The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1912, Page 1

‘ Isidor Straus and G. D. Widener, ‘WEATHER-—Showers Probably To-Night or Tuesday. FI EDITION. PRICE ONE CENT. “LINERS TAKE OFF __TITANIC IS REPORTED SINKING Che “ Circulation Books Open to All,” PASSENGERS; - a iT \_\ 4s io jiak 5 Copyright. 1012. by Co. Pu (The New York World). ‘The Press Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 15, MANY NOTABLES IN FIRST CABIN OF GREAT LINER Col. John Jacob Astor, His Bride and Alfred G. Vander- bilt Among Them. RELATIVES ARE ANXIOUS. Crowd the Offices of the White Star Line Anxiously Await- | - ing News. ‘The maiden trip of the great Titanic @ttracted | company of passengers whioh made her first cabin list a re- Markable collection of names of men ‘m4 women prominent in the public view in New York and the whole United States. Anxiety for their fate drew a Breat crowd to the offices of the White Star Line on Bowling Green Park. ‘Among those who were pacing up and} @own and now and then shouldering | thelr way into the offices in the hope of of new information were United rt Senator William A, Clark, Will- fam H, Force and his wife; W. A. Dob- Dim, general manager of the Astor tate, seeking news of Col. John Jacob Astor and hix youthful bride, who was Migs Maseletne Force; Alvin W. Kreck the Equitable Trust Company and ny. others. J.P. Morgan jr. also visited the offices of the White Star line. When asked if} the Mr. and Mig. Morgan listed as pa: sengers on the “Titanic were relatly he said they were not. e of the other well known passen- Bers of the Titantlc are Alfred Gwynne | Vanderbilt, Benjamin Guggentelm 7. Stead, a great London jo George 1. Widener, Major Archibald | “Butt, President Taft's military atde; Robert Chisholm, Henry Sleeper Harper, Mrs, Ida Huppuch and Miss Jean Hu) puch, Washington Dodge of San Fran- cleco and his wife and son, Henzy B. Marris and his wife, J. Clinch Smith, MEMBER OF THE SMELTER FAMILY ABOARD. Be| min Guggenheim 1s the ffth of | the | mm sons of Meyer Guggenheim, , the 0. iters, bankers and min He | fg the member of the family who started | ite interest in the smelting business. He | was born in Philade!phia in 186, and fg President of the International Pump ‘Company. His wife !s the daughter of James Seligman, the Henry Sleeper Ha of John Wesley iarper, one of the founders of the Harper Brothers pub- Ushing house. He had a desk in the offices of the company, but had very lit-| dtle to do with the management of its| affairs. He has been active im urging! , legislation for the protection of the * Adirondack forests. Mr. Harper spent nearly half of every year in foreign . travel. His friends recalled to-day that tem years ago he had @ close escape ) from death when @ ship on which he ‘was & passenger rammed an iceberg off the Grand Banks. ‘Washington Dodge, who was on the Titanic with his wife and eon, was for }eaany years City Assessor of San Fran- cisco and was President of the Conti- j Rental Butlding and Loan Association \ ata time when that concern stirred up Califorala politics in 1906 by setting @ _trap which involved many members of the Legislaturg in bribery charges, AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE AMONG THOSE IN PERIL, On the passenger list also are the names of Jacques Fuirelle and bi The Futrelles are doin frequent o utors to the magazines, and frequen: collaborators. Their Lome {s in the Iit- erary colony at Niantic, Mass, Mr, Fu- trelle was for many years @ newspaper reporter in this elty and In Boston, Washington Roeblins id ts the soa of Charies G, Roeviing and grandaon of} John A. Roebviing, the bridge builder and| founder of the «reat stoel industry bea:~ ing the family name, Hoe te an inventor, and jn 1908 designed and built a high- powered automobile which emashed all nker. er is @ grandson apeod records, ‘William 2, Carter has been a promi nent exhibitor at the horse show in this @ty and frequently acts as judge of the harness classes, He owns & fino estate 4& Newport, Quatrofoll, and divides his time between Philadelphia, Newport and Marope, He ie @ constant transatlantic Ore. Carter, who wes Mise Lasitic Polk pt Virginia, haa created excite- " ment fp Philadelphia aad Newport more ¢, Gigantic Bow of the Titanic Crumpled by Collision With Iceberg than once by her daring costumes and her reckless four-!n-hand driving. Dr. Henry Fraventhal 4s surgeon in chief of the Hospital for Deforimities and Joint Disease this city, He has performed some starthing operations ed the attention of surgeons all over world, Last July he was successful in grafting into a woman's leg the siinbone of a man who