The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1912, Page 3

Floating Palace Fi of 06,000 tons. At the came time careled literally a townful of peop! ¥ The Titanto was fifteen storiee bigh. ‘Wrhe floors were named the bottom, dou- lower, middle, main, seteon, upper. peer upper promensde, boat and Geeks and extra compase platform. ‘With officers and crew bering WA the Titanic wag capable of carrying $9,060 to 2,600 passengers—cabin and atectage. She was built to be the lest werd in size, speed, power ang see lugury, and it would take @ powerful past Its igterlor more closely rese huge hotel, with heavy belustraded ‘wide stairways, elevators ru: ‘aid down for nine stofies; its great .saloons and restaurents, its miniature theatre, squash and tennis courts, * imming poole and Turkish bath- me; ite great’ smoking room, card : e1d beautifel must "rovale: ang ~~ AND MARVEL IN SIZE “Housing 3,500 Cabin and. , Steerage Passengers . had ‘The Titanic left Southampton iast Wednesday on her maiden voyage fee Now York. Ghe hid then 1,200 passengers, 850 of them in the first Whe bad trouble at the start because of her great suction. As she was \Seoving her pter there was a sound as if of a mountain battery being dis- gharged ond a rush of pabsengers to the port rail fdllowed, ‘Aa the tlg 45,000-ton steamship passed out into the stream she had | ghieked the water between herself and the quay to such an extent that seven Bugs heweers with which the American lincr New York was moored bad euapped and the New York wes drifting helplessly, stern first, coward the ‘Titanic. MY The diggest vessel afloat reversed her engines and in a few minutes headway was stopped and tugs that had rushed to the New York pre between the liners. ic was the largest ship afoat. |Sreater than her sister ship, the Olympic, and, like her, was 100 feet longer their next rivals. She was 8823-2 feet long, 98 1-2 feet in the beam She was: of 46,000 tons register and had a displacement ehe_was fonting marvel of lusury and le. \ fpottom:; pad plates, lower orlop, or-| fteen Stories High, She was nearly 1,000 tons TITANIC COMPARED WITH TWO TALLEST BUILDINGS IN WORLD. tT &. SMITH? “viranic® Also Probab: The total loss of one great steamship, the secret of whose fai never been revealed by the jealous sea, ha: at the debit columns of the White Stap line since 1893. That was the giant freighter, Naronio, which disappeared from the eastward winter track across the Atlantic some time after Feb. 11 of that year, and not one of the neventy- four souls aboard her ever was found to tell the tale of her déstruction. Because the enly traces of the Na. ronic that ever were found subsequent- ly were two lifeboats, one ov ed steamship mei marine underwriters could do no more than dulld conjectures as to the sudden blow that had overwhelmed the big ship in midocean. \ PROBABLY BLOTTEO OUT BY COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. Hither an iceberg’or a derelict, they id been responsible for biot- ting the Naronlc, for there wag not the remotest possibility of a fire few sradeerd her, and no* other craft, hh might been in collision with her, was either reported missing or came to port with the tale of dis- Loss of Naronic and All Aboard d'| with’ wafer, / ly Due to Iceberg the Atlantic and back, when on Feb. it she left the Mersey, New York bound, with @ crew of sixty and fourteen cattle men as passengers, Long after the Naronic had been posted as overdue, the British steamship Cov- out of Fernandina, arrived at nm ‘ch 2%. Her captain rel that on March 4, when in latitude © eat, he had a white Hfeboat, capsized and almost submerged, upon the bow of which ‘hi thought he had been able to read the word “Naronic.” Twelve houre later the Coventry had passed another white life. boat, riding right side UD, Dut’ half filled DERELICT LIFEBOATS TELL TRAGEDY’S OUTLINE. Th name nic” ‘was plainly visible those who had been occupants of the second lifeboat had encountered heavy weather anit that the sea anchor had been hove overboard as a despairing ef- fort to keep the craft's head to the sea. ‘The place where the Coventry had sixhted the two Iifeboats w: ORLD’S. BIG S Z. |RER COMMANDER [POLICE- CHARGE ON CALLED “GRAND CONVENTION HALL | CADMANOFSEA"| ELD BY TROP Captain of the Titanic Known |On\Judge’s Order, Axe Is Used as Skipper Who Took No Chantes, * Pe ‘The tionor bestowed on Capt, Edward on Doors of Chicago Armory Where Democrats War. or CHTOAGO, April 16.