Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — Page 4

FORMAL OPENINCL T > ” ” -v; /. — ' "—■ T-v-r—. •••■ ■’ -,-: ■ , ■ - Having completed the remodeling and beautifying of our store, we extend a cordial invitation to nil to witness the splendid display of Home Furnishings the afternoons and in the evenings of * FRIDAY and SATURDAY, APRIL 26th and 27th. Music by Burch’s Orchestra each day and evening of this Opening. ¥ o. ' / ■- r - , W. J. WRIGHT’S FURNITURE STORE.

HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK

Latest News Told in Briefest and Best Form.

Washington Miss Julia Lathrop of Chicago has ! been appointed chief of the recently j created children’s bureau of the na-l tional government, by President Taft. ' Miss Lathrop is the first woman ever selected to direct a bureau of the fed-' eral government. .*■ • • Domestic The roll of the saved frojn the Titanic disaster seems complete. Practically every attending circumstance in the transmission of news from the steamship Carpalia goes to show that only 328 of the 610 cabin passengers of the Titanic are safe on the rescue ship. The 282 cabin passengers whose Barnes have not appeared in the lists sent ashore by wireless must probably be conceded as among the 1,312 lives believed to have been lost; * * * Forty-eight .delegates instructed to ’ vote for Theodore Roosevelt in the Republican national convention were elected from Illinois districts. Two '< Taft delegates .were elected from . the Fifth the only one in the state carted by the president, in the preferential primaries. * • * Alabama’s 21 delegates to the Democratic national convention were instructed to vote for Oscar \Y. Underwood “until a nomination lor president shall have been made,” by the htate conveirtion at Montgomery * * * Four delegates at large to the Republican national convention were chosen by the Connecticut Republican convention at New Haven, and instructed to vote for the renomination of President Taft. Ten district delegates were chosen. All but four were instructed for Taft. * * * U Laxity in the methods of operation of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad is held by. the interstate commerce commission to have caused the collision of the two sections of the Columbian flier at Odessa. Minn., December 18, when ten persons were killed and 23 injured. •* ■ • ■ i Among the episodes of the Titanic wreck which engaged publid interest was the escape of J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director, of the line. No information has reached New York as ! to how or why Mr. Ismay found a place in one of the Titianic’s boats, r * * * The monument to John Paul Jones In Washington was unveiled by Admiral Dewey. President Taft and other notables took part in the ceremonies. A report reached Cairo, 111., that a large number of people near Dirk, Mo., were surrounded by water and upon the verge of starvation. Rations for 80 people were sent there and the people were found in a deplorable condition. The family of Gen. Frederick Dent Grant has not yet made public any of the arrangements I for the general’s funeral. It is stated at Governor's island that until Mrs. Grant and her son are ready to make known their wishes the government will not complete the details for the military services. • • • The Republican state convention in session at Dover, Del., elected six unlnstructed delegates to the national convention. The delegation favors President Taft. Postmaster Ldward M. Morgan of New York city states that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3,423

sacKs or ma. . as tne standard ocean mail bag holds about 2,000 letters, It is estimated that in all about 7.000,000 pieces of mail hiatter have been lost * * ■ • Comptroller of the Currency Murray has declared a second dividend of 16 per cent, to the creditors of the Union National bank of Columbus, O Trailed into a Florida swamp by bloodhounds, and surrounded by a posse, Sam Arline, a negro, who "shot a negress and killed C. M. Mclntosh, his employer, was fatally shot by Sheriff John Logan of Polk county. * * , • Politicians who had been close to Hugh J.. Grant, a former Tammanv mayor of New York city, who died last November, were surprised to learn that the state tax appraisers had fixed the value of his estate at nearly $10,000,000. * • • Learning that her hu'iSand had been arrested in Milwaukee after she had not him nor heard from him for six years, Mrs. Michael J. Patton of Philadelphia sent Judge Backus a two-cent postage stamp, with a request that he give it to her husbapd.

HOOSIER NEWS

BRIEFLY TOLD

Lafayette.—Mistaking a railroad right of way for the road, the driver of an automobile from Terre Haute, to Chicago turned down the railroad tracks at a high speed two miies south of here ahead of an approaching Monon passenger train. The car was wrecked and the six occupants, three men and three women. were thrown out and slightly injured. The train was run rung slowly and was stopped ( two feet from the smashed machine. The automobile yeas dragged back to the road by the engine, where it was pulled off the tracks after delaying the passenger train for an hour and a half. The three women in the party were Florence M. Cox. Ada RossTud Edith Kelly, all of Terre Haute.

