Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 27, 1912, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY P VOLUME 10. NUMBER 25. TITANIC INQUIRY INTHE STOKE HOLD Senator Smith Goes on Board the Olympia to Hear Important Testimony. FREDERICK BARRETT EXAMINED Said Boiler Lights Showed White, In- dicating Vessel Was Making Full Speed Ahead. THE CRASH TORE SHIP'S SIDE Let Water Into Compartment Five; Bulkheads Closed But Too Many Were Ripped. New York, May 27.—Standing in the L ing heat of the stoke hold of the big White Star liner Olymple, in as near as he could judge the exact spot he had occupied on the ill-fated Titanic, her sister ship, Frederick Barrett, chiet stoker of the lost steamer, Saturday related to Senator | William nith his story of the| tragedy of the Girand Banks. While the perspiration poured from fore-| heads of Smith and Rear Admiral Todd, who was on hand to furnish the senate’s inquisitor with technical information. Barrett told of the en- ormous speed that was being pro- duced by the Titanic's engines when she was hurled on the great mass of | ice that sent her to her doom. He proved one of the best witnesses reached by the United States senate’s inquiry. Barrett's presence on the Olympic was made known to Smith by a quiet tip from an agent in Eng- land and he waited until the big lin- er was about ready to cast off her lines so that there could be no “mis- cue” before he went down into the hold of the Olympic to get the men and have him fell his story. Barrett stated that the vessel was booming along with the white lights above the boilers indicating fulll speed ahead when there came a sud- den alarm from the bridge, the red danger signal showed and, before the | liner could be checked, f ripping sound and the waters began | to pour through the mortal wound above the coal bunkers into compart- | ment No. 5. The presence with Smith of a score of newspaper men and Vice-President | Franklin of the line made no impres- sion on Barrett, who told his story of the occurrences of the fatal night| in an e firm voice that brought ! home every point with clearness. ! i Only Two Men Saved. Second ingineer Heskett and he| were standing side by side, talking, said DBarrett, when the = Titanic’s bridge signaled to stop and the red lamp glowed. At the same time, the hulkhead doors began to close. The engineer and chief Slnkeri jumped through the door to the en- gine room compartment as the doors slammed shut, Barrett said. The oth- er men in that compartment were chut off and staid there, drowning in | their tracks. After getting into com- partment No. 6, Barrett said, he climbed up to look into No. 5, which ! he had just left. By that time, he said, there was nearly eight feet of | water in No. 5 compartment. With ne show of emotion, the chief stoker related how the electric lights went out, how he sent for lan- terns, and, before they arrived, how the electric lights went on again. That he refurned into section No. 6, and while he was attempting to han- dle the boilers he heard a roar and saw coming through the lane be- tween the boilers a green, foamy mass of water that sent him hurling up the ladder just in time to escape be- ing drowned. lie took charge of life- boat No. 13, the one to which Mrs. John Jacob Astor had been assigned. Smith States Conclusions. Following the inspection of the Olympic and the interrogation under oath of Barrett, Captain Haddock and Ernest Moore, the wireless op- erator, Senator Smith made the fol- lowing statement: “The most important thing I found today was the condition of that sig- nal lamp in the boiler the Olympic. The-conditions were almost parallel to the Titanic. The fact that the white light showed (ac- cording to Barrett) proves what we have been trying to establish—that the Titanic was under full speed. “The fact that twenty-four boilers were lighted, there being only twen- ty-nine, shows thati the speed was there was a | {the conference i Mr. Nelson to room aboard | LATE NEWS. NO CONVENTIONS TO BE HELD. St. Paul, May 27.—(Special at 4 p. m.)—The Republican state com- mittee has just rescinded the call for county conventions June 28 and the state convention July 2. It expressed itself as in favor of a primary but condemned the second choice propo- sition. Police Court News. Henry Begeman was today fined $25 and costs or thirty days for dis- orderly conduct. . Will Roosevelt Men Bolt? Chicago, May 27.—Roosevelt fore- ©s may be compelled to bolt the Col- iseum convention at the startoff and give Chicago two big national shows simultaneously. This unusual spec- acle looms upon the horizon tonight tollowing the declaration by Ormsby McHarg, speaking for Colonel Roos- evelt, that the latter will not permit I United States Senator Root of New York to act as temporary chairman of the Coliseum convention June 18. Cyclone in Breckeridge. Breckenridge, Minn., May 27.