Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1909 — PRAISES CAPTAIN SEALBY [ARTICLE]

PRAISES CAPTAIN SEALBY

Woman Says Disaster Makes Her Realize Meaning of Manhood. New York, Jan. 26.—Mrs. A. M. Miller of Duluth, Minn., a Republic passenger, said: “I have read sea stories and have read tin 1 and again of the command, ‘to the boats; women first,’ but let me tell you I kneW what it meant in that collision for the first time. “Out of the- tog hidden night it came; I could not trace the speaker at first, as we all huddled on the deck. Out of the dark it came, straight and true and strong, and with all the chivalry of man at his highest behind it ‘Women and children will enter the boat first.* < “I think more of bravery now that I know what it means; I think more of manhood. lam glad I heard that command, as Captain Sealby hurled it at us through his megaphone.**