The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1912, Page 1

and By, When Whole Awful Tale Is Told, Pity a Little These Unimportant People may be days beofre the unimportant details of the wreck of the are given to the world. There is still so much of importance won the minor details must wait. The great newsgathering have bent all thelr energies, employed all their tremendous te the task of telling aketehily the awful story, ea of all, the Titanic cost $10,000,000 to build i nde. swan 88:00, 006 The exhausted operators have no time now for unimportant details, In the city of Southampton, whence the Titanic sailed o trip, there are many mean streets, In these streets My valmportant people 'f you could walk along that broad thoroughfare which runs the |tength of Southampton'’s water front, you would come, a quarter of a ‘That fs an item mile from the White Star docks, to a public house—"The Blue Anclior. |It is a place of ref ent much frequented by sea-farin / Tt Is to such “pubs” as “The Blne Anchor” that | Ping companies go in search of crews | Blue Anchor” Is on a corner, and, Astor, | cOrner, you would find yourself i a short names | Atreot meaner, It is & narrow, find many children playing there Putrelle, and Mualling babies. Stead, | You would #ee in the doorways w [back and forth, Ordinarily, n treasure on board the liner he's kreat ship 3 Ahleewtagcering intelligence to the world lost were millionaires and muiti-milionaires amok Oendener The wireless has flashed their nan , y A tamoce (not rich, went down with the Titanic Ste Millet, the artist; Hutt, the soldier and diplomat; ‘of journalists: and Interviewer of emperors and kings. The wireless if you w to turm that street Of homes itean littered str and you would And mongrel dogs, and alley cats, men, if you vinited Ordinarily they gossip the street in the evening, The Carpathian with Titan- je survivors is due in ew York tonight or tomorrow for Si xtr -pgehpalipane see é ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER VOL, 14. NO, 41, EVEN SURVIVORS A | nsrons WERE LA FOLLETTE HT HANE CONFIDENT SHED THEM BY MARLIN E. PEW, ee ees of the United Fo *. ine | os {FAX, N.S, Apri! 18—The! Ea Parisian, one of the last vee | sels to communi. | with the Th tanic before the latter went down, arrived here to) fay. Captain W. R. Haines and D. 3. Suthertand, the F W. W. Jeffries, general saying: “ay fear the rest of the's: | gers who escaped death. (Special to The Star.) PORTLAND, Ore., April 18--A apatch from Senator La Follette afternoon stated that he wai ighted with O 's splendid re ption of him and that he was con |fident he would carry tomorrow's |primaries. He has been received! leverywhere with tremendous en-! | thuelaem. MEDFORD, Or., April 18.—-Sen- ator La Follette campaigned Ne braska and Oregon with h supported by a canvas belt. strap ped tightly around him to eaable| | him to walk without a crutch. | A severe accident was sustained by him when he fell on the staire at his Washington residence three days prior to his present campaign, reports of which were withheld at | the time for fear they would be ex-| aggerated by enemies, but were al lowed to be made public today for| |the first time ious effec Tl show » fellows a thing ASTOR or two, these deserters who spread As the|the poison about my being an in received here—it ex prehension valid,” «aid La Folle “Why, I the catastrophe, as the Ti bo Increased because of reports Was never better in my life. I must have struck the ice foe | that many of the survivors are in couldn't boast of very good health blow. Captain Haines dea critical condition. It is known but thé trouble has been remedied that Capiain Smith of the that Col. John Jecob Astor, who is and today I can eat anything any Must have known all day | betieved to have perish: in the time, and my physician assures me that the largest ‘Icebergs wreck, and his bride, who was Mise that I have J0 years more work left min years were floating at lenst|Madetine Force of Philadelphia, in my frame—time enough to fin-| these state- they are LAVES) PHOTO OF MR wireless com- K, ¥ are “true and up by other Anenos? Lienr St ad passeng go te “wn eeeee” you would nee Ww the husbands sitting and wr her maiden | Hatening interestedly to the thousands of /would see girls walking arm in arm with their sailor sweethearts not now If you were to visit that ebildren playing there, Lop, Gi of the ho wulshed weeping They are, after all, unimportant people. n the really big news of the wr perhaps, bave a little sympathy to waste on the young girls and wives | |Of this mean street, \Tftante's orew a f, by then, your fount of pity has not run dry, it may touch your | wiv lal whose Will never urn. momnip mean atreet Hut the husbands ar ls are not walking with th won are drawn, and from behind them come unimportant of their wives, Ordinarily you) today you would stil! find not smoking on the door ir nweethearts today, The blinds the sounds of an k has been told, you will, Jovers and busbands—the remember that every house—every house—in that mean street | it a breadwinner. