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: Biied = SURVIVORS BLANE VESTRS CAPTAN Believe Délayed § 0°S Call Swelled the List of Missing. (Continued From First Pagz.) called “two of the pluckiest people I ever met.” Dana was’ in the next to last life- boat to leave the Vestris. The little craft turned over as it hit the water and its passengers, including 10 women and several children, were scattered by _the waves. Dana- himself was swept a distance of 100 yards. Then he looked back and saw the women and youngsters clinging to the boat. He tried to swim back, but at that moment the Vestris went down and he had to swim for his life to escape the terrific suction. A few minutes later he and several | other men tried to right the overturned boat. As they tugged at it the body of a woman floated out from beneath. ‘The effort to turn the boat over failed, for, Dana said, the air compart- ments had come out and the craft was falling apart. He ma-aged to rench e plank from the Vestris’ raft. As he grasped it he saw a woman's leg. He grasped . that, too, and tugged, the woman was Mrs. Ball. With ene arm supporting her and the other clinging to the raft, he ea- couraged her and finally she found | strength to hold on for herself. H Dana and Mrs. Ball were in the | water from 1:30 pm. Monday to noon | on Tuesday. Drifting throughout the long night they could see the search- | lights of big ships, poking through the | darkness to find survivors, but none of the light-stabs fell on the weary pair. ‘The battleship Wyoming, one of Uncle Sam’s good Samaritans, slipped along | their horizon at dawn, but she didn't come their way. ‘Then the American Shipper slipped | into their narrow field of vision. Dana tore off his shirt and waved it, franti- cally, desperately. Sharp eyes aboard | the Shipper saw the signal and Dana | and Mrs. Ball were picked up. Both Show Effects. ‘The woman's nerves were so badly shaken when the rescue ship docked that she could not talk, and Dana, a tall, gaunt man, with eyes reddened from the brine, wore heavy bandages around his neck, for the muscles were very, very tired from their task of ]holdmg his head above water for so long. Baby Lost in Sea. Mrs. Laurenda Moore of Jersey City, an elderly stewardess, had sought to comfort & woman passenger who had seen her husband tossed into the ocean from one of the lifeboats. “He will be picked up,” Mrs. Moore assured, “keep A good heart.” Just then she saw a frail woman with aobaby. trying to clamber into a life- at. Mrs. Moore took the infant, to heln the mother, and was getting into a life- boat with it when the guy line broke or slipped from a seaman’s hands. The child was catapulted into the water and Mrs. Moore followed. The baby was not found. Mrs. Moore was picked up by a life- boat in which. there were five people. ‘They had some. hardtack to nibble, some ‘water, a lantern and some wet flares. What happened after that Mrs. Moore doesn't know, for she lay in a coma in the bottom of the boat. Mrs. Devore, overcome by grief over her hw'z:x 's, death, said she felt it “imperat to make a statement on what had happened. She held Capt. Carey responsible for not having called aid soont ':n for not ordering down the mng * when there would have been less danger. réasori-the vessel foundered is criminal neglect. The captain did everything wrong. He' should have had ships standing by us long before he did. Not a passenger should have been sent over- board before other vessels were stand- ing by.” © 23 Arrive on Berlin. One of the oldest laws of the sca— women and children a;‘s:—wu uni- “formiy ‘cbeyed at the sinl df the Ves- geu.u :urvlvohdlmving today on, tha rlin, reported. . - Wurlngfl b‘:rrowed cloths, worn’ and unkempt, 23 of the 220 survivors of the disaster came back to New York on the Berlin at almost the same tim» that 125 others were arriving on the Amerl- can Shipper. Among the survivors on the Berlin there was considerable difference of opinion as to the cause of the disaster. Archibald Bannister, colored boat- swain's mate, believed that sudden shifting of the cargo in stormy weather was responsible for the leak that tipped the ship over on its beam ends and made it necessary for the 129 passen- gers and 199 crew members, of which 108 are still unaccounted for, to aban- don ship. Other opinions were that a leak, small