The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1912, Page 3

— oe FRANTIC CROWDS SEEK NEWS OF SURVIVORS AT WHITE STAR'S OFFICES Long Line of Friends and Relatives of Titanic’s Passengers in Scenes ef Grief as List of Those Saved Is Reviewed. In a city hushed by the news of a dire sea tragedy of unparalleled Proportions, the offices of the White Star line at No. 9 Broadway became the focal point in the metropolis to-day for the expression of woe and de- Spair. Multitudes of pallid men and women with swollen eyes that had been wrung of their tears, with hearts that now beat high with hope and then ceased and barely fluttered as fear gripped them, thronged the lob- bles and corridors of the great steamship offices, evér coming and going, listening when they dared not ask for word of the safety of kin or friends and now and then breaking out with hysterical inquiries. As the morning advanced the offices became jammed and the crowds overflowed interthe street, soon filling the narrow area of Bowling Green Park with a pressing throng. A dozen patrolmen and four mounted men gently performed their duty of striving to keep the ever increasing hosts in order and those who had gained admission to the offices on the move, so that they who pressed behind might hear the meagre bulletins being issued. William Vincent Astor was one of the many visitors who hung about the White Star offices yesterday and refused to depart with the meagre as- surances of the safety of all the passengers that had been offered. While others turned away with glad confidence in their breasts, the boy born to unnumbered millions hovered about insisting for some, definite knowledge, and as none came he at last returned to his automobile with anguish in his eyes and tears upon his cheek. At midnight he got the alarming news that the Titanic had gone down, and from then on he rushed about in the frantic quest of news, pleading to his friends to assist him and never getting out of touch with the telephone in the Astor mansion at No. 840 Fifth avenue, ‘The boy was still sitting in the great silent house this morning when an of= , fielal of the White Star Line called up and notified him that Mrs. John Jacob Astor and her maid had been saved. “But what of father?" shrieked the boy through the phone and made no effort te choke back his sobs when the faltering reply came that no word had been received ef the fate of Col. Astor. Grief such as this boy's visited hund-eds of homes during the night and early morning hours, or was brought down into the public gaze at the White §tar offices by men, women and children of every rank and station. Mothers, fathers, wives, sons and daughters poured through the entrances of the offices singly and in groups, faltering, rushing or staggering as their emotions controlled them. Herbert St who called on Vice-President Franklin to learn the latest regarding Isldor Strau: was given little encouragement. «We have no news,” said Franklin, “‘and we are forced to believe all the rescued are ‘on the Carpathia, We are not even certain that the list of survivors we have received by wireless is wholly accurate. SEEK BRIDAL COUPLES IN VAIN. The parents of a dozen bridal couples who had sailed from the other s of the hapless greatest of ships were among the moet frantic of those packed lower Broadway !n a great, silent concourse by afternoon, hour brought hundreds more, and {t Was soon necessary to call an extra force of policemen to keep the thoroughfare clear for the passage of trolley cars. Wherever one stopped tn the throng he heard sobs or suppressed excitement. amd that entire teeming district seemd to tak on the hush that was in the hearts of the bereaved or of those who feured bereavement and hud lost ali hope. ‘ ‘Mrs. Farquarson, mother of Mrs, D. W. Marvin, a bride of her son-in-law at the information desk, The mother had J her daughter was saved, but that her son-in-law was she saw the mother of the boy, pressing her way fory husband. “My boy! my boy!"* soboed the mother of young Marvin, she read the other's face, and the ¢wo women fell in each other's arms and gave way to unrestrained grief. The force of clerks in the offices bore the appearance of spectres of gloom. Their faces were haggard from jack of sleep and ceaseless toil at- swering innumerable frantically worded questions. offices had never ceased ringing for twenty-four hours, Tor every phone there were a dozen inquirers waiting, many of them calling from distant points who had spent hours in a vain effort to get in touch with the line. ALL EQUAL IN THEIR GRIEF. As the pack of silent weeping people grew solidly in lower Broadway there was no room for the constant procession of automobiles and taxicabs. Magnificently gowned women mingled in the little park with women in shawls and shabby bonnets, and for the moment all were equal in their grief, For. the relatives and friends of steerage passengers there was abso- lutely no news. The company had no list of their third class passengers, and no word was coming by wireless with the names of any third class pas- gengers among the survivors, Side by side with a big woman in bive velvet and many flashing jewels Magistrate Robert C. Cornell pressed his way Into the offices again this morning for some word of the fate of his wife and her two sisters, Mrs, BE. D. Appleton of Bay Side and Mrs. J. Murray Brown of Boston The Magistrate had almost