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TITANIC'S CAPTAIN
CRITICISED BY MOORE
Most Unwise to Rush Through Ice at 21
Knots an Hour,
Many Ships Near the Titanic, When She
Sank, He Said.
ne.....0•••••• ..... 'Me
Waehlugton, April 27, -That the
Titanic sank while literally surround-
ed by ellipse several of which were
within a position to give aid, was im-
pressed most forcibly upon the special
investigating comanttee tne Senate
in testimony hear! to -day.
Capt. James H. Moore, of the Cane
adian Pacific steamship Mount Tem-
ple, presented a vivid picture of what
was happening while the Titanic was
sinking by reading a seri& of wire-
less calls for help that were flashed
out by the Titanic after her first "C.
Q.D." call. The captain's testimony
showed that the Titanic.. Was in com-
munication with four steamers im-
mediately after she struck the berg
and that two other ships, a tramp
steamer and a schooner, were nearer
the Titanic than the four ships which
responded to the call for help. The
steamship Californian, only 19 miles
away, it has been already shown,
lay idle all night because her wire-
less operator went to bed Just before
the Titanic struck.
Capt. Moore, in response to wire-
less calls for help, told of the great
stretch of field ice which hold him off.
Within his view from the bridge,
he discerned, he said, another strange
steamer, probably a tramp, and a
schooner, which was making her way
out of the ice. Tile lights of thia
schooner, he thought, probably were
those seen by the anxious survivors
of the Titanic, and which they were
franticaly trying to reach.
Capt. Moore denounced as "most
unwise" the action of the Titanic's
commander in melting at 21 knots
through the night, when he had been
advised of the proximity of ice. The
Mount Temple's commander testified
that he had spent 27 years in the
North Atlantic. Whenever ice was
around, he said, he doubled his watch
and reduced speed, and if he happen-
ed to get caught in an ice pack he
stopped his engines and drifted until
he was clear.
The witness also was emphatic in
his declaration that the position sent
out by the Titanic was wrong. He
said the ship was eight miles further
eastward than its operators reported.
This, he declared, he proved by obser-
vations taken the first thing ou the
day following the disaster.
With what virtually was a fleet of
steamers within a radius of 50 miles
of the Titanic, the officer said that
this mistaking in fixing accurately
the position of the steamer was a fa-
tal ono. 'With icebergs and floating
ire covering the northern sea a ship
of even the SIZe of the Titanic might
well be overlooked through such a
variance.
After describing the calls of the ,
Titanic for aid, Capt. Moore described 1
how he had steamed to the locality.
"At 3 o'clock we began to meet the
ice, and doubled the lookout. At
4.30 we were stopped by the ice -when
about 14 miles from the Titanic. It
was dark then.
"Before that I met a schooner, a emall
eraft, and had to get out of her way.
The schooner's lighte seemed to go out
later on. It was beweezi me and the Ti-
tanic, ee reer port bow, in our course.
I was goime due east, and the schooner
was eoming from the direction of the
Maine."
Senator Smith said he had be -en in-
formed a derelict sehemier wae -on the
aea that night.
Capt. Moore eaid he was positive the
aehooner -he sow had a light.
"I beard the lois horn on this schoon-
er, and suddenly her lighte wont out,"
said Moore.
"It was ehortly after three o'clock
\\*hen I saw her. I didn't stop eltogeh-
er, simply stopped the enginee, and
then put my ship on her eourse again,"
he said.
"The echooner couldn't have been mov-
ing very fast, ell.; .about two knots an
hour."
THE "PHANTOM SHIP."
?Capt. Moore said the "phantom ship"
-seen by the Tita»le's survivors may have
been a tramp steamer he saw that night.
west -bound. Ile said. the tramp lead
no wirelese, and was a foreign ship of
6,000 tons.
"I saw the tramp after 9 o'clock that
night. She followed me after I turned
around because of the heavy ice. I first
saw her abou 5 in the morning. I had
no commonication with the vessel; it
had a black funnel, with. some device in
the band.
"After stopping my engines at 3.25, 1
went ahead slowly, arriving very cloee
to the Titanic's position about 4.30 in
the morning. I saw no other vessel. but
the tramp. She was a little ahead of me
t o t he eastward.
"I saw a large body of ice just ahead
of me, five or six miles wide, as far as
the eyes could reach, extending prob-
ably twenty miles, It was a field of
ice and bergs, between forty and fify
bergs.
"Some were very long and very Vow in
the water. Others were from 100 to 200
feer high, sir. Some had long spurs run-
ning under the water."
"i'd like your judgment whether or
not itearchlights in darkness would he of
4 aesistanee?" naked Smith.
"In fogs they're uselese, but in clear
e weather, with a perfect projector, they
ilseendght be useful," Captain nfoore re-
plied. "I've never had any experience
with them,
"I can solemnly swear that T saw no
signal lights from the Titanic," contin.
'nod nloare, "neither did my °Mona
When I arrived at the senne of the Ti -
tonic's; wreck saw nothing whatever,
wreckage. lifeboats, bodies -----nothing,"
Moore Said.
Widener, jute, end inifitior Battt.
Alfre-d. trowforii, another etewaed,
teneated the wortis lie heard Min,
Ieidor Straus say to her husband ftS
'Ste-1TM OM of the lifeboat elle
hal entered to rejoin her husbaral on
deek: "We're been together 411
these years; where you go, 1 go," elm
Another etew ern t old of get t ing
Benjamin Ouggenheim on deck.
PRAISE Ant ISMAY,
J. Bruen Limey, managing director
of the International Mercantile Marine
Company, was nitwit cheered by the
testimony yeeterday f ternoon.
Throughout the week be hilki had a
troubled look, and durieg the long
daily s4issioni he has sat silent, sel-
dom speaking to his associate who
aocompanied im. Yesterday, how-
ever, he listened eagerly to the ae-
e0111ItS of his conduct at the lifeboats
ao told by the stewards and seamen
who came in contact with him the
night of the di:meter. Steward Craw-
ford told how he had called for
women to go in one of the boats. and
had said to a woman who told him
she was a stewardess. "You are a
woman, take your plitee in the boat."
