The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1912, Page 2

0 a —s. om ‘Se wumpened-tney en Ghat He then turned At GOA. M. “wae awakened seth ‘* to Out to render assistance, tyat the Titanic had gone down. TH Avail- was apied,clkar of tnoctestiat, Pleaty of tceberas about. Pech OMEN. Co Blane rth OMiter Wooten that the ¢ had reported rockets during vat. with hig Watch and Gill sald ne knew then it must have ween she Tianioc he had seem, Evans, according to tho afll- werd that the captain had deed Of the rockets by the appren- thes officer, thought to have been named Gideon. The skipper ordered Morse six. nale to the distressed vessel sent up. in reported the rockets to to cons Gibson the captain, who told Gibson tinue to Morse the distr UnUl he got a reply. No rep ceived. Gill sald the next remark heard Evans make was “Why in t devil didn't they wake up the wireloss jm" The entire crew, according to thiked among themselves about the HA Of the rockets, second fivigating oMeer, was on the CAMiferntta’s bridwe at the time of the rocket -elenais, SBAMAN BULEY SAW A BOAT, _ HE SAYS. The mdty told in Ms private @xaml- by Senator Fletcher by John Eéwan Buley, an able seaman on the eerroborated Gill's testimony. »Wmas a ship of pone descrip Kiera when the Titanic struck,”* G48, “and she passed right by ‘Wo''thought she wan coming to *4f whe tad come to us, every have boarded her, You could Hes a steamer. Sho had her Pdtehts burning. She waa off Pertbow when we struck and we al vetavted for the sani’ Nght, and thle ore kept the boats r.* @. mH aR you never heard of that. ahip, any more? A. No sir; we could not see aaything of her in the morning it-was daylight. She was stationa night; "I am very positive that for about “notte she wan atwtionaty, end yy tract,” away wag she? A. 1 ehould Lp age whe was about three miles, @: Why could she not see your sky- rogkets?, A. She could not help but wee them Ghe was close enough to dbo otf Wilts “and to see the ship ftaclf, ahd HT aut aiao the rockets, Ghe was bound to seo|the Titanic Idisaster them. Q. You, are quite certain that it was aghip? A. Yes, sir, WIDE. Manooed ot “Above the - dete. ’ , WASHINGTON,” Apr 26.=1t was ineveisary for women: and chil- drei on the sinking Titanic fo jump a three-foot chasm'from tie déck to the lifeboats and babies were tossed into the boals, according to the testl- given to Senator Witlidteg Riten Smith, Chairman of the Senate Of-the Titanic’s crew, s was due the heavy loss of fife among Evans was examined by Senator Smith fast ¢ purport of his testimony was made public: to-day, tee, by F. ©. Evan js method of loading thi and children. Senator sinith that when which was seventy feet above the ‘The , height was eo terrifying to: attompt: the Jute. ‘were thrown bodily across the wala evant ka and children,” into the boats, Lik wan no other way. tor smith further» antionetes 4 lamp trimmer on the Titunic, he examined: |i cbt, declaged re no lights in ‘the lifebatn, itnege said that after. four hunt eared the ship he went to the and discovered the la and of} there. By orders captain, ‘he oat fhe. hurried! as many san e190 By Att THE egy paward charge of the of Southampton, England, claed steward of the Titanie: up by all the boats that I saw the. prev!- sked hae rt LoweeaLower!" VWrering He jght by the davit oe davitSand one a-motion t6 4 the dtticer tétet him ow far he wasted him*to go ering the lifebokt to kne Water, YY feet below. damay do anything beside: jate tHe lowering of the boat? $halped the women and children "boat and told the men to make ton told of pulling into the boat who did not want to get in, AS you et ae ip there were on the ‘whip. you Py " Shas part of the they were in when you left? A, wee al around the-ehip, all over ‘Was unable to say wether fort was made to wwapl the Out of @ toial of 159-gople saved were 210 who belonged the crow, do you eccount for™my large @ ton of tho crew? A. TI would took chance and and ‘were © We Very powerful ewim- th % Omcar 0, okeeding ut fall] oa) Mr. Sfont, tho'| the: Ttagte message to the Titanic tell her you) WOMEN AFRAID TO JUMP CHASM TITANIC AND LIFEBOATS Te" Was Three..Feet Across and 70 ne the wes sat thee vor saetly there was cight inches of water :n her. Because of this a nuinber of