The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1912, Page 1

ENATORS TRACIN ‘WRATHER—Reta to-night or Sunday. “PRIOE _ONE CENT. B SMAY'S PLAN 10 FLEE mB WITH GREW ON CEDRIC HURRIED SENATE PROB 4 _Government Wireless Caught His Message to Hold Outgoing Liner, and Investigators Came Here at Once From Washington. TANS EEN, REN TANS CQOSELY GUARDED | COM HOLD RAGED INLAPLAND' HOLD, UNABATED S DAYS White Star Officials Place Watch to Keep Interviewers Away From Survivors. Stokers in Relays Unable, to Halt Blaze, Ready to Give Up Sunday. TOLD TO KEEP SECRET. BOATS’ CREWS REMAIN. Many in Tears and Poorly Garbed as They Are Herded Aboard Tug to Depart. Stoker Asserts Plan Was to) Call Fireboats. Here to Drdwn Out Flames. 7 Approximately 180 of the 26 inembers WHITE STAR LINE’S HEAD _ [A205 "ise Ste! Sanne yg tees ine mee VIRTUALLY ADMITS ORDER [2% incr iastusd, “wich |Sretanmen, me oaewe sot ow for days. This story, tol for the first time to- day by the eurvivora of the crew, who were sent back to Engtand on board the sailors went as passengers in the steerage. Few of them wore uniforms. the majority having been furnished civillane’ clothing by the White Star “We Have Need of Ismay,” Says Sen- _ TITANIC: PSS WERE SAFE NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL APRIL 20, 1! 1912. _ NOT FROM THE CARPATHL Red Star liner Lapland, wes only one of the many thrilling tales of the first— the Titanic. ine officials. Unusual efforts were made by the Red Star line officials to prevent the Titan- fe's survivors from talking. The mo- ment the men were landed from the Carpathia, they were herded together and carried to a tug, which transferred them to-the Lapland, where they were qverteved untid sailing time to-day. ‘The Red Star line, owned by the In- | ator Smith, “And He Will Re- ; main to Answer Questions. Wireless messages from J. Bruce Ismay to General Manager Frank- ‘ fi-of the White Star line asking that the Cedric be stopped to take lamay and the crew of the Titanic aboard, which were intercepted by a Government boat and sent tol Washington, were the direct cause of the i prompt arrival in New York of the Senate investigating committee which to-day resumed its inquiry into the disaster. ! Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, Chairman of the com- mittee, said to-day: “J, Bruce Ismay sent wireless messages to General Manager Franklin in which he urged that the outward- bound Cedric be stopped to take himself and the crew of ‘the Titanic aboard and back to England. These mes- sages were picked up by the wireless on a Government boat and Washington at once communicated with. That is why the Senate committee was so prompt in arriving in New York and why | was down on the pier when the y Carpathia put in. ] “Not only was Ismay eager to return to England q on the Cedric, but he has been eager to get away on the \ Lapland since his arrival in New York. We have need of Ismay and he will remain here, for | have some more ‘ questions to ask him. The crew will also be held for a ‘ time, for many of them will be questioned.” ISMAY VIRTUALLY ADMITS 17. ‘Mr. Ismay virtually admitted sending the messages in question to- day. He was questioned about the matter before the session of the Sena- torial Investigating Committee, “The facts speak for themselves,” he said. “The only reason | am anxious to get the survivors of the crew back to England as soon as possible is beccuse England is their home and they are anxious to get home. It would be unwise to have them loafing around New York. It is for their own interest that 1 am anxious to get them back to their families.” ( Mr. Ismay was questioned about a report that he told a Mrs, Ryer- son, a passenger, on Sunday, when she spoke to him about the proximity of ice, that the Titanic would “go faster” to get past the ice, He made|! hat {t was sent by me to|want to alarm the passengers.” ‘ by the Cape Race man 4s absolute injustice, | ———— this comment: ‘Absurd,’ I do not know from whom he could| T{TANIC’S SEAMEN a NEW FRENCH LINER SAILS have received that me GET NOTHING AND PAY ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE; STOPPED WITH WRECK, TAKES SOUTHERN COURSE. crew