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Lifeboats Launched Undermanned or "Manned" by Women WIRELESS CALL FROM TITANIC, 'COME AT ONCE' Operator on Carpathia Testifies That He Hailed the Doomed Liner Continued From 10 were placed in the boat that was lowered. They said it was "terribly Four members of the n-ere transferred to another boat ii as the craft struck the water, and there was consternation among the OStly women, as this left but one member of the crev to navigate the lifeboat. MAM WOMAN'S CLOTHES The Btoker, Mrs. Fortuno said, knew how to handle an oar tolerably well, hut the Chinese was tf little use. The man in woman's clothes did but did not seem familiar with an oar.

This man wore a woman's bonnet and a veil in addition to a skirt Mouse. SEAMAS TKI.I.S EXPERIEVCE At the American Seamen's Friend Societies' institute, where 150 members of the rescued crew of the Titanic are being fed. clothed and housed, G. A. Hogg able oarsman, told tonight of the of CaptatH Smith.

Hogg- says that as the Titanic sank a big wave washed him ever the side and he landed on a raft carrying 35 persons. The next moment I saw Captain Smith in the water alongside the raft. 'There's the skipper" I yelled; 'give him a and then I did. But he shook himself free and shouted to us, "Ooodby, boys. I am going to follow the That was the last we saw of the skipper." Thomas Cottam.

aged 21, the Marconi operator on the Titanic, was the first Witness at the evening He denied himself some glory by saying he had no stated hours of labor rpathia. Previous witnesses had testified lie was "not on duty" when he received the Titanic's signal for help. was decidely uncertain whether he was required to work at night, finally saying it depended on er he had commercial or ship's business to get off. "What Mere you doing last Sunday evening about 10 o'clock?" asked Senitor Smith. "Receiving news from Cape Cod," said "ottam.

He said he also had been "sendinc a lot of messages for the Titanic" "Well, how did you happen to catch the Titanlc's message of distress?" "I was looking out for a confirmation by the steamer Parisian of a previous message from the Parisian message ame some time in the afternoon." "Well, when you got the distress the Titanic Sunday night, tfd vim pet it?" called the Titanic myself, sir." "Who told you to call the Titanic?" "No one, sir; I did it of my own free will. I asked the Titanic operator if he ware that Cape Cod had been messages for the Titanic." "What was the answer?" at was the message, CottaTi. "Was that all of it?" "No, the op rat -r said, I think, Tome at is a ul-tress message. C. Q.

testified When word of the distress el Operator tlam said he immediately sent them the position of rpathia and added that they to the rescue. any reply to that?" asked Senwir, Theyaeknowlipt of it." witness said the next eommuntwith the Titanic was four mmii he confirmed the position of both vessels. At this juncture rankfurt of the North German Lloyd line broke in on the communication, I heard the Titanic's call for tmsliip Olympic also do asked Scn-1 ittention of the Titanic mpic'a effort to raise it," "The Titanic rerliat it could not hear because of of air and the noise made by the p.i." TIT.WK SII.KNT Tmir I telling the Titanic of the Olympic's attempt to in communication her the former, the w-itne- the Olympic's aid, report it was "head down" and giving Its i The Baltic broke in at this time, but its efforts to reach the Titanic were without avail. "I was in with the intervals until the final message," said Cettam. "This Come quick; engine room is up tr.

the boilers. 1 itor Smith subjected the witness dose questioning- as to how he reported these Messages- He asked answered them at his discretion. sir," said the Witness. "I always reported them personally to the The witness paid the last Hi to doomed Titanic, telling rush to the rescue, probably never reached the ship. He was asked why he believed so.

"I don't know," lie replied. "I received no acknowledgment, and that, to my mind, was significant." Cottara said that after the Titanic's survivors were picked up he worked ticaliy continuously until Tuesday, when lie fell asleep at his post. He BOt tell when he dropped from exhaustion nor when he awoke. Miis. MKAi ision Btraua refused to and live was told to thp committee by Alfred Crawford of Houtli.nnption, bedroom steward oti the Titan Bald that Btnuu told her maid to gel Into a lifeboat, which Crawford was assigned to man.

