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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 265, 1909. _ CANNOT 5 LITTLE HOP OF SAVING SUN NER R +04 RAISE LINER REPUBLIC; LOSS $2, 500, 000 PUBLIC ' Head of the Merritt-Chapman Com- pany Declares Difficulties Are Too Great to Be Overcome in the Open Sea—Loss $2,500,000. her cargo a aggregate ay ur r thi fathoms ad baggage ablic is i) feet—whien hot a serlous imped cover were in a sheltered amis eeemsi destined: to Join the: work of the divers fleet which strens the bottom of the would be to cover her with Atlantic. She loss 1 slacker from how to etern lth uh ane That method 1s more Nis, # of amal)- ¥ Mer ts S71 feet an & Com today 8 tonnage i ete S Would "House Her Up.” a 1 ase, Mr. Merritt explains, s ! t vd be ordered to ' k 1 hidation of heavy R 5 on a vers even ker hirt sel a ten at t atid woul tt reached the sur- She is in the A Water, A vessel when com: “The depth of water could be easiiy i; boxed up in that manner can overcome Mr. Merritt 1 be 4 out so as to Rive her con- yet no man las discovered a met | sideradle displacement, Even tha: would NAC stinikenil Cease! Gain’ he y rise to the surface, The If she wore ardes: part of the task, in a holy of s ns are built 69 as to com- stance—we ralsed a be water, but ae freighte Daghe of succe \ sel mt eight From these ste this case ¢ oth aly Ne comparatively 8 heavy sea would as If they wer would have to starting point From this tt ¢ would be ther wat and faste pL the location of the ves- el cables are passed be- to the pon- Tie cables are The disp! ce- ns is so great that forced beneath the au: er side. ightened e water. and consequently the to rise ere. Bie ehed up ken to the drvdocks work the water must be imped out mooth at all times, A J tear the timbers away e paper and the work be done over from the an be seen what a task alsing of the Republic js in a sea that is not protected in addition to this there you sugcest?” and Mr. but vet nobody is Kc to ifthe from storms and f As yet we haven't the exact loca-|/# @ continual land roll thon of the Die, the 1 | Derricks of No Use. stand she te es south of} “Dervicks did Nantucket t part of the sea ts un-| Merritt, laughed, protected might work then smithereens oe the va save a. sir pialncd tha We are plans of gunboat Y opinion that connectio: with ix the simplest part of the Derricks,” h and we! ysoful In ralsing small on her fc nth and Would be a more flea thit ncked boat Uke the Republic sd te are of no sing a weigh adopted tol ec Merritt ex-| ten Into p si had been | faleing: et tha Mr ompressed alr ken boat explained, “are very els, but they te on a huge As a rule der when {It comes to exceeding 30) tons. or irae if enough derricks could be got- ht assist In the be impractica- hey mig! t would ‘An far ae T can see at present the Ranson went on to supply the chapters, mi me sly way to save the Republic would ersant with the |20'Y, houee her up and then lift her by in lifting the! pontoons and cable. You can see the suid "IC is my | Imporsibiiity of tha valne Mr. Merritt: explained At would vuld be Imprace ye interesting from a sc point of | view to work In| public, {tempt but the the vessels ! The salvage ae work would be absolit {enormous and the ¢ from a busines the foating of the Re- expense would be so tlay such a risk pint of view, tt vardy tely f “Binns and His Wireless Saved Our Lives,” Major Says LEST WE FORGET. Ny IVES SAYS SUE WASN'T PROPERLY DO 2 ame ° Captain and Crew of Republic Neglected Duties and Caused Discomtort. TOOK OAR IN BOAT. | HE Young Hero of Sixteen Was at Stroke, So He Did Work Himself. Gen. Bravton Ives, one of the Repub: lie’s passengers, was met at the White (frst. ‘Then the men, ‘The women and hildven were sepayated from the men and the loading into the boats was anes i ane But u saw no momsee) ke : BROKERS CE sn BUSINESS N panied in to the Florida. Thera was no officer of the Republic there to care for us, We were left to the courtesy of the Italian captain. He did the best he could. We had some potato soup and ——< Sidney C. Love & Co., With Oftices Here and In Chis termined to get shelter, went into a cago, Retire, lfe-preserver and rat on it, and then, E determined to get shelter, went Into a a crowded smokeroom aft and sat on he CHICAGO, Maccaron! The ship was dirty and in disorder, Tt was just as uncomfortable ae an Italian emigrant ship could be, “We were kept on deck in the rain a the time, with no seats even. T found a! Jan The retirement oor, which Hien BUT oa Si and rested my | from business of Sidney C. Love & Co. Uneraaraailee lange iunneessantn are Vole. ct largest brokerage houses in’ lay in making ready for the tranefar | the country, with offces in Chicago, to