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% sat s Ne POL. ASTOR MET DEATH ~ WITH. SMILE AFTER WIFE WIAS SAFELY OFF SHIP Isidor Straus Begged Wife to Get Into ’ Boat, but She Clung to Him and ‘ Refused to Live if He Must Die. The calm heroism with which Col, John Jacob, Astor went to his’ death was described tp an Evening World reporter by James Johnson, one of the members of the crew of the Titanic, who was on duty in the fifst cabin when the crash came. i “I saw Col. Astor go on deck with his young wife,” sald Johnson, | “goon after the crash. As the lifeboats were lowered he advanced to one| of the officers and asked if he might accompany Mrs, Astor. Informed | that he could not, that the women and children would have to be taken off first; Col. Astor smiled and kissed his wife, then stepped back and lifted his hat. There wasn’t a calmer man on the whole ship. Until the boat bearing his wife away had been completely lost to sight Col. Astor stood thee apparently unexcited and waved a good-by.” The last survivor to speak to Col. J. J. Astor was Alfred Whitman, | the Titanic’s barber. Whitman tells a story that bears out the belief, gen- | eral since it first was known that Col. Astor was among the missing, that | the multi-millionaire and sportsman went to his death as a brave man should. “1 shaved Col. Astor on Sunday after- noon,” said Whitman. “He was & pleasant, affable man, and that awful night, when I found myself standing beside him on the passenger deck help- ing to put the women into the Soats, I spoke to him. He had just put Mrs. Astor into a boat further down the deck, and even in the dim Nght on tt deck I could see he was deathly pale. Bet he was calm, and his hand, as he etruck a match to Meht his cigar, didn't tremble, . BIDS BARSER COOD-BY, BUT SAYS “I'LL STICK.” “The last boat pushed away and the ship began to slant down toward the bow, I had a lifeveit on, but the Colonel didn't have one. “Where is your Hfebelt? I asked him. { drawn revotvers and quietly told them iy move back or they would be shot and the officers fired their revolvers in the alr to frighten them, “For the most part,” he continued, “the men stood back gallantly, some of them even smiling and offering words of cheersto the women folk. Mrs. Straus was offered a place in the first boat, but turned away tearfully, saying she ce remain with her husband to the st." According to Johnson, a woman manned one of the oars in the tifeboat he was In, “As wo drew away from the big ship he began to lurch, and within a very few minutes tt spemed as if scores of Dersons were being swept overboard. T am satisfied that very few persons Were killed on the vessel. Capt. Smith “'T didn't think there would be any | hims'f, as near as T wae able to nee, | Was swept off the bridge to his death.” eed of It,’ he said. | Johnson declared he saw one of the “Get one while there Is time,’ I told | him. ‘Phe tast boat te gone and we are {last lifeboats lowered twist and turn turtle. There were a number of men done for.’ 0,' he said ‘I think there are some |@nd women in tt, he sald, and appar- ently they were all drowned. liferafts to be launched, and we may | ent Tt seemed for a time as if the whole get on one of those.’ “Phere are no liferatts,’ T told him, | sea about us was strewn with dead bodies," he sald In conclusion, “With ‘and the ship is going to sink, I am! going to jump overboard and take a| !ife belts around them and eyes gileten- chance on swimming out and bdeing|!ng, for the most part, one would have thought most of them alive. picked up by one of the boats. Better | th ee ‘It was about daybreak when we first “SNe, thank you,’ he said, calmly, ‘T| caught alght of the Carpathia, We hed to pull five or six miles, and when we think I'll have to stick.’ “{ asked him if he would mind shak- | came alongside of her canvas bags were ving lowered for the children and a ing hadds with me. Ho said, ‘With & ladder for the rest of us.” AS THEY FOUGHT TO CET WM BOTS nearly four hours before one of the Washington Dodge Also Tells beats picked.me up." Johnson sald he was also present and of Pathetic Death of Mrs. Isidor Straus. overheard Mra, Isidor Straus when she refused to lcave her husband, telling him that if the ship was sinking she Washington Dodge, militonaire finan- cler of San Francisco, with his wife would die with him. MRS. STRAUS WOULDN'T LEAVE and s#ix-year-old son, wore among thos saved from ti wrecked ship. HUSBAND. “Tt was the most pitiful spectacte I} ever witnessed,” said Johnson, ‘Mr. Straus. pleaded with the old lady to go into one of the boats, but she threw cally ahd refused to I had been ordered to one of the oars In Mfeboat No. 2 and saw