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912 ONE C a §eOfosirion or CARPATHIA To be sure, they were unimportant—merely | whose names the tired wire pking on the doorsteps and {the sailors But | \depthe by the » | boats, choosing 4 |}#o many who manned the $10,000,000 ship the muilti-millional sailed in, Of course, more or leas, doer not world in #0 full of seafaring men that 500 or 1,000, matter, And, of course, the Titanle cont $10, 000,000, and, of course, Col. John Jacob Astor was a member of one of New York's oldest and richest families, The world is ptirred to tte ry of the men passengers who would not take the life ath that the women might live And #0 many of them were rich, or famous, or both; and they he wanting to live. And yet they stayed with the 000 reasons for the ship! So did the sailors, But, then, sailors are always the last to leave a sinking ship. Of course they stayed. They are expected to stay Btill, one cannot help feeling @ little sorry for those unimportant and sweethearts in that m it of streets on Southampton’s © front. Probably they were fond of those unimportant sailors #8 operators are too busy to mention. ‘he Seattle Star «HOME EDITION Ou TRAINS WEWS STAN er agent of the White Star line, jurvivors are steerage passenger: that the list of names wireleséed in had probably included all the first class passen He was saying) IN OREGON 3 Drawing of “Carpathia’”’ by Star Artist | condition, WILL MAKE J, ~ BRUCE [MAY TELL STORY (By United Press Lenard Wir WASHINGTON, April ‘oJ. jto diseuss the con¢ Piles south of thy ordinary lee | were returning so that an expect [heir could be born in America. The to Bruce Ismay, managing director of lah this task of helping the peop! Map by Star artist, showing logation of rescue ship Carpathia and jthe White Star line, will tell thi ain control of their govern Story of man who was set free after wanting to plead guilty. See page 7. CARPATHIA WON’T DOCK UNTIL FRIDAY; NEAR NEW YORK NOW (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, April 18.—Late this afternoon the situation is as follows: The Carpathia probably will — dock before tomorrow morning, because of heavy OR. Seven survivors are reported to have gone insane. One hundred more are in the ship’s hospital. Director Ismay of the White Star has refused to send out details of the wreck. 100 SURVIVORS IN SHIP'S HOSPITAL NEW YORK, April 18.—The tion that some of the of the Titanic wreck may be in a serious first official indic: survivors resulting from exposure by being tossed about in being rescued by the Carpathia, came today when officials Of the White Star line accepted an offer from St lifeboats befor Luke's hospital to set aside its new hospital addition for use of It is reported here that seven ivors are insane from their experiences and many ill. The White Star officials positively refused tion n of the survivors. | the litanic survivors beer rs seriously ISMAY P PLANS 1 TO DODGE. NEW YORK, April 18.—It is reported abdut the White Star headquarters here today that J. Bruce Ismay, director of that line, who was taken aboard the Carpathia with the passen- |gers rescued from the Titanic, sent a wireless to the captain which is scheduled to sail from this port at noon today, to wait at the lower end of the bay until of the steamer Cedric, entrance to New York harbor. Due at©9 o'clock tonight, but heavy Operator Sutherland Aster mansion had been i congas nid > 9! |story of the Titanic disaster if th put in| ment DESPONDENT, HE COMMITS SUICIDE his falture in the city, Cyrus Ball, aged 65, committed suicide some time last night in @ room in the Y. M. C. A. by drinking a done | of carbolie acid. His body was discovered this morning. The bot tle was found broken near his side on the bed. A. P. Story, of the association, was found in his coat pocket, in which he intimated | you. }that he had a wife and family the city jcomfort us a! Ball went to the Y. M.C. A. Tues day night, asking for a cheap room, stating that he was out of a job} Yesterday morning he asked Story for a position but the latter had nothing open for him at that time that the Titanic was 100 miles readiness for their arrival mot the Parisian and that he! A wireless reports that Mrs. ae | ia communication Sunday with |tor is dangerously