the Baltic, during which the sea and New York and other cities, was ane wind were constantly rising. [was told nounced to-day I they wore haggling ebout the terms of | In making the statement F.C. Ale salvage drich, a partner in the firm, aseribed When the transfer to the Baltic was| the withdrawal from busines revent’ Vegun there were no men competent to | stagnant business conditions and the row fhe boats in the Italian crews, tn fact that the partnership agreement the boat tn which L found myself, the | terminated next April, Mr. Love ie in stroke was a boy of alxteen, who didn't | New York. Star line pier by his sister, Mra. J. W | know as mueh abont rowing as [ know | pss oe zi Latham: his son-in-law, Walter May-| ahout sanserit. [owas an oarsman at SAVA ‘ nard, and ils brother-la-law, Charles | Y be and 1 took his oar away and NNAH RESULTS, i pulled for all T was worth, Juatas we Las u He sas tll and exhaust 10] got up to the Baltic somebody said she | EERST RACE—Purse; for three-vamre Ives ts nearly seventy vears old and has! was about to move olds and tip: selling; one mile, een Ill for nearly a year. He was] "Ag a yachtaman I suggested that we} FOR? 110) (Young), 5 to 2.4 to 6 and colonel of a New York regiment at the | go alongside and move with her Twag| 2 {> frst: Manoway, 102 (Brannon), battle of Five Forks, and ts sald tol told not to meddle. They hegan rowing | © 10! % to 8 and 2 to 5. second; Aras — aa ——————— Se ave had three hor: t under him} back to the Florida. Woe were drifting | Nak 108 (4. Burns), 6 to .4t0 3 and n that engagement. He obtained the about and almost in the thrash of her {QUO third Time—t4%,° Charles G, brevet rank of General at the close of the Civil war Til health forced him to give over the} ‘re-organization of the Willlaiasburg | Trust Company, of which he was made) president after its suspension, a year! ago, and he was alao obliged to with- draw from other institutions, Gen. Tves | spoke with much bitterness of his treat- ment on the Republic after the collision, Evening World's Tug Gets Capt. Ranson‘ s Story at Sea LINER NEW YORK SPED TO WRECK As the Baltic halted off Ambrose Lightship, the tug Dalzel- line, under charter by The Evening World, which had been ‘self and sald I wasn't going to row alt j {ng straight to the Baltic, propellers when T at last amnerted me, {Gate anil Teonard Joe Hayman also, ran over the ovean, and insisted on our go- SE which we did, Dispute Leaving the Florida, “T saw no bad behavior by any of the ers except when there was some eof opinion as to whether the era of the Florida, the Italian women, should have Precedence over the men passengers of the Republic. | ‘OND RACE=DPurse $150: for three- year-olds and upward; selling; one mile and a furlong, -Gallileo, 197 (Young), 4 to 5, 1 to 3 and ¢ first; Besteriing, 192 (Brannon), $ to 1, even and 2 to f, sece ond; Countermand, 10 (Whitey, 4 to 1 4. to 5 and t to & (hird. | TMme-..59. Fiimnap and Riseadonna also ran | He ald: Says Officers Neglected Passenge “From the tine [ge out on deck T saw no oMcer of the ship for hours. Amerie There were stewards around’ smoking black pipes In the faces of the women passengers, but not one officer to direct ‘them, to encourage the women and chil- AY WIRELESS CALL Guinnnneeen From Air, can Vessel Arrived in Time waiting for her off the Hook all night, raced up alongside, From the deck of the dancing tug a reporter for this paper called up through a megaphone. A moment later a dim figure appeared at the rail “What do you want?” called out the figure, in a hoarse, weary to Aid Florida. arentetanelvahinicemai annoenenc nell voice. “Iam Capt. Ranson, of the Baltic, Please be brief, gentlemen, Lae Da me jeaateneeth Peta admir- | ably, and this was fortunate. © for 1am worn out, and I have yet the task of docking my ship and get- The steamer New York, of the Amer- wenty years ago the captain was ting all these people ashore and cared for.” aa docked at noon to-day atter | UPpored to be around the ship protect: atte mete _ ing his porsengers, heartening th Then, replying to questions from the tu Ranson shouted out her part in the work of helping the | leben ecnt: toe that meres sham and this: “All those on board from the two Remers are doing as well as Republic and the Florida after thelr’ fort, I wonder if there ts not such a rule on some of the other ships. { won- der If such a state of affairs as we were aubsected to would have been possible on a German ship, for instance. collision. The New York did very little actual rescue work, but waited near the | crippled vessels vintll esured that all could be expected, Some are suffering from the nervous shock, but the great majority are normal, even the earthquake refugees