had been killed In an accident only a few hours before. He worked out @ treatment for infant paralysis which has resulted in an unusual perceniage of cures. Thomas I and iron m of the bix one of the | n the frequent sec: eonferences of steel men which have been held at the Waldorf here and In Pitts- burgh e the Stanley Committee be- gan investigating the United States Stee) Corporation. * a EAR NATIONAL LEAGUE, AT BOSTON. Mich have at GIANTS— 00000000 0-0 BOSTON— 00000111 —8 Batterlee—Mathewsen and Myers; Per- due and Kling, AT BROOKLYN, PHILADELPHIA— BROOKLYN— 1 Batteries—Moore and Dooin; Barger y|and Erwin, cniniiliension AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK, WASHINGTON— 00 NEW YORK— 00 Batteriea—Johneon and Ainsworth; Quinn and Btr AT PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON— 0000 PHILADELPHIA— 4000 Batteries — Cleotte and Nunamaker; Plank and Thomas, _— POR BASEBALL AND atten TI t = Sreromuay New Ss co, RACING OEE PAGE 2 SHE CANNOT SINK, _ SAYS OFFICIAL OF ~— WRITE STAR LINE idivlbhane tes te No Fear Is Enter- tained for the Safety of the Passengers.” P. A. 8. Franklin, Vice-President of the International Mercantile Marine, de- clared this morning that the ‘Mtantic unsinkable, and that, notwith- standing the alarming reports of her colliaion with an iceberg, absolutely no fear was encertained for the safety of the passengers. “While we have had no direct wireless communication from thi eaid Mr, Franklin, “ © satisfied that the vessel 8 unsinkable. Our only reports thus far are from the Asso- ciated Press. The fact that the Titan:ic has sent us no wireless does not cause alarm. In the firet place her failure to communicate with the line may be due to atmospherle condition: nd, in the second place, she may be too busy communicating with nearvy ehips, "No one need fear that the Titantc mn though all her for. ts and bulkheads were in by the tcaderg she would ett! float indofi: ly, She might go down a ttle at the bow, but am tri the collision with an foeberg, the Titanic would float, She is an unsinkable ship, ‘From the messages we have received we estimate that the Titanio is 1,080 miles from New York, in latitude 4. and longitude 60,14 west, That would make her 000 miles southeast of Halifax, “Phe steamship Virginian, out of Halifax, should reach the Titanic at 10 lock this morning, The se reewus SSS. east, should make to the rescue ‘ oa Titantto,"* + | | | | | | | | at 8 o'clock to-might, and the Bal- tic, which had passed the Titanic, has put about and should join the rescuing | fleet at 4 o'clock. | “We feel certain that all of the pas- sengers will be landed safely in Iall- fax, Their relatives and friends need sede no fears, From our jue we find that there are 325 passengers, 300 second cabin gors and 800 steerage passengers. ‘There are fifteen bulkheads in the Titantic. Two of these are what ts Known as collision bulkheads, and the other thirteen are water tight and of the kind common to modern steamers, One collision bulkhead is in the fore part of the hull, fifty feet from the bow, It 1s of steel, with no Inlet into the hold, and it is entered from the main deck when an examination {8 necessary. The other collision bulkhead is at the stern and also must be entered from the main deck. ‘The other thirteen bulkheads divide the hull of the Titantic into separate compartments and doors into these di- visions can be closed separately or ‘at one time. The closing mechanism ‘s hydraulic, It 1s said by marine engi- neers that there 18 no case on record in ness in the strongest of the water- bulkheads of even such a ship as the Titante, which Nes in the pressure-re- slating power of the bulkheads, While {t Js clatmed that two compartments of the Titaale could Le flooded with water withou vessel elther sinking or los- Ing fiecrageway, Jt a admitted that and so on n m head to the next, until the hull was water-logued BUILDERS OF TITANIC SAY @HE'D SURVIVE GREAT BLOw, BELFAST, ..pril 15.—A representative of the Titanig, interviewed to-day, said that if the Titanio were sinking the eollision must have been of grout force, ‘The plating of the vessel, he said, was of the heaviest calibre and even if it were pierced, any two of her compart- ments could be flooded without imper- Mlling the safety of the ship. ——=_—— | passengers, i | York on April 13. of Harland and Wolff, the constructors) 1912, 16 PAGES DISABLED SHIP UNDER TOW AFTER HITTING BIG ICEBERG | Wireless Brings Steamships to to Scene of Disaster, and Pas- sengers, Including Many Not- ables, Are Transferred to Carpathia and Parisian. LATEST BULLETIN. HALIFAX, N. S., April 15.