Mindy listened intently, too, as Ste.
-traro Bright testified that he had not
lett the Ship Until after the large boats
had gone, and only one of two eollap-
sible bona.; were left on deek, Bright
hail (men Ismay working with the othi
ere on the starboard collapsible boat,
the last to leave the snip from that
side. Bright, who left on the very last
boat, the port collapsible, said he knew
Ismay had not left the ship until juet
before the port eollapsible was lowered
into the water in time to get only a
hundred yards from the Titanic before
she went down.
Andrew CarnMillgjltaIll, Itt grCtt erOOTI1
steward on the Titanic, said the order
to call the passengers had been given
at 11.30, fifty minates after the ship
struck. By 19.30 nnel tile passengers
had gone on deek, *said Mr. Cunningham
except Mr. Cummings, litho was get -
Cm.: on his overcoat.
"After that Wm. T. Stead asked ine
to sbow him how to put on a life -
belt, That was the last one 1 put on,
1 Dever eaw him again,"
Henry S. Inchee, bedroom steward,
hed Mr. Andrews, representative of
the Titanic's builders, among his
chergee. Mr. Andrenre, he said. ask-
ed hoc at 12,30 whether all hie pase.
ongers had iset up. They went tot
goner to Where the pureer wee our -
hounded by a 10t of excited women
The official wee ensuring them that
there was no danger, and advised the
women to go back to their staterooms.
"That's juet what rve been trying to
get them to do," mid Mr. Andrews, who
then went below, Etehee never saw him
again.
STEWARDESS PUT IN BoAT
Etchas told. of helphig Third OM:el
Pitman to launch boat No. 7. Mr. IS,
may was there and helped in keeping
the falls clear. Mr. Jamey called out,
"Men, form a line and let the ladies
aitrough." t Winter Murdock ilia°
called out, "Are there any °eater tadice
here -before the boat is lowerea?"
Three men went along to mito the
beat. Just at; they were about to lower
a woman came along and Ismay calfed
to her to get in. "I'm only etewardees,"
eaid, "It makes no difference; you
are a woman. Take your place," Janney
replied. When they were leaving Mur -
noel: shoe* hands . with Pitman and
send, "Good-bye, 0141 man; good luck."
After the session was over the cor-
ridor in the Senate offiee building
neam the committee room was crowded
with anxious sailors of the Titanic, who
have been at the call of the commit-
tee eince the reecue ship Carpathia
brought them to Sew York. They were
a nervous lot. In fact they were broke.
Not being permitted to leave, they
faced the prospect of a Saturday night
end Sunday without funds, itfost of them
are men of familiee desirous of sendinn
word home, Mr. 'splay knew of their
eircumstances, and asked. Senator Smith
if something could. not be done for
them, They are entitled to $4 a day in
witnese fees and expenses, but no pre-
paration had butt made to pay them um
til they are released.
"If it is too late to get money for
the eailormen," Ismay (teetered, "I
can see that it is advanced,"
Ininnlly Assistant. Sergeant -at -Arms
Cornelius found a way to cheer the
hearts of the Fathom and they -were
escorted to the Capitol in a body and
'advanced money. Thie made them a
happy lot,
LOG OF THE MOUNT TEMPLE.
Washington, Anril 28, -The wireless
log of the Mount Temple read before the
Senate committee yesterday by Ceptain
!lames II. ntoore give an epitome tif
events following. the Titanic disaster:
"10.25.-Titainc Rending 'C. Q. D.'
'Can't read you, old man; eotne at once;
have struck iceberg. Inform captain.'
"10.35. -Ca r pa till anewer. `TiLit,Ili
eaye stroek iceberg. Cmne at once to
our position.'
"10.40. -Titanic still eating `th Q. D.'
"10.43. -Frankfurt =severe Tit a, ni e,
who tusks, 'Are you corning tO otir atetist-
"Frankfurt asks what is the matter.
"Titanie aeswers, 'nave struek ieeberg
and sinking. Please tell the captain to
2°1:1141(;:ankfart ansi:vers, '0. lin, will tell
bridge right away.'
"Ti tank; answ ere , 'Yes, come q eke'
"10.55 and 10.67.--Titande eating 'S.
"Some passengers on your vessel elailn 8.'
to have seen some roekets at midnight "10.50.-Titanie working Corpathia.
Sunday," tend himith. "11.00.--Titenie `C. Q. IL'
"They aro iniStraten," repliN1 the "11...2,0.--ntaat:e gp.tS Olymple and na7.1-1,
captain. "There were ne pesse»gers on 'CoPthm ha:vs got bolt4 1°.-1)1Y"' Slut'
(leek at thAt time, I WIIS On the going down hy head,'
Inidge myeelf. Neither I nor ally of- 1 1..22..---Titanie ealling . Q. 1 o
fieer new any pae4seteere anywhere on Baiik
desk." I1.25.-tranlefurt flays, 'our raptaie
rrederiele Cray, n saloon steward, wil1 go Ow yeti.'
and of a (linnet. parte on tin. Titanie "Hello -Titanic teaya, D., atir
the night she .r4truel:, all the guest; gine 1.4"KIrt11-4 flO6rIed•I
V.1411 %Vete kat aith the !hip. The "11.43.saTitanie tells (Arend° foe &nu
dinner WAS given by. the Wideners, and aeknewledeen rteelin.
the eertipAny inentnied Mi.. and Mre, Geo, deldnino roshage from OIYMPIth
1). Winerinr, Mr. and Mrs. '11.55.--Vrailltrurt end Minim calling.
'enerter, Air. and Mre, X. Infayer, Harry No roPiy-
"12.t0.--Olymple, Frankfurt and Bettie
41111.442,,I.titanie. No reply.
"12.25,-Birma aaye ribe is nO miles
from Titane,
qttiet now.