the elderly couple plainly still embracing as the little craft I wes in pushed away.” Johnson said os near as he could Judge {t was atout 11.40 P, M. when the Ti- tanle struck the iceberg. “A great many of the passengers had etired,” he added, “but there were «till a number in the restaurant, on the deaks and in the salons, The night was one of the most perfect I have ever veen; the stars were out and we were| “There was no panic of any descrip: proceeding, I should aay, at about! tion, excopt in the steerage, I saw twenty-three knots, aoc A two frenzied men shot down by officers “When the crash came e impact | ay the: ‘led to fabt th s was so slight that none apparently y 0 fight thelr way into a Mt i thought anything serious had happened, | feboat, That was the only outbreak In fact, I don't belleve the majority of the passengers actually knew we had met with an ident, There seeemd Isidor Straus could have been there was plenty of room In BOILER EXPLO |was driven then to her own home at Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Bride, Who Was Forced From Husband Mrs. JOHN JAC OB ASTOR. MRS, ASTOR DOES NOT BELIEVE HER HUSBAND I LOST She and Colonel’s Son Hope He Was Picked Up After Carpathia Left. Youth and strength have served Mra. John Jacob Astor well in her bereave-! ment. Although she is still under the care of doctora and @ nurse, Miss Brock, she is rapidly recovering from the shock and exposure attendant pon her terrible experience on the Titanic. After leaving the pler last night Mrs. Astor went first to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Willlam HH. Force, at No. 18 East Thirty-seventh street. Her visit there was brief. She No. #0 Fifth avenue, Vincent Astor, her step-son, re- celved visitors at the house to-~day. He said Mrs. Astor had not left her room and was still weak and shaken afier her experience, but needed only rest and quiet. “Neither Mrs.‘ Astor nor myself be- Heve that my father is dead,” said the young man. “We hope he was picked up by some vessel that arrived at the scene of the disustep during the night or the early morning. We will not give up this hope unless the death of my father 1s settled beyond all question.” ‘The offices of the Astor estate were closed to-day. Of course nothing has been done about filing @ will or taking steps toward settling It ts generally bei that Mrs, Astor's marriage settlement carried her dower rights, and that the bulk of the estate will go to Vincen with the first Mrs, Astor in London. Any issue of Col. Astor's second mar- riage would come in for the legal) share of the Immense property holdings of the head of the family, ASTOR’S LAST PUBLIC SERVICE CONCERNED FIRE HEROES. In view of the manner in which Col Astor met his death, dt is interesting to he a low, rumbling sound, as If the | the ifeboats for her, The oMcers went ship's bottom were scraping something: | tg her and told her to take her pl ae tse Gilson H Fe ae nin? | She asked if her husband was to g er son gully en RUNS & When told only the women would be Histon with the feeberg. As soon as the oftlee an shouting for the mem taken on board, she threw her arms of the crew to come on deck, however, | around Mr, Straus's neck and kissed him, there started a feeling of uneasiness. | She turned to the officers and told them Every one knew then that we had struck She Was going to stay with her husband, The dear woman dled there, too, rather than | her heipmate, “Major Archibald Butt and Col, John t were unable to tell wnat moment. ante; in fact, very eitement of any kind, as every: | Jacob Astor died lke the two heroes that the Sitante yi vv Oe they were, Fron the .astant the ship ya number of those | SUCK thy berg until sie foundered ‘and come to the decks | {ho*e tWo brave men were everywhere. impact to inquire waat | They helped women nto states couined excited iuen, assisied who had retire after the first was the matier returned to t rogms. the cers in every way, and stood aside like men as the boats were Leing lowered, BAND PLAYS AS LIFEBOATS | Qo aii’tne women might be saved ARE LOWERED. And, though { did no, see their actual he band ivan playing soon after | deaths, I will belle © to my dying day the crash. Orders were then give to) that nelther Major Butt nor Col, Aator peepare the Ifeboats, For the first time | Showed tha aligatest sign of fear, some of the passengers then began to|4# the water closed over them, Th realize that something serious had hap- | Weren't that kind. Those two men we heroes if wwo hor — ever lived. pened. But withal they were calm, a er Ae APR, few of the ment a rush for the first lifehoats lowered, but were quickly ‘the Titanic, It was he who acted in