—The Canadian Government Marine Agency here at 4.15 P. M. received a wireless de- spatch that the Titanic is sinking. The message came via the cable ship Minia off Cape Race. It said that the steamers towing the Titanic were en- deavoring to get her into shoal water near Cape Race for the purpose of beaching her. It was said at the White Star line’s offices at 4 o’clook this afternoon that a despatch had been received from a Canadian news agency that the Titantio was in a sinking Condition. No confirmation of this report had been received. From another source it was reported to the line late this afternoon that all the disabled vessel’s passengers had been put aboard the Carpathia, Parisian and Virginian. Authentic wirdless reports late this afternoon from the White Star liner Titanic, which was in collision with an ice- berg 400 miles off the Newfoundland coast at 10.25 o'clock last rignt, is that the badly disabled steamship had safely transferred her passengers and is being attended by three big steamships. Shortly before noon the first official news of the fate of the Titanic since the flash of the disaster fourteen hours before was received from Cape Race, New Foundland, in the following wireless despatch from Capt. Haddock of the Olympic, Titanic’s sister ship: LINERS TAKING OFF PASSENGERS. “Parisian and Carpathia in attendance on Titanic. Carpathia has al- ready taken off twenty boatloads of passengers and Parisian five, Baltic is approaching. Olympic 260 miles from Titanic.” Vice-President Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine de- clared in making public his message from the Olympic that the Titanic would be safely towed to port and that her passengers would be landed at Halifax. A wireless message received at Cape Race from the Parisian this afternoon stated: “Cunard liner Carpathia is in attendance upon the dis- abled liner Titanic and has picked up twenty boatloads of Titanic’s pas- sengers.” No word had been heard from the Virginian at the main offices of the Allen Line in Montreal up to 3 o'clock this afternoon to supplement the first wireless message that reported the Virginian on her way to the scene of the wreck, No details of the transfer of passengers have been received from any source. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the White Star line officials here received the following bulletin from Boston: “Allen line, Montreal (by telephone), confirms report Virginian, Carpathia and Parisian in attendance.” The operating officers of the New York, New Haven and Hartford .| Railroad Company have been notified that the Titanic’s passengers will be landed at Halifax and that there will be about six hundred passengers requiring transportation to New York in sleeping cars and some eight hundred by ordinary day coaches, Twenty-three sleeping cars and two dining cars will be made up into trains between New York and Boston to-night and sent on to Halifax. It is expected that the passengers of the crippled leviathan will be | landed at Halifax some time Wednesday. The Carpathia, which, with the Parisian, took off the Titanic's s a Cunard finer in the Mediterranean. service and left New The Parisian is an Allen liner and sailed from Glasgow for Halifax on April 6, The Allen liner Virginian, out of Halifax for Glasgow, is reported to have the disabled liner in tow. The White Star steamship Baltic should be In attendance by this time, according to calculations of the line’s officials, The first news of the Titanic’s accident was received at midnight by a wireless operator at Cape Race. It sald: “Have struck an iceberg; we are badly damaged; rush aid. Titanle, | lat. 41.46 North, long. 50.14 West.” LINERS RACLD TO THE RESCUE. ‘This call was flashed up and down the goast, and half an hour later World’s Biggest Ship Reported in Bad Shape After Collision at Night and Now Being Towed to Halifax by the Allen Liner Virginian. | the Virginian reported to Cape Race that she was rushing to the Titanic’s. aid. None of the shore stations got into communication with the Car- pathia or Parisian, and until the message was received from the Olympic it was not known that those vessels had picked up the “S. "DO. S.” of the Titanic. The Titanic is the largest vessel afloat and carried a host of American millionaires aboard, among them Col. John Jacob Astor and his bride, Ak | fred Gwynne Vanderbilt and G. D. Widener of Philadelphia. She is reported: to have on board $5,000,000 worth of bands and diamonde. Cape Race, Newfoundland, is the nearest land point to the scene of the {collision with a wireless station. The Marconi operator got several mes | sages after the first S. O. 8. flash, one of