Stra.ua put one foot into the boat and then (handed lier mind. Mr. Straus was Standing away back from her. She I i him: have living todumber of ears and we are not p.ir;i ti- BOW. He added that maid was waved.

Mid the captain told take ihe Eadiea to a light in land tt.cin and return. "We pulled and nulled for the light, but it seemed to pet farther away and we never returned," ftaid Crawford, aa cxploaioa on the Ti- Lfter got iivviiy in the life- si-, there 'was," Crawford de' If was a sharp report, It though everything was beup under the water. I saw the Til 'ik. but it was from quite a distance. It seemed to go down bow first.

This was apparent because the forward lights disappeared and we eouJd lights in the air. Then illy disappeared" poramittee adjourned at to meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. MUFFLED DRUMS IN CHURCH ROLL KNELL FOR DEAD London Mourns Disaster at Impressive Service in St. Paul's Special Cable to The LONDON, April 19. was grief stricken today at the heart rending stories told by the survivors of the Titanic, the universality of the grief lending additional jmpressiveness to tiie memorial service at St.

Paul's cathedral. The great nave and the transept space beneath the dome, the choir and every corner of the cathedral were filled. Indeed, an hour before the beginning of the service the doors were closed and thousands of worshipers were unable to gain admission. DESIGNER MOIRXS SHIP a small space in the choir lift was reserved. In the other parts rich and poor mingled together.

Here and there were pathetic figures -who mourned a personal loss and at one place in the nave a little group of liveried men congregated. In the reserved space were many distinguished diplomats, among them the Aemrican ambassador and Mrs. Reid and the French, Russian, Turkish and Spanish ambassadors. Sidney Buxton and John Burns were present and othe-r cabinet ministers were represented. Among the officials of the Star line was A.

M. Carlisle, who helped to design the Titanic, and a little farther away was Lady Grosvenor and Joseph Stead, brother of W. T. Stead, who lost his life in the disaster. LORD MAYOR PRESENT The lord mayor drove in state to the services.

The first bars of the hymn, "Rock of Ages," stole through the cathedral and announced the beginning of the service. In ringing tones, Dean Inge carried on the message of immortality in the lesson from Corinthians and! when his voice died down the climax of the service was reached. The great congregation rose, and amid intense silence the muffled drums began to roll the first bars of the dead march in "Saul," faintly, like the sound of distant surf. Liouder and louder it became, rising in crescendo from pianissimo to forte until the brass instruments of the band delivered the first silvery notes the march. The congregation was thrilled by the music.

Women wept and men stood their lips compressed and facial muscles working. SILENCE FOLLOWS SERVICE The solemn service closed with the hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save." and the great congregation dispersed as silently as it had silently that the touch of coin upon coin as subscriptions to the relief fund were tendered was the only sound to be heard. The relief fund already amounts to nearly $300,000. The earl of Derby, who is lord mayor of Liverpool, in response to an urgent request from New York for assistance for the survivors among the third class passengers, today cabled $5,000. pALIFORNIAN IN DOCK AT BOSTON Leyland Liner Has Neither Survivors Nor Bodies From the Titanic BOSTON.

April line steamer Californian, which arrived today from London, has neither survivors nor bodies from the Titanic aboard. "We arrived at the scene of the disaster," said Captain Stanley Lord, "just in time to see the last boat filled with survivors being hauled aboard the Carpathia. "We circled the -waters about the sunken craft for three hours but saw no sign of the three lifeboats which now wo understand are still missing," said Captain Lord. "There was no sign of life among the wreckage." Captain Lord said he received a wireless message from the Virginian at m. Monday telling of the Titanic disaster.

The Californlan was then 30 miles north of the scene. Intervening were great masses of ice, including large icebergs, and it was such difficult maneuvering that it took three hours to reach the wreckage. CURVIVORS ARE BETTER Sick and Injured Are Receiving Best of Care in New York Hospitals NEW YORK, April survivors of the Titanic, taken to hospitals on their arrival here, generally were ported to be improving today. The i following are their names: ST. LUKE'S Mrs.