+-With 1,000 po- John Gmith, when he wae selected to oemgn surrounding jhe Seventh Regi- command the Titanlo and taken “from |ment Armory and | the Otympte for that purpose, was con- | sheriffs under command of Chief Dep- aldered -remarkatlé among steamship |%ty Charl Commanders, for it le @ deep cea tradi.| for admission, Col. Daniel Moriarty, tlon that @ captain's career is ended hap. The Olympte fortune with Capt. Smith fhander, but the Waite st her com- Company knew that they were justified in placing | "#r* backed by court’ orders. every reliance on the man who has ruled over the finest steamships in the when his vessel meets with serious mis. |°"!!ding barricaded and refused entry 0" special deputy Peters storming the doors with 190 National Guerdamen, had thy to all parties when the time for con- wed twice met with mie-|emne the Democratic County Conven- tion arrived to-day. Both the militiamen and the sue ne guardamen were upheld by @ restraining Order issued oy Judge M. L.. McKinioy lest night against the ruling of County Ju John B. Owens, who ao Capt. Gebith has been in the service | Biection Commissioner Cuarneck Of the White Stat for thirty-eight years, |pubilcan, to organise the conven’ the Republio—the | ,The battle for control of the convens the one the Florida Ughtehip— the Bri- tannic, the Germanic and the Majestic. Me brought over the Baltic when she was the biggest vessel on the seas, then the Adriatic and lastly the Olympic. In the White Star sérvice he ts known as ‘The Old Man.” FORTY YEARS HAG HE FOL- LOWED THE @£. Tt és rather more than forty years since Capt. Smith first went to sea. He was apprenticed sailor to the ol house of Andrew Gibson & Gone, ‘whowe lumber ships sailed between ‘New Orleans and Mobile and Liverpol. His first command was the Bessie Gibso: & pretty ship in her day, that made a fortune for her owners. He rose rap- idly, amd after hiaving\ bad command of nailing vessels joined the White Star as fourth officer. He lp tall and of weight proportionat to his height. His whi Bair, white whiskers and mustachd make him called by those who have voyaged frequently under fis care “The Grand Old Man of fated voyage of the Titanic, he CAPT. | NEVER TOOK CHANCES. Capt. Smith was essentially navigator. He never took cl attended himsel to every detail of his He bout 30 | duty, and never left to others what he| the hall miles eoutheast of Newfoundland, far! ought to nee to himeelf, He Placa called and smashed down the other was scheduled to be waged on fie the Roger Sullivan forces and on the other Ry the Hearat-Harrison followers. “Upon advice of my attorney I ha’ Kinley’ Michael Zimmer will act as if the order had never been feaued ang will follow the instructions Of County Judge Owen: At noon Judge Owens appeared at the Armory and demanded that the doore be opened. On being refused he ordered the potice ttler, with an axe, began battering down the door. Judge Owens arrived on the ecen few minutes before noon. When C Ootigan refused to open the doors the Judge said: the first man T shall turning to Assistant Chief Mee Schuettier, ‘he commanded: “Break down the doors.” Schuettier called for an axe, and with the ald of policemen hacked down tho door, The soldiers were drawn up attention inside, but offered no resi ance. Behind Gohuettler were 10 po- leemen. A hundred policemen entered the hall with Judge Owens, Election Commissioner Anthony J Caarnect: his boat and