at first, enlarged for no particu- lar reason as the ship proceeded and caused an increasing list. Reports Pumps Failed. There were reports among the sur- vivors that the pumps had not worked well when the hold began to fill and some even told of frantic efforts to bail out the great ship with hand buckets. All agreed that there was no panic and that women and children were given precedence in obtaining tions in the lifeboats. Others said that per-. fect order did not prevail at all times, in one instance five passengers froni the third class taking a lifeboat all to themselves in their haste to gej away from the sinking ship. p There was some difficulty with low- ering the lifebrats. according to one. Two boats were filled with passengers as the little craft hung in ihe davits and then it was found impossible to lower them to the water. The pas- sengers had to scramble back to the tilting wave-washed deck to wait their turns in other boats. Some of the passengers reported that one of the lifeboats had a hole in it and planks had to be nailed over the aperture before it could be launched, leaking dangerously ond beginning to sink before it was 100 feet from the Vestris, which lay lurching in the waves with steam spouting from its portholes. Criticism Expressed. There was some criticism among the survivors on the Berlin, but on the whole this group was strong in its praise of the way in which captain and crew. of the Vestris had acted. There was no such general criticism as that made: by the survivors on the American shipoer. Alfred Duncan, second steward, re- ported to have been the last to leave Capt. Carey on the bridge of the Vestris, told of seeing to the needs of the pas- sengers. He said that before they took to the boats each passenger was. given some sweet crackers, a bunch of bananas, biscuits and water. After he leaped in the water, Duncan continued his ministrations to the = sengers. Swimming to one lifeboat crowded with almost 100 a,mom he ordéred some of them out, to swim to another partly filled boat, lest all be swamped. The steward swam around for several hours before he was picked up by lifeboat 13. “There were two days and nights so terrible I can hardly think,” said Gaetano Abbadini, third-class passen- ger. “Trouble began before daylight Monday morning. By 3 o'clock we were awakened by the pitching of the boas. ‘We ran up on deck because we couldn't sleep any longer. 2z “The sea was very rough and the boat listed terribly on one side. Every- body was afraid. All morning we wait- ed and at noon they told us that rescue was coming and that there was no real danger. Then they said we would have to take to the boats. Swam for Hours. “When they finally decide low- erncng boats they co’%ldn‘t 1«.5.?'-1: of them because the ship was at such an angle. Women and children were NOTABLES LISTED i Life Among Missing Pas- THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1928. | | INVESTRIS LOST Persons From All Ranks of sengers of Liner. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 14.—Persons from all ranks of life, many of them prominent in their fields, are among the missing passengers of the ill-fated liner Vestris. Among them are: Maj. Ycshio Incuye, en route “to Buenos Aires to essume the post of Japanese consul. Mrs. - Inoufe was picked up by:the battleship Wyoming. Earl F. De Vore and Norman K. Bat- ten, automobile racing drivers, who were on their way to South America to take part in a number of meets. De Vore had with him his $40,000 rac- ing.machine, the Nickel Plate Special De Vore lived at Altoona, Pa., and Bat- ten at Dayton, Ohio. Charles” M. Henrotin, mining en- gineer, who for many years was man- ager of the Kimberly Diamond Mines | in South Africa, He was on his way | to British Guiana, where he has rep- resented J. A. Sisto & Co., Wall Street ‘bankers. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fleteher of San Francisco, the former a foréign trade | expert who was en réute to Buenos Aires to take charge of the South | American sales force of,the Caterpillar | Tractor Co. Mr. Fletcher is a son of the Rev. Alfred Fletcher, Episcopal | clergyman, of Los Angeles. | Honeymooner Missing. Mrs. O. S. Stevens, wife of the man- | ager of the Buenos Aires branch of the First. National Bank of Boston, who, with her husband, was returning to Argentine after a three-month honey- moon in this country. She was the former Gladys May Holt of Buenos Aires. Her husband was picked up by the American Shipper. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brownfield of Louisville, Ky., who were on a three- month trip to Brazil, where Brownfield was to_ introduce the product of the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Co., of which | he was chief engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leuthauser of Jersey City, who were bound for the Argentine to seek their fortune. Sidney 8. Koppe, New York advertis- ing agent for a number of South Amer- ican publications, who was en route to Buenos Aires for a conference with officials of the newspaper La Nacion. Mrs. S. J. Goodman, who was re- joining her husband in Barbadoes, where he is manager of a sugar plan- tation, after visiting her son, Louis Goodman of White Plains, N. Y.; her daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Burr of For- restville, Conn., d a sister, Mrs. Charles Keith of Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Margaret Daugherty of Philadel- phia, who was en route to Buenos Aires to visit her daughter, Mrs. Leila K. de Rfipelm, wife of a retired Spanish naval officer. Former Resident Here Missing. Mrs. John M. Mills of Los Angeles, formerly of Washington, D. C., a widely traveled tourist, 65 years old and the widow of Rev. John M. Mills, formerly a pastor at Evanston, Il Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Jackson, mis- sionaries of Richmond, Va., and their | son Cary, who were returning to South | L) America after a several-month visit toman; Egbort Brice, donkeyman; Oeorgc!senger bookings), Mrs. Yoshio Inouye.|naro Panziatta, Firs this country. Vincento Murri of Philadelphia, who was on his way to Buenos Aires to at- tend the marriage of his sister to Gaetano Abbadini, also of Philadelphia, who was aboard the ship, but was saved by the Berlin, | Issac Nahen of the Bence Tourist Agency of New York, who had post- poned an earlier booking on the Liner American Legion. ¢ Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Franke and two children, a daughter, 21 years old, and a son, 8. Mr. Franke was en route to Buenocs Alres to take over the branch there of Korting Brothers man- ufacturers of compressor engines, of Hanover, Germany. For the last 15 years Mr. Franke had been in charge of the firm's Mexico City branch. Two families with three children each were among the missing third class passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Alleyne, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Mrs. James Headley, negroes, formerly of New York. the Associated Press. NEW 'YORK, November 14.—Revised lists of the rescued passengers and crew of the steamer Vestris, as received by the Lamport & Holt Line, follow: Aboard the North German Lloyd liner Berlin: Passengers: Gactano Abbadini, ad- dress unknown; T. E. Mack, New York: Carlos Quiros, counselor, Argentine con- sulate, New York; Carl Schmidt, Chi- cago; H Schultz, address unknown. Crew: Avard Adams, chief engineer; James Alkins, trimmer; Thomas Boyd, assistant steward; Archibald Bannister, boatswain’s mate; Robert Chase, sea- man; Alfred Duncan, second steward; Willlam Dyer, seaman; ‘Thomas Evans, assistant steward; Joseph Elikcie, sea. | man; Harry Forsythe, third enginee: Fitzgerald = Gittens, trimmer; _Percy Hudson, deck steward; Charles Harris, lemps; Myrick Jones, boatswain's mate: | Albert Knill, steward; Coleridge Lico- rish, essistant cook; Laurinda Moore, | stewardess; Ulrich Moore, assistant | cook. | Aboard the American Shipper—First- | class passengers: Paul A. Dana, Radio Corporation of America; Mrs. Earl F. De Vore, wife of racing car driver, Los | Angeles; W. W. Davies, newspaper man, New York; Dr. A. Gorman, address un- known; A. M. Jones, address unknown; H. C. W. Johnstone, general manager Trinidad Leaschold; Edwin Johnson, ad- dress unknown; Dr. Ernest Lehner, geologist, Basel, Switzerland; E. J. Mar- vin, address unknown: Ernesto Permuy, auditor, New York; Carl L. Pfaff, ad- dress unknown; S. F. Puppe, address unknown; Raymond L. Rickets, address unknown; Herman Rueckert, Germany: W. M. Sinclair, purchasing agent, Bound Brook, N. J.; O. S. Stevens, rep- resentative of First National Bank of Boston in Buenos Aires; Walter Spitz. New