Etta Deanc of London, and two children; shock. Mrs. Alice Johnson and two children, Mrs. TlHlm i Nelson of' St. Charles, Florence Thornycroft of London, shock.

i ST. VnOUm IIOSIMTAI, Mrs. Selina Asplinus and two little daughters; steerage. William Melntyre, coal trimmer, i Southampton; feet frost bitten. John Thompson, fireman; fracture of ft arm.

Thomas Whitely, waiter in first I salon; fractured right leg and a num! her of bruises. i iminn Mrs. Paris, Kutte, injury to right foot and shook, Mrs. Butte, shock. MNDKXHAM HOSPITAI, Mrs.

Ada E. Balls, Jacksonville, shock. Mrs. Jarman, New York city; bronchitis, shock. Joy and Grief Mingle SOTTHAMPTON.

April wives and relatives and friends of the I crew of the Titanic gathered today at the White Star offices to wait for the list of officers and men saved. In some cases the posting of the lists brought relief, but the majority went away with their worst fears confirmed. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912. HENRY B. HARRIS SACRIFICED, SAYS RESCUED WOMAN Mrs.

Taussig Says Theatrical Man Was Refused Seat in Partly Filled Boat NEW YORK, April wife and daughter of Ernil Taussig of this city were taken to the home of Mrs. Taussig's father, William Mandalls. Both were suffering from exposure and grief over the death of Taussig. They said that Taussig and Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, who, with his wife, rushed with them to the deck when the collision was felt, were threatened with revolvers when they attempted to get into a lifeboat, although there was plenty of room for them.

Mrs. Taussig declared that the boat into which she, her daughter Ruth and Mrs. Harris, were placed, pulled I away from the Titanic with several seat spaces empty and that she considered her husband and the theatrical man were sacrificed needlessly. MEX EMBRACE AS LINER SINKS The last Mrs. Taussig saw of her husband and Harris -was a few moments before the liner plunged out of sight.

The men, she said, stood side by side, now embracing each other and now waving their hands in farewell to their families. Mrs. Taussig said she heard several pistol shots and that there were three distinct explosions, one following close upon the other, before the Titanic disappeared. What the firing meant she did not learn. Mrs.

Fortune of Winnipeg told how she and her three daughters. Lucille, Maba and Alice, were rescued after be- ing separated from her husband and son. Charles. They were put in a boat with a Chinaman, an Italian stoker and a man dressed in woman's clothing. Of all the occupants of this lifeboat, she! said, only one, the stoker, could row, and Mrs.

Fortune's daughters took turns at the oars. OFFICERS STOP MEN When the collision occurred Mrs. Fortune and her daughters hurriedly dressed. On the deck they were joined by Fortune and Charles Fortune, bu'. at the stairway to the bow Mrs.

Fortune said her husband and son were stopped by officers, who told them they could not be permitted to ascend any further. The women were instructed to get into the boats. They did not realize that the ship was in danger and did not even say goodby to the men as they parted. One of the girls, however, called back to Charles: "Look after father," which was the only message which passed between them. DURIAL OF DEAD AT SEA IS READ NEW YORK, April for the burial of the dead at sea were read over the bodies of four men on the Carpathia Monday afternoon by Father Roger Anderson, of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross.

The victims were three of the crew of the Titanic and a cabin passenger found dead by the Carpathia's lifeboats on a raft which carried other persons, all living. During the services, the Titanic survivors and passengers thronged the deck. Mrs. Rose Abbott, who was in the water for hours was restored during the first day. G.

Wikeman, the Titanic's barber, was treated for bruises. A passenger who was picked up in a drowning condition, caused grim amusement on the Carpathia by demanding a bath as soon as the doctors were through with him. Storekeeper Prentice, the last man off the Titanic to reach the Carpathia swam about the icy water for hours, but was soon restored. He said he had leaped from the Titanic's poop deck. HESCUE SHIP IS OFF FOR EUROPE NEW YORK.