eowed when the officers stood by with conjunction with Garvin McNaby en ° to recall the last public service he per- |formed before going abroad on his hon- jeymoon trip, In company with Philip \Rhinelander and R. A, ©. Smith, bh actea & committee to asvlect the mes of the pollee herves to be ine e@cribed on the tablet set for that pur jpose in the walls of Police Head: | quarters. The meeting between Mra. Astor, her elder sister Katherine and Vincent As- tor on the pler following the arrival of the Carpathia last night wa of the many pathetle features of that occasion, Long before th arpaihda |reached her dock Miss Force was on | the pier waiting for the youthful widow. Miss Force, accompanied by Vincent Astor, son of Col. Astor and principal their to the great As or fortune, had foeen waiting anxiously for more than an hour for the arrival of the rescue anip, With them were Drs, KB. B. ‘Cragin of No, 10 West Fiftleth street, [and KR, B, Kimball of No, 15 He | Fitty-tourth stree:, and a small grou of friends, A report had been el, Jated that young Mra, Astor was seri- —_—_sa lear WAS TOO AWFUL, |nese among the Titante | Astor and the daughter who 1s Hvéng | ‘Star Hner. cabin gangplank and studied the faces of the survivors as they came off. ‘Young Astor edged his way through ‘the great surging crowd of impatient (humanity that lined the pler, while Miss Worce, tearful, but stolc-like, kept her eyes intently upon him for word of her sister, FIRST INQUIRY I8 AS TO HER HUSBAND. It was not the vivacious, rosy-cheeked young woman the newspaper men had come to know so well during the days of Col. Astor's “omantic courtship, b: @ end-faced and unhappy looking, wom- an who walked slowly down the gang- plank and all but swooned when she leaned on the arm of Vincent Astor. Not a word was spoken by. either. Mrs, Astor, clad in a plain white ahi walet and dark skirt, with a Nght blue vel! covering her head and wearing loosely about her shoulders a brown fur boa, moved as one In a trance, Her large eyes were filled with tears, and she seemed to be gazing Into space as one whose heart had been overtaxed with sorrow. Indeed, while her- maid assured the attending physician that Mrs. Astor's heclth was all that could be expected under the circumstances, the young woman appeared to have grown many years older than when she sailed for Europe with her husband, SAYS MRS. FRANK, ONE OF THE SURVIVORS. Mra. Fanny Kelly was the first of the second cabin passengers of the Titanic to come up through the second cabin gangway of the Carpathla, Bhe wav with another rescued woman, who said she was Mra, M. Frank, @ name which does not appear on the pas: ger list. Both women, clad in nondescript garb given them on the Carpathla, were hysterically «rasping each other about the waist and alternately laughing and orying. ‘A young man approached them, Mrs, Frank threw herself into his arma, “Don't ask me anything about tt, she sabi to him. n't me thing about it! It was too awful Tt was several minutes before he could 1913. HOW HERCIC NOTED MEN SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES Astor, Butt, Widener, Straus, Harris, Guggen- heim and Others Coolly Helped Women, Then Faced Death—Mrs. Straus Left. Boat to Die With Husband. If it be true that the measure of a man’s worth is best taken when ho faces death in some disaster and with others more nelpless than himself to match chances for life, then, surely, many men of International prom!- nence who went down with the Titanic need no epitaph other than the rec- ord of their last moments in life. testimony to thelr mantiness given by the weaker, the more fortunate, who survived: ol hn Jacob Astor, the multi-millionaire, months to one of the lifeboats and saw her aeate: Uatly and us other women to find their places tn the Aifeboat. Later pas- sengers saw him busy, with Major Archibald Butt and John B. Thayer of Phila- deiphia, helping other women and children over the rail of the listing ship to tie promire of eafety if the boats, He did not even wear a Mfe-preserver. had not thorght of himself. Istdor Straus, financler and philanthropist, until It came her turn to step into one of th ‘ any her, When she pleaded with the ship's officer directing the lowering away of that boat that her husband should be allowed to accompany her, and the oMcer replied that the rule of “women and children first waa the rule of the Titanic, Mra. Straus stepped out of the boat and back to her husband's arms, They were lant seen standing together, an axed couple ‘who had found happiness in many years of married life, and were to find death unseparated. George B. Widener, the son of P. A. B, Widener of Philadetphia, and hetr