York; C. F. Slaughter, auditor, International ~Harvester ~Corporation Chicago; Clyde C. Tursfull, address un- known; Joseph F. Twomey, auditor, New York; E. M. Walcott, Halifax; E. J. ‘Walsh, address unknow: Second-class passengers: Jeseph E. Belgrave, New York; Miss H. Cubbin, Brooklyn; Elder David H. Huish, Salt Lake City; C. M. Harris, address un- known, passage booked last minute on dock; J. E. Pollard, address unknown; F. Sorenson, Brooklyn. i Third-class passengers: Jorge B. Do Vaile, address unknown; Juan Dosil, ad- dress unknown; Petro di Conza, Seventh avenue, Newark, N. J.; William Eversley, Brooklyn; Lloyd Keiser, 104 Camden street, Boston; Michel E. Khoriaty, address unknown; Dalrymple Lesiie, address unknown; L. E. Ramos, New York; Jose Santa Anna, address | unknown; Otto Ullrich, address un- known. 5 Crew: Georg> Amsdell, storekeeper; David Anderson, assistant baker; Clara | Bell, stewardess; Suppert Brown, stew- ard; John Bramwell, assistant steward, Jchn Burne, entree cook: Christenson Bird, baker; Reginald Bannister, 139 Tal ‘A. Banfinch, night watchman; Andrew Bardeeze, musi- clan: Thomas Connor, waiter; Afred Cohen, assistant steward; Ernest Car- penter, second: cook; E. Connor, assist- ant cook; —— Clarke (rot identified); James Chase, trimmer; Henry B. Clev- ‘enger, barber; Alfred Dine’ey, assistant steward; —— Dobbinson (not identi- | fled); Willlam Foran, steward; two of crew, mamed Ford; George Frank, fire- man; John Grainger, waiier; Thomas Grifiin, headwalter; Jean Gladianes, pantryman; Percy Gibson, seaman; Granville Gill, seaman; Frederick Gill, seaman; George Hoge, steward; Ran- dolph Harris, engine servant; Charles Harris, seaman; Alfred Hanscn, scul- lion; Conrad Helford, seaman; — Unt, sceman; Alexander Hurdle, greaser; John Hedrington, greaser; Jo- seph Hinds, fireman; Donald Helder, fireman; Frank Johnson, chief officer; three of crew, named Jones; St. Claire Jordan, seaman; Murde Kenzie, stew- ard; John Kewn, butcher; David Lock- ett, carpcater'’s mate; James Little- more, steward: Lionel Licorish, quar- termaster; William Millard, steward; Ernest Mercer, steward; two named, McCullock; Horace Mooie, assistant cook; Gladstone Messiah, seaman; —— | McDonald (unidentified); Thomas | Moffatt, baker; Willlam Munroe, fire- {man; —— Owen (unidentified); James | Oliviere, fireman; "Albert, Pugh, purser; Donald Phillips, ass! steward; Griffith Pritchard, cook; Arthur Pres- cott, seaman; Willlam Pearman, ~reaser; | Thomas Robinson, steward; James Rae, pssistant steward; Roy Royal, musician; Maurice Roberts, boatswain; Robert Rose, greaser; Ernest Smith, refriger- ating engincer; Victor Scgre, printer:! James Scott, assistant steward; Samvel Sacowski, assistant steward; Joseph Smith, seaman; Grafton Sargentt, sea- man; James Straughan, fireman: Ger- ald Straughan, fireman; —— Watson | (unidentified); George W:lland, (iird, oficer; Gus Wohle, carpenter, and Charles Walter, assistant steward. Aboard the Myriam— Passengers: S. Cox, Montreal; Harry | Fay, address unknown; Herman Hipp, | Swift & Co., Chicago; Campbell Kell- man, 82 Woodland avenue, Upper Montclair, N. J.; Mrs. C. F. Slaughter, Chicago; O. C. Patterson. Edmonton. Alberta; Willlam Fields, plumber, New York. Crew: Stanley Blades, seaman; rown, linen keeper; Leonard Bennett, greaser; Alexan- der Crick, seaman: George Car- ter, fireman; George Cole, steward: Ed- win Conrad, musician; Charles Cladier, trimmer; Ben Cutting, trimmer: Ed- ward Darcy, chef: Donald Dettin, fire- man; Thomas Edwards, steward; St. Claire’ Estwick, fireman; Reynold Fed- eringham, seaman; Joshua Ford, fire- man; Gilbert Ford, fireman; Jose Gar- cla, eighth engineer; Joseph Garner, trimmer; Hunt; Hubert Husbands, cook: Samuel Headley, trimmer; Jones; John _Kipling. steward; McDonald; William McDonough, baggage master; James! Niles, trimmer; Samuel Parfit firoman; William Pearman, grease: George Prestwick, fourth engineer; Dr. William Sears, surgeon; John Ross, assistant steward; Leonard Reach, sea- | man, Samuel Ramsey, fireman; Joseph | Shaw, fireman; Clarence Scott, fire- | man; Sealey; Charles Verchere, wire- | less; Harold Vowles, steward; Hendry Vanderpool, trimmer; Harrington Wil- liams, greaser; Percy Waldron, seaman; Felix ~Willlam; Watson; Reginald Weeks, fireman. H aboard the Myriam, but do not check | with' crew or passenger lists: Boice, Egbert, Brownhill, Coick, Cline, Diles, | | Docein, Fawcett, Garoc, Conrad and ey. On board the Wyoming—Passengers: Mrs. Fernand (not listed among pas- CLAFLIN Opticians—Optometrists 922 14th St. | | | | e | 7 No C.0.D.'s | a New York advertising agency; O. L. The following names are given as | f§ wife of Japgnese consul in Buenos Aires; Mrs. Barrier (not listed among bookings), Mrs. Otto Ullrich, address unknown; Mrs. N. K. Baten, Los An- geles; W. B. Burke, auditor, New York, and Mrs. Juan Dosil, address unknown. Crew: John Morris, fireman; Gerald Burton, fircman, and Joseph Boxill, fireman. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 14.—The fol- | lowing names which appear on pas- | senger booking and crew lists do not | appear on the indentified list of sur-| vivors received by Lamport & Holt: First-Class Passengers. and Mrs. W. A. Brownfield. Ky.; Norman K Batten, Los Angel Mics Iracema Dos Santos Ca- | bral, address- unknown; Earl F. Devore, | racing car driver, Los Angrles; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fletcher, San Francisco: Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Franke and two children, Ingeborg and Helmut, Mexico City; Charles M. Henrotin: Maj. Yoshio Inouye, Japanese consul in Buenos Aires; Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Jackson, missionaries, Richmond, Va.; Carry Jackson, Richmond, Va.; Mrs Agnes M. Johnson, wife of assistant barbor master of Barbados; Sidney S. Koppe, head of Maxey, address unknown; Mrs. John M. Mills, 65-year-old widow of Los Angeles; Isaac Nahen, address un- known; Mrs. S. F. Puppe and infant, address unknown; Mrs. O. S Stevens, wife representative First National Bank of Boston in Buenos Aires; C. J. W. Stone, accountant, Christianburg, Va.: Ralph R. Whitehead, Woodstock, N. Y.: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wilion and two children, Francis, 3, and Paul, 1, ad- dress unknown. Second-Class Passengers. Elder Burt Keith, Salt Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, Londo; Mrs. 8. J. Goodman, Tarrytow Y. Mrs. 1. Johnson, address unknow. Germaine Julian, New York Daphne Julian, New York: Mrs. Clytie Raphael, New York; Mrs. J. Thompson. Third Class Passengers. Mr. and Mrs, Jeremiah Alleyne and three children, formerly of Brooklyn Mary Alleyne, 201 Hyman stréet, Jer- |S sey City, N. J.; Hubert Brathwaite, ad- | dress unknown; Mr. and Mrs. 8. Bowen, New York; Walter Cadogan, New York; E. Corbellini, address un- known; Solomon G. Bounoff, New York; Ramon_ Garcla, address unknown; Mr. and Mrs. James Headley and three children, New York; Nora Bradley Ko- nan, address unknown; Dalrymple Leslie, address unknown; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Leuthauser, 120 Lincoln street, Jersey City: Joseph Mikel, Chicago; | Elten Cla | Willlam Little, assistant cook; Lionel| | ant cook; Antonio Maradigue, second pantryman: Joseph McDonald, seaman: | class steward; Oscar Preston, captain t National Bank, Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Francisso Placente, New York: Miss Marion E. Reid, address unknown; Mr. and Mss. Jose G. Rua and 2-year-old son Jose, New Bedford, Mass.; Thecphilus Rowe, New York: Mr. and Mrs. Clarenze Smith, New York: Darnley Thorne, 1| Jay Street, Cambridge, Mass.; Clearv | Jones, address unknown. | " List of Crew. Aubrey Batsen, greaser; John Bolger, first ofiicer; John Elue, second engi- neer: Felik Blano. second-class pantry: George Blades, scaman; Edward Ber- nard, assistant steward; John Braith- waite, dayman; Capt. W. J. Carey, master of the Vestris; Nevil Connor, | tant_cook; Walter Chapman, third | ker; Jcseph Clarke, relief ereaser: quartermaster; Ephraim ermaster; Cuthbert Craig, trimmer. Feginald Dickson, sixth engineer; Richard Davis, chief steward: Henry Daley, bellboy: Thomas Fulton, elec- trician; Joseph Garner, trimmer: Cvril Greenridge, trimmer; Sidney Helms, chief refrigerator engineer: John Horn- assistant steward; Andrew Houqi:, nt steward; Bridgeman Harley ascistant steward; Harry Hawkins. chief butcher: Sydney Hassell, donkeyman St. Claire Hunte, seaman: Charles Har- ris, seaman: John Hedrigton, greaser, Samucl Hedley, trimmer: Evan Hamp- den, fireman; Frank Johnson, chief of- ficer; Clifford Jones, servant: Edgar Jones, servant; Hugh Jones, hospital at- tendant; Ralph Jones, second-class cook: Sydney