il. — the Titantec’'s wireless | aiimablions | |CONBOY MAY KNOW HIS FATE TODAY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aprit 1s | Haines to Captain Smith, }—~The fate of Michael Joseph Cos | the transport liner Mesaba,/0Y. former captain of polie feported having sighted huge! Charged with the murder of Ber. ‘The Mesaba was running |®4"d Fagan, will be given to the the Titanic and Parisian, |fitth jury to try his case today Hing my messages regarding |Closing arguments were made yes teebergs to the Titanic. The |terday afternoon, was fine and we could see | hergs clearly on Sunday night ee ae Operator's Trag The Parisian carried’ vet a stogie operator, who had been at iy 18 hours when he sent the Message to the Titanic ment the day trying to to the disabled Deutschland After therland said Kaew Jack Phillips well. 1 Mt greetings to him Sunday and gent a business message from | greatest [this token of deep sympathy. “It Is very little to ¢ Despondent secure work over Griet-laden ever 9 little Police reports of last Tues day night show that. Edward Mileer had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at the Standard pool rooms, 153 Washington st. Today Edward Mileer is as healthy and happy as ever on earth. Reason the names Smith of employment secretary | the liner Titanic, who went down “To My Poor Fellow Sufferers tank sen got NEW YORK, April 18 John Wash The police twinted Deringer, Seaenaeaeey® nic sent the \* ss. Me may keep her outside untit bal ve tase PUT FLAGS AT HALF MAST Seattle will lower its flags to half mast tomorrow when the ree cuing steamer Carpathia will land) the widows and orphans of the disaster in history. Mayor Cotterill t | pressed the hope that the biggest city imothe Northwest would show the mayor said, to| pathy from ail parts of the country shegid lighten the burden of the it will = accomplished much.” 1 am laden with sorrow for you and weig in| ble burden which has been thrust upon us, “yet if his morning ex this note of sym Pray God be with us, and ‘ANOTHER MAY HAVEAIDED IN RESCUE . ‘The first Word of the a the Titanic survivors aboard the Carpathia was received here this jternoon in an almost incoherent wireless ‘message tual condition of af It read United States government |make him do it and chairman | between President Taft ator Smith of Michigan, of the senate disaster. at Arms Ransde!l of the senate and Supervising Inspector Unler of the steamboat inspection service, the can! This much was made certain to-| jday following a lengthy conference oe bec sub-committee on | commerce appointed to probe the| Accompanied by Sergeant | the Carpathia arrives tonight, take Ismay aboard, and sail with him to England Officials of the Si White Star line say that the report is un- It is reported that Ismay planned this move to interviewers when the Carpathia docks at New York. TERRIBLE SCENES AT DOCKS NEW YORK, April 18—The Wall st. news bureau to- day posted a Pie of a message purporting to have been re- ceived from Captain Rostron of the Carpathia by wireless to- |sub-committee left for New 'vork | Highland Point, declaring that no one was saved from the Ti- =|this afternoon with orders to start Brave Words Front Captain’ 5 Widow | SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 18-—The following statement was A note addressed to issued here today by Mrs. Eleanor Smith, wife of Capt. E. J. Smith of his ship: My heart overflows with grief for down by this terri- |the Titanic inquiry immediately, Carpathia Won't Reply. NEW YORK, April 18.—No news Jean yet be obtained from. the Cunarder Carpathia, with the res-| leued Titanic passengers aboard, ac jcording to the scout cruiser Salem, sent out by President Taft, which today sent the following wireless to the Brooklyn navy yard Can get no information from the Carpathia of any kind, although we are within easy radio communica: tion with, her metimes she knowledkes our call, but she will not admit the receipt of our mes | Jacob Astor is not aboard the Carpathia, was When Operator Sutheriand awoke |* 1" * morning he donned the|* cap, and the first message |* G@ught was one from the oper- | the man who took his own Mileer was a witness to the shooting. aboard the Carpathia describ *XRRRAKA REAR AE He the Titanic’s plunge into the The Parisian was helpless, Sutherland broke down over th Los Aiked if it wa sible Bers to lie so low in t W6 be invisible on in Haines » Thever heard « d leeberg of & the Titan | whieh | tion. water a clear night an entirely sui iffictent size to] entire AN he county $50 a night HREE RIVAL CITIES KISS AND MAKE UP’ P eb bug and the £ down togethe To the people wh now tivalry x 7 between na Tacoma, this is as