Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1917 — Forbidden to Wireless. [ARTICLE]

Forbidden to Wireless.

Under admiralty instructions the officers of the ship were not permitted to wireless the news of the accident and fire. With the home-bound pennant still at the fore the Laurentic docked at Liverpool. Mrs. Mathias and her two children waited for the captain, whom they had not seen for two years. t(\ come-off the ship. —Finally an officer appeared andLtold them how the captain ha sacrificed his life YerTiis-men.r— - Captain Mathias was well known in this port. The Laurentic, his last command, after she finished the MontrealLiverpool summer service, used to salL from New York on winter cruises to the Mediterranean and the Caribbean seas. The captain first went to sea because of the jilting he received at the hands of a little Irish girl. He was born in York, County Cork, and at the age of fifteen was keeping company with a fair colleen who lived near the' Rushpool Docks, Queenstown. Oneday he declared his intentions to .the girl, Molly byjiame. “Jack,” she replied, so the story. frees “any time you want your socks darned, a shirt patched or a tear in your breeches mended.you’ re welcome enough here. But you’re only an apprentice and I could never take what you say seriously.” “When I come back I’ll be captain of an Atlantic liner,” the youth answered hotly.