Jones, foreman; Robert Jarvis, assistant steward; St. Claire Jordan, seaman. Steward Missing. Murde Kenzie, steward: John Kewn, second butchcr; James Littlemore, | steward; _Errol Leechaoloupe, bath steward; Frwin Leechaoloupe, servant: | Clarke, quar Licorish, quartermaster; Laurinda | Moore, stewardess; Enriquz McCullock; | ass'stant steward; Horace Moore, assist- | James McDonald, second wireless op- erator; Alexander McClaggan, . dyke- man; Aaron Medica, storekeeper; Wil- liam Monroe, fireman; Marvin Neal, | assistant cook; Michael O'Loughlin, | first wireless cperator; John Owen, badroom steward: Gulbert Owen, third- rvant; Claude Pay, assistant stew- | ard: Arthur Prescott, seaman. | Frank Rigg, chief bedroom steward: | Ernest Smith, refrigerating engineer; | James Scott, fruitman; Clarence Scott, | fireman; Grafton Sargent, seaman; James Straughan, fireman; Gerald Straughan, fireman; Andrew Sealey. trimmer; Theophilus Sealy, fireman; Joseph Spitzer, fruitman; Leslie Wat- son, second officer; Miller Watson, cev- enth engincer; John Winstanley, night watchman; Arthur Williams, assistant steward; Alfred Watson, assistant stew- i Vincento Murri, ~address unknown; Eleanor Pope, address unkno Gen- Percy Waldron, seaman; Conrad Werner, bandman; Harrington Wil- liams, greassr; Reginald Weekes, fire- man; McDonald Wells, trimmer. The mames Jones, McDonald, Scoft and Sealey also appear in the list of rescuad. but no given names, making it ‘mpossible to complete identification. WEBB CANTER RESCUED. Mother Here Notified Son Saved When Vestris Sank. Webb Canter, son of Mrs. E. M. Can- | ter, 35 U'street northeast, was among those saved from the ill-fated Vestris, which sank more than 20 miles off the irginia coaSt Monday, his mother was advised by a friend of her son last night. Mrs. Canter did not know that her son was aboard the ship. In his last communication he said he was plan ning to join the crew of the 8. 8. Vin- cent on its next voyage to France. Assoclated Press reports do not list Canter either as a passenger or meme ber of the crew of the Vestris. SILENT ON DISASTER. NEW YORK, November 14 (#).—Da- vid Cook, vice president of the Lam- port & Holt Line, said today that the line would have nothing to say about criticism of officers of the foundered steamer Vestris until there had been a full investigation and until both thc: making the charges and those who bave to answer them have had a chance to g2t a complete rest. REPAIR PARTS For Furnaces and Hot-Water Boilers FRIES, BEALL & SHARP 734 19th St. NW. Thurber’s Inn 14th & Fairmont Sts. N.W. (New Amsterdam Bids.) Opening Dinner 5:30 P.M. Thursday Nov. 15th Seventy-Five Cents . Surviver’s Story. ‘This was her story: “Saturday the weather was fine. Sun- day it was rough. There was a swaying and listing of the ship. On Monday morning my husband examined the reg- ister in the room and said: ‘I have never been on a ship where there has been such a list. It looks to me like serious trouble. “We dressed quickly and with diffi- culty !numg officer. He assured us that everyl was all right. By noon everything would be fine and dandy and we would be under way. The ship's officers went about and explained that everything was all right. Then came the order.to take to the lifeboats. x in' lifeboat No. 8, wiht my husband -and Mr. and Mrs. Norman K. Batten of Los Angeles. Norman is crying while they crowded them into the boats. There was no-place for me so I jumped over the side and swam for hours in the water, until finally I drifted near a life boat and scrambled in, Lmeub another day and night tossing that life boat before the Berlin found us.” Abbadini, who is a bricklayer from Philadelphia, was on his way to Ar- gentina to marry Philomena Murri, whom he has.never seen, but with whose picture he fell in love. He said he did not know when he could go now. He had lost everything and he feared to attempt the passage in another boat. Archibald Bannister and other mem- bers of the crew stated that the trouble had started with listing of the ca on the Vestris. High seas and the lurehing' of ‘the vessel had completed [==| ARMSTRONG ulmncryc House Deliver DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES an automobile driver. He was going to South ‘America to do some racing. ‘This boat, had a hole in it, and five minutes before it was lowered this hole was patched