passengers we viously women a Sailer, Testifies. ot ‘the reqieng, 'd ton testified that J. Bruce lemayj gentlemen get in, yes sir, Q. Did you. see that ship before you were inithp Water?”A. Yea, sir; I saw it from:&he ahip. ‘That in what we told the passengers, ‘We said, “There is a steamer coming to our assistance. That is ue Kept them quiet, I think.” ‘AIN LORD TELLG OF WARN. ING SENT TO TNTANIC. Capt: Mtaniey: Lord of the Callfornian then, took the gtand. He had brought the ldg of the Californian with him from Boston and read from the record Hes included several references bergs. “Did you try to get tuto communtea- tion with the Titanlc on Sunday night?" asked Senator Smith “Yes, sir, about 10.15 that night, ehip's time. Wegold him we were surrounded by feo and had stopped,” Q. Did the Titanic acknowledge that messaye?” A, Yes, sir, It told we to “shyt up” or “keep out,” or some- khing Uke that Q. Did you have further communtaa- tion with the Titanto that evening? AL Not at all, Q. How far were the Californian and aaprt when you sent your Were blocked in the jcc? A. From the Position we'tad of the Titanic we were about nineteen and one-half miles apart. "Did the Californian receive the Ti- tanic's C. Q, D. call?” anked Senator fo,” waid the captain, “but we got It from the Virginian about 6 o'clock the morning of the 1th.” Q. What ts the epeed of the Call- fotniam? A. About eleven knots ordin- arly, We made thirteen and a halt when We were going to the Titanic, Q. Were you under full speed then? A. We were driving all we could, “When you told the Titanic you were surrounded by ice, how badly were you | surrounded?" The witness said the Meld was about twenty-five miles long and several miles wide, ‘The Californian, he said, was about a quarter mile from the edge of ‘the foe, THOUGHT THE TITANIC SOUTH OF HIS SHIP, Q.‘Why. did: you notify the Titanto? ‘A. As @ matter of courtesy entirely, 1 dant Know Where she was. As a mat- | ter of fact, 1 thought she was eighteen miles south of us. Q. Do you know anything rewarding of your own was knowledge? A. Nothing. @, Did you see any of her signals or anything of the ship herself? A. No, BETWEEN | a,” F.O. Evans, Evans said that he wut,“ ta” cool and very SINKING’ SHIP, | Geo Thomas Rewe, quart madtés, t¢x@mined vy’ Senator Burton, | comarmmnded the lifeboat in which J, ped from the sinking ordered in charge of he pat, | He said no one asked hen Chict Omeoer Weyl asked if} ‘there;weresany more women and chil-| Arey, chore was no reply," sald Rowe, | Ho Mr, Iniay came aboard the boat.” you say there were no Women and children? Senator ‘Burton asked. A. Z could mot see, ‘but there were none fortheomiag. Q. Were there any men pas- Beagers besides Mr. Jemay and the hb Seer man, 0 Br. Carter? ara Gee any, air. light so that you could see “Warnearby? A. Yes, alr, } In going along on the water did he” ‘ive any regal A. 1 was in Q. Did you see Nar. Ismay and Mr. Carter get in the boat? A. I saw the Q. Did you hear any one ask them “reo get in? A. Mo, sir, said Rowe. Q. Did you wee Officer Weyl speak $0 them? A. Mo, sir, Q. If he had spoken to them would you have known it? A. I think «i W. H, Taylor of Southampton, fire man on the ‘Titante, majority of id not realize that the Ti- tanse a aink, ee How do you know? A, Because Wiby were all’#kylarking and joking about ft. ~ Q After the accident? A, Yea, air. Taylor aid he only realised the Titanig Was sinking when he observed her going down “by the no: Albert Haines, poatawain's mate, told of Gk charge of « lifeboat and help- in the water, Crowe sald, ut the women j{ngton he had served subpoenas on the | captain and the wireless operator of ¢! visions, ard water on his Ifeboat and that they “just lay to” until morning. None ef those in his boat died from exposure. Q. Did the women urge you to go back? Smith asked. A. No, air, the Women did not stir, If I had thought it possibile I would have gone back. Haines doclared he saw no icebergs until dawn, when in the lifeboats. ‘Then the horizon was dotted with them, “There were anywhere from thirty to fifty,” he said. “Then there was « big fehd of tee, miles ton Asked again about the e je witness said one wo- whoso name he did not know, refused to get on his boat. “I think sho was afraid,” he explaned. “I