to-day on the Lapland, ‘ “I was aasigmed to the Titanic trom the Oceanic, where I aerved as a fireman. From the day we safied, the Titanic waa on fire and my sole duty, together with eleven other men, had been to fight that fire, We had made no headway against it. “Of course, sir," he went on, ‘the Qassengera knew nothing of the fire. Do you think, sir, we'd have tet them Know about it? No, air. ‘The fire started in bunker No, 6. There were hundreds of tons of coal stored there. The coal on top of the bunker was wet, as all the coal should have been, but down at the bottom of the bunker the coal had been permitted to get dry. SPOKE OF EMPTYING COAL BUNKERS. “The @ry coal at the bottom of the Pile took fire, elt, and smouldered for days. The wet coal on top kept the flamer trom coming through, but down in the bottom of the bunker, sir, the * lames wan a raging, ‘Two men from each watch of stokers was tolled off, alr, to fight that fire. The stokers, you know, sir, work four |hours at a (me, so twelve of us was fighting flames from the day we put out of Southampton until we hit the damned be ternational Mercantile Marine, which @lso owns the White Star Hne, was evi-+ dently acting nuder orders to prevent the men from being interviewed, Per- mission to enter the steerage was re- fused, the refusal being backed up by stationing a force of men about the @angway to permit only steerage ticket holders to enter. A. large number of the Titanio's sail- ors, however, refused to submit to the | practical imprisonment and insisted on |coming ashore tls morning. Most of them were found in the waterfront aa-| loons drinking beer. They were willing to talk freely. At 9.30 A. M. the TY mustered in the land and ¢ sailors were of the Lap-} About 150 an- » As the men answered ss they were told that sixteen had been in command of the » had been ordered to remain | m America to appear before the Sena- torial Investigating Committee. As they caige from the vessel's hold, bringing wit! wed to give y from the others and trie to re-onter the Lapland di to stay in America," nt to ge back to my He was led away from the ship weep- ing. His fellows said he was one of the heroes of the wreck, peel Nast “TITANIC IN TOW" MESSAGE NEVER SENT FROM THE OLYMPIC. PLYMOUTH, England, April 0.—Capt, | sayut we didn’t need mich help. ft jHaddook of the Olympte to-day post- | was right under Bunker No, 6 that the tively and emphatically dented that the |jcgherg tore. the biggest hole tn. the iter apy the operator at |mritanic, and the flood of water that i a : says was Picked | came through, sir, put out the firt that P by him, saying that the Virginian | our tone and tons of water hadn't been was towing the Titanic, was sent from | apie to get rid of. his vessel. |The stokers were beginning to Ke! T never had any informaiton to that |aiarmed over It, but the officers told us said Capt, Haddock, “and the!to keep our mouths shut—they didn't air, we didn't get that fire out, jong the etokers there was talk, sir, that we'd have to empty the big coal bunkers after we'd put our passen- gers off in New York, and then call on jthe firesboats there to help us put out fire, 150-FOOT HOLE TORN IN HULL OF TITANIC, DECLARES FIREMAN, .” Capt. Had- dock added, “ix a flagrant Invention, So soon as I heard of the disaster from the Carpathia T dempatched the news by wireless to New York, That was on! Monday aftern \ Except for those who we: furnishing clothing to re asleep at the ume of HAVRE, April 20.—La France, the new 27,000-ton Frenoh itner, sailed trom | in), 0 Havre at 1 o'clock this afternoon on} «that the are agreed,” he said, |tanle and, re ‘ An accurate idea of the damage dono | “The Olympte, ptain continued, | ti coldent and did not reach ta La France With Many Notables en se Dy the “actual impact | frst heard the, Tiasle's call tor aid nae casei, iho Whi “breathe || with the ioubeng was obtained to-day |about twenty minu ern the mis- . ? Aboard Will Ave Me Dangtrs first clase Ares |Pap iad occurred through the {1one Rothing for, tt Tha tanic. house, Cork, one of heard . t: Beet to pull Cape, hundred ,tante: ce to date, FALSE REPORTS ¥ WERATHER—Retn to-night or Sunday. — CHorid. “ Circulation Books Open to All.” 12 PAGES FALSE TITANIC REPORTS. aot eerie “I Sent No Message That She ' in’ Tow,” Wireless Operator Testi- fies Before the Senatorial Investigating Committe. “I REMAINED ON DUTY FOR THREE FULL DAYS Surviving Operator of -the Titanic Says Word of Icebergs Was Re-: ceived at 4 P.M.Sunday. — The manner in which the news of the sinking of the Titanic suppressed for twelve hours or more and the source of the false ing messages that percolated on Monday to the press through thé Star Line offices were the subjects of the investigation, resumed ‘he Waldorf-Astoria by the Investigating Committee of the United Senate, of which Senator Smith of Michigan Is chairman, Harold the wireless operator on the Carpathia, and Harold S. Bride, "sep coni operator on the Titanic, who went aboard the Carpathia with » survivors, were questioned along those lines, It was brought out by Cottam’s testimony that definite news of the disaster was sent to the Baltic of the White Star Line at 10.30 o'clock @ Monday morning. Both Cottam and Bride, the surviving assistant wire less operator of the Titanic, positively denied that they had sent any mes sage that could be constried as meaning that the Titanic was not sunk and was being towed to Halifax. MESSAGES WENT TO WHITE STAR LINE. Cottam admitted there had been communication between the Car- pathia and the White Star Line offices in New York during the period in ~ which the Carpathia was steaming from the scene of the disaster to th port, but Senator Smith was unable to get from him the exact text any of these messages. The wireless men denied they played any. whatsoever in keeping the dire news of the foundering of the secret dyring the long, anxious hours of Monday. Cottam declared that his first message from Jack Phillips, the a tanic operator, read: “Come at once. It is a C. D. Q.old man,” ‘Then Phillips sent the position of the Titanic. His last message, te ceived by Cottam at 11.55, read: “Come as quickly as possible. She’s taking water and it’s up to the boilers.” “1 never heard from her after that,” said Cottam, “Al- though several times | called the Titanic and sent Capt. Bostrom’s reply to Phillips’s last message, which read: We © are making your position speedily as possible. Have double watch in the engine room. We are making 15 to 16 knots an hour. Get your boats ready. We have ours ready.’ — never got that message to the Titanic.” The horrors of the disaster grew very real before the committee when Harold S, Bride, the extra wireless operator of the Titanic, took the Wireless Heroes of Disaster Who Testified at Inquiry To-Day ORDERED NOW BY ISMAY Vessels of International Mercantile Marine Are Now Being Equipped So That Every Passen- ger and Sailor May Have Chaiuce for Life. J. Bruce Ismay, Chairman of the Directors of the International Mer- cantile Marine, announced to-day that orders had been issued to equip all vessels of the lines embraced !n that corporation with a suMcient number of lifeboats to carry all passengers and every member of the crew. The orders go into effect Immediately and Mr, Ismay said the work of completing the equipment was already under way. The lines affected by the order are the White Star, American, Red Star, Atlantic Transportation, Leyland and Dominion. The order was prompted by the experience of the International Mercantile Marine in the foundering of the Titanic. “We have learned by bitter experience,” sald Mr, Ismay, “although our ships have al] been equipped with respect to life saving apparatus in full compliance with the Admiralty Laws.” JAttor dressing he went on deck with ce Johnson ordered to his post at one of the lifeboats, He urged Gug- ie heim to try to get into a boat ia |which they were taking son DIE HERE BECAUSE =": s-~* | AM A COWARD TO CLOTHE DESTITUTE ~—DANIEL GUGGENHEIM |" cu ryivoRS FROM THE phnson the message fo shook hands with the ed away with Guailo, —~——- TITANIC’S STEE. y,|stand, Bride, a pale-faced, black-haired boy of eighteen, was caf ‘ terol nd lof) «Millionaire os STEE RAGE into the room, Both of his feet, ffozen in the terribe hours between the ‘The New York Section, Councit of| time he left the sinking Titanic and the time he feached the Carpathia; Miner Told by Steward Who + ; Jewish Women, @ national organtza- were swathed in heavy bandages. His face was drawn with pain anid fis hiz black eyes were red and sunken, tute | While Bride was testifying several newspaper photographers ex+ | lox s. I port startled i . ploded flashlights, The report startled everyone in the room, | Bride’s shaltered nerves almost gave way. ’ Vivors nee distinction wit te made.