—A severe wind storm struck here at 9:30 o’clock last night, blew seven houses from their foundations, tore the roof {off the depot, unroofed dozens of box cars standing in the local yards, blew others miles 6ut down the main track tof the Great Northern and caused considerable other damage. A huge brick chimney on the roof of Dr. Starrow’s residence blew down, crdshed through the roof and floors and opened a wide gap through to the basement. The steeple of the Catho- ilic church was blown off. Clapp for Chairman. St. Paul, Minn., May 27.—United States Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota is being seriously talked of by the Roosevelt wing of the Min- nesota Republicans to be considered for temporary chairman of the-“Re- publican convention against United States Senator Elihu Root of New York. according to Hugh-T. Halbert of St. Paul, prominently identified with the Roosevelt movement in this state. Halbert said today following participated in by himself, Ormsby McHarg of New York, one of Roosevelt’s managers and chief expert on contests for the colonel, and Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester. Nelson May Not Run. Washington, May 27.—The Min- nesota delegation in congress is tak- ing great interest in the announce- ment of Representative C. A. Lind- bergh that he is a candidate for the senate to succeed Knute Nelson. Members of the delegation decline to be quoted, but several of them ex- press the belief that the Lind- bergh candidacy may induce Sen- ator Nelson to decline to be a can- didate—not that he will be afraid to run against Lindbergh, but that he has no desire for the kind of a fight that will be necessary in case ~he' should ask for re-election. Already James A. Peterson of Minneapolis is in the senatorial race, and now the candidacy of Lindbergh, it is feared, may be the thing which will induce consult his personal wishes and retire from public life. FOX ALWAYS WAS CUNNING Fable From the Talmud Tells How He Put the Bear In the Well. A fox and a bear were out walking together one day, when, as they passed a house, they smelled the dinner cook: ing. The fox suggested to his compan. lon that they should creep into the kitchen when no one was there and steal some of the food. The bear agreed; but while they were in the kitchen the cook came in and the bear was caught and punished. For this he threatened to kill the fox; bat the cunning fox said: “Pray do not let us quarrel. I will take you to another place where we shall certainly obtain plenty of food.” At night the fox led the bear to a deep well and pointing to the reflec: tion of the moon in the water below. said: “There is a fine cheese. down and get it.” He then got into one of the buckete 2t the end of the rope and told the bear to get into the other. But as he was too light to balance the bear’s weight a large stone was placed with him in the pail. As soon as the bear had entered the other bucket the fox threw out the stone and the bucket with the bear inside descended and was left in the well—From the Talmud. We will ga Providing. close to seventy-eight -revolutions. This, as Mr. Ismay testified, was the maximum speed of the ship. “Do you suppose that giddy girl ever Ips;dl any tiie in serious reflection?” BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1912. ATHLETICS RESULTS' SATURDAY. American Association. Kansas City 10, Minneapolis 4. 'St. Paul 3, Milwaukee 2 (12 in- nings). Louisville 5, Columbus 4 (12 in- nings). Toledo 2, Indianapolis 1. American League. Cleveland 7, 4, St. Louis 6, 5. New York 6, 9, Washington 2, 5. Chicago 5, Detroit 4 (17 innings). Philadelphia 8, Boston 2. National League. Philadelphia 5, Boston 2. New York 11, Brooklyn 2. St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 4. Pittsburgh 4, Chicago 2. Bagley Team Defeated. The Bemidji city baseball team won from Bagley yesterday afternoon by a score of 15 to 14. The affair early developed ifito a slug fest in| which both sides walloped the ball for one, two and three baggers. Bag- ley had a small lead all through the afternoon in spite of the heavy hit- ting of the Bemidji boys but the Bag- ley pitcher blew up in the eighth and his balloon stayed up long enough tor the local team to win. A good (Copyright.) crowd saw the contest. Next Sun- day, an excursion will be run to Be- Season Tickets Selling. midji from Thief River Falls if| Season tickets for the University enough interest can be aroused local-|week entertainments have been ly in the game. placed on sale at the three Bemidji drug stores at $1 each. These tick- ets will admit one person to each of Clearbrook and Weme. the evening entertainments to be Weme, May 27:—(Special)—At the | given here University week. The Weme diamond yesterday the Black-|day entertainments will be entirely duck baseball club and the Weme|free but 350 season tickets will have team crossed bats in a sociable man-|to be sold if the Commercial club is ner, Clearbrook ‘winning ten to one.|to break even on the expense of the Geo. Rossell was umpire. Prof. A. G.|week. Helbye occupied ‘the mound for the The committee in charge ha.s of- Wenmeites, while Elmer Johnson|fered High school students an op- caught the mighty twisters. John|portunity to earn a free admission to Koxvold held the box for Clearbrook, | the entertainments by the selling of while nimble Ed. Wennberg’s smiling | ten season tickets. . Professor Dyer tace was seen behind the bat. Strike- | has charge of the ticket sale,and any outs, Koxvold eighteen, and Melbye students wishing for ten should see| fifteen. him at his office in the High school e building. Gophers Win Easily. Minneapolis, May 27.