strange & ling a# the traditional Seat: M the Hon and the |30-July od rose are | #000 | doing the | that Seattle, Port Merpreted it means that each| Ms Giving @ carnival this sumn-| and that instead of each city|Mt. Ba the others, cach ts going| Vane for the other fellow's show. | 17 ine the literature going out ali! 24-28 the country h city ts W Wee attra They carnivals that the Tacoma Seattle Bellingham outer, Yakima State all the are 4 ker, } Pendletap, are |contests, Septe time. scheduled full list in Portland Rose Fi Potlatch Marathon July 23- B. Ore., ember It consists of a dirigible | with high-power reflectors. claims bis invention will light the of Los Angeles for the Pot-, planning that tourists can spend a of the summer Northwest and have something big | Other also, #0 Judes tival, Montemara Festo, July 10 to Fatr, ‘air, & Cattle 26-28 18. |AN ARTIFICIAL MOON!) ELES, April | Austin, a local inventor, has secur: for an|ed a patent on an “artificial moon, A hopes to put into opera-| kite Austin | in the June 10. June 0-15, top of} Aug. 10 ptember sa | were \* |*® brisk westerly | cost “Survivors Iby another boat Here the | gather was the signature Transfer Co. dreamed of The statement that another boat helped in th fishing excursion in the fu-'newed hope here, relatives of the passengers hoping ture and with that end in view had| may be rescued besides the survivors om the Carpathia supplied himself with a complete | — " Titanic’s Boilers Exploded Is Report fishing outfit. Yesterday his hopes | blasted when he discovered | that a thief had not only made | away with his fish poles but a HALIFAX, N. S., April 18.—It fe persistently reported here Captain Haines of the liner Parisian learned from the Olympic the Titanic’s boilers exploded immediately after she struck the [ tearing a hole in the vessel, which caused it ‘to founder in distraction We pray God for saving us. with rescue. Men pat current failed and ali additional which seemed to be “Mab Helped | sages or make any reply to them. I cannot believe that she has failed operator could to understand the messages Bhe Thomas is within easy range of the torpedo rescue has re- |station, so the Salem go to] that others | Bradford this afternoon, His Dream Blasted Harry Shaubut, of the the NEW YORK, April |ficials of the White Star |nounced today that the C will dock here at 9 o'clock tonight 18.—The of. line an | | | Docks at 9 o’Clock. that that lee Code Messages Sent. NEWPORT R. L, April: 18.—Code from the liner Carpathia White Star line headquarters picked up here today he messages are believed to contain the details of the Titanic disaster. The fact that the messages are in code.shows that J. Brace Ismay of the White Star line, who was taken |from the Titanic to the Carpathia h the rescued, is carefully guard ports of what happened Titanic struck brand new rif_e and shotgun Captain Haines is aiwo credited with saying that the Titanic’s Where Is Buddy? wireless was put out of commission fifteen minutes after the smash Does anyone know where Buddy | Barrault is? Buddy is a mere child, six years old, and a fond and anxious mother has enlisted the services of the po lice to search for him. He has on a blue waist, cap and corduroy pants, and if you see him him to his home, 10226 56th They ‘All Moved 1216 University | }m to the | were 83 News That Mrs. Astor Is Dying Spreads. NEW YORK, April 18.—Insistent reports prevail here today that Mrs. Astor, girl wife of Col. Joh Jacob Astor, who went down on the Titanic, is dying on board the Carpathin, The Astor family de send |clared that they have received no such report av. 8./ VINCENT ASTOR STILL HOPES. NEW YORK, April 18.—I know dad is still living, | feel it,” de- clared Vincent Astor, 20-year-old heir ta the Astor millions, today. Young Astor positively refuses to bélieve that his father, Col. John Miss E, Campion, Jacob Astor, went down with the finer Titanic. He spends his t. hurriedly phoned in to police| time closeted with a few intimate friends, alternately giving way pin; Dingman AE. | to violent bursts of grief and rushing tothe telephone to set¢n mo- at ben Regier “an Asking for | tion some new resource of the Astor millions in an attempt to learn information reg a his tethers tale, company on Fifth av., between Pike | and Pine sts. Three weeks ago she | ses left her plano and sewing machine | NEW YC IRK, in the possession of the Fitzhenry 10 o'clock SOUTHAMPTON Terrible scenes prevailed here Wlay at the offices of the White line, which are being stormed |by the wives, children and nt pectin jhearts of the crew of the Titanic, April 18.