there was a sea anchor |the Sea.” Except the mishaps with the | other officials, Caarnecki, the Republi- berg sand oars Jashed together drag-| Olympic and the trouble at the opening |can Election Commissioner,’ then ging over the stern, This indicated to | of t! ithe eyes of the Coventrsfs captain that | has never had an accident. pared to call the Democratic ing Permitted to enter. After the delegates began ente?ing wae tif Fire Department pre- ‘Conven- tion to order under his inatructions OMITH NAVIGATOR WHO | fom, Judge Owens. With the police 7 through the hall, the delegates, who |i ull nad been. waiting since 9 A. M., were " he eald, “depends on the speed at which she was travelling. Inasmuch asthe TMtanic ts equipped with e@oho apparatus which gives warning Trede Merk Hale Centory Ladies’ Hosiery © -At “The Linen Store” ‘eVeh of the top of ite twelve decks o misiature golf links. aster. The Naronic, Capt. William Roberts Pool and ir > commanding, was the first twin screw path of New York steamers ‘bound for below the winter tracks between Liver- yw York and almost in the doors of the armory. The disturbance which for what it was the duty of some one else to do if that some one was:at tis post. tori IN';COMMANO OF ADMIRAL SMITH threatened to end in bigodshed finally Sm freighter to be built. She ‘wi steel (Gibraltar. How far the two boats had| His home te at Southampton, England, | reguitea in two conventions, one by the ‘ : OF WHITE STAR Fu! ship of @5H tons, with two sets at jdritted from the Naronic after they had| and be has a charming wite and s|fearstiHarrison forces and the other $1,00 Pure bright Silk, trunk tops and soles of Capt. ausite, her Gineqoen the ad-/ es capable of developing 3.60 horse been hastily put out in some moment] pretty daughter fourteen sears aa. His |by the followers of Roger CSulltvan, isle. Value $1.50, fl wmiral of the ite Star t, was in; power ‘was 470 feet long, with 58 feet of disaster could only ® matter of] hotiy is reading and he kept himself| National Democratic Comaifttes. 6 i . ‘ gommand of her sistre ship, the Olympic, beam. Built for the cattle carrying speculation. The sea covered its secret | closely posted on both the American and | victory, #f there was any, went to the $1.00 pair—Pure bright Silk, extra ble welt tops; when she made her mafien voyage to Metrypottian Wigcymartn 8. yea, trade, she had made several! trips across well and has held it ta this day. English politica as well as other forms Bee Oe naa as ee ik soles, Lisle lined inside the sole. ‘alue $1.75. Rew York and also when she collided | 1" 4 Fest. pane nat ey Sola Rae ot nbws. vent . _ Uanes, the andes ‘with the Britirh ~rulser Hawke in tho 3 AME ORE ae ES : ‘The other officers of the ge. 3t Sean eens . 1 ir i ‘Flat iat mapa. "| tes m, nt ig renen| IMMENSE ICEBERGS ~ | ste rove tve nnn ota men WM" Dat Sat OG was |IO| lop Cote oles ot bile lined ne tice Wey ce ‘ @he Titanic was launched at Belfast ‘his arrangement of bu Is the huge ANI "AR | about 41.4 north and 60.14 Assistant Surgeon, J. BE. Simpson: | another hall. With two sete of delegates ce M1 last year. J. Pierpont Morgan, | Ve! Was considered unsinkable, DROVE CARMANIA F. fields as far south as that are shoes Porsers, H.W. ickiroy and BH. L. |eiected to the Mate Convention at and sheer. Value $1.50, Also Pink, Blue, Canary and» gé guest of Lord Pirrie, chair- managing director of the White ‘Ldne, and J. Bruce Isinay, chairmad ternational Mercantile Marine launching. Ba- banks of Laffan, cheered heartily as the “QPORTS AND DIVERSIONS OF A WINTER OR SUMMER HOTEL. RE tik IT CONTAINED THE LAST WORD IN REGAL FURNISHING. Two sultes on the Titaflla were 4,380 each for the single trip. These apart- ments, which were called the Regal Suites, were just abaft the grand com- panionway on the B deck. They con- elsted of eitting-rooms, sleeping cham- vers, bathe 4 wardrobes, with a “front garden, wide private prome- nade extending the whole length of the suite and having its own sea rail. The occupant of one of these suites could smoke, read, loll, exercise or do SOUTH OF HER COURSE 4. H, Wellstord, a Liverpool shipowner, who reached New York yesterday on the Yiner Caxmania, gave an interesting a°- count to-day of the icefelds the ship untered off the Grand Banks on hureday. 