Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 1, 1912, Page 8

MANY BODIES BURIED AT SEA Funeral Ship Reaches Hali- fax With 190 on Board. TOTAL OF 306 RECOVERED Not One Name of Prominent Persons; Missing Added to List of Found by) the Arrival of the Mackay-Bennett | at Nova Scotian Port. Halifax, N. S., May 1—One hundred | and ninety bodies, among them those ef Colonel John Jacob Astor and Isi- dor Straus, were brought to Halifax on the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which had been searching an area of more than thirty square miles in the vicinity where the great White Star Mmer Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. George B. Widener’s body, although previously reported as recovered, was mot among those on the ship and her commander explained that a body at first thought to have been that of Mr. Widener was buried as that of his| valet. All told 306 dead were found and 116 ‘Were consigned again to the sea. Not ome name of prominent persons miss- ing was added to the list of recovered dead by the Mackay-Bennett’s arrival. Sailors worked four hours unloading her and the dead were taken to an im- provised morgue in a curling rink, where relatives will have opportunity to claim them. Lifebelts on All Corpses. Members of the crew, talking over the side, said that every body picked up had had on a lifebelt and there were no bullet holes in any. Many uncoffined dead lay on the forward deck, covered with tarpaulins. As the undertakers came aboard it was de- cided to take off these bodies first. Colonel John Jacob Astor’s body, it was said, was somewhere in the pile of rough coffins at the stern. . White Star line officials had boarded the ship down the harbor and they superintended the arrangements for} the docking. All told there were not more than half a dozen mourners or their repre- sentatives at the pier, for they dreaded the sight and preferred to await the work of identification at the morgue. ‘The first body removed was that of a seaman. When the tarpaulin was thrown back more than fifty bodies were disclosed. Men with stretchers quickly came on board and the work of removal was begun. Bodies of Eighteen Women. The total number of bodies found, the captain said, was 306. Of these 116, most of them members of the Titanic’s crew and unidentified, were consigned to. the sea and the remain- ing 190 brought to Halifax. Only eighteen bodies of women were found afioat. The exact number of identified among the 190 brought in Captain Lardner preferred to leave to an offi- cial estimate by the White Star au- thorities. Relics of the Titanic dotted the sea over an area of thirty square miles, Captain Lardner said. Doors, windows and chairs by the score were found floating, but to none of them were bod- jes lashed. In several instances there were groups of floating bodies. number- ing fifty or more, but none were lashed together. Colonel Astor was found standing almost erect in his lifebelt. Small boats were lowered by the Mackay-Bennett whenever a group of bodies was sighted and into these the dead were piled three or four at a time. Hauled on board the cableship each ‘was numbered with a large canvas tag and the valuables and papers were placed in a canvas sack similarly numbered. MEAT PRICES GO SKYWARD Reach Highest Figures in Twenty-five Years at Chicago. Chicago, May 1.—The predicted rise in meat prices has arrived. The high- est figures in twenty-five years are Teported and it was said by dealers that all records would be broken in a few days. Packers say they are pay- ing the highest prices for farmers’ offerings in twenty years. Compared with prices of one year ago beef sirloin was 4 cents higher, beef tenderloin 5 cents higher and lamb 6 cents higher. Other meats are up proportionately. Another Flood Feared, Memphis, Tenn., May 1—Heavy rains over the valley have alarmed levee officials here and it is feared the coming rise may cause further flood damage. Railroads to the west of Memphis have all resumed regular schedules, but may be forced to sus- pend again. Since Friday night the rainfall in this section has amounted to 3.67 inches. Four Convicts Escape. Kingston, Ont., May 1.—Four des- perate convicts escaped from King- ston penitentiary after beating up their guards. They were soon recap- tured. The men included the two Mc- Culm brothers, noted Iowa crooks, and Arthur Brown, the man who held Premier Roblin’s niece a prisoner for days in the wilds of Manitoba. ‘KNEW TITANIC WAS DOOMED Captain So Informed Just | After Collision. ISMAY AGAIN ON STAND Managing Director of White Star Line | Indignantly Denies Any Attempt to Reinsure Vesse! Between Time She Went Down and the Hour the News Was Made Public. | Washington, May 1—The senate in- vestigation into the wreck of the Ti- | tanic has entered its final stages. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, own- ers of the lost liner, was recalled to the witness stand and put through a last searching examination by Senator Smith. Mr. Ismay indignahtly denied that he or any representative of his com- pany had attempted to reinsure the Titanic between the time she went down and the hour the real news of the disaster became public. He as- serted that a wireless message which he directed to Vice President Frank- lin from the Carpathia Monday morn- ing, April 15, did not reach that offi- cial until Wednesday. Mr. Ismay said the Titanic was not a “speed boat, but had been construct- ed under orders given him to make her the biggest and best equipped ves- sel afloat. No cost limit had been set. A charge was made to the commit- tee that the White Star line officials had positive news of the disaster be- tween the hours of 7 and 8 on the morning of the accident, but sup- pressed the news until twelve hours later. The information was given by E. J. Dunn, a New York business man, | who said he in turn got his informa- tion in New York from the son of a Western Union employe. He refused to give his informant’s name and | promptly was given over to the ser- geant-at-arms. He spent the remain- der of the morning using the long dis- tant telephone to New York in an ef- fort to be absolved from his pledge of secrecy. Captain Knew Boat Was Doomed. Before the hearing was resumed Senator Burton announced he had ex- amined Fourth Officer Boxhall and learned from him that J. W. Andrews, builder of the Titanic, who went down with the ship, told Captain Smith after the collision that the boat would sink within an hour. ! “TI had a long talk with Officer Box- hall,” said Senator Burton, “and asked him to recall if he could what he heard Captain Smith say on the deck of the ship after the collision. Boxhall re- called several trivial things that had been said on the bridge and about the deck before the order was given to get out the lifeboats and then recol- lected what the captain had said about the condition of the ship a few min- utes after the collision. “He said Captain Smith had told him about twenty minutes after the collision that the Titanic was doomed and that J. W. Andrews, representing the builders, had given him the infor- mation. Andrews had gone over the ship immediately after the crash and discovered that her hull had been ripped open. He then told the cap- tain the ship could not be saved.” This testimony is corroborative of that given by Samuel Homming, a sea- man, who said the boatswain woke him up with the exclamation: “Get out of here. You only have half an hour to live. This comes from An- drews. Keep it to yourself.” NEW MEMBER OF CONGRESS William S, Vare Succeeds Late Gen- eral Bingham. Philadelphia, May 1.—William S. Vare, who was elected to congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of General H. H. Bingham, is one of the Vare brothers who have long been CONGRESSMAN VARE. prominent in the political affairs of the city. He was the anti-Penrose candidate for the mayoralty nomina- tion in the primaries last fall when George H. Earle, Jr., was nominated, only to be defeated on election day by | Mayor Blankenburg. Vure has been recorder of deeds. Former Democratic Chairman Returns From Montana. With a Woodrow Wilson boom tucked under his hat Frank A. Day arrived in St. Paul from Montana prepared to stay in Minnesota and to assist in delivering the state for the New Jersey governor. | Like William Jennings Bryan Mr. | Day will not aspire to leadership of | the party, but will serve in the ranks. He declared that his recent residence j year he bucked the octopus at Mis- | soula, was not an official residence. | He never voted there. His family re- | mained in Minnesota. His household | goods are still in the state and he in- tends to go back to Fairmont and “wait for something to turn up.” FAVORABLE REPORT IS MADE War Department Approves Work on Lac Qui Parle Dam. A favorable report on the proposed improvement of the Minnesota river at Lac Qui Parle has been made by cost approximately $1,000,000 the re- taken at an early date provided the state of Minnesota or other local in- terests will bear one-half the expense. The contemplated improvement is the building of a forty-five-foot dam at Lac Qui Parle, which will create a reservoir with a capacity of 30,000,- 000,000 cubic feet of water. A larce DECLARES TREATY INVAL Saloons Legalized in Sections of “in dian Country.” Federal Judge C. A. Willard, sitting at Minneapolis, made permanent the injunction issued by him in January, 1911, restraining W. E. (“Pussyfoot”) Johnson from closing or interfering with the saloons in Bemidji and vicin- ity. Johnson closed a number of saloons in Bemidji in carrying out a campaign enforcing the provision of the old In- dian treaty which prohibited sale of liquor on ceded land. Judge Willard had been wiped out when Minnesota became a state. HEN COOP THEIR SHELTER Women and Children Nearly Perish When Driven Out by Fire. Mrs. Annie Nelson, a widow, and her eight children were found on a homestead near Grand Rapids, hud- dled in a hen coop and dressed only in thin night clothing in which they | escaped from their burning home sev- eral days previous. They had a small stove which gave heat enough to-keep life im them and they killed and ate their chickens, the only food left them. It was the second time their home had been burned in six months. A fund will be raised for them. Minnesota Politician Dead. August Koerner, state treasurer from 1895 to 1901, died suddenly at a sanitarium at St. Paul. Mr. Koerner was a veteran of the Civil war and came to: Minnesota in 1867. He was a member of the house in ; the Twenty-eighth session and was prominent politically in Minnesota for more than twenty years. NO MONEY FOR SHIP’S CREW Line Fails to Make Provisions for Men Who Survived Disaster. New York, April 22.—Except for fur- nishing clothing to those who were asleep at the time of the accident and did not reach land with their uniforms the White Star line has done nothing for the members of the crew who were picked up from the Titanic. Up to date there has been no announcement of what provision will be made for the men. Under the English maritime laws the wages of the sailors, firemen and stew- ards stopped when their vessel went down. None of the men landed here had been given to them. SERIOUS CRISIS IN MOROCCO Uprising of Native Troops Assumes Grave Proportions. Paris, April 23.