April than 24 hours after the Cunard lino steamer Carpathia came in as a rescue ship with 745 survivors of the Titanic disaster, it sailed again this afternoon for the Mediterranean cruise, which it originally started upon last week. Just before the liner sailed, IT. S. Bride, the second Marconi wireless operator of the Titanic, who had both his legs crushed on a lifeboat, was carried off on the shoulders of the ship's officers to St. Vincent's hospital.

Scout Ship Suggested Commander A. W. Moffett of the United States lighthouse service, suggested yesterday, in discussing the loss of the Titanic, that the government should maintain a lightship in the waters where the Titanic was lost during the period of the year that ice a danger. Commander Moffett is of the opinion that a ship should be dispatched there immediately and keep track of the ice floe, warning navigators of the location of the Icebergs by wireless. After the ship has been established the cost of maintenance should be met by the various nations operating trans- Atlantic vessels.

"If there was a rock there," said Commander Moffett, "a lightship would be stationed at the point. In my judgment it is just as necessary and important to have a lightship stationed there on account of icebergs. I would not have the ship anchored, as is the custom with most lightships, but have the one in the ice fields so that It would be free to follow the course and flow of the ice and always be in a position to wain navigators of the presence of ice by wireless. "I would suggest that a lightboat be dispatched to the banks immediately and remain there until the ice has disappeared." Memorial Services in Spokane PPOKAXK, April Hindley issued a proclamation today calling for memorial services in ail Spokane churches Saturday and Sunday as an expression of sympathy for those who lost relatives or friends in the Titanic disaster. Bride to Be Saved SAX DIEGO, April S.

O. Willis of this city today received a telegram from Miss Mary Buss of Kent, England, who was a passenger on the Titanic. The message said she had been rescued and was on her way to Fan Diego to be married to Willis, according to their agreement. STOKER'S GREEN LANTERN AIDED IN LIFE SAVING Light Kept Boats Together and Guided Carpathia to Forlorn Flotilla Dispatch to The NEW YORK, April stoker from the stricken Titanic, John Bardsley, a Lancashire man, had the forethought to bear with him a green lantern as he dodged the officers and gained the gunwale of a loaded and lowered boat. The women and seamen aboard helped him over the side, adding one more to 60 already weighing it down until the top of it was almost awash.

And it may be that this act of pity saved the majority, if not all, of those who later were cast adrift for hours on the bosom of the ice strewn deep, for Bardsley's green lantern proved of great help, unity and also assurance of rescue of those in that scattered for-1 lorn flotilla. He alone thought of thej necessity of a signal lamp to give directions to the approaching Carpathia or any other passing ship and to hold the boats together. That he might live, he also took In his pockets three oranges, a few biscuits and a small tobacco can filled with fresh water. These few "stores" proved a whole ship's pantry in nour- ishment to the women and children in tlie boat. John Bardsley insisted on giving up all to the brave women who had seen him in the water when ne begged the oarsmen to stand by for him.

Then he sat up in the prow, with a 10 months old fatherless babe on his knee and his lighted lan-tern upraised, waving signals to the other boats to follow the green light and keep together. He doled out the water to the weaker women and the Infant when it was sorely needed, as the helpless ones had been over two hours afloat. And when he'was helped up the side of the Carpathia he still had the babe in his arms. It refused to be taken from him. Asked if he intended to go to sea again after this third close call, Bardsiey stared and replied with the question, "An' why not?" BLAME ISMAY, NOT WIRELESS, SAYS MARCONI Messages Regarding Business of Line Passed Continually, Declares Inventor NEW YORK, April the interference of amateur wireless operators had little or nothing to do with the difficulty which the shore stations have experienced during the last two days in getting news from the Carpathia is the opinion expressed by William Marconi, the inventor.

"Any explanation of the reason why detailed news of the disaster did not come from the Carpathia lies with the ship's captain or Ismay," said Marconi. "They are responsible for the silence. The wireless was not to blame. Private messages and messages regarding the business of the line passed promptly and continually. The wireless situation in New York has been unusually active, of course, but there was no serious interference with legitimate business.