gained the counter where the clerks were et the parents learned that As she turned news, followed handling the lists of survivors when the big woman in blue fainted in his} sta farms. She was revived quickly and told hysterically that she was a Mrs, Weir and that her husband had sailed from Southmpton on the Titanic, Magistrate Cornell inquired for her first, and when there was no news for her she fainted again and was borne out to her walting automobile by a| policeman. MRS. CORNELL MAY BE LOST. | norted: by one of the atta Nor was there any good news for Magistrate Cornell concerning the fate of his wife. His face went ghastly white when a clerk told him that he had the names of Mrs. Appleton and Mrs. Brown on the survivors’ list, but not the name of Mrs. Cornell. “T can't understand it,” he choked out. “They were all In the same stateroom when the crash came. They had only been abroad a week, cross- | ing juet to attend the funeral of their sister, Lady Drummond.” A pale little man who had bitten his lips so that the blood ran down his chin struggled through the throng to ask about the fate of his brother, D. W. Marvin of Brooklyn, who was on his honeymoon with his bride. The newly wed Marvins had gone abroad with another newly wed Brooklyn patr, | Mr. and Mrs. George Harden. Both were winding up their honeymoon con~ ing home on the Titanic, As the clerk swept hia eyes down the list he picied out the names of both Mr, and Mrs. Harden and also the name of Mrs. Marvin. But Marvin's name was not on the list. At this news the pale little man lifted his arms above his head, uttered a sharp cry and hurried out into the street. ‘Another man who could not control his emotion was Charles Oxenham of | Wew Dorp, 8. I, His brother Thomas and his cousin, Walter Harris, both Eng- Mehmen, had sailed on the Titanic, and their names were not on the survivors’ lists, Nathan Vidaver, @ lawyer, of No. 116 Nassau street, had paced up and Gown the pavement in front of the White Star offices all night long, waiting ter news of she tute of tds alstey, Ure, .Wasdington Doge, wite of thy City,’ The telephones of the | cablegraas ° Oy em THE EVENIN( EVENING _WORLD, TURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. % Some of the Prominent Women Passengers Believed to Have Been. Saved From the Titanic . ~ RS.TYRREL..- °YT-- CAVENDISH Aasessor of San Francisco, her husband and her fourryear-old son. This morn- ing he was informed that his sister's name and the name of his nephew were in the Ist of survivors, but there was no mention of Mr, Dodge. . Another man with an ashen face and strained, protruding eyes, who kept struggling in and out of the throng and asking questions in tones of dewatt Henry E. Sprague, a lawyef, af No, 8) Broad street, whose sister, Miss Eustis, was a pas. not named on the Ist of survivors made up to pried Mrs, Benjamin Guggenheim, wife of the smelter millionaire, bec hyster- ical and created a scene when she was informed that her husband's name had not yet appeared on the liste of survivors, ‘The half crazed woman entered the offices with her brother-in-law, Daniel Guggenheim, and Mr. and Mrs. De J. Seligman, Daniel Guggenheim went to the counter to inquire of the clerk wio had the list. When the clerk shook his head Mrs, Guggenhcim uttered @ shriek that could be heard out on the street. ‘ MRS. GUGGENHEIM BREAKS UNDER GRIEF. “Yon must do something,” she cried.. “It is a crime—a shame. The Vir- finian should have done something; and where is tho Olympic? Oh, my God, Why weron't thore life boats enough. wore ® pouring down hi her bosom shook with sobs. ce-Preside t see her she bee In of the 1 more hys ner offic Two to inquire her, r names rushed into the offices or of the Holland-A of Joni for word had deen 1 of New c that her sister, Mra. I. EB, Stengel wank, had been saved was s by the 1 news that she pitched she was descending the steps to Broadway, She was supported to he and driven away Vice-President! In locked himself tn his offees at 10.45 o'clock and sent out word that he would see no one Telegrams of inguizy wore received at the W: from President Taft and many other Government officials, Tho Prosidont was partioularly anxious to get nows of Major Archibald Butt. Thero were many m all over the world, a flood of messages from London anking fate of Sir and Lady Conmo Dufl-Gordon, whose names appear ore’ vost 0 Star offices this morning for word of ti on the sur e ofltc ng first-class pa rowful t n offteial a f Mise ¢ way mm Pr name was on Ind, the millionaire coal operator and a director tn the International Mer he Co., whieh ‘is the W ar Line, paid a visi! to the co early this morn He was ¢ ufected. hope for at tn hat the Carpathia had board mors bund sald this meseag from Cape Race would ’ that there had t terrible los: of life as reported, Until some news la received fro ainian and the Parisian, he sald, he had confidence that many more passen eos were saved, JOY FOR FRAUF \THAL F AMILY. One of the eaii offices after daybreak this mooning wa nthe ‘Mtanle, Mr venthal | 1 and was so shaken wit) emotion that 4 was several in ‘ could regain suticlent: compo: to put his questions. When the Its of tose saved were read, and the names of the tw) brothers, TG nthal, a and Hyman W., a wall known New Yor ysiclan, and their wives were found, Edward Praventhal »exelted that 9 tore the | the parents, gant terms. excited the sympathy