—Northrop field was the mecca of twin city track and field athletics and enthusiasts Saturday when Minnesota grappled with Iowa in their annual dual meet meet and the high and prep schools of the northwest gathered for their|pttees of the Northern Minnesota yearly university invita'tion meet. Six Development association until Fri- states—Minnesota, Iowa, North and day, May 31. The meeting was South Dakota, Wisconsin and Illi-|sepeduled for Cass Lake on Wednes- nois were represented by 168 con-|gay of this week. tenders from twenty-four schools, Cass Lake Meeting Postponed. A. G. Wedge, Jr., has been notified that because of the meeting of the state highway commission scheduled for Wednesday, President King has postponed the meeting of the com- Cedar Men Ertertained. The citizens of Blackduck enter- tained hundreds of cedar men from practically all over the United States vesterday. The visitors went up in a special car yesterday morning and were met there by all the business people of Blackduck. The entire party was taken out fishing to Blackduck lake. At noon the party landed on the shore of the lake and were served with a big fish dinner, all the fish having been caught in that lake the day before. Mrs. John Cann of Blackduck, and Mrs. A. E. Witting of this city, su- perintended the™ dinner. After*dinner the party broke up and smaller parties spent the after- roon fishing, each party coming in towards evening with a goodly sup- ply. To show their appreciation the cedar men gave a reception in their car in the evening to which about the entire population of Blackduck was invited. The evening was spent in speeches and merry-making and elaborate- refreshments were served. This morning the special train went north from Blackduck and will re- turn to Bemidji this evening in time to make connections with the train going to the cities. and, although the meet was conduct- ed in slip-shod and haphazard man- ner, and did not finish until 7 o’clock, good marks were set up in each event. With the day just warm enough to loosen the tendons of the runners and but a slight breeze blowing, condi- tions were ideal for fast time and close struggles from the gun to the tape, and while no interscholastic records were shattered, several old|| standards were closely threatened. Shattuck again won with a score of 34 1-2, their last year’s margin being|| cut down by several points. Lake Forest academy of Illinois took sec- ond place from St. Paul Central by a fraction of a point, the Illinois men finishing with 22 1-2 to 22 for St. Paul. Minneapolis West -finigshed fourth with 15 and Litchfield and An- nandale tied for next place with nine points each.” The remaining points were divided among ten schools. . . | Conventlion Here in June. The Christian Endeavor will hold a convention in this city on June 7, 8 and 9. Representatives from the Crookston district, which covers elev- en.counties in Northwestern Minne- sota, will meet here for a three day session at which time they will be entertained by the members of the Christian Endeavor class of the Pres- byterian church. Complete arrange- ments have not.as yet been made. State Field Secretary H. H. Rottman, of St. Paul, will attend the conven- tion as will Rev. Rev. H. H. Simons of Ada, district presldent of the con- vention, and Rev. H. P. Long of Mec- Intosh. “Dfflmeucy ln Christian ‘Work” will be the most important subject ‘taken up. Mrs. Thayer Bai- ley, treasurer of the convention, will assist the members of the Endeayor, in the entertamment Wouldn't Try It On Himsgelf. “And you didn't know it was load- 1” “No, judge, I swear I didn’t’ ‘But before pointing it at.the de- ceased, why did you not look into the jbarrel to. see Whether or not it was ’lolded'l" “Why, Judge, that would ‘have been a fool thing to do! It might Copyrlxm by Prince. United States. supreme co| whenever there’s a lllu around.” ::;o exploded and killed —Hfl\ll- ‘ed AP P oy g e — Justice Hughes, Who May Be the Republican Presidential Nominee. There is a ‘possibility t!ut Charlu Evans Hughes, associate justice of the nd former governor of New York, may be nom- epublican national convention to- stice Hughes is not a candldate. [e has repeatedly said flgurlng t.h. held in Chi- ~ yOU CERTAINLY KNOW WHAT { LIKE, DEARIE SAY!H CANT YOU COOK ANY- Defeated Bemidji High School Base- ball Team in Return Contest Last Saturday. Blackduck High school “came back” at Bemidji Saturday afternoon by a score of 13 to 12 in & return game played on their own grounds. Bemidji won from. the + players by a score of 15 to 1 a week ago-and their defeat came as a sur- prise. Aleck Ripple made the first score for Bemidji, knocking a clean drive to the field for first and stealing around to home on errors. Cann for Blackduck pitched an excellent game, but notwithstanding this, Bemidji’s players-batted freely. The game was close until the third inning. At the beginning