112..?..0.--Titarde bite not woken ainoe
"1.25,--Cnaniethia sett& to Titanic, ‘If
you ate there tve are firing rocketed
"1.40.-searpatbia Titanic.
"1.58.--Birma thinke she hears Titania
and stye, `We Are enly 50 miles off.
Ilan* you are safe.'
Cetrpathia ealls Titania
"8.00.---eall quiet. We are stopped.
rtiid P t nk t r t work ing.
"3.20,-- We back out of ice and cruise
around.
calle. I advise him
ef 'lite nie and Titanic's posit
"4.00. -California working 'Virginian.
"4.25.--Cnlifornian working Dimon.
"5.20, -Signal from Californian, Wunte
my poeition, Senn it. We are very
eloeen
"G.00,---itineh jamming (operators).
" (1.450-ann r pa t hia renor ts 20 boat
1()Iti o re jamming.
telle Califarnian
tatend off, You have been instructed to
de so frequently,'
"7-40.-Carpatitia, .says, 'Nit use etand-
ing by. Nothing more can be done.'
"8.05.--Co.rpathia and Olt.inpie very
busy,"
TITANIC'S SEAMeN
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Arrive at Plymouth -Refuse to Be
Held.
Plymouth, Eng., April 29. -One hun-
dred and sixty-seven sorrivors of the
erew of the Titanic disembarked from
the Lapland here this morniug. Crowds
of people on the doeles and heights
around the town witnessed the arrival
of the steruner and the landing of the
small contingent that remained of the
crew which had manned the great steam-
er of the White Star Liner. Relatives
greeted ninny of the seamen, while oth-
ers were there to inquire regarding
those who were lost.
The plans of the Board of Trade to
keep the crew in the barracks till state-
ments were taken were frustrated by
the action of the preeident and other
officiate of the Seamen's Union, the or-
ganizaton which touneelled the strike of
the Olympic's crew. They advised the
seamen that the Board of Trade bad no
power to confine them, and that they
should not submit to such treatment,
and after a few hours' detention the
men were given their liberty, although
confined to the port.
The Lapland was sighted entering the
harbor at 7 o'clock. When she anehor-
ed in Cawsand Bay an hour later three
big tenders were waiting, two of which
took off the passengers and mails, The
third carried several representatives of
the Board of Trade, six solicitor& for the
statements of the survivors, White Star
offieials, including the manager, Hate
old Sanderson, and Director E. P.. Cron -
fell. This tender had been chartered
by tho Board of Trade for the reception
of the Titanie's erow.
When the survivore clambered
up the deck- at noon loud cheere greeted
them. They made straight foe the win-
dows of the waiting r000m overlooking
the street, sea.rehing for frienns and re-
latives.
MARCONI AGAIN
Wireless Man Appears Be-
fore Commission.
Washington, April 29.-Gugliemo nfar-
coni, head of tne Marconi company, was
recalled to the witness stand. when the
senatorial inquiry into the Titanic die -
aster was resumed to -day.
Mr. Sammis, chief engineer of the Mar-
coni company; Operator BcBride, of the
Titanic, and, john J. Griggs, former at-
torney -general, counsel for the Marconi
company, aecompanied the inventor to
the hearings. P. A. S. Franklin, viee-
presideet of the International Marine
company, who returned to New York on
Saturday to look after the press of inisi
nese that had piled up in his office since
the inquiry enforced his absence from
his desk, and Bruce Ismay, manager
and director of the Mercantile Marine,
were on hand early this morning. Is-
may's anxiety to get away from Wash-
ington has greatly increrteed during the
last few days, as he has received urgent
communieations from England to return
there as soon ae possible to look after
the tangled. state of trans-Atlantic
transportation conditions developed
3inee the disaeter and due largely to la-
bor troubles.
When Mr. Marconi was on the stand
!est week Chairman Smith asked hirn if
he had sent any mesenge to the Carrot -
thin. end he had said "No."
"1 would like to correct the etatement
that T had not sent any nwesages to the
Inerpathirt." said Mr. Marconi to -day.
"On my return to New York I found
hed sent one message, I immediately
wrote a letter to your Senator, enclos-
ieg the message."
The message follows:
nArgil 18-12-1 a.m. To Calvin, wire.
less Mareoni station, Siaseonsett, Mass.
"Send the following immediately. Ad -
rime us delivery:
"Wire newe despattehes immediately
Sineeonsett, or to naval boats. If this
imposeible. ask content give reneon Nvhy
no news allowed to be transmitted.
(Signed) "Guglielmo Marconi."
Mr. Mareoni sonl he reeeived no reply
and. that he replied Ids office likewise
received no anewen He. said that he had
talked with Bride, the Titanic operator
on board the Carpathia. and that the
latter said he had received the mes-
sage.
-"Did he give or did you ask his rea-
sons for not answering?" asked Senator
Smith,
"No„" .anewered the wittreste
Tho difference in the eode toted bee the
Marconi operators and that employed
by the United Rates cruiser, Chester,
said Mr, Marconi, vendered almost inn
poseible the transiniesion meaeages be-
tweee the Carpethia and the warship.
He send his company ueed the interne-
tional.code while the United States( navy
had a. code of its own,
ARRIVE TO-nfOR'ROW.
Halifax, N. S., April 29. -With every
preparetion. practically nuide for the ar-
rival of the Maelnn,y Bennett to -day,
word woe reeeived at 0.30 from her cap.
taie that bad weather was delaying him
And, that be could not dock until nine
(*leek to -morrow morning. The eletnge
in the time ef arrival ensile 08 a bittex
blow to the rehttives here, who had been
Advisen that the hodirq they are await-
ing had been embalmed and maid he
plaved in easkete right away,
1
THE DEAD
Long Wait, at Halifax for
Ship's Arrival.
Iialinixt. 'fn. S., ,April 20,entitith fever -
till haste, White Star offirials and their
nesistants yesterday and this morning
otraggled to have everything in reed!,
Mae for the arrival of the ManK.ay Ben-
oett to -day with her cargo of Titanic!