There doubtless were reasons which prompted the Carpathia officials to defer sending out news of the disaster. The wireless was ready to carry such business if it had been forthcoming." Marconi believes that steamship owners will be forced by the Titanic disaster to install greatly improved wireless outfits. "Brery passenger carrying vessel should be equipped with up to date wireless apparatus. Some of that now in use needs improvement and CAPTAIN JUMPED FROM THE BRIDGE PHHxADEL-PHIA. April describing her experiences in the sinking of the Titanic, Mrs.

George D. Widener, whose husband, a well known financier of this city, and their son were drowned, said she saw Captain Smith jumping from the bridge into the sea and that a moment previous she had seen another officer turn a revolver upon himself and send a bullet into his brain. "My husband and I had retired to our cabin for the night." she paid, "when the shock of crashing into the iceberg occurred. We thought little of it and did not leave our cabin. "We must have remained there an hour before becoming fearful.

Then Mr. Widener went to our son Harry's room and brought him to our cabin. A short time later Harry went to the deck and hurried back and told us we must go on deck. "Mr. Widener and Harry a few minutes later went on deck and aided the officers, who were then having trouble with those in the steerage.

That was the last I saw of my husband or son. "I went on deck and was put into a lifeboat. As the boat pulled away from the Titanic I saw one of the officers shoot himself in the head and a few minutes later saw Captain Smith jump from the bridge into the sea." Mrs. Widener is at her home at Elkins Park. near here.

The entire Widener family, which is among the most prominent in Philadelphia's financial and social circles, is overcome) by the disaster. The family has received messages of sympathy from all parts of the world. Baseball Benefit Planned NEW YORK, April John T. Brush of the New York, National league club announced today that his team would play an exhibition game with the New York Americans next Sunday afternoon at the Polo grounds for the benefit of the destitute survivors of the Titanic. EXACT LOSS IN OCEAN TRAGEDY IS NOT KNOWN White Star Company's Official Statement Places Death Toll at 1,635 NEW YORK, April living cared for, the dead beyond recall, survivors of the Titanic disaster were able for the first time today to see in calmer retrospect Monday's tragedy in the north Atlantic, and from their more normal utterances there is slowly unfolding the full story of how the great White Star liner, its band playing to the last, sank off the great banks with about 1,600 souls aboard.

From the countess of Rothes, now quartered luxuriously in.a to the six Chinese coolies who escaped by hid- i ing under the lifeboat seats, all the res- I cued have been provided with food and clothing, and some immigrants and I millionaires are on their way England, the continent or distant parts of the United States. EXACT LOSS IN DOUBT Many, however, and of these the hos- pitals shelter scores, remain in New York, where the Cunard liner Carpathia brought them last night. Even after all had been told of the disaster the death list remains approximate. Last night's total estimate was today the White Star line issued a statement placing the loss of life at I 1,635. Exactly how many died never I will be known.

It lias been established officially, ever, that the Titanic was traveling 21 i knots an hour when it hit the iceberg. Notwithstanding this, none of the survivors, from storage to saloon, has as yet condemned Captain Smith, who went down with his ship. ACCOUNTS VARY Although several consistent accounts jof what happened aboard the Titanic i have been obtained from survivors, it I was manifestly for any one fully to take account of all that oc: curred on its great decks, four city blocks in length. Thus there were those who maintain that there were one or more suicides among officers. Captain Smith, it would appear from the consensus of narratives, went clown with his ship, but several passengers say that First Officer Murdock shot himself through the head before the liner sank.

RELIEF A PROBLEM The great problem confronting the committees appointed to provide for the survivors has been the steerage passengers. Speaking no English in many cases, ignorant of their destinations, frightened and without friends or relatives', their plight was acute until inspectors from the International Institute for Your.j; Women, a branch of the Y. W. C. circulated among them today and apportioned them as befitted their nationality among the vast foreign quarter in New York.