2 “T have crossed the ocean nearly a hundred times." he said, “but never be- fore have I seen ice #0 far south and in tity. sea, although presentin: h and 50.40 w In one of the hydrographic maps hows elght derelicts, but that number not unusui Reports from shipmasters of ice packs observed en route between British ports and New York showed @3 in April of ast year as against 12 up to Ahe 12th of the present month. The last report was of April 1, from Capt. Dow of the Cunard Iner Carmanta, divined 1 from 41.56 north and 60.20 wed numerdus icebergs and 0 floes.’* The only report of unusual ice con- 41.46 nort! viein- ity ward, Albert Latimer. — 2,400 HAD BOOKED ‘ OUTWARD PASSAGE ON It Yes mated at the White Star of- gers had booked first-class staterooms on the Titanic for her first sailing from this port, which wae echeduled for next Geturday. In the second-class 500 berths passages in the eteerage. courte was as goog as found aghoro, It was of the voyagers. When actually engaged about of their employers, servants ted to remain in this hall were travelling first-class. i arrangement the diffoulties that ‘some times arisen “aboard ship pra 6 valet was mistaken for bis mas. ter were to be avoided. Another feature was an old English { chop house with high backed stalls of (black oak, The arbors in the palm jarden wi another novelty. They ‘were artificially contrived with vines ? ainid banks of real flowers. } Phe sitting-rooms in some of the suites 5 large as 16x15 feet. The restau- ‘ger than that {n the Olym- y in the shape of deck on the star- reception room * a private promen: pide, It led to as he chose on his own deck with 411 the privacy he could enjoy on his own Piassa at bis home, ‘The construction of the Titanic was carried out under t! ander M. Carllsie, Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipbulld- ete, whose distinction in the ehipbulld- ing craft is such that & Privy Cougeillor to t! arch. Mr, Cartiale is @bout sixty years of age and has had more than forty years’ experience as a naval constructor. When he was in this city on a brief visit in July, 1910, he for big ships. There tlealy no limit to ¢he be built, but he could not do all that he wished in that direction because he had to consider o! ele and doc.e. In de- size he was limited only conditions and in the matter of speed by the willingness of the travel- ing public to pay the cost of It, NOT DIFFICULT TO HANDLE, SAID CONSTRUCTOR. It was a mi-take, Mr. Carlisle then said, to suppose that a big ship was hard to handle, They answered the helm very readily, he declared. When Brooklyn Bridge was bullding where hoste and hostesses could meet | Mr. Carlisle crossed the Bast River on their guests before g teurant. ome tea of the immensity of the Great vesse! can be gained from o fe In her double bottom alone diameter, and the weight of them ‘into the res /one of the cablss then in process of con: struction, Mr, Carlisle was here on the Olympio| valued, for insurance purposes, 0 ae ate year ne eeden tri erethen, there are all forts of mis- Throughout*that voyage he was warmly ‘were 50,000 rivets, 18-4 inches in congratulated on the way the great ves- sel, the building of which he had car- ‘amounted to #10 tons. The plates in the| fed out, had beaaved, especially ta the bottom weighed 4 1-4 tons each and were a feet lon, The stern tri weighs 70 tons, the rudfer 100 ¢ and the boss ,arms ‘S 1-2 tong aft and @ tons forwa' viargest beam in her was 9 feet long end More than 4 tons, Three million steel rivets were used in binding her ‘massive plates, and the total weight of them wes 1,300 tons. , ‘The