Tho proem:don of fAsketi to
the MayflOwer lining where it irVat3
Qidod on Saturday to take the remoine
went on tineeasingly during the night.'
and day, while at the naval doek yard,
to winch the MacKay -Bennett wee or-
dered to tie up, preparations in the
shape Of temporttry noxes for suele
Iiinoadtiat ads: ban not beeo embalmed were
telativee here did not hesithee
to state that probably it would have
been 3 mere popular moVe if the vont.-
pony had not placed the bereaven un-
able to pay for the removal of corpses
in the position of beggare, by compell-
iog them to make 41, formai application
for assistanee, Mitehell said the
notice was issued hero SOlely for the
sttenii:i,aus.oe of wealthy men in town, who
Itad, already stated that they would
take over the shipment of bodies them -
Yee te rd ay a me %age reeeiVed
from Captain Carteret, of the Minia,
which seemed to <near up the doubt
which had existed as to whether the
body of Charlee M. 1111Y6 W0.4 being I
brought in on the nfrieKay-Dennett or
not, Captain Carteret sent an aero-
gram confirming the previous repoet
that his men had pieked up th:A body
of the President of the Crand Trunk.
Mr, Howard G. Kelley, who is one of
the party here to claim Mr, Hays' lea
maths, stated thot he Avoidd wait here
until the Minia arrived, In the mean-
time a epecial ear IS being appropriate- ,
ly draped. This ear will carry back to
Montreal the bodies of Mr, !bye and
Mt, IL J. Allison, and those of Aleiifiri4.
Quigley Baxter, Thornton Davidson
and Victor Payne if they are recovered.
Contain 'Carteret's meseage mentioned
that hp had picked up the body of a
gentlexuan in evenieres dress, Hie clothes
were marked with the initiate "If. R."
while gold cuff links. that . were found
in the shirt wore inscribed with "S. 0."
Speculation began et once upon the re-
ceipt of the information as to who
these initia/e will fit. The Canadians at
once suggested Hugo Ross, of Winnipeg,
and wirelere; wile sent to the Minia
asking for details of the marks on the
body.
A Mot. II. R. Hood who has „1115t
ref:elicit the Halifax Hotet elaiT115
body ae that of her Inotband, a Seattle
lumber merchant, with large limits, in
British Columbie. Mits. Rood said her
husband left her in England to hurry
home on business; ou the Titanic,
A lisf recavered corpece pulnialied
on Sunday here gave the name of 'I.'. F.
Baxt e r. Ao' thecr tires no pa&senger of
the name of Baxter with these initiate it
wae gurmised that this was an error
for Quigley Baxiter of Alontreal. who
went down on the Titanie, While his
mother, Mm. Baxter, of Montreal, ann
his sister, Mrs. Dr. "Douglas, were saved.
Another list iesued late yosterday con-
tainen the mane of Leopold Weiaze, the
young. Swie4 who v.'fts brinelter hie wife'
to Montreal, The only nentel sestet -en
on the Titanic wreek visit Halifax
to ecareh among the dead for a lent one
is Senorita Petunia Calavetta. She wa4
maid to Senorita and Senora Pettey°.
who were on the first aeetion of a trip
around the world when the Titanic WaA
tVtalleit by the berg. Senor Pensseo le a
eister-in-law Premqer Ortnalejae,
Spain, while her huaband wes dietantly
related to the Spanialt Royal
Senor Penaseo's name (loos not appear in
list af thaw bodies the McKay -Bennett
or the Mien, hes picked up, but hie Wife
thought it might he among the unidenti
flea as he was in bed when the :incident
oceurred and when the leviathan Gann
had on only his night apparel by which
eould not be reeognized,
AS TO ESCAPE
Chances of First Class and
Steerage Passengers.
The holding of indignation meetings
of the American. citizens here seems to
have degenerated into a means of peas-
ing away the time, which naturally
hangs heavy upon their hands. Last
night the relatives gathered in the Hali-
fax Hotel, and during the general con-
versation somebody asked what was to
be done aixnit the jewelry and money
found in the clothes of the Pitanic's
dead. It was announe,ed 'that in many
easee. It was announced that in many
have been carrying, thousands of dollars
in their pockets.
The Nova Scotia Government has
promised to open negotiations with
Washington, with a view to quick sur-
render to relatives of all valuables and
money found on the bodies of a United
States citizen.
MENU HAS 12 BODIES.
Halifax, N. S., April 29, -The follow-
ing message from Captain. Decarteret,
for J. Bruce lemay, nresident of the. In-
ternational Mereantile Marine, woe re-
ceived here from the Minim by wireless
this morning:
"Covered ground between 41.20 and
41.50, and 49.25 to 49.00. Thus far have
seeured only thirteen bodies. All etearn-
ere passing say none seen, Will eeareh
sooth and meet Monday, but ca.n give no
hope to their relatives that the missing
will he found. Iceberge near the place
from 41.00 to 41.19, in longitude 49.00,
moving fast sonth."
New York, April 20. -In a summary of
the lessons; of the Titanic disaster, Law-
rence Beasley, a University of Cam-
bridge Mall, WhO Was among the surviv-
ors, aeks: "What Was the relative
chance of escape for a first-class passen-
ger and a steerage passenger?"
His answer is as followe: "I have
worked out the percentage of the (laved
of the four classee, and find it as fon
lows:
"First class, 63.0 per mit.
"Second close, 39 per cont.
"Steerage, 26.7 per rent.
nOffieers and erew, 22.3 per cent.
"They are instructive, those figures
The payment of alxmt *75 exCePS a first
over third, gives yon Tilet0 than twice
the ehance yeur life being saved."
THE WIR-ELESS
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Thorough Investigation to
be Made Into System.
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Washington. April 29. -Still more
sairtrchine inquiry into the wireleee Nys-
tons empinyed aboard oceineping ships
waa planned for to-ilif y Ivy tho Senate
inveetigating the Titania die -
aster, 11. is the omen -lateen* avowts1 in.
tention to go into the question at length
with 11, view to the fremitne of legielatioil
that will govern the operation ef wire
lose nu vesifele entering or leaving Am-
eriean porta The teetimony thue far
has diseleeen the hie:, that Wireleee oper-
ators are 'underpaid. are foreed to work
hours too long and eartnally are Utile -
pendent of any authority.