—The total absence of dispatches from Fez, where the Moroccan troops have mutinied against increased French intervention, led to the belief that the uprising has as- sumed serious proportions and that the French troops may be in danger of losing control of the situation. The last dispatches, which were meager, reported 800 rebels killed in a desperate street conflict and the im- prisonment of 2,000 more. PASSES IMMIGRATION BILL Senate Restores Educational Test in a Modified Form. Washington, April 21.—The Dilling- bam immigration bill, with the educa- tional test restored in modified form, passed the senate without division on the final yote. The test adopted re- quires that every male immigrant | must read and write and makes that provision applicable to immigrants from Canada and other countries of the Western hemisphere, who were excepted by the original bill. Religious refugees would be exempted. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1912. |in Montana, where for more than a. the war department to congress. Esti- | mating that the work to be done will | port recommends that it be under- | amount of dredging will be necess. ¥. | ruled that the effect of the treaties | with money and they all declared none | at + = + <: £ FURN GRAND LESSEE LE EE ESE SLY corset. corset really made °y % Fs rg fp Fe fp ds $ Bs ¢ Bs 0g $ 0 0 + + CORSETS Why not have real com- on . fort as well as good fit, shape and style in your next Step into the “IMPERIAL” and have your measure taken for a Not a fake but a guaranteed tail- ored corset, any shape, any style, no extra charges. Come in and look over the samples any way. No trouble to show goods. e HEPEEEEEEEEEPE DIES EPESEIER St bDADIES PERIAL ISHING HOUSE RAPIDS. MINNESOTA. Special Reduction PATTERN HATS As the season is getting late we are offering at a reduction of for you. ONE-THIRD from the regular price, every Pat- tern Hat in the house, No two alike. Every one a beauty. Come in and take your choice. PEPEPEEFPEEEPETEGES PHOTOGRAPHS ARE. NEEDED The committee in charge of preparing |\the publicity literature |for tasca county |wants photographs il- \lustrating farm scenes, 'farm homes, dairy |herds and actual farm- ing operations in the |county. By sending; these in you will add greatly to the value \of the literature which ‘is being prepared for | distribution among the prospective settlers. Give data regarding ithe views shown and/ send or bring the pho- tographs at once to the Herald-Review office. |When the Green Gits Back in the Trees. |In spring, when the green gits back in the trees, And the sun comes out and stays, And. yer boots pulls on with a good tight squeeze | And you think of yer barefoot day When you off to work and you want | to not, And you and yer wife agrees It’s time to spade up the garden lot, | When the green gits back in the! trees— Well! work is the least o’ yer idees When the green, you know, gits back in the trees. When the green gits back in the trees, and bees Is buzzin’ aroun’ agin, In that kind of lazy go-as-you-please Old gait they bum roun’ in; a ‘When the groun’s all bald where the hayrick stood, And the crick’s riz, and the.breeze Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood And the green gits back in the trees— I like, as I. say, in such scenes as/ these, The time when the green gits back in the trees! When the whole tail feathers o’ win-{ ter-time Is all pulled out and gone! | And the sap it thaws and begins to climb, And the sweat it starts out on | A feller’s forred, a-gittin’ down At the old spring on his knees— I kind o’ like jest a-loaferin’ roun’ When the green gits back in the trees— Jest a-potterin’ roun’ as I—durn— please— When the green, you know: gits back in the trees. | —James Whitcomb Riley. Our Paint Is Going to be Put On Many Houses This Season AINT that we sell has been selected by many people this season for painting their houses, out buildings and stables, because these peo- ple had confidence in us and knew that we carried the best sun-proof, weather-proof and non-blist- ering paints made. And these people knew that our prices were as low as quality would consist- ently allow. wed | sd When you start to do painting or need anything in the painter's line, come in and see the immense stock of paints, glass, oils, white lead, varnishes, stains, wax, etc., that we carry on hand. Your patronage is respectfully solicited in this and other lines we carry. For paint is just ome of the lines that will be found here. Every tool and instrument used by carpenters, plumbers, brick- layers, farm hands and many other trades is here, and you may rely upon it’s being the best. Then, too, we have farm implements, such as harrows, cultivators, plows, seeders, and for the farmer’s wife, churns, tin and granite wares, woodenware and crockery. Stoves, both heating and cooking, comprise another line. In fact, there’s nothing that should be found in a complete hardware store that you cannot find here, and as we said before, at most reasonable prices. This is the store you should trade at, the store that wants your business and the store that deserves it. We sell and thoroughly recommend ALABASTINE :POWER | Granda Rapids W.J.& Hl. Vill'age Lots $5 D WN AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter ever. We also have some choice business lots on our lists. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY GEO. BOOTH ..FINE CIGARS.. Grand Rapids, Minnesota “BOOTH’S CIGARS” Have fon ail an excellent here, and under his personal supervision. This insures the utmost cleanliness and care in manufacture. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE HERALD-REVIEW “ ol