didn't see anyone of the others heal- tate, I didn't see any of the men pas- sengers try to get in. They were told to etand back by Officer Murdook.” SAVS LOWE WANTED TO TURN BACK; WOMEN OBJECTED. George F. Crowe, a steward, told ator Bourne how fifth officer Low pisced ed of the lifeboat in which he wi jeoued, tried to put back to the sce: or the wreck in order to rescue the drowning, esp! the fact that thero Wore more tha sixty men, women and children in the vrat, 1, spring a leak, transferred to another boat. Pre- are had aasinted in bailing out the boat. The fifth officer, in charge of tha !ife- boat, wanted to go back to ald those Passengers protested against any moro loading of the already overloaded boat. President of the White Star line, as the frat witn ‘The delay in m: due to a conference betw. bers of the committee to extend thelr plans for expediting the inquiry and r leasing and men of the Tit held in this country subject to the call of | the committee. | United Btates Marshal Mertchie at Boston, The Marehal reported that in compliance with’ omers from Wash-! Californian, but that they were vented from coming to Washington by officials of the Waite Star line. FRANKLIN EXPLAINS THE CASE OF THE CALIFORNIAN, “What do you know about this, Mr. Franklin ited the Senator. “Just thts," replied the witness, ““Be- tween 8.30 and % o'clock last night I received a telephone message from our oMce in Boston announcing that the two men had been summoned to Wash- ington and that this might seriously interfere with the steamer’s sailing on Satuntay, I called up Senator Smith's office on the telephone and finally got in touch with him through his’ secre- tary. Senator Smith replied that the mea must come and that no depositions would be taken in Boston. I telephoned to Boston that the men must come on and for them to take the midnight train if possible and that I would urge upon the commitiee thelr examination as quickly as possible ao that they might return to-night in time to eal.” The witness offered to telephone to Boston to learn the time the two wht es lett, ever mim’, thank you." salt the Senator, “I have the Information.” The men left Boston early to-day. Senator Smith asked if Franklin could tell him if the Naronic was lost at sea about ten years ago near/the spot the Titanic went down, “I cannot,” she left port. went down.” Naronic was owned by the |ing fifty passengers and members of the erew into it, @id not go back ne: the abip to pick up those who Jdown, because his boat was al to capacity, ¢ anybody in the water?” Amith, * maid Harris, “We heard some cries after the boat went down.” NO ONE URGED HIM TO TURN BOAT BACK. Q, Did anybody in your boat urme you to FetlsA? A, No alr; I calod the aallors att and said, ‘There uro people in the water’ ahd dsked whether they thought we ought to go back, I sald: ‘We can- y in the ‘boat bocause we have no room to row, let aloue anything else.’ By the we yor back we could have done othing. We could not move the boat, t alone row. I thought It waa unsafo #0 pRnad in the boat, d ast Oveanio Steam and Navigation Com- pany, which also owns the White Star | Line. SAYS NO SECRECY OR SILENCE WAS ENJOINED. Senator Smith asked the witne: in exchai Tomay, inward bound on th enjoined secrecy or erence to the measag: ‘Emphatically no, Nothing of the Was evel @ttoempted,'t | nator Smith read a story of the dis- | aster published in the Anaconda, Mont., | Mont., Standard, April 15, He did #4, he Star Line, a, he had with ret Persons seemed to have had more in- | formation than tv offelals of the Whit Star line, ‘Titanic's assistance, The cablegram was sent at 616 Monday morning. ASKS WHY INFORMATION WAS VENING WORLD hese Argha 4 Rn yh ey Abs NOT MADE PUBLIC, “Do you not thin! tor, abroad was worth reporting to Laverpoo! hat if the information you cabled it cortaimy was important enough td give to the public?’ Mr. Franklin said he based his report entirely on @ telephone communication ‘with dine's agent in Montreal and on reporta received by The Associated Press }and the newspapers. mM. after repelving telephonic reports from Montreal informing Liverpool of the “romors." Franklin tad ‘Yécelved the ‘information The inquit; ir was med a! 1015 A.M with PBA Franklin, Vice: | from Montreal at 2.80 and dla not send before I cabled.” said Mr. Franklin, was @ matter of expedienc: Cabled inquiries trom England quickly as posuible the ofcers | Company, Mr. Franklin’ aa: Io who have been | celved in New York bofore | until after he sent his message, Sen, When Mr. Franklin took the stand | ‘or Smith asked if he had directed the witness if ‘the was satisfied with the’ three feet from the steamers TELLS HOW “IGMAY LEFT THE | Senator Smith read a telegram from | cable Messages at New York at night. “No, all night if they were to deliver all Franklin said he ipst no time Benator Smith suggested atch until 6.15. had to walt until I got to the office “Tt nis were re- e sent the but not delivered at his office jes not to deliver important | air, They would be delivering they came in.” Mr. Franklin dented that the cable! they are restiv. Pre-| companies were under uny control by | you have a bij; problem on your hands} the what authority his company had over wireless operators on their ships. “I presume if anyone wa: able he could be removed.” THINKS SALE Q. Do you approye of thé custom which has been revealed Franklin objection. | NEWS RATHER | UNFORTUNATE, by Binns, Cottam and Bride receiving becuniary feward for information of disasters? AT think St ts rather unfortunate, Nevertheless it is only human nature. “What kind of human nature!" s.apped Senator Smith. tr, that i would be desirable if such a| from Oyster Bay, en route to Massa- custom could be eliminated, Senator @mith questioned the witness Franklin expressed an opinion ‘&s to the rules governing the duties of the wireless operators, with ence to thelr hours, to whom they re- Ported and ‘by whose authority he left | bis “I think those things are regulated | by the company and not by the ship,’ sald Franklin, |ABOUT THE NEED OF MoRE pecial refer- Post. WIRELESS OPERATORS, “Operator Cotton testified before the committee im Mow York that he 41d not report a message to the epparatus. “this investigation will “Mo doubt,” said Mr, bring out some legislation settling the prob- Jom.. .Z believe that laws should be enacted compelling, among, other things, the presence of an operator at the instrument al} of the time.” Senator @mith referred to the delay | CORNWALL. — THOMAS CORNWALL, of the Titanle's ope: ; ome not do eny(hing with the crowd We have | said, to bring out the fact that outwide) ice message and asked whether this one instance was not ‘the necesulty of placing the operators Senator Smith then had the | under the absolute control of the cape | tor in receiving an suMctent proof of witnegp read a cable message which he | tain, sent to the line's Liverpool office tells | was on the “The delay was unfortuna ing of the accident and declaring that | witn hed © tight and pro- the Virginiea said the ‘but in this instance it was not way to the material, tor the Titanic got it thirty minutes later. That: was more than five | hours before the accident.” More experienced men at better wages | and with reasonable, fixed hours of 30 would go m. He said fon looking toward such re- forms would follow. Evidently smarting under the criticlam that the British wit- resses were being unduly detained by the committee, Senator Smith asked the, treatment accorded him. ‘Entirely #0," responded Mr, Frank- ‘tin quickly, ‘In the case of the wit- messes from abroad they are very anxious to get home and naturally We all recognize that | land 4f you believe our testimony can ‘ald, you ere the best judge of hat." Senator Fletcher asked Mr. Franklin \# he deemed it practicalble for ships |to cross the ocean in pairs, \ The witness said it would not only | be @ commercial impracticability, but | lan element of danger to the ships | |themslves. _— |COLONEL FEELS HURT THAT TAFT HIS GONE INTO PERSONALITIES, { On tis arrival in New York to-day jchusetts, Col, Roosevelt intimated that he was deeply hurt because President ‘Taft has scen fit to resort to person- alties Inthe campaign for the nomina- tion, Take it from the Colonel, he did not believe that his old friend, Will Taft, would do anything like that, But, deeply as he is wounded by the ction and language of President Taft, | | Col, Roose scorns to make hy | caeetieg ere of vituperation. 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