from Italy, who were in the steerage of the Florida, | danger was past jon. x “ : . der convoy yy + | She remained with the Repubite up to‘! saw many persons put on life pre- The Florida is following us in under convoy of the American linet | the time that the Florida, with ite bow /Sérvers. T saw no reason why T should New York. She is travelling under her own steam. smashed, headed toward New York and | Put on any. Overlooking the gash tn “The conditi net} MB blic is favorable for salvage. She had she then convoyed the rida thirty |the Republic ide, I found only three The condition of the Republic is favorable for salvage. She had tities toward Sandy Hook, When the|Men at work, trying to patch dt up. no perceptible list when we parted from her, although she was well down Italien ship was within one hundred The captain wae not directing them. I by the stern.” (At this time neither the Captain nor the reporter had any “24 ninety miles of Sandy Hook and SO UY NALS rect COs eek cone Ob as way of knowing that the Republic had gone down off Nantucket Island last night after a gallant effort by her crew to save her.) demonstrated that, in spite of flooded | clothes. He came hack without them, forward compartments, it could make | S&¥ing that orders had been issued that With his voice roaring strangely through a speaking trumpet Capt. ing until then, in the narra- the rest of the trip with safety, the|NO ane was to ba allowed to return to New York left the Florida, which was | the staterooms, then making seven knote an hour. “Town a yacht and know enough The officers and crew of the New York | about sea-faring matters to know pretty’ were reticent as to the part they played | Well when such an emergency Is being in the tragedy. They saw nothing herole | handled properly. [ say that the han- tn thelr action, or anything that seemed “ling of the Republic after the wreck worthy of apectal mention. ‘The fact “8 conepicuously tneMfcient and con: tive of the disaster. “Tam told,” came the bellowing notes to the listeners on the little tug below, “that there was absolutely no panic on the Republic following that they were so far from the scene ap- | §Picuous by its absence. the collision, and very little on the Florida. parently troubled them most, The re- Says Passengers Were “Boozy.” is ee 3 5 # Hl gret was openly expressed by Capt. ways oy an A CRASH CAME WITHOUT WARNING. Roberts and his officers that they could aranite a “ ipa paeetnears sak to a” 3 . A * er the c ion. d not “The Florida came out of the fog without any warning, and smashed Cee, cette Aetlatence (0 the) tee any who were drunk, bull there into the Republic abaft of midships on the port side just forward of the Gutloaillrrem Alt Rete many in a state ay SET 4 The ae lis eee . Some of them were members of the after hatch. The shoe + Was terrific, Staterooms 34 andj28 (were stovell ya ast tneenr ee) (heildlansterl (hatilcrew! endl some kwere (pasdengérall Wo in by the bow of the Florida, which withdrew from the great hole she reached the New York came trom Gen- Hath around in the dark on the upper Pe S stan: -anished 7 ef f{ “i eral Manager Franklin, of the Intern deck until daylight had cut almost instantly, and vanished in the fog aft, leaving one of her FREES HUI MEGRG Cha Crecal Gat GEOR COUPON ESO anchors on the wreckage of the demolished staterooms, @ Marconigram from the Stasconset sta- | Captain was when he appeared on the ; arn edith ; ) cunt i male hi tie bridge and sald that tt was conaldered Major John EF tells the following backing away from us. I knew then aught ¢ } , the ot hip I tlon ni "We were struck like a thunderbolt. that an accident had taken place, 1 The onslaught and the withdrawal ot We other shit Maes place so “The Republic and the Florida are in Recessary to move ua to the other ship, ruumhec eless room and trie } “ay aft 2 Ane antifuit The big Kepublic seemed almost to lay {o"taik to Binns, He was greatly ex- (quickly that no one on the Republic had a chance to identify the steams |contsion,” the wireless said. ‘The Bal- the Florida. She was lying a quarter on its back, 1 rushed around to the cited and waved me away with hie ship that had dealt the blow. tle Is standing by. Can you go to ae-. of @ mile away, He said that all the { ‘ a hand few minutes later rf ri ; ; aldeawniteha nad Anima nt Nea ee he Warrnanalne out the calls aes “The wireless room on the Republic was smashed, but the mechanism | *!stance? women and children would be taken the water rushing Into the engineroom. jy rought the flock of American Iners to Ined { i, ched th ee th lormplnnataantathe Themessagerahdiienahklk —————————————_—_—————— ‘There were cries for help, sounds of our ald, Binns stuck by his post and Temalned