Anderson.-—At the first religious meeting of Hebrews ever held in this city, the five books -of (Sbofer Thora) were duly dedicated. Jewish people were present from all of Indiana and Ohio. The principal speakers were Rabbi Neustadt of Indianapolis and Dr. Isaac Loeb of Chicago.

Indianapolis:—Lee Pyle of Rushville was elected president of the Laundry Owners' association of Indiana at the annual convention held here. Other officers , elected were Charles Slica of South Bend, first vicepresident: J. L. McAfee of Richmond, Second vice-president; Arthur G Strasser of Frankfort, secretary; F, C. Krauss of Indianapolis, treasurer.

* Rochester—Charles Brandt of this city has been missing since last w r eek, and it is thought he committed suicide by drowning himself In the Tippecanoe river. He left with a horse, and buggy and went west to the Pendleton bridge, where he drove into a ravine arid hitched his horse, which was later found by a farmer.

N-oblesville.—The Muncie Pr<?sbv•tery, including congregations in Blackford, Delaware, Grant. Hamilton, Howard. Jay, Madison, Miami, Randolph, Tipton and Wabash counties, convened here. The opening sermon was delivered by the: retiring moderator, Rev. Robert R. Little Manchester. Rev. J. Herron Miller of Union City was elected temporary clerk.

Washington.—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sturgeon were found guilty of operating -, a blind tiger and selling liquor without a license. Siur* ?eon was fined S2OO and sentenced to jail for thirty, days, while sentence was suspended upon the; woman.

CASTOR IA Tor Infants and Children. 1 The Kind You Have Always Bought Si^iTureof

SURVIVORS OF OCEAN TRAGEDY SAFE ON LAND

341 First, 262 Second and 136 Third Class Passengers Are Saved. DEATH TOLL IS 1,700 Band Played “Nearer My God to Thee” as Vessel Goes to Bottom. ALL LIGHTS WERE BURNING Colonel Astor Refuses to Take Place in Lifeboat—Mrs.' Isidor Straus Would Not Leave Husband’s Side and Perishes—Capt. Smith Leaps Into £ea Before Ship Is Immersed. By Carlos M. Hurd. Staff Correspondent of the New York World on Board the C'arpathia. (Copyright.) New York. April 19: —Seventeen hundred lives—the figures will hardly vary in either direction by more than a few dozen —were lost in the sinking of the Titanic, which struck an iceberg at 11:45 p. m. Sunday.and was at the ocean’s bottom 2 hours and 35 minutes after.

The printed rolls of first- and second cabins, compared with the list of the survivors on the Carpathia, show that of 341 first-cabin passengers, 212 were saved, 154 of them women and children; and that of 262 secondcabin passengers. 115 were saved, 102 of them women and children, of the third-class passengers, 800 in number, 136 survive, of whom 83 are women and children.

Of 955 officers and crew, 199, including 22 women, reached the Carpathia. A few in each class doubtless escaped enumeration on the Carpathia. 1.688 Are Unaccounted For. Accepting the estimate of the Carpathia s officers that 700 survivors reached the ship, comnarison with the total. 2,388, shows that. 1,0-s are unaccounted for. There is but the faintest hc*pe that any of these reached any other ship. Reports that the California, a cattle ship, may have rescued a few persons, have given merciful respite from utter despair to some of the women. Cause, responsibility and similar questions regarding the stupendous disaster will l>e taken up in time bv the British marine authorities. No disposition has been shown by any sum ivor to question the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom saved others and gave their own lives with a heroism which equaled, hut could not exceed that of John Jacob Astor. Henry R. Harris, Jacques Futrelle and others in the long list of the first cabin missing. Ofncers Knew Icebergs Were Near. Facts which I have established by inquiries on the Carpathia. as posft lively as they could be established in \ ic\\ of the silence of the few surviving officers, are: That the Titanic s officers know-, Eeveral hours before the crash, of the possible nearnevs of icebergs. That the Titanic’s speed, nearly 23 knots an hour, was not slackened. That the number of lifeboats on the

; Titanic was insufficient to accommofdate much more than one-third of the | passengers,! to say nothing of the j crew. Most members of the crew j sa r there were 16 lifeboats and two ; collapsibles; none say there were • more than 20 boats in all. The 700 who escaped filled most of the 16 life-

ahfi the one collapsible which - ■ awry to the limit of their ity"Wcmen First" Ru!% Enforced. That the “women first” rule, in some cases, was applied to the extent o; turn' ig back men who were with :r families, even though not enough w-emrn to fill the boats were at hand r " that particular part of the deck. ?> me few boats were thus lowered wi hout being completely filled, but most of these were soon filled with aimrs and stewards, picked up out or t water, who helped man them. T: a- the bulkhead system, though probably working in the manner Intended. availed only to delay the spin’s sinking, the position and length cf the ship’s w-ound (on the starboard quarter! admitted icy water which caused the boilers to explode, aj»l 'l-.ese explosions practically broke'the ship in two.