them stating that the Titanic was sinking by the head, Then all messages ceased until Capt. Haddock was heard from. Wireless advices from the Allen linessteamship Virginian, while she was rushing {o the aid of the Titanic, stated that her last wireless from the Titanic was received aboard the Virgittian at 3.08 ‘o'clock this mornings’ The: Virginian communicated this fact to the wireless sation at Cape Race, Newfoundland. ‘Bho operstor of the Titanic stated tn thie message thet the women ond children were being taken of in a calm ses. At this point im the there was @ eudden break, followed by a few incoherent ictters and thes complete cessation. No The following message came from Boston at 9.40 A M.: “Indirest messages received from points along the north coast state that Titanic — is struggling slowly but surely toward Cape Race.” SAY PASSENGERS WERE TAKEN OFF. ‘A 9.55 the following telegram was received by the United Press trem’ the Marconi station at St. John, Newfoundland “Titanic, according to mee sagos from Cape Race and other points, nearing Cape Race.” . An Associated Press despatch from London read: “All passengers of the Titanic were taken off safely by 3.30 o'clock, according to a wireless message to Halifax, Nova Scotia, relayed by a news agency, here.” The following messages in quest of information of the Titantic'’s plight were sent out from the offices of the White Star line to-day: 8.41 A. M. “Captain Smith of Titanic, via Sable Island—Anxiou:ly awaiting infor mation and probable disposition of passengers. “FRANKLIN.” 8.45 A. M. “Marcon! Station, Camperdown, Nova Scotia—Give us quick information condition Titanic. Answer this office. “INOGRAM.” The first “8. O, 8." flash from the Titanic stated that the weather was } clear and calm. The fact of the collision may be explained in that icebergs. carry their own veils of fog with them. At midnight, when the Virginian got the Titanic’s distress message via. Cape Race, the Virginian was 170 miles from the reported scene of the accl+ dent and sent word ashore that she ought to reach the Titanic by 10 o'cleek. The Virginian left Halifax yesterday morning with 900 passengers aboard, Her captain reported that he could take care of all the Titanig’s passengers. Other big steamships ploughing the same lane followed by the Titanate and which are being rushed to her ald are the Olympic of the White Star Line, which lett New York Saturday, the Baltic of the same line, the Ham- burg-Amertcan liner Cincinnati, the Cunarder Mauretania, the Hamburg: Amertcan liners Prinz Adelbert and Amerika and the North German Lioyd steamship Pring Frederich Wilhelm. BALTIC SPEEDING TO RESCUE. The officers of the White Star Line figure that the Baltic should reach the latitude and longitude given by Titanic at 3 o'clock this afternoon aud that the Olympic should run up at 8 o'clock to-night. The Baltic has been turned backed from her course to go to the rescue The Montreal office of Horton Davison, one of the Titanic’s Passengers, recelved the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by the Virginian.” Manager Mitchell of the White Star offices in Montreal is on bis way: to Halifax to take charge of the passengers of the Titanic when they arrive. He will also look after the unshipment of luggage when the crippled steamship reached port. Lioyd’s agents in London, according to a cablegram, were demanding — a 50 per cent. premium for the reinsurance of the cargo of the Titanic, Vice-President Franklig of the International Mercantile Marine as sured the throngs of relatives and friends of passengers aboard the Titanic lamored for news at the White Star offices that the greatest steam ship could not eink, no matter how bad the collision. 3 it was reported from the offices of the Allen line in Montreal at 9,30. jo'slock that no word had been received from the Virginian since shortly after midnight. The Montreal officers of the line authorized the statement |” that the Virginian should reach the disabled vessel some time this morning. Another report of an unofficial character recelved at Montreal at 8.90 ~ o'clock this morning stated: “The Titanic is still afloat end her engines are working. At that hour she was reported crawling slowly in the gea- eral direction of Halifax and toward the Virginian.” ¥ At 11 o'clock Mr. Franklin sald at the White Star offices that he we received the following version of the Montreal despatch: “Titanic slowly proceeding for Halifax under her own steam.” He bad received no replies from his anxious inquiries addressed te, ‘ thte Cape Race and Camperdown wireless sta' 4 Taf Titanic poston when she otrck the was . who