FUND FOR CAPTAIN'S FAMILY,
New Yerk, April 20. --American
frieade ef Captain Edward J. Smith, late
commander of the Titonie, prepeee to
amange for $01,flf,) teetimonial to his
bravery and to create a finel for his
widow and daughter, who live in South-
ampton, England. At a meeting; yes-
terday at the Union League Club, it was
annouuced that a. eommittee of arrange-
ments, including J. P. nlorgan, jun.,
Chao. Lanier and, a number of other
well known men, had been appointed.
William A. Nneh, of the Corn Exchange
Bank, Was Malted to aet as treasurer.
MftS, TAFT'S Doman.
Washington, April 20. -Mrs. Wm. II.
Taft has given the first dollar to a WWII -
0,T1'0 Titallie memorial, which it is pro-
poaed to be erected In Washington to
commemorate tho ineu who went down
with the Ship. A eommittee of 100 wom-
en from all states, nag been named and,
contributionm will be aecepted from
men. Aire. john Hay, Mrs. John llaya
Haromoad aed othere are interested.
SHAD IS HAPPY
Had Fine Welcome on Other
Side of River.
He
Sends Word to Mrs.
Corea Richmond.
Chicago, April 29. -Chicago spirit-
ualists, who are members of the
Church of Soul, heard a vivid des-
cription yesteraay of the passing of
W. T. Stead, London editor and be-
liever in the occult, wno was a vic-
tim of the ill-fated Titanic. The Mes-
sage from the grave, with a dramatic
recital of the reunion of Mr. Stead
with his dead son, was given by Mrs.
Cora L. V. Richmond, who has gain-
ed a considerable reputation net a
student of pyschle research and who
is the pastor of the Church of the
Soul flock.
In explanation of her remarkable
statement that she had received the
message from Mr. Stead, Mrs. Rich-
mond says that she was for years
an Intimate friend of the London
Journalist, both having worked to-
gether in the interest of universal
peace before the establishment of the
Hague peace tribunal, and that she
waa in perfect sympathy with him.
The message, as read by Mrs.
Richmond, was as follows:
"There is no death. One can only
know it by experience. Most people
hesitate, dread the change. To me
life was one -our earth and brief -
promotion, a warning word written
by my son through my own hand,
made it known to me that the ehip
would go down Jut sool as it
struck the berg.
"I W0.9 ready. Many were 'over
there.' first at hand to receive me.
But what of them who were afraid
of death, who knew not of the life
beyond and whose' faith might for-
sake them in the time of peril?
"They must be comforted, soothed,
7eal, if possible to stay yet awhile
In their bodies. And one forgets one's
self when ministering to the wants of
others. Still, there was 'such a
brief time to prepare -so little real
preparation In that gigantic ship, for
such an emergency. Commander, of-
ficers and crew did their best, but
they could not create lifeboats.
"When all had been done that
could be done, we had to go. The
cries of agony were terrible,
"And, after the first roar, rush
of waters, a great surging suffering
sense, I awoke as oue awakening
from a horrible dream. My son? yes,
the first to meet me. He was one
of the rescuers from that realm where
lacking. I was
They had found
lifeboats are never
alive, awake, aware.
me.
"But taose, those
known? those. who
who had not
clung to their
bodies; who still in spirit followed the
frail boats on the ocean that held
their loved one? 011, the wrench of
having to be severed from them.
Those had to be comforted. Those
who had been thrust out in unpre-
paredness, unwilling in the realm of
the spirits.
"And I was welcomed, it seemed
as a morning of splendor after the
night of earth -as wings compared
to groping -as bloom after the bud
of silence and darkness. Who cars
properly describe the indescribable?
"To be welcomed and to be loved,
to think first and. all the while of
those who miss one and mourn for
one, to try to reach them with the
invisible, impalpable message of the
spirit, to thinic and to know in one
instant the answer to a lifetime of
/questions.
"Not yet, not yet, if a band or
brain can be found to convey the
meaning' and scope of this new life
may use it after awhile. am grate-
ful for this opportunity to pay my tri-
bute to my fellow voyagers and to
the officers of the shiP that went
down and. to say there can be but
two onuses for the sinking of the ship
and the passing out of so many
valiant lives. Over -confidence in the
tlnip's strength and an insufficient
autnber of lifeboats -these are the
causes.
"When human life* is really valued
there always will be adequate means
of insttring safety. I am not dead
and my interest and work will still
be the svelfare of humahity."
"Nor birth, nor life, nor death can
change or mar the soul on ministry
of good intent,"
*•*
FATAL DUEL
Shotguns Used After Fight
Fails to Settle It.
Philadelphia, April 28. -After as un-
sattefaetory fist fight over a woman
with whom bath were infatuated, John
fatrkins, 21. years old, and Frank Roddy,
30, fought duel with sliot-gmas yea-
terney At ntartinni village, in which the
tatter lAt8 WAN). awl the former mor -
telly wounded.
Neither man being able to gain the ad-
vantage with hare fists, Larkins 6.ug•
ges.ted 41. set tlentent aeeordittg, te the
eode and Ruddy aceepten,
Going to their honnie earth man Oh-
illj'apj W301.1111;1 WO Olga:2'A it
IS a $-'fti4-0-0d 01141 rep:111'0d 10 all Orell
Tht, Ofe•en,1,4 meritetted elf fifty
.eteset, Rethly end Larkina toek their
eleeee at eiteee end of the imeeiniry line
tVitiI hacks turned, wheeled ;theta when
the word wee Oven and Erel, Leeldns
at the tirA volley, the Imekehot tear-
ing hole in hie alsicenen, Raieing
eelf shot llochly in the faee, the load
tts.tring away his entiro jaw. Itondy
lead When the pOlitie reaellf'd the C,eerte,
Ot: a late lionr hal not re.
envered -COUATiottATIO,
,
Bil'illE WITH to hivire beea feveriehiy esaibhled et !
net." He wan, armlet with win le- '
the lent udattte: "1 die. Jelto Bore ti
I
yolv 0'1 and a -carbine.