Titanic hi dull is. divide ‘de simpitaneously closed by throwing ger a lever on the bridge. @ome iden of py Gamage done by the collision way oe Ps 4, The | Yovee® storms that vexed her path on her first Journey across the ocean, Speaking then of 'the Titanlé, he sald he vould also accompany her on ter maiden te CANADIAN LINER MEETS 100 MILE ICE FIELD. LIVPRPOOL, England, April 15,—The nine steel decks. The} Canadian Pacific Steamship Company's ito thirty water-tight | liner Empress of Britain which left St, compartments, the doors of which could | Jotn, N. B., on April 6 arrived here tar day and reports having encouniered an ice eld of a hundred miles tn extent when three days out from Halifax, att @iaes, was mountainous. A thick fox necessitated frequent gtops, and when the fox temporarily Hfted beras were tecernibie off both port and etar- board ‘The most impressive feat! were the. numerous owies ets bergs that had melted on top unt!l they were almost awash. In bad or falling lights they were extremely diMoult to iscern, and very dangerous. because of the great quantity of ice below the waterlin “The Carmante, after spending moi of the day trying to navigate @ pas- wage through the fleld, decided to ms ry about. Thus Pas ‘0 the south and avoided further damage.’ pedo) Becks LLOYDS REINSURE * TITANIC FOR HALF OF LINER’S VALUE. LONDON, April 15.—Lioyda agents here to-day are reinsuring the Titanic, Dut In doing #0 indicate their beltef in the gravity of the situation by demand- ing and receiving | premium of 60 per cent. ‘ ‘A member of a prominent firm of un- derwriters, when informed of the dis- ater to the Titantc to-day, said: Even if the Titanic reaches port, her owners will pave to calculate on a lone’ of at least $760,000, but if sho becomes a total lose, it will bo an ex- tremely serious matter. The vessel cont, $10,000,000 to build, Her hull ie a to be taken Into ac- count for disbursements and for pa, sage money and frelghts paid in ad vance, a# well as for stores, barwage and other things. I do not suppose the | owners are covered to the extent of| more than $7,250,000, or at the utmost $7,500,000."" baba es ICE PACKS NOT UNUSUAL, | MOST SHIPS HAVE REPORTED Only One” Liner Has Reported | Extraordinary Number of Bergs | + in Steamer Lane, According to reports received by the Untted States Hydrographic ofMice, at jo. 73 Broad street, the ice packs an Ube ta te sea, where the * cellaneous matte: 1’ hon tT ud fey Brit{sh steamer Armenian, who eent this mesdage April 7 from 43.20 north and ‘Saw several large and s at latitude 42.96 and longitude 4.3, Heavy field ice. Indi- cations are tft there is an unusual quantity of large and small icebergs and field and pack ice. The southern | limit of the ice appears to extend from lati- tude 42.36 to longitude 49.36, running in Qn east-northeast direction. Chi ship's course south to clear the ice.” ——_———- MGR, MCNAMARA DEAD. Noted Brooklyn Clergyman Suc- eumbs to Iiness Following a Fall. ‘The people af St. Joseph's parish in Brooklyn heard with grief to-day of the death of Mgr. Patrick J, McNamara, senior Vicar General of the Diocese of Long Island, at Amityville, last evening. Father McNamara, who was sixty-efght years oid, slipped on the ice on the ateps of the church in January. The fall caused a stroke of paralysis.’ He die@.in the Sisters’ Sanitarium in Amityville, Born in County Olare, Ireland, Father 4 was educated in St. Francis He) was ordained by Bishop Foley in 1810, Pope Leo XII him the ttle of Monsignor and Pius X. created him prothonotary apostolic, giv- ing him the privilege on certain ovoy, sions to wear the miter and robes df hop. the last fifteen years he had deen ctor of St. Joseph's. If You Would Know. what this tea was like in the past, drink it now. The same WhiteRose CEYLON TEA Double Strength Saves Half, eT White Rese Colles, Pound Tins, She Black or Tan Calf, button lace. 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