with a piece of tin and some nails, ‘Several of us called to the captain and asked, ‘Isn't it dangerous to send people out in a boat in this shape?” .and he turned around and walked away and said nothing. “We had nothing else to do but take the boat. We got into it. As soon as it got into the water it began leaking. We were. . overcrowded. The boat shipped water. She was filling fast by now. Lifeboat No. 1, with four negro seamen 4n it, came by. We called to them to give us aid and take some of us out so that all might be saved. They drew near and my husband urged me to jump. T did so. Then they pulled away from No. 8. A sea came in be- tween us. When I saw No. 8 again it was capsized and every one was in the ‘water. I begged the men to go back and pick up my husband and my friends, ‘would not do it.” { Pandemonium Reigned. Mrs. EDevore said that during the launc! of the lifeboats there was panderfionium under deck and from this ed the crew was being held til the passengers could be the lifeboats. She knew her must have gone down when t was swamped and was bitter e crew of No. 1, which boat, she safd, could easily have taken care of all men and women in No. 8. "Radio Operator Dics. Michael J. O'Loughlin, chief wireless operatar, although bound by no such tradition of ‘the sea as that forcing Capt. Carey to stand by his ship, died a hero’s death ‘after doing all that he ‘The radio man sent his last message “Help, help]” as the lifeboats were | being lowered. He was asking help for others, but not for himself. The tragedy of the disaster, if the passengers .and sailors are correct in their summing up, was that the calls were sent too late. * Lifeboat Crashes. | G. Gladianos, pantryman of the Vestris, had 2 station in a lifeboat to | which 20 women and children were assigned. He had a baby in his arm: Just as the craft settled upon the water | another boat crashed down upon.-it, smashing the little ong’s head, crack- ing Gladianos’ boat in two-and hurling | all its occupants into the water. What | happened to them then he couldn't say. | S. Sadowski, a Los Angeles seaman, declared every porthole on the Vestris was defective; that the scuppers were plugged, and that the bulkhead doors had not been water tight. Frank Johnson, chief officer of the | Vestris, was asked whether he covld | definitely say what had caused the disaster. “I have nothing to say,” he replied. Mariner's Criticism Bitter. Capt. Frederick Sorenson, a passenger of the Vestris who holds a master's license, was particularly bittee -in his criticism of what he called the “criminal neglect” which he said marked the disaster. as 4 Wl “I know about ships,” he said. “The the damage. “ The Vestris, they said, listed so far to one side that it was impossible to right her. Joseph Alexi, an able seaman, in- dignantly denied that he and other col- ored members of the crew rowed life- boat No. 13, which they got into after it broke,away from the Vestris, away from passengers struggling in the water. | He said the boat was rowed away from the ship to keep it from being demolished by a swinging spar and that this action probably saved the lifeboat, in which 22 men were saved. In Water 22 Hours. Carl Schmidt, a third-class passen- ger, from Chicago, would say nothing | at all about his experiences. Schmidt | was in the water for 22 hours, and was found drifting among wreckage of the Vestris clinging to two lifebelts. Capt. von Thalen of the Berlin said that, despite his long exposure, Schmidt was lively and talkative when he was drag- ged from the water. i When the Berlin docked David Cook, viee president of the American agents of the Lamport & Holt Line, went aboard and thanked Capt. von Thalen for his rescue ‘work. Von Thalen re- plied that what he and his men had done was only in line of duty and that as long as ships sail the seas there will b2 tragedies like the sinking of the Vestris, Capt. von Thalen said his steamer had passed the floating body of a man, but that he did not attempt to pick it up because of the heavy sea, not wish- ing to risk the lives of the crew for the dead It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow, Easy to Pay Monlh‘!‘y For 12 Months $15.00 $20.00 $25.00 $30.00 $540 $45.00 $1,200 $100.00 $6,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. W. 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