail that war ,the. 'brie oft eau rhe Sir Robert Perks, ex-M.P. , stri claims that his company could buildsl T the Georgian Bay Canal in .fiveI of 1 rears. 4 imx Two big track -laying machine, brie began work on the Regina and .Cal- leve gary sections of the Grand Trunk ly Pacific,fro: The Supreme Court of Albertti " of 1 'ias given judgment for the Pro ;.toe since in' the $7,000,000 great water- ,.htrc ,taws bond suit. sum Four freight cars went through a ion bridge at Cody's Station, N.B. A ;are car 'containing about 40 passengers the: on the rear of the train remained , N1 ort the trac1?. The county of Middlesex liashjc made a -proposition to the London City Connell. for the erection of sole joint municipal buildings to cost }1P•r half a million dollars. inti A C.P.R. passenger train ran in- the to a rock slide near Kamloops on. Thursday. Engineer Walker and pre Fireman Huskinson were killed, lief but no one else was injured. , arc GREAT BRITAIN. of Lloyd's returns for the past ,year'• the were published, showing a record ti•o7 tonnage for British shipbuilding, The Marquis of Stafford was :mar- ried to Lady 'Eileen BOO in St. •Peter's Church, London,' ' on Fri- day_ tTNITED STATES. Col. Roosevelt swept the B' sylvania primaries. American locomotive engin. rs, by a large majority. have voted << for the calling of a strike. Miss Clara Barton, founder of ' wa3 the American Recl Cross Society, died in her 91st year, on''Friday :;opl'c 1t'I of by feel mri,g GENERAL. A monument to the late Queen Victoria was dedicated in Italy on Friday. III' SON BAY RAILWAY. Government Calls for Tenders f Second Seetion of 100 Miles. A despatch from Ottawa says - Tenders fur the second section o the Hudson Bay Railway will la called for by the Government most immediately. This secti will be one hundred miles long, contract having already been awa ed for the first section of one lhun dred and eighty miles from Le Pa to Thicket Portage. No clec'tsita has yet been made for the termina as between Nelson and Churchill, but the former port is the mor likely to be selected, owing to th shorter route. The engineer's re port is being ,awaited. NO SLU111I' IN C'A]\.U)A,. Mr. Hays Warns Investors to 1x amine all Propositions. A despatch from London says Before sailing on Wednesday fo Canada, President Hays of th Grand Trunk Railway, denying th statements that Canada had, ove est m atm creed the rte, n borrowed,w public to be more. careful in exam ining Canadian propositions and t take the advice of reliable financi houses. He saw no reason to e pect the slump which some: predic ed so long as people kept floekin to the country, 25 PER CENT. TO CANAi)A. 31,058- " Emigrants Left Ireland' Dl ing the Year 19114 A despatch from London sa A Board of Trade statement, sued on Friday, shows that 31, emigrants left Ireland during year 1911. . Of this number 22 went to the United 'States and 7, to Criss",a, sho den we in livil to sear mit the tem cast cok tem is a kno you atts itt .incl sok as tion 0Ssa fror get ut: war ieec vena, hrc hu 00 i1c axe of deed ay ono nh W Bc W ith