New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1928, Page 30

producing concera in Trinidad. Johnstone said he noticed a slight list to starboard when he boarded the Vestria and that all the pas- sengers’ baggage, as they boarded the ship, was put on the port side. He said that about 7 a. m. Monday he suggested that a delegation of AT MASONIC HOME | E[lldfl “fl&ifl] CIllb me‘um and ask what was being done . |to insure their fety. Program at Wallinglodd | 5ue nobosy aereca with me, 20 the matter was dropped,” he said. “I thought the passengers ought to be informed.” Declined to Iower Boats “For God's sake lower some of the starboard boats” Johnstone said he told one of the ofiicers while they were struggling to get PROVIDE CONCERT The fembers of the Etude Musical club of New Rritain motored to | Wallingford last evening and gave a | concert for the members of the Ma- sonic home. The large auditorium was filled with an appreciative audi- ence, At this season of the year, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928 boats,” he replied. ‘lfldl‘ the second officer disappeared. I be unable to be in court, “Was there at any time any ten- |One boat, No. 14, he said, he re-| Judgs H. P. Roche told Jankoaki i dency of officers or crew of the ship |leased from her davits just as the |that the case would be tried Tuea- |to assist the passengers?” Jessop ship went down. day and if Mrs. Cornwall was not in asked. “1 released her on the deck,” he |court at that time, she would be “The officers were all on the hur- [said, “so she'd float after the ship |brought in on a capias, thus ending iricane deck, and the passengers on|went down.” In this boat, which he | Jankoski's protest. Jud Roche | the promenade. The second steward ' boarded alone, after jumping off the |ascertained that Jankoski was at |did excellent work, going among the keel of the ship as she turned over, ;liberty in bonds and indicated that | passengers and encouraging them. |Licorish rowed back inte the wreck- | he would order a bond at once if one Johnstone said that soon after age and rescued 20 persons. |had not already been posted. | midnight Sunday, he saw one of the | Licorish said that on previous| According tothe police, Mrs. Corn- |lifeboats on the starboard side trips *last January or February” |wall telephoned to Jankoski that she swung out. the Vestris had a sustained list of | was on her way to visit him, and “That first made me realize that 'about 10 degrees, because of the |after she reached his home about 1 [the difficulty was serious,” he said. stowing of her cargo. {c'clock this morning there was a No Lifebelts Ordered ‘ Court adjourned until 2 p. m. as |disturbance. Jankosk! is alleged to Jessop asked him if the passen- |Licorish left the floor and Federal | have punched her in the face, cut- | gers were told to put on lifebelts. |Attorney Tuttle announced that ting her lip and otherwise injuring “We were not,” he said. |Harry Wheeler, marine superinten- |her. It is said Jankoski and Hr'l, | As Johnstone was excused from dent of the L. & H. line, would be |Cornwall have been in each other's only a very few of the members of the home are able to get out of doors until warm weather, therefore the only form of entertainment they get depends on those who go to the | home from outside. An invitation for a return engagement at an early date was extended to the club members | by the management and audience. | Last night's program was as follows: | Ensemble for three violins and piano GyPsy MUSIC «.ovvnnennnans Moir Max Horenstein, Edla Sims, | Rose Meltzer. Mrs. Robert Sims at piano. | Vocal solos— “Tally Ho" . “Rain” ... Leoni | 5. Cirran ims at piano. Miss Edla Mrs. Robert Sims Piano solos— “Murmuring Zephyrs" . “Nocturne” . .. “Country Gardens” ..... Warren Hale Violin solos— “In a Monastery Garden” . Kefelby | “Gavotte Moderne™ ........ Severn Miss Rose Meltzer | Madeline Gerrish at plano | Interlude by Master Dickie Reffelt Vocal solos “Lassie 0’ Mine" “Cradle Song Miss Madeline Gerrish at piano. Violin solos— “Spanish Dance™ “Orientele” .., . . Max Horenstein Madeline Gerrish at plano semble for three violins and piano ungarian Dance™” . Bohm Max Horenstein, Edla Sims, Rose Meltzer Robert Sims at piano. | . Jensen ! Chopin . Grainger Walt Hannah Mrs. VESTRIS’ ENGINEER SAYS SHIP MIGHT HAVE KEPT AFLOAT, (Continued trom First Page) | last order. This was just as the ship went down,” Listing At New York H. C. W. Johnstons, gencral Tian- ager of the Trinidad Leaschold, an oil producing concern, agrced with an observation by Walcott that the | liner was listing when it left New York on a voyage that cost more than one hundred lives. Walcott’s affidavid also said he | noticed a slight list to starboard when the vessel left New York. He said, however, he attached no im- portance to his observation at the time as he had often seen such lists on other vessels. Walcott's affidavit said the liner ran into rough weather Sunday and the list increased steadily. When tellow passengers suggested inter- viewing the captain, William Carey, Walcott said he told them, it wonld he unnecessary as tha skipper “would realize the ship was in dan- ger.” List Grew Worse The list continued to increase, he mid, and between 7 and 8 a. m., on Monday, he heard Stewards and petty officers talking outside his cabin. “Aren’t you going down to hail?” Walcott said he overheard one of the petty officers ask a steward. “No, it's no use,” he said steward replied. He said several passengers came on deck soon afterwards wearing lifebelts and one of the petty of- ficers said “What are you wearing lifebelts for? There's no danger, and you'll only upset the other pas- sengers.” About the same time, Walcott's affidavit stated, a rumor was going about that a steamer was less than 50 miles away and coming to their assistance No Crews For Boats Walcott in his affidavid stated that the lifeboats to whiclh the women and children were assigned contained no crews to manage them Number & hoat, only one white seaman negro. Walcott said he and another male passenger dragged fwo women pas- sengers up the sharply slanting deck and helped them into lifeboat num- ber six. He was helping another WOmAN, a negress, he said, when she became entangied in While he was struggling himself, he said, the over dragging him down. He freed himself under water, and after a terrific struggle manazed to rise to the surface. When he came up he the and one to free he said, contained | wreekage. | ship turned | the part litehoats down. |the stand, Tuttle said that, “in view | “Oh, no.” he said the ship's of-|or the clear, comprehensjve story | cer replied, “we can get those dOWN |or Mr. Johnstone,” he did not be- any time. We are lowering these jjove jt would be necessary to call| first because they are the most dif- any more passengers. | Aot | Lionel Licorish, quartermaster of well, 1t you domt watch Outl.."Vestris and one of the heroes they'll all go down with the ship,' Johnstone said he told the officers. |ot the disaster, followed Johnstone {to the stand. Johnstone said he got the impres- Licorish Tells Story sion that when the lifeboats were t t He said the ship seemed to be loaded, “all previous arrangements )igting Sunday afternoon but he did were scrapped.” |not know the cause. He was at the “They simply huddled the women | cpoe1 ot this time, he said. and children into the first boats, | i ; ; Sunday evening in the sailors' ;:‘"‘ ';“b"“" to manage the POas" | quarters he heard a crash and was e said, | pitched across the - ship, cargo In the lifeboat he finally boarded. | Eragning through a wall tell over | he said, there was great confusion. | pim “yo'caia but he extricated him. | Great Confusion | selg and went on deck “to see what | “It was filled with negroes and happened.” | they were all shouting different| By 9:30 o'clock, he said, the car-| orders,” Johnson said. “They wer>|go had shifted more and the list unanimous in only one thing, that|had increased. was to get away from the ship.” | Monday morning, he said, “it was From the lifeboat, Johnstone rumored that water was flowing said, he saw the Vestris go down.|through the coaling half door.” “Two boats, as far as I could see, |Orders were given the carpenter to No. 2 and No. 4, were still attached repair the leak, he added. to the falls” he said, “and they Orders to Ball went down With the ship.” Orders to bail were given early Johnstone said his lifeboat picked | Monday afternoon and a short tim. up. among other swimmers, the later jettisoning of cargo was or- chief officer of the Vestris. | dered, Licorish said. | Had 45 in Boat Later some men began lowering | “He told us,” Johnstone said, boats after the liner was ordered “that a rescue ship would be along abandoned. | about 4:30. We had been rowing | He said the captain tried veering through the wreckage picking up | the liner after lowering boats began cverybody we could, until we had to take advantage of wind direction | 45 in our lifeboat, which was being | “but she proved uncontrollable.” constantly bumped and endangercd Messages All Sealed by floating wreckage. So, when we| Licorish said he began to carry had filled our boat, we stood by messages between the Captain and waiting for the rescue ship that the radio room about noon Monday. was to come at 4:30.” “They were all sealed in en-| Captain T. P. 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