More than $40,000. including $5,000 from Andrew Carnegie, already has been subscribed for the sufferers, and a series of benefits to raise more money has been arranged. CAILORS' UNION 0 GRIEVES WRECK Labor Council Passes Resolution Conveying Condolence to Afflicted Ones The following resolutions were passed by the council at its meeting last night. It was presented by Delegate Walter Macarthur in behalf of the Sailors' union: Wfeenaa, the wreck of the steamer Titanic, and the consequent loss of lives, has shocked the world with a sense of appalling calamity, the greati-st in the history of maritime affairs; Resolved, h.v the San Francisco Labor council, la regular session assembled. Aoril Ift.

im'J. that ex tend our deepest condolence to the widows orphans and other dependents and relatives of the drowned, and our warmest sympathy and good wishes to the survivors; further Resolved, that we mark with admiration and pride the conduct of the captain, officers, crew arid passengers of the Titanic, who In the face of death, nobly maintained the traditions of the cea and the ideals of manhood by giving their lives (hat the women and children might be saved; further Resolved, that in view of the lack of sufficient lifeboats and seamen on board the Titanic, to which fact is directly due much of the loss of life we urge and demand the passage by con- Kress of legislation requiring that ail ships entering or sailing from American shall equipped with lifeboats sufficient to accommodate every person ou board, and that ail ships shall be manual by experienced, able seamen sufficient in number to handle the beats aud to carry all orders in times of emergency; further Resolved, that with this object In view we reaffirm our indorsement of the seamen's' bill (11. R. and urge the immediate passage of that measure by congress: further Resolved, that copies of these resolutions be forwarded to Hon. J.

W. Alexander, chairman of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries of the house of representatives, to the representatives and senators from state and to tbe press of San Francisco. CALAMITY DUE TO SPEED MANIA Hundreds Were Sacrificed in Order to Cut Schedule Five Hours WASHINGTON, April selecting a more southerly and safer route from Europe to America instead of the northern lane, in which it went down, the Titanic would have traveled 113 miles farther and taken only five hours more to effect a five days' voyage, according to Captain Charles A. McAllister, engineer in chief of the revenue cutter service. "The hydrographic charts," said Cap- tain McAllister today, "show that the distance from Queenstown to New York iby the southern and safe route is 2,936 miles; by the northern route, taken' by the Titanic, the distance is 2,823 miles.

"In the mad desire to have the time rut down only five hours on the maiden voyage of this, the greatest steamer ever constructed. 1,600 souls have been sent to eternity." Sea Travel Little Affected NEW YORK. April for trans-Atlantic transportation has shown little or no diminution, notwithstanding the disaster to the Titanic. Travelers who had made reservations on the lost liner for the proposed eastward trip on Saturday have arranged with the International Mercantile Marine company for accommodations on other steamships. Other lines have profited by the loss of the Titanic.

The Titanic catastrophe has caused many to select slow steamships. CRY 'SAVE YOUR LIVES' STARTS RUSH TO DECK Mrs. Turrell Cavendish Tells Story of Parting With Husband Who Was Lost NEW YORK, April Turrell Cavendish, one of the many Titanic survivors whose husband remained to meet death after the last boat left the Titanic, told a thrilling story of the catastrophe. Mrs. Cavendish was Julia Siegel, daughter of Henry Siegel of this city.

"I was asleep," she said, "when Mr. Cavendish awoke me and said the ship had met with an accident. I hurriedly put on a wrapper and one of my husband's overcoats and we both rushed to the upper deck. "There were many persons there, and the stewards were assuring them the steamer was in no danger of sinking. They started to fill the lifeboats with women passengers when the cry of 'Save your lives' rang out.

"I was in the second boat. My husband kissed me and bade me to remain in the boat, declaring he was all right. There was no light, but the sky was clear. "Just as the lifeboat was lowered I again kissed my husband. "One man tried to get into the boat, but a sailor, after questioning him.

threw him aside. A Canadian, who said lie could row. turned to a group of men on the deck who were watching the proceedings and said: 'I can row, but if there is room for one more let it be a woman. I am not a coward." "The women in the boat beseeched the man to row the boat for them and those on the deck urged him to do so. I With a parting handclasp he lowered himself by a rope to the boat and took i his position there.