J tc ii e4t'ilnatell P.tat !..'1.h),01,0 po. ,
p. tE.:,,,,I03„,iutetotti.t1:Iteklieedo,a'affyl'7;:,1:::1,11(.i'lilirr,t.411.e:Ntl;c1:::Ifittiti- '
.
" ter the explosion, fisenvi brohe eat
and destroyed the st,rneture.
The medical eXrtini flat ion showed
that Bonnet'a left arm had been shat-
terol by a bullet, jt; Wati an old
wound,. however, and he evidently
shot himself aecidentally when he
merdered honin. This explains why
his arill 131 n sling when he was
found in the garage. Gamier, Bon-
nothi eo.eidef, etill at large, bet
the police say that they have ith-
trail and expeet to eaptuse
Great Crowd Anxious tO The Paris newspapers), whieh iseued
special editions hourly throughout the
andn give Prelninenee to the fact that
the garage retreat of the bandits
ofrfoeniatu‘amhoiebilii(!heTrittelove,:,liai:%t1(1's<1 (t.1,,As.eile.4de rite:
AtIred Fromentin, kuttwn an "the
Anarehist." Fromentin was
a friend of Eraneiseo Ferrer, founder
of the Modern Sehool in Spain, whom
he frequently visited in Bareelone. In
1909, after the x Nut! o n of Ferrer, he
Publlehed a pamphlet entitled "The
Truth; the 'Work of Ferrer," in which
he explained Ferter'e lame
.fdrcuuentin founded nt
Lt 'number of pnrall Wit;eh he •
ealled "The Ren Ner.t.." They- were
°conned almost exeinsively by per-
sona of Anarehistie belief. Fromen.
tin's friende 'twist, however, that he
is the enemy of violenee, and that if
}de property was the heanquartere fit
otlitiet hbisariell!tt;\ivio.(itgrne,ust have been, with-
Bonnot ahout yeare of age,
and a native of LYONS. He fOrtrlerly
ahrilYS at tile :itr?oring whee-1 of the
army. He wee an expert chauffeur,
the real braille of the band, and was
alwaye at the steering' wheel of the
ear when the handitq \Vivre operating.
About thirty members of the nand
have noty been amend or are out of
the way. Terinerme in the poireinSiOa of
th.P pollee sho,,v4 that they purqued
their career by a zuervellona system.
having egeate in rill perm ef Feerope,
One of the four tnernheme of the or.
ganizatien at -rested yesamilay had
cheque I:tool...3 and a eoteun Ls prov g
that he wait the treasurer, Ile reg-
ularly inveeted the Ole n funde. When
bonds, Of other•uegetiable paper was
stolen he arre.nged for their frac to
brok ere in diffOrP):11; oat is of Ito rope.
Demon Chauffeur Slain in
Figh: With Police.
Garage 13lown Up and Men
Mee: Death.
Murder Bandits.
Paris, April 28.-Bounot, the leader
of au organized band ot automobile ban,
dits, who have been terrorizing Paris
and the surrounding dietrict for monthe
past, and Dubois, a notorous anarchist,
were shot to death to -day in the most
encoonter in the alVaali of
Itreneh
A garag,e Choitoole-Roi, six miles
south of Paris, in whieli the bandits had
taken refuge, was blown up by dynamite
after these two men had kept at bay
tor hours a large part of the police foree
of Paris, a contingent of the gendarmes,
two companies of Republican Guar&
aud a company of engincere. 17en thou-
sand spectators viewed the battle from
points of vantage.
Tu -day's engagement equalled 18 dra-
matic eirctunstances the encounter in
January, 1.011, which has gone down in
history as "the battle of London," when
desperadoes suspected of being the mur-
derers of police inHouusditeh were trap-
ped in a house in the Whiteehapel (Its -
trite: and went down to their death bat-
tling against hundreds of London police
and seldiers.
Bonnot and Dubois, atter wounding
two policemen toalay, took refuge in
the garage. They were trapped in the
whieh was at once surround-
ed. Reinforcemente were deepatched to
aid the police, composed of gen-
gendarmes, Republican Guarde and .2,n-
gineera A battery of artillery was on
the way from Versaillee when a small
detachment of soldiers euccecded ia place
.ifig dynamite agamet the structure and
blowing; out the /rent wall.
Bonnot was ea,ptured alive. Ife was
riddled with bullets and died on the way
to a hoepital. The great crowd that had
gathered, wth cries of "Death to Bon -
not," almost tore the bandit from the
soldiers, several of whom were injured.
Parisians, particularly automobiliste,
have been in a state of terror because
of the reckless crimes of the automobile
bandits, which reached a climes ia the
murder of Asst. Superintendent Jauiu
of the detealve departmozt and the
wounding of Chief inepeetor Colmar by
Bonnot ou the morning. of April 24. The
Government then ordered all the avail-
able police to hunt the assassins day
and night.
.At o'clock this morning M. Gun
chard, superintendent of detectives,
tracked Bonnot to the isolated garage
Chostele-Ro. Guehard and his
men approached, a bandit, who proved
to be Dobois, was preparing to mount a
motor cycle. He answered the summons
to surrender by opening fire, white he
retreated to the garage. At the same
moment there was a hail of bullete front
a window, and two detectives fell, one
with two bullets in his abdomen. If was
Bonnot shooting from the first floor.
The detectives 'retired, and a general
alarm was sent out. Police, gendarmes
and all classes of people came quickly.
They were armed with muskets and re-
volvers, and directed hundreds of bul-
lets at the garage, from which came a
steady rain of lead in reply. M. Lepmed
prefect of Paris, was iunnedately neti-
fied, and he telephoned instructions to
the police to do nothing .until he arriv-
ed. "We will blow them up with dana-
mite," he eaid.