Bulkheads Rendered Ineffective. Had the ship struck the iceberg head-on. at whatever speed, and w-ith whatever resulta*% shock, the bulkhead system of water-tight qompartments would probably have saved the vessel. As one man expressed it, It was the “impossible” that happened when with a shock unbelievably the ship’s side was torn for a length, which made the bulkhead system ineffective..-';-".’ The Titanic was 1,799 miles from Queenstown and 1,191 miles from Nev. York, speeding for a maiden voyage record. The night was starlight, the sea glassy. Lights were out in most of the staterooms, and only two or tlyee congenial groups remained in the public rooms. In to a crow’s nest, or lookout, and ‘ CB bridge, officers and members of the .crew were at their places, av nming relief at midnight from their J two hours' watc,h. Danger Warning Sounded. At 11:45 came the sudden sound of two gongs, a warning of immediate danger The crash against the iceberg which had been sighted at only a quarter of a mile, came almost sinfciltaneously with the click of the levers operated by those bn the bridge, which stopped ftp engine*s and closed the water- ; tight doors. Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later giving orders for the summoning of all on board, and for the putting cn of life-preservers and the lowering of lifeboats. Many Men in First Boats. The first boats lowered contained more men than the latter ones, as the men were on deck first and not enough women to fill them. - When, a moment later, the rush of frightened women and crying children to the deck began, enforcement of the “women first” rule became rigid. Officers loading scene of the boats revolvers, but in most cases the men. both passengers and crew, be- , havc'l in a way that called for no such ; restraint.

Report Captain Shot Self. Revolver shots, heard by many persons shortly before the end of the Titanic, caused many rumors. One was that Captain Smith shot himself, another was that First Officer Murdock ended his life. Smith, Murdock and S’.xth Officer Moody are known to have been lost. The surviving officers. Lightoller, Pitman. Rothall and . Lowe bavy made no statement, j Members, of the crew discredit all ! reports of suicide, and, say Captain Smith remained on the bridge until Just before the ship sank, leaping only after those on the decks had been Mashed away. It is also related that, : when a cook later sought to pull him aboard a lifeboat he exclaimed: I * Let me go!" and, Jerking away, went I down.

Life-Preservers Effective. . 1 What became of the men with lifepreservers is a question asked since the disaster by many persons. The preservers did their work of supporting their wearers in the water until the ship went down. Many of those drawn into the vortex, despite the preservers, did • not come up again. Dead bodies floated on the surface as the last boats moved away. Band Plays as Ship Sinks. To relate that the shfp’s string band gathered in the saloon, near the end, and played - “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” sounds like an attempt to give an added solemn color to a scene which was in itself the climax of solemnity. But various passengers and survivors of the crew agree In the declaration that they heard the music. To some of the hearers, with husbands among the dying men in the water and at the ship’s rail, the strain brought in thought the words;

"So, by my woes I’ll be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee.” “Women and children first,” was the order in the filling of the, Titanic’s lifeboats. How well tha*t order was fulfilled the list of missing first and second cabin passengers bears eloquent witness. “Mr.” is before almost every name. Chose Death With Husbands. .Mrs, Isidor Straus, who chose death rather than to leave her husband's side; Mrs. Allison, who remained below with her husband and daughter, and others who, in various ways were kept from entering the line of those to be saved, are striking examples of those who faced the disaster calrnly. To most of the passengers the midnight crash did not seem of terrific force. Bridge players in the smoking room kept on with their game.. Once on deck, many hesitated to enter the swinging lifeboats. The glassy sea, the starlit the absence* in the first few minyths, of intense excitement, gave them the feeling that thebe was only some slight mishap—that those who got into the boats would have a chilly half hour below, and might later be laughed at. ?•; Refuse Place in First Boat. It was such a feeling as this, from all accounts, which caused John Jacob Astor and his wife to refuse the places offered them in the first boat and to retire to the gymnasium. In' the same ,way H. J. Allison, Montreal banker, laughed at’ the warning, and his wile, reassured by him, took her time about dressing. They and their daughter did not reach the Carpathia. Their son, less than tw-o years old, was carried into a lifeboat by his nurse and was taken in charge by MaJ. Arthur Peuchen. The admiration felt by passengers and crew f6r the matchlessly appointed vessel was translated. In those first few moments, into a confidence which, for some, proved deadly. Lifeboats Are Lacking. In the loading of the first boat, restrictions of sex were not made, and it seemed to the men who piled in beside the women that there would be boats enough for all. But the ship’s officers knew better than this, and as the spreading fear caused an earnest advance toward the suspended craft the order, “Women first!* was heard, ar.d the men were pushed aside.