to ono of the largest fortunes in America, saw that his wife and child were Instatle’ In one of the first lifeboats to leavo the doomed ship. ‘Then, when they were lost to sight out on the black wastes, he assisted other men in helping the women and little ones to safety in the boats. He wea on deck, waiting for the end, when the last strains of “Nearer, My God, to Thee” were choked by the final rush of the waters. Jacques Futrelle’s leet words to his wife, May Futrelle, lke her husband a talented writer o fiction and collaborator with him in several of his nove's were: “Hurry up, May, you're keeping the others waiting.” Then he kissed her goodby and saw the boat she was in slip down under the line of the rail. Henry B. Harris, theatrical manager and producer of some of the most pop- wlar comedies of past seasons, remained with his wife for the firm confusing moments after the shook of the collision was felt, Neither he nor Mra. Harria felt that there was real danger, but when the oder came from Cupt. Smith that all women and children must take to the boats, Harris escorted his wite to one nearest to them. A ship's officer raised his hand and motioned Harris back, saying that the women must have precedence, “Well, I'll take my medicine,” Harris said wmilingly to his wife, and stepped back out of the way of the women who were pressing toward the boat. é Lucien B. Smith, son-in-law of Cangresaman Hughes of Wost Virginia, made his bride of a few weeks a widow with a smile on hin Ips. As they approached one of the lifeboats together, Mrs, Smith pleaded hysterically that ier husband be allowed to step into the boat with her. Capt. Smith, {Maing by superintending the work of filing and lowering away the Iifedoa: turned to Mra. Smith and sald, “No madam, under no man be permitted to leave this boat. “Good boy, Captain, the captain on the shoulder, and the bride saw the last of her hi escorted hin bride of a few Then he stood aside deferen- stood with his wife by the rail lfevoats. He made no motion to and’ which he passed out to ever: he could aproach, dressed ‘To the Survivors of Steamship “Pitanio:' ” It bore a large half-tone Hkeneas 0} @ jolly faced, smiling Engiishman, whose countenance there was of cowardice. would never women had been saved LONDON MOURNERS_ BE- SIEGE OFFICES OF WHITE STAR LINE. LONDON, April 19.—Pitiable acenos were again witnessed at the White Star offices here to-day. One woman who had kept vigil every day 1 most of the night since the first news of the Msaster came found in the list posted i at the office the name she had. been | @° caption “Charlos L. Chay waiting for and rushed into tho street) Any information regarding Mr. shrieking ‘He !s saved!" Memorial services fo. e dead were held at noon in St. Paul's Cathedral and were attended by the members of the Cabinet and of the Diplomatte Corps, among whom were Ambassador Whitelaw Reld and Mrs. Reid and other! Mr distinguished personage: The White; father, Star Company and the Internationa! )of the ‘The handbill was ad. 1321 Plimpton avenue, New York City. Chapman found no trace of this! whore name dead. apears on the Is Mercantile Marine Company were diso _ —_— “eR eremnrtal service ts to be noid in sx.| TO PAY TRIBUTE TO STEAD. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday, Men and Religion Cong Memorial Services To-Night, non LONDON, April 19.—The reltof fund | morlal servicws for Mr, Stead at Car ance of thone thrown Into distress by the disaster to the Titanic now amounts to $260,000, ‘The Earl of Derby, Lord Mayor of Liv- | erpool, In response to an urgent requent from New York for assistance for the| survivors among the third class passen- wers, to-day ASKS IN HAN DBILL quiet her and Jead her away. Chinamen Aboard Carpathia. ‘The United States Immigration Board | jearned to-day that there were six Chi urvivors, There had been eight Chinamen on the White ‘They were taken in charge until their right to enter this country could be verified | | | The man_ who hasn't makes our best customer. ance. He continues to | Spring Suits- most picturesque personages saved from ‘ously iil, and the physicians were on, hand tn case the report proved trie. ‘The little group etood near the Great FOUNDE BROKAW BROTHERS MENS & BOYS’ CLOTHING.HATS & FURNISHINGS = FOUNDED 1556 a) He buys his first Suit here because of its appear- satisfaction our Suits give in fit, wear and service. Then this store is convenient to get to—midway between uptown and downtown business districts, and right in front of the Astor Place Subway Station. The largest stock of ready-to-put-on Clothes in New York makes quick selection easy. 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