Meanwhile the Republican Guant end
Enginer corps arrived, while tinoneaade
of persons flocked. to the acme from
an directions, and occupied positions at
a safe dietanee, and ()coupled positions 4a.t
ous that the soldiers were forced at
length to drive them back, and they were
interfering with the progrese et the
siege, which was soon being condueted
aggressivel y.
M. Lepine, M. Gulehard and the com-
mander of the Republiean Guard held a
council of war and decided to use drat -
mite. Ihmdteda of gendarmes armed
with carbines then. began to mimic the
building. to prevent the escape of the
bandits. A cart was rigged tin with
thick MA ttrf0SeS as a barricade, and the
attacking party backed elowly toward
the garage. Prior to this the exeitenient
bad been at fever heat. Ofieers gal-
loped back and forth giving ordere
restrain the crowds, which were now
surging in the streets. But as the (girt
was backed slowly towards the building
a great etillnese fell. It was so marked
thatoone could even hear the elieh es the
cinematograph machines, which the ono.-
atare turned calmly so as not to loe-e
single picture of the drama.
When the cart; reached the Avail,
Lieut. Forteau emerged and coolly
placed two huge sticke of dynamite
against the building and ignited the fuee.
The horse galloped out of range, and the
speciatore waited. Pint no explosion fol-
lowed. Thifi Operation was repeated
twice. Then came a terrific report and
awacrodlu.nin of smoke and debric ehot eky-
All the while the bandite were volley-
ing steadily, but no one was hit: AB the
front wall collapsed with a crash police
and RePubliean Guards rushed up. On
the ground floor they found Dubote dead.
They mounted a „narrow -stairway and
warminahni Itetsrleianginergmtleelltedh 11,0,11olioutld,
a mattress. Hie face showed ghostly
white, And blood WAS pouring from
wounds in his head and chest. "Cum
you, curse you!" be cried, ae he piffled
the trigger of his empty revolver. He
was reaching for poison in Hs belt, but
before he eueceeded he WAS overpinvered,
carried dowo and planed in an alitolnO,
bile.
lt Was then that the erowd 'Awed
into wild mob, howling for the death
of the bandit. The soldiere proteeted
him with the butts of their carbineatett
many blows fell on Bonnet before the
automohlle atarted off, literally entailing
down snore of people, eleared a path-
way and speeded to Paris.
Ilonnot Was itheoza.eioue and expired
on hie Way to the 110Spitel, The deletOri
foriud wilco rwounilq, Therp wpr, two
1/0110tS ill it!i4 head a!:,1 tWO MS filtdO•
10(.1'1, 00-1 tileV {hit he Eved ;le
Isnee, as lie Dnbaisli•td three wounita
11e fiko were a belt emiteining poieon,
lett it is eonsinercil improbable that he
thia0,11.1.1,1trat to swallow any of the prepare -
Ort nOnnOt WOS found a Statetnentf
consisting for the most part ef
Anerehistie ermfession ef faith, and
earnelnding with the words. belleVed.
TAFT AND TEDDY
British Ppess Interested in
Presidential Fight.
London, April. 29. -The English prese
ia keenly interenfed in the no
twien Pre-iiclovnt Tta t and Tifeedere
linoeevelt for the Republican prenidential
nomination. Diecussing. the at taeles of
the President. on Mr. Roosevelt, the Lon-
don newspapers are of the opinion that
the President has made a strong awe.
against his predeeessor.
The Daily Newe says: Some of Presi-
dent Taft% charges --that with regard
to reciprocity, for inetonce-are not and.
cannot be refuted by Mr. Roosevelt, and
when Mr. Roosevelt oroteste that it is
an absurd untruth to say that he 1.1Sial
his influence with federal office holdere
in hie electima campaign, he is denying
something which everybod,y in the United
Post settee: If Preeident
S thees :Nlyreol iletivi ens;
Taft wins the Re.pablicans will eontinue
to represent the conservative influences
ef the eountry. If Mr. Rooeevelt securee
the nomination he will put forward an
mivanced programme, aINI til1).1e %vie) op-
pose his policy will be driven out of the
Republiein ranks.
The Daily Mail saye: :err. Roosevelt
hes thrown himself into the struggle,
and with eintriteteristie fury accusee las
fermer friend palitteally of being an
divalent end a friend of reaction. Presi-
dent Taft chargee Mr. Roosevelt with
trying to stir up class prejudice with the
ambnien to make himself perpetual
4
President.
WOMEN'S VOTES
Canadian Suffrage Associ-
ation IncorporatecL
Toronto, April 99 -Dr. Anemeta Stowe
Outten, Mr. Margaret Johnston, Dr. tea -
belle. -Smith "Wood, •MrA. Flora AnteDen-
ald Denial') and William Munns, all of
Toronto, have been ineorporaten as the
Canadian, Stafrage .Atisooiation. It ie
to supplant the Dominion Women's En-
franehisement Anteetiation and seeks to
obtain for women the municipal and par-
liainentary franchise on the limns
on wham it is now or hereafter to be
granted to men, and to promete the
welfare and best intereets of women.
I 4.4.
GEO, ESSON
Can Only be Found Guilty
of Manslaughter.
adbo....••••••••••••,*
Port Ituron, st,pril 20. -The fate
of George Essen, the Parolee, Ont.,
youth) on trial &lege(' with the mur-
der of Thomas Major, whose frozen
body was found under the eteps of the
First Baptist Church Iast February, is
expected to be in the hands of the jury
this afternoon. Teatimony for the de-
famer) was coneluded Saturday afternoon
with the placing on the stand of the
defendant awl two local physieiana.
Judge Law has indicated that bis
charge to the jury will permit only a
verdict of manslatighter, in that the
defendaet may have left Major to die
of exposure,
$100 000 FIRE
4
eNTIft Ohio, April 29. ---The Limber
yard and eoeper ehop of the Standard
Oil Cempany's plant here waa dentroyed
Wet night by fire. ror a time a largo
oil refinery nearby WaS threatenf,d, bot
bettet rain kept the eparks from berning
lumber piles from epreadires the fisTIINA.