STATEMENT BY THE SURVIVORS

They Tell of Inadequacy of LifeSaving Appliance on Titanic. ASK FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW Would Have All Nations Compel Steamship Companies to Carry a Sufficient Number of Lifeboats for All. New York, April 19.—The following statement issued by a committee of the surviving passengers was given the press on the arrival of the Carpathia: * We,' the undersigned surviving passengers trom the steamship Titanic, in order t,o forestall any sensational or exaggerated statements, deem it our duty to give to the press a statement of facts which have coma to our knowledge and which we believe to be true. On Sunday, April 14, 1912, at about 11:40 p. m., on a cold, starlight night in a smooth sea and with ho moon, t,he ship struck an iceberg which had been reported to the bridge by lookouts, but not early enough to avoid collision. Steps were taken to ascertain the damage and save passengers and ship. Orders were given to put on life belts and the boats were lowered. The ship sank at about 2:20 a. m. Monday, and the usual distress signals were sent out by wireless and rockets at intervals from the ship. Fortunately, the wireless message was received by the Cunard’s Carpathia at about 12 o’clock midnight, and she arrived on the scene of the disaster about 4 a. a. Monday. The officers and crew of the steamshjp Carpathia had been preparing all night for the rescue and comfort of the survivors, and the last mentioned

were received on board with the most touching care and kindness, every attention being given, irrespective of class. The passengers, officers and crew gave up gladly their staterooms, clothing and comforts for our benefit, all honor to them. The English Board of Trade passengers certificate on board the Titanic shelved approximately 3,590. The same certificate called for lifeboat accommodation for approximately 950 in the following boats: Fourteen large lifeboats, two smaller boats ancj four collapsible boats. Life-preservers were accessible and apparently in sufficient number for all on board. The approximate number of passengers carried at the time of the collision was: First class, 330; second class, 320; third class, 750; total, 1,400. Officers and crew\ 940. Total, 2,340. Of the foregoing about the following were rescued by the steamship Carpathia: First class, 210; second class, 125; third class, 200; officers, 4; seamen, 39; stewards, 90; firemen, 71; total, 210 of the crew'. The total about 775 saved was about 80 per cent, of the maximum capacity of the lifeboats. We feel it our duty to call the attention of the public to what we consider the inadequate supply of lifesaving appliances provided for on modern passenger steamships, and recommend that immediate steps be taken to compel passenger steamers to carry sufficient boats to accommodate the maximum number of people carried on board. The following facts were observed and should be considered in this connection : The inefficiency of lifeboats, rafts, etc.; lack of trained seamen to man same (stokers, stewards, etc., are not efficient boat handlers); not endugh officers to carry out emergency orders on the bridge and superintend the launching and control of lifeboats, absence of searchlights. The board of trade rules allow for entirely too nuvny people in each boat to permit the same to be properly handled. _On the Titanic the boat deck was about seventy-five feet above water, and consequently the passengers were required to embark before lowering boats, thus endangering the operation and preventing the taking on of the maximum number the boats would hold. Boats at ali times to be properly equipped with provisions, water, lamps, compasses, lights, etc. Life, saving boat drills should be more frequent and thoroughly carried out, and officers should be armed at boat drills. Great reduction in speed in fog and ice, as damage if collision actually occurs is liable to be less. In conclusion, we suggest that an international conference be called to recommend the passage of identical laws providing for the safety of all at sea, and we urge the United States government to take the initiative as soon as possible.

Senate Opens Titanic Quiz.

"Washington, "April 19.—Bearing subpoenas for certain persons aboard the Carpathia, whose names were not di%» closed, Senator Smith of Michigan, Newlands of 'tsfevada and Bourne, members of the senate subcommittee which will take the first steps in the congressional investigation of the Titanic disaster, are in New York today and will subpoena every one on the Carpathia who might thrown any Mght. upon the causes of the catsstro. phe

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