Intact, and, perched in the ruins, the operator, , sen on Saturday night, as soon as they in " rushing water, the hiss of escaping was one of the fifty men who went with signals that subsequently brought aid from all directions. The Water came within the wireless radius of SOCIAL WHIRL steam and the confi commands of | the aptain when he called for volun: Houred into the great gash in the Republic's side in a cataract, but the Slasconset. They headed at once for With Coftee-Insomnia and Collapse, Everything was in) teers » tlt ' 7 the point mentioned, 17) miles east of misty Binns and his Marcont wireless has firemen stuck to their posts until the water was up to thelr walsts, banking p It i Na she gloom [ could| saved our Ives. Long live Binns and the fires in the Ambrose Lightship, and soon came It seems difficult for some of us to great bow of a big Hner long live Marconi Gives Credit tor Rescue to Crew of the Florida I. & Phelps, Tee. first trip abroad with his wife and his half-grown son Zee-Bar- “The most he sald, from ring Th ja staggering ab ranchman of was on his a wealthy horoccan arr nt ea put she has mi Wyoming, Raat They were as on the wet and slip- sense of the no ocean greyhound or floating palace, | n to run her—men tn the word,” he said. heroic and as brave as mivane any men could be and they risked their sifving moment to me") Hives and stood a terrible teat of #1 i tere Les ust) i durance to save us.” was when the men were sep pie ae the women to begin. the cata from the Republic to the: SAYS FLORIDA we were, half-clothed WAS GOING AT FULL SPEED, order to prevent explosion of the boilers, The crew | behaved heroically every man of them, and you boys can't speak too highly \of them or of the passengers either.” “In half.an hour the Florida, summoned by the distress blasts of the Republic, came picking her way back through the fog, badly damaged her- self. Capt. Sealby, of the Republic, had his own boats lowered, and in ae and those of the Florida all the passengers of the liner were put the Florida. This took two hours in a placid sea. Among the ed who were put on the Italian ship was Eugene Lynch, whose wife in the range of the Baltic’s instrument, which sent this by wireless “Passengers have been removed from the Republic to the Florida, The Flor- ida Is now sinking, and we are re- moving them to the Baltic. Have taken be good all of the time, but it pays, after all. Even a model school teacher, on a vacation, may drop into excesses in the way of overeating, late hours and black coffee to add to the irrita- tion of the nervous system. “Tam a teacher in the Univer- writes a lady In Salt Lake “and hold a responsible and ing position. For months before all but captain and boat's crew from, the Republic. | vessel.” At Il o'clock came another wireless. | “Come with all apecd | Inky Stand by to help that Florida sink: | the message appenied. “All the had been killed. Mr. Lynch's leg was broken in three places and he Wa3 passengers have been removed, but my collapse I rose completely devi- otherwise injured. It was considered wnsafe to trans him to my ship, id by to help Florida.” talized, but braced up on a cup of so he was left in charge of the Florida’s surgeon, I fear he !s fatally Stood By All Night. coffee. wounded. TRANSFER TOOK TWELVE HOURS. “The transfer of passengers of both boats from the Florida, which had begun to list badly, to this sh took went on Capt. “The Summer vacation T spent in the East, where I participated In a ‘whirl of social affairs. There was scarcely an evening when I did not drink strong coffee and afterward The submerine bells kept ringing and the screeching of the wh in ued througy the night, but they no answer whistling until several light, The wirel i ping them apprised of the f the ce, and they kept twelve hours,” Saree. re winds he 4 ‘ irned toward spend hours awake. Brnat cared ae TATA rein = Ranson, speaking thus calmly of what seafaring men will always regard as the. Belonens ei Finally the break-down came, whily the ship lurched and we didn't} . s i one of the biggest, best things that ever happened on the high seas. “Thir rainy and I have spent hundreds of dollars 2 s J. EB. McCarthy gave thie intervelw to Pregeiye chen ean ave Tal x pie Itted momentarily ang almost two years of suffering know what minute she would begin to Evening: world reporter’on the: tug began at 8.20 o'clock Saturday n and end at § o'clock yesterday * Raltic, and were * ’ sink oes by i “6 morning, while the searchlights of the Baltic illumined the rough sea be- y unti’morning. (tying to mend {t “They began to man the boats and Glocie. Gatueda ye ine tween the three boats, Two of the Republi tumbled into the rahe |, pers doctor I had Insisted on my we heard the ery, ‘Women fiyst!’ ‘The saw the Florida close to, Before sea While being transferred to a boat, b ere prom rescued. Mos, ttempis siving up coffee. tried Postum, officers walked among vs, separating ould te done she struck into of the passengers kept thelr heads, even shose in the steerage W els, not prepared. at first, as it ought to the wom and there ide amidships. From what we ‘As the tug swung away from the great bulk of the Baltic to run for be, and I did not care for It. Since were some pught tears to} c pula make out she was going full: Sandy Hook, Capt. Ranson, leaning in a weary heap against the rail, calied Haale it ay i shave found it won- my eyes. everybody was brave! Sheed i ' out, as by an afterthought: the derfully benefieiai atid the best order was observed TALe AA ARITA ER ela Toe “The reason the Republic's wireless finally failed before adequate aid hole tn tis aide The her fie ler! ved fem Bos im “But it was a squeamish moment. My | cr for thelr husbands to come and finally reached her was because the engine rooms gradually flooded and anv extent the past year have been gradual but wife had to leave me -of eT owant An He Avarcthingmraaeidarknten the dynamoa went dead. All the baggage was lost, { believe, except a few F ng te ar sure, The obec on my stomach was ad her to go-but { didn't know if T phe noise of hissing steam from. the handbags,” “ the immediate, It ae the ut, (HEC would ever see vain, | had ne My TE Me of our boat, rose (oy) So It was that in these simple, straightaway words shouted over the v oe he white of eggs that did not that 1 would, She kissed LOE A LB Obs LOAN QTien svovousianen il a(dalofia sleeping: veseel Dy, s looming ghastly gray in the thic distress me what had happened. Bight stateroo ree REHAINEET ‘ she kissed our boy Riad had rappened. _pimnt staterooms tat, came the first authentic stories of the big disaster, forming a mental other {sno ouue that Gein i then the 1 her away te killing Mr, Mooney and Mra. Lynch. | picture that helped one to see the whole shifting panorama of disaster injurious to many even in small Peete pere’ ate Before the Florida backed off they car- and cournge and lofty seamanship—the Florida lancing the defenseless quantities. To one who will make ai Haay eit near ted a ee ie Teeter ct he Republic in the flank and then silpping away with her own crumpled bow the trial there is no doubt that Pos- With the jos {nt> the fog that enfolded her as a blue army blanket might enfold a pupfy {iim [s decidediy henetclal and & de- ie ta A i SG Seo S leaving her bow anchor stuck in the gash I!ke a barbed arrow caught Ina drink made according to Ax pa ‘ thos ACTRESS UNDER THE KNIFE gaping wound; the sickening shock. the instant ‘kness and the panic {1 one on re NE H a5, Fatt Poor people Miss Marietta Olly, the German act. tho darkness; the heroism of the crew from caytain down to coal passers s Name given by Oa eS attle Saaover and hag veen playing ac the In. the finding of tuc dead and wounded where they had been caught In Creek, Mich. Read “The »Road to death sieatre Ti “Haccarats’ fell wracks of thelr staterooms; tne wireless splicing ont from a caved. ) Woliville,” in pkes. “There's a Rea Mr, Phelps eat the Mount Sinal Hospttal, where Wooden coop the little blue-devil {lashes that oronght succor; the transfer son Ue creat $ } aicpsrat it, oF 6 the torely crippled Florida, the coming of stout ships the relief; Byers peas ihe Aperaletieied he Repubit a or appendicitis. cr wi! - ie to the Italian crew o 6 ly ‘the German version of | the retransfer, an all-night Job undar the glare of the shifting searchllg et york “Bhe may rida ye replaced by be a third clade ship and Blue M the self-sacrifice, the courage, the whole big tale, ‘head Of steam, pushed on. and fall of THIRD RACK rd 159; for three- This was quickly settled and the Italian | year-olds and upwa Hing: five and women went hefore any of the men. — | one-half furlongg. Jene, “My whole criticism’ of the a ¥ ia (Burns), even and tto 4 and out, firs summed Up, as T have already told ‘the | Tomochichi (Gorei, 9 to & 1 to2, out, oMcers of the White Star line In ik second, Roger De Cocerley, 9 (Crow- city, In the neglect of the Republic's | ey), 8 to 1, 5 to 2 even, third. Time, oMcers tn not accompanying thelr pas: | 4.11 Hugh Farrell a'so ra sengers and looking out for them, and the way the captain left everybody to ahitt for hin What else did he | have to do, once he saw how badly his | ship was damaged, except to take care of his passengers? “He never came near us. “Another thing, Where were those | famous bulkheads which close automat feally and save a ship when a collision s into her? 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