of that inning the score stood 1 to 0 in favor of Bemidji, at the close it was 10 to 1 for Black- duck. Bemidji played a steady game from that time to jthe close of the game, and continually ate up the difference in the scores until the scorekeeper showed his hand in the game. The Bemidji boys claim un- fair treatment at the hands of this official. Edgar Ervine, formerly of Bemidji, umpired the game and gave impar- tial service. The line-up follows: ¢, Grindall; 1, Riley; s s, Ripple; £ b, Sullivan; 2 b, Tanner; 3 b, Achenbach; fields, C. Bailey, E. Bailey, Malone. . .0ld Soldier Buried. James Rogers, seventy-two years old, former resident of Bemidji, but ]1ater an inmate of the soldier’s home at Fort Snelling, died at that place last Saturday. The body was brought to Bemidji and interment was made at Greenwood cemetery this morning the Baptist church, Rev. C. W. Foley officiating. At the grave Grand Ar- my services were held by the R. H. Carr Post of which Mr. Rogers was a charter member. . Mr. Rogers is survived by two sons, James and George, both of whom are living in® Bemidji. Mr. Rogeps was an old settler of Bemidji living here until four years ago when the death of his wife caused him to move to Crookston. He later returned to Be- nearly a year before entering the old midji, making his home here for soldier’s home near Fort Snelling. Dudley Making a Farm. “F. M. Dudley, proprietor of the In- ternational hotel of this city pur- chased a farm about five miles west of Bemidji and has begun active work of clearing. Although work was started but thirty days ago, he has about ten acres planted into pota- |toes and nearly thirty acres grubbed ready. for “plowlng It is Mr. Dud- BLACKDUCK WON fi AM=E given a window BALLOON ASCENSION IN THIRD method was used in at 10 o’clock. Services were held at|the Apple Way, PLACE EXHIBIT IN DOWNTOWN WINDOW Samples of Industrial Craft of High School Pupils Brought From Show of Friday. DRESSMAKING AND WOODWORK Samples of Girls’ Skill at 0’Leary and Bowser’s; Boys’ Articles at Store of J. P. Lahr. CENTRAL BUILDING OPEN Teachers Will Be Glad to Show Visi- tors Through Booms Filled with Pupils’ Productions. Samples of the dressmaking and wood work done by, High school pu- pils during the past year were placed on exhibition down town this after- noon. The exhibit of the girls was Dlaced in a window of the O’Leary and Bowser store while the boys were in the J. P. Lahr store. Both displays attracted atten- tion and favorable comment. The samples are taken from the ex- hibits shown in the High schodl Fri- day afternoon of last weék. The girls have been working on the dresses during the latter part of the school year and those shown at O'Leary and Bowser’s are the best of those shown at the school. The same selective determining Which pieces of wood work should be shown at J. P. Lahr’s. Professor Dyer stated this after- ncon that the industrial exhibit that ‘was shown in the Central building last Friday is still -open to the pub- lic and that any of the teachers will «Blackduck |De Dleased to see that visitors-are shown through the building. ' The work in the Central building starts with the kindergarten and goes through the sixth grade, that of the seventh and eighth being found in the High school building. Industrial work is still new in Be- midji schools but the results ob- tained thus far are satisfactory to the teachers and members of the board. The students seem to have taken hold of the work and have shown & genuine interest. Many of the par- ents were in the two buildings Fri- day but it is hoped that the down town exhibitions will be viewed by those who did not go to the schools. BUILDING LONG HIGHWAYS. State of Washington Working Hard on Problem of Good Roads. Spokane, Wash., May 27—Ten mil- lion dollars will be expended in this state in completing three trunk lines of a total length of 1,000 miles under the direction of the Washington Good Roads association if the recommenda- tions of its executive committee, headed by Frank W. Guilbert, are adopted by theé legislature at its ses- sion next January. Following fav- orable legislative action upon its program the association will support a bond issue for other road improve- ments. The work to be undertaken in 1913 is as follows: Sunset highway—From the Idaho state line at the eastern terminus of through Spokane, Davenport, Wilbur, Wenatchee and Snoqualmie Pass to Puget Sound, 400 miles. Inland Empire highway—From Spokane to Rosalia, thence along the most feasible routes in Whitman, Garfield and Walla Walla counties to the city of Walla Walla, across the Columbia rives at or near Pasco, North Yakima and thence to th: Junction at Ellensburg with the Sun- get highway, 250 miles. Pacific highway—From Blains through Bellingham, Everett, Seat- tle, Tacoma, Olympia, Chehalis and Kalama to Vancouver, 350 miles. Use will be made of existing roads in the building of the three main ar- teries and all roads will start from trade centers or at the termini of graded roads which begin at such centers. Camps are to be established and convict labor employed on all state road work. = A suftrage club has been formed