Ti/f, IONS 11.11PrONi711.aLei iOt.11M00.
yf't 111118114IIVII.
KILLE0 IN ACCiDni.
Albany, N. Y., 20.-Ititmdalo
Parg01111, vice,presidont and general
counsel of the General Flleetrie Co.,
of Schenectady, was. killed In an auto.
mobilo accident on Stoutly afternoon
on tho Pittsfield read, a. few miles
oat .of thie eity. The chauffeur was
badly 1nJurod.
GIRL DROWNED
Body Found in Milt Race
at Brantford.,
Yor-
Was She Driven to Suicide
by 'threats?
Brantford, April 28.-- After a nine -
hour eeareh 80TX:a members of
the fire department and poliee foree
here on Saturday, the body of Lottie
Gib:eon, 1E -year-old daughter of Mr.
Samuel Gibson, Lawrenee street, was
recovered from the hydraulic canal,
which leaels from, the Grand River to
the Slingeby Mill, The discovery was
made only after the mill aothoritiee
bad drawn the water out of the race,
The girl had drowned herself in right
feet of water on Friday afternoon, hav-
ing been oven inakin1,4 her way along the
bank with hair diehevelled and in a
etate oietraetion,
elyeterious features surround the
ease and au Immo:it will be hein on
Thursday. In the meantime a post-•
mortein nmination will aiso pretiab-
ly be onehteted, Prior to the girl's
disappearanee at noon oit Friday ehe
bad bet n vieited by her mother at the
mill, -who mai anonyinotte letter
whigna had been addreesed to the
daoghter, and whieh the mother had
opened. The letter, elope'. to hate
been sent by Reginald 11,01/biasS,
or a threatening nature. Itobbinci, it
is alleged, waisted. the girl to marry
hirn, but had met with objeetionti both
from the girl and her parents. The
letter it is alleged eontained a threat
to diegraee her. it is said she was
betrothed to a young rua.n in the Cina-
diem weet,
Suet after her inotheCo visit MiAs
ealsion bit the mid. It \nil reinine,
but she deelinen 9tat
Ih a, 4711A WiR041. net require arte.
She wee hy several poople
the way to tae mill ram., ;tun eee
frequently tented Leek to SEe-, if she
being watehea. Jegt aroitud
sharp bend, v.•heret the bank ,; Are
Eiteep, the falai plunge WilA made, tWo
COMbq in the mud showing the
epot where the distreeted girl ended
her life.
•flobbin..4 wan arrested on Friday
nigrha Ile yeara old, and ALty)
it mill employee. Ile was eharged
with sending threatening letter -4
throw -et the mails, and released on
$500 bail, having been committed for
trial.
The Mason family allege that he
was frequently in waiting for the girl.
The couple had. known eaeh other for
6orne years.
The dead girl was hig,hry thought
of at the mill, where she 1,1,11/4 em-
ple;),..il,. She w.1/44 !vett.; an.1
and WaS Of lolial'aett
all,
•••-•---•-•41,,,fp-4r•••••-•
VICIOUS MULE
Fastens Its Teeth In Child
and Runs Off With It.
Eminence, Ky.. April 29. ---The thud of
galloping hoofs on the turf and shrill
cries and screams brought Mrs, Newton
Roberta, wife of a etoek breeder near
here. out of her house yesterday efter-
noon to see a mule charging. aeross a
field in front of the house with Mrs.
Roberts' three-year-old soo dangling
nrom ite mouth. When Mr. Roberts
and a field hand cornered the mule it
required their united efforts to make
the animal release its teeth from the
enild's foot. The child will probably die,
RATS BIT BABY
Infant Was Horribly Muti-
lwed by the Rodents.
Walton, Ont., despaitele tbab.g
named Miller, born 13 days ago, and
which had been boarded with Mrs.
George Haslett, 294 Yon.. street, by
the mother who was compelled to
earn her own livelihood. was horri-
bly mutilated by rats at Mrs. Has-
lett's home. seine time during the
night, but. arm p:Ight of the infant
was not discovered till this morning,
Dr. Drake is now attending the baby
at Victoria Hospital, to which it was
removed, but the outcome of the af-
fair is stilt a question of doubt.
es
NEW WARSHIP
Germany Launches An-
other at Danzig.
Danzig, Germany, April a9. --The bat-
tleship Koenig Albert, :named for a for-
mer King of Saxony, was launched to-
day. The present Saxon Ining, Frederich
August, was present and made a speech
and. his sister. Princess Mathilda, chriets
ened the veseel.
The new battleship is practically iden-
tieal with the battleships KaieenKitieter-
in and Frederick der Grosse. It has a
tonnage of 24,400 and is armed with ten
13 -inch and feurteen Ceinch guns. The
epecifications demand a speed of 21
knots. The warship's turbines are
adapted for the consumption of either
coal or oil fuel. The cost of conatrue-
tion is nearly $124,00.04:000.
MUSKRAT HOLE
••••••••••••••.••••••••-••••
Shut Down Factories in
Merritton and St. Kitts.
St. Catberinni, Ont., April
inuelsrat hole in the batik of the hydra's'
tio eaeaway vollsvd. Wa‘,11011t, of the
hank eirly this mernind. teeth, the
sh zit -dowel ra: al! the foK•tcycie..4 nt Met -
Elton 0)11 111:4 city which use it II.; a
ppwpr, watvr, roz!lp,1
Nal!PY,, *I"
011 NVkli_til 1 Cand w.retat .1,1,„11.s, 1,,
.11iy rbto;
PRISONER ESCAPE.).
Ottawa, April Villeume, a pais.
oner 8t-rvinA, Witeneo of nine nionth:4
for theft in the 11111! jeii, rioal.,04 from
t1-11 in.1 ation hi.. mornino,% Tl,i;
f011r priSetterq WilO /101'0 Mtv-
(4,-4f1.11 in rn 'king A getall.:y f 1!;
jell timing the pa,t