"I am prostrated by the loss of my 'husband, but rejoice in the fact that my I 2 year old baby is saved, having been left at home." Mrs. Lena Rog-ers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried j55 men and women. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was in dan' ger of being swamped, when Officer Loin who had it in charge, succeeded lin transferring some of his passengers I to one of the other boats. "As we left the Titanic," Mrs. Rogers said, "several men were on the point of jumping into our boat, already overcrowded.

They were stopped by Officer Louve drawing a revolver. "After taking the boat out of the range of the Titanic's suction he transj ferred us to other boats that had not been completely filled and went back I after more from the sinking ship. Too much praise can not be given him for I his work." TITANIC'S CREW 1 HELD IN GOTHAM Senate Committee Refuses to Permit All of the Men to Sail NEW YORK. April seriousness of the inquiry by the senate inves- tigating committee into the Titanic disaster was disclosed tonight, when Senator Smith of Michigan, the chair- i man, at first refused to let any of fhe officers or the 200 odd members of the crew of the sunken steamship get be- yond the jurisdiction of the United States The men all were to have sailed to- morrow on the steamer Lapland. Later I it was settled that the greater part of crew would be permitted to sail on this steamer, but that the 12 men and four officers among the survivors now under subpena, together with J.

Bruce Ismay, would not be allowed to depart. The intention of the committee was clear at adjournment, when with Alfred Crawford, a steward, on the stand, Senator Smith pleaded weariness. "We have been at this all day and into the night," he said, "and I believe we had better cease until tomorrow. I am not through with Crawford yet and would like to question him further tomorrow, together with Other members of the crew and the officers. Requiem Mass for Victims A special requiem mass for the vie- tims of the wreck of the Titanic was I held yesterday morning at the Church iof the Advent in Fell street.

The memory of the unfortunates was hon- ored and sorrow expressed for their untimely fate, both in the solemn dignity of the services from the book of common prayer of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in the evident sadness of the congregation. In an endeavor to show in some slight degree their sympathy for the bereaved families of the lost and their feeling of sorrow over the tragedy, a large number of people gathered to hear the reading of special prayers for the dead by the rectoi. Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, the celebrant priest.

Special reference was made in the prayers to Arthur Ryerson and family of Chicago, whose fate was not certain in reports received in the last few days. Ryerson has been noted as a stanch lay supporter of the church, having represented it in several conventions, and helping to carry on its work at all times. Cardinal Farley Shocked NEW YORK, April Farley, who reached New York from Washington just as the Carpathia was docking, is bowed with grief over the terrible loss of life on board the Titanic. He was especially grieved at the fate of Major Archibald Butt, who went to Rome and saw Pope Pius on a special errand for President Taft. Action was taken by Consul Teors of the diocese to help the distressed in every way possible.

It was only because Cardinal Farley was in the capital at a meeting of the trustees of the Catholic university that definite action was not taken before, he said. Instructions were drawn up for the clergy to say special prayers for the dead, the physical sufferers and the afflicted relatives and friends. The cardinal expressed especial sympathy over the fate of the third class passengers, many of whom, he thought, came from his native country. Relief Fund Reaches $250,000 LONDON, April relief funds which have been opened for the of those thrown into distress by the disaster to the Titanic now amount to $250,000. The earl of Derby, lord mayor of Liverpool, in response to an urgent request from New York for assistance for the survivors among the third class passengers, today cabled 13 DENVER WOMAN GRILLS OFFICER FOR BRUTALITY Complains of Mrs.

Astor and Herself Being Compelled to Row Boat i Dispatch to The NEW YORK, April story shockingly brutal in contrast with the tales of heroism and sacrifice that i have come from the Titanic disaster was told this evening by Mm. J. J. Brown of Denver, one of the survivors. Colonel Astor and Isador Straus and Mrs.

Straus would have been saved had Jit not been for the officer in command of the first lifeboat which left the doomed ship, said Mrs. Brown. In addition to this, she accuses the I officer of having made Mrs. Astor row the lifeboat for two hours. She said she was compelled to handle the I herself for four hours.