of all who heard their lamentations. long trip of any kind, in fact. She was coming to take up her home with her Gaughter, and the Harans had prepared a little home for the aged woman, Mar comforted, and the husband was finally forced to the building as no word came of the old mother being | HL P. Watsom a olvil f Ruffalo, arrived here from Buffalo this morning and hurried to t ar line's offices to Inquire about two friends, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B, on the Titanic, de Was assured that thelr names were on Solomon, Robert and Danie took turns all day long vis! Star offices in the some news of their kingma er first visit Mrs, Guagenh her home, where it was oajd she was completely prostrated, J ‘others of Benjamin ¢ > MARVIN: Msta from the clerk's houds in order to soe, f f. When he verified with his own eyos the statement of t stagwered to a tele sione sup. | ves of the offices and then sent a me ae ins wife, Mra, Rose Frauent val All that the ex un could think to ery over the phone was: “'Phey are saved; they are Praise God’ | With Mr. Byrne Secretary Isidor Straus, during his long fr sa vigil, | , Froeiteher, at . 1k manufacturer, of N eat Seve y Max Stelhi-Froelicher, a wealthy $\ise manu- facturer, hia wife and Margaret were passengers on the T nie, The | name of the“daughter hes appearcd on the survivors’ list, but not th names of William H. Force, father of Mrs, Astor, was awake throughout the wight, and made many Inquiries cor ing his daughter, When finally her na appeared | tn the lst telegraphed from Cape Race Mr, Force expressed 5 extrava. | Benjamin Haran and his wife, Anna, of Wo. 446 West Fifty-ifth street, | Mra, Maran'e| mother was bound for America on the ‘Titanic on her first ocean trip, her first | 04. | JLNERS HERE ALL REPORT | RECORD FIELD OF ICEBERGS. —— <4 Niagara Struck a Berg and Sent Wireless Call for Aid, Then Decided to Make Port With- out Assistance of the Carmania. Incoming steamships from Europe, which have been held up down the bay by fog for the last twenty-four hours or more, all report halJAg passed numbers of large icebergs and ice flelds in the vicinity where the Titanic was lost. > The Red Star liner Lapland, from Antwerp and Dover, reports that she passed a number of large and small icebergs in the vicinity of longitude 49.50 and latitude 42, and that the ico flelds extended as far north and south of the course as the eye*could reach, ark, from Havre, stated that on the evening of April 10, Ir latitude 44.07 and longitude 50.40, sh y icebergs, followed by an ‘eq fei and the Iner steamed around the fleld until 3 o'clock the following aftethoon, While ateaming through the tce flelis the wash of the sex hurled a larg block of fint-like ice against the port bow of the Niagara and perforated or plate In two places. Capt. Juham raid that In all his experience tn service ©. the North Atlantic he had never seen #0 much ice. The steamer George Washington, from Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg, which was detained in the lower bay by fog for twenty-four hours, alsa report: Passing large and small icebergs, ‘The steamer 3 WE HAVE TO THANK the passion for automobiling for the many new and fascinating conceite in outdoor head- gear. Whom shall we thank for the new and pleasing tendencies in shoedom? IN THE QUEEN QUALITY Boot Shop you should see the lovely crea- tions which have been designed to make evening slippers and pumps ever more bewitching. As if they weren’t already irre bly so, and have been ever since Cinderella lost hers, OH, THEY ARE POEMS, every one of them. And what could be more appropriate to adorn a dainty foot than a Queen Quality slipper? EVERYTHING in the way of foot- wear may be had in this delightful shoe \ shop. It is the largest one in the United States which is devoted exclusively to women’s shoe needs. 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The sud-| den cessation of the wireless on the Titantic supports this theory. Many expert Evening world agr a 'Y collision, su Foes Eiop Henry J. Geelow, nay avehitect, of No, 120 Broadway, sald “LT don't want to give an opinion as to the cause of the sinking of the Titantic 32 West 34th Street until Eoha ard the ns reasonable to belleve that th uikheads amd water-tleht compa have kept the boat afloat in ely. don’t think, hNwever, that the lmmense stze of the Titante had anything to do with her founder Th Wells, a naval engineer and architect, of No, 32 Broadway, agreed ow that the structural plans of the Thantle were perfect “The Tiiantle must have sustained a terrific blow to have sunk as quekly | ss she did, sald Mr. V ar people, after their experience with the Reputlle, teok when they built the Titantic, to have the bulkheads and wat vents perfect “In thia care the reads from ¢ vollision Lulklead back to the engife room must have been ed. 1b ts p je that so many of the bulke were damaxe so much water was shpped that there were not enough 1 ater-tleh hens to keep the huge sh vat That the Titanic sank in four hours ix posftive proof to all naval men that her Injuries must have Ween terrific “2 is probable that, being a new boat and anzxions to make good time her first voyage, she wan going at full apecd when the accident ocourred, It | was night, and I presume that the {usborg wan not ween until it was too late | to reverse her engines. 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