—The Carpathia reported by wire-| Who were all specially picked sea this morning that she then miles |Me2, representing, Southampton’s - p |sea-going aristocracy Auction Co,, and when she returned south of Block Island and 140 miles from Ambrose |” Women and children pleaded pit. of New York harbor | | to the city from a aad ges she the entrance eously for a list of the survivors of discovered the sompany io 0 i A [the crew. Many of the women are Liye es ely el ls broken in mind and body as a re- the new place of business. guit of the long euspenee, . One woman, shrieking for her| husband, son, two brothers and | four cousins, all members of the Titanic’s crew, dropped uncon. scious in front of the company's of lfices, and was taken to a hospital. | 381 #8! | MRS. TATE SURVIVOR 33 [| OF LA BOURGOYNE) 165 Mrs, A, R. Tate of thig city,| —— || whose husband is the propriétor of | 705. F) Tate's cafe, is one of the survivors of the wreck of La Bourgoyne, | |which sank in the Atlantic ocean jin 1898, causing the death of 571 people, Sne, with 200 others, suc ceeded in getting into Ife boats Eng., April 18 at 75 by at less was cast Hight, REVISED FIGURES OF THOSE SAVED FROM THE TITANIC EREMREBEEYAERY ENE WRECK * WEATHER FORECAST * Fair tonight, with lght * & frost; Friday fair and warmer; * winds, Tem *® * perature at noon, 48 * Se COLONEL’S CAMPAIGN IN N. Y. EXPENSIVE ALBANY, N. Y., April 18—Col Roosevelt's New York campaign} $59,129, aceording the re port of the Roosevelt Le fled with the republi ational com mittee today we W. Perkins, | NEW YORK, April 18.—The following were given out here to: day by the White Star line as the final revised figures of those saved from the Titanic, and from them was deduced the number of the probably dead: * THE —: Cabin passengers, names known ,. Steerage, names known Steerage, names unknown . Crew who manned boats Total rs MISSING, PROBABLY DEAD First cabin passengers ‘ Second cabin passengers Steerage passengers , Crew, including all but four officers . 172 189 453 700 to when the liner St, Louls picked Frank A. Mune and Alexander them up. 1,514 Cochran each contributed $15,000. | be tanic except those on board the C survivors 100 are in the ship's hospital. The states further that the body of Col. John and that Mrs. Astor pathia, and that of these message is dangerously ill Two hundred of the Titanic’s sailors, asleep in their quar- | ters at the time of the accident, were crushed to death, the mes< Sage says. the crash. = = ~ The vessel was in darkness for four minutes after NEW YORK, April 18—Open defiance of the president of the United States and fiat refusal to relieve the agony of suspense of thousands of persons were voiced today by J. Bruce Ismay, man- aging director of the White Star line, when he curtly refused a wire- less request from the United States scout cruiser Chester for details of the Titanic disaster. Ismay's stand was reported to Washington by the Chester, which made tt clear that the request to Ismay had been made in the name « of the president. len is consoring the Carpathia’s wireles the reason, it is believed, that the real story will show that criminal carelessness was responsible for the death of the thousand and more who went down when the Titanic struck. TONIGHT’S PLANS is evident that the Carpathia’s story of the horror will eclipse anything in history, Arrangements were ¢ompleted today to. expedite the landing of the survivors when the Carpathia docks here, at 9 o'clock tonight. Surveyor of the Port Henry and Immi- gration Commissioner Williams will supervise their removal. The « survivors will be grouped alphabetically on the dock Mayor Gaynor ordered all photographers to be excluded from the dock, and the streets in the vicinity roped off to keep back curt- ous crowds. Mayor Gaynor has started a relief fund for the widows and orphans of the victims, It MEN WANTED to fill responsible yositiooe in a retail business which i constantly adding rw stores to a chain already established Today there are openings for « stochkeepern. Our managers bave all been promoted from our sale and office force. Good salaries paid good wen from the start and in- ervanee as merited. Only top-notebers will be ronsidered. Call between Rand}; WHEN THE CURTAIN RISES ON YOUR OPPORTUNITY Wilt you be awake to it? read Star want ads every day The business barons of the next decade are the ers of Star “Help Wanted” ads of today. « Openings which will develop into managements, situa- tions which will leadeto interests in the firm, oppgrtuni- ties to learn the complicated details of businesses which are exceedingly profitable when mastered are being ad- vertised in Star wants, Read Star Wants Ads for Profit Use Star Want Ads for Results If you would be, you should read-