SXEER CAST AT WOMEN "We'll teach these rich Yankees' wives we're running things," the of- I fleer sneered, she said, when the woment in the boat pleaded with him to a man who was drowning close to ther' boat and he refu-sed. The lifeboat was cast off with several of Its seats unfilled, Mrs. Brown declared, but several of the passengers from the steerage were given a place 'in it. After the boat had been rowed i some distance from the sinking Titanio a man was seen struggling in i water, a few feet away. The passengers begged the officer to' 1 stop and pick up the man.

He refused, and ordered the men to keep on rowing. 'Save him or we will throw you over' board," one of the passengers shouted, 'and the others in the boat took up the cry, with such effect that the officer or- I dered the men to turn about and try to rescue him. When the boat reached (spot where the man was last seen hehad disappeared. WOMEX ORDERED TO ROW After the Titanic had sunk the officer started to bulldoze the women, Mrs. Brown says, and commanded them ta man the oars.

"I rowed until my arms ached aa though they would fall off," she ued. "It must have been fully four hours. Mrs. Astor was compelled to row, too. She was rowing about half as I was.

"I am willing to go before the senate investigating committee and testify to all that 1 have said," she concluded, "Hundreds of lives were sacrificed needi lessly in this disaster, and for one, am I eager to see justice done." TSMAY ATTENDED A BEFORE WOMEN Dispatch to The NEW YORK, April 19. Lucien P. Smith, daughter of Representative James Hughes of West Virginia, who was returning on the Titanic from her honeymoon and now is a widow, was under a nurse's care today. She told the story of the Titanic's disaster as she told it to her father, and the story bore eloquent testimony to the heroism displayed by her husband and Edgar J. Meyer, who remained on the sinking ship with him and found his grave in the ocean.

There was one thing that Mrs. Smith could neither forget nor forgive, and that was the fact that the boat into which she had been put with Mrs. Edgar J. Meyer contained 23 women and only one man. and that, although there was room for at least 20 more passengers, neither her husband nor Meyer were put into the boat.

"I was asleep when the Titanic struck and the shock did not fully awaken me," said Mrs. Smith. "My husband came in a few momente later and told me to get dressed. I had worn an evening gown for dinner and he got out some heavy clothing, telling me to put it on. There was no hurry, he urged all the time, and he took up an apple and ate it while I was dressing.

I was about to put on low shoes, when he stopped me and made, me wear high ones. He even got my gloves. "When we reached the head of the stairway he led me into the gymnasium, and made me sit down with him. said that in my marriage vow I had, promised to obey him and that this would be the only occasion that he was ever going to exact it. "He then told me what to do, and promised that he would follow me in another boat after all the women' and children had been taken off.

CAPTAIN SCOITED DANGER "Captain Smith assured us that there was no danger. The Titanic could not sink for at least 12 hours, he said, and by that time several vessels would reach us. "We were led to the lifeboat. Mr. and Mrs.

Edgar J. Meyer were there, and Mrs. Meyer was put into the third lifeboat. I saw that there was plenty of room in the boat, and I asked Captain Smith to let my husband Meyer into the boat, but the captain replied that under no condition would he permit a man to go into a lifeboat before all the women and children were off. "My and Mr.

Meyer stood by and sent us a final greeting. They called out to us that they soon woulii ibe with us. ROW BOAT "Fortunately for us there were two English women who understood the handling of oars. Four of us rowed while a sailor steered and we went some distance away from the Titanic. "Our boat left the Titanic at about 12:30 o'clock and up to that time every thing seemed calm and orderly on board except that there was no syetem in the manning of the lifeboat.

"When we were taken on board the Carpathia I wat'-hed Ismay getting on i board. He Vtf taiten to a- special room and every attention was given him while the women had to wait. There was even a note on his stateroom 'Please don't while stewards exerted themselves to be of service to him. Meanwhile I had to sleep for a time on the floor in a passageway." Mrs. Smith is only IS years old and I her husband was 24.

Discrepancies Pointed Out FRANKFORT, Germany, April The Frankfort Gazette today prints I table of 10 of the principal trans-Atlantic steamers, contrasting their boat ac! covnmodations with the numbers of the passengers and crews and showing the jnumber'of persons for whom no boat accommodation is provided. The list demonstrates that the number of persons unprovided for range from to 3 Qwo..