| Yesterday's session lasted from forenoon until almost midnight. Ns 6 Oman AALGR 1a Slap, Ready | hief feature was the first official statement of the catastrophe—that | Second, Officer Charles Lightoller, the senior officer surviving of | Titanic, One of the things already brought out at the investigation is that east 198 persons died needlessly on the Titanic because in six : | that would have easily carried 390 persons only 192 persons werd laway. These boais were all that went on one side of the ship, COMMITTEE AFTER DETAILS. The committee began to-day to go into the details of the disaster "| various angles. At yesterday's session J. Bruce Ismay told why he ; the Titanfe and how he got off. Capt. Rostrom of the Carpathia told he rescued the Titanic survivors, and Marconi, the wireless man, the workings of the wireless system at sea, | Second Officer Lightoller told a long and clear story of | on, with headquarters at No, 448 Cen- tral Pa y day that it is mplete out: | a Carried Message to Wife. rs ually confines its That Benjamin Guggenhelin ( charities to Jewish women and girls, down with the as the best, was detinll th million who wen \ score or more of me ntributed everything he garbing of women #8 Badies American, ed at the Bt. Reg world famou as mi! K inen. ; ple punched into the |#team, the Olymp! d forward at her maiden voyage to New York. 8h) pitanic's hull, on the starboard side, | Pace never hofor a by her— carried @ throng of notables, among | was at a pont about # feet from |Petween 24 and 28 knots ur down. of the men landed he whom Robert Bacon, who recently re-| her stem. The big 51 ore along over Hours later the Olymple knew that wits noney, and they all declared 4 7 wigned as American Ambastador to] the tceberg, which opened her kee! her race to the Titanic had been in| Wi) ‘ fon France, and Mre, Bacon were promi-ja polnt about 69 fect aft the br = The Carpathia announced 1 men's Com: rent, The official delegation to the}! should say the hole tora in th @ had the saryivere aoare, and that! White star | ® Champlain festivities in the United tanic'e bul was about 110 or 160 feet haere Fee, Gineepsared, — Giogl bid © care States, which comprises eminent men |!” length. | : ty ‘ ents oF thoes rig oolted pps It didn't matter how many wat Fee er a ey yt Aaa chatre|Members of ‘ho crew who loat thelr 4. Dal Plas, the general manager of | USht compartments the Titanic had. |mansnip of Albert Wixgin collectea ve" not com- the Frenoh line, who ie a passenger | *%¢ Was torn open for such a long 7,000 for the relief of the sufferers. ' Pelled to do @ men who on La France, said to-day that orders banat thet Bone of them could ‘The wireless operators and passengers {Were *aved hid been given to the captain to take | faved her. he hole had stopped at/on board the Olympic were oombarded | the southern course and to adopt every ie aay, T don't think the vessell with requests ford sto of the dis- | v measure of prudence. would have sunk, aster, but censorship was established Beta 24 man & The y Tapa to the Titanic, except in over the wireless service so as to shut 4 ior aad very few cases. hae not affected the rer wens |O% the posstbitity of groundiess rumors soon ey ond night ipammnower lint of 14 Prance vane aces, Sot |Soing circulated, , s, i‘. * m Yorks amon renaanipe tay devetst to the Titanle! markable experience in that he went down with the vessel, SEPALS am fs sucked under and twice blown to the surface by explosion im the Rly According to Johnson Guggenhetm was m daie ‘in hia stateroom just after the crash and ei Johnson helped him dress. Guggenheim can. wan calm, oe was bis vecretery, Gullo, Figg tive i iy played in the wreck at last night’s session of the committes, He,