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1 Ttto TITANIC'S SURVIVORS, SHIP THAT RESCUED THEM AND SCENES INCIDENT TO DISASTER 'f V-4'- -yy--1 111 Mlfit 'i Wmr 1 1 Sfillii or, om I iaxiw '-d-'' I v. vm a "'sSgjf" tgf VVt-A ,1 mm0 HI ITitanic's survivors in lifeboat alongside tHee Carpa thia. 2 Titanic lifeboats on board" the Carpathia. 3 Taking Titanic suiivors on the Carpathia. 4 Titanic seamen and survivors aboard the TiUnic on the Carpathia bound for New York.

6 Lifeboat loaded with survivors waiting to be taken on the Carpathia. 7 Captain Rostron and some officers of the Ca rpathia. Carpathia. 5 Survivors of the LINE OFnCIALS BEEP TITAIIICS CDSXI WIDER COVED AND mWMmmiCADO NEW YORK, April 19. -The White Star line officials today kept the men of the Titanlc's crew so thoroughly under cover that no trace of their whereabouts could be discovered until about noon, when it was found that some of them had been transferred aboard the Red Star liner Lapland, where they were held Incommunicado.

The four surviving officers of the Titanic, when they arrived on the Carpathia, were quickly transferred to the Lapland, where they remained until they were summoned to appear before the Senate investigating committee. These officers had been instructed to answer no questions except those propounded by the committee of "Where is the crew?" one of them was asked. "Why?" said the officer sharply. "Every one is anxious to hear their side of the story." "It's nobody's business," snapped the officer. He declined to talk further.

It developed today that J. Brace Ismay had Instructed Vice President Franklin, of the International Mercantile Marine, to segregate the Titanlc's men as soon as they arrived on the Carpathia. Ismay urged Franklin to make speedy preparations to get them out of the country. til captain was on the bridge at the time; lie had no talk with other officer than the captain, chief engineer, and the eteward. Ilia quarters were OA deck Juat aft of the mala eompanlonway.

Ilia trip was to aee the ship In action. A representative of the builder, Thomas Andrews, was on board to see whether everything was satisfactory, alao to aee how he could Improve on the Titanic. He was one of those who perished. The witness was the only executive officer outside of the ship's customary officers aboard. Me did not consult the captain about the ship except a talk he had about the time of arrival at the New York lightship.

This was arranged before they left Qneenstown, and it was agreed to arrive before 5 o'clock Wednesday morning. It was euppeaed they could reach New York by that time without putting the steamship to her full capacity. In reply to queatlona by Chairman Smith. Ismay said the speed of the ship was gradualty Increased. They were going seventy-five revolutions cn the day before the accident, but that It was nothing to compare with tall speed.

CARPATHIA MASTER TESTIFIES Captain Kostrom, of the Carpathia, was the next witness. He left Now York. April 11. "At 12:35 o'clock Monday morning. he said.

"I was Informed by our wireless operator of urgent distress signals from the Titanic. The operator told the Irst Junior officer and he and the operator put their heads in my doorway and told me. I had Juat turned In. The meassage that had come from the Titanic gave her position as latitude 41 degrees 46 minutes north, longitude degrees 14 minutes west. I cannot give at the moment our exact location.

The New York time of the receipt of the distress signal was exactly It: 45 p. m. Sunday. (TMs eovnta for he apparent Ha 4 and not the tonnage of the ships was considered in the number of operators. Marconi said that the Carpathia rhad a short distance wireless equipment, the maximum distance covered being 2W mllee and the average about.

100. Th Titanic had powerful equipment, capable of communicating 500 miles In the day time and 1,000 miles most very nlgSt with accuracy. The pay for English operator was not over two pounds with board and lodging, but he. Mr. Marconi, said, was unable to tell what (he operators were paid in this country.

"At any time on Sunday last were your offices In connection with the Titanic or Carpathia "The companuj sent find received men-sages, but I had no personal messages." CONCERNING INTERFERENCE. "Wa there any interference on the part of the experimental or rival service to the detriment of the service when this accident happened or after it?" Senator Hughes Inquired. "I only saw the operator of the Carpathia for a few moments." Marconi said. "My Impression Is that near New York there Wvie slight interference." Wlt-hess said he had heard that when the operator of the Carpathia received the megsage from the Titanic he was removing his shoes and said it was absolutely providential that the operator of the Carpathia got the message. Marconi expressed the belief that it wa absolutely necessary that operator Should be able to receive at all times messages from ship and store stations in erepancy between tno times reportea or for the etakJn the Tttaato and that reported by the Immediately gare order to turn the I uM eur operator twice Ir tie absolutely certain aa to the orlgn because of the rush of air and the noise made by the escaping steam." Immediately after telling the Titanic of the Olympic's attempt to get In communication with her, the former, the witness said, sought the Olympic's aid, reporting that she was "head-down." and giving her position.

The Baltic broke in at tills time, but her efforts to reach the Titanic were wjthout avail. LINER'S LAST FLASH. "I was In communication with th Titanic at regular intervals until the final message," said Cottam. "This was. 'Come quick; our engine room Is filling up to the Senator Smith subjected the witness to a close questioning, as to how he reported these messages.

He asked whether Cottam answered them at hi own discretion. "No. sir." said the witness. "I always reported them personally to the captain." The witness said the last message he rent to the doomed Titanic, telling of the Carpathia' rush to the rescue, probably never reached the ship. Cottam said that after the Titanlc's survivors Were ricked up he worked continuously until Tuesday, when he fell asleep at his He could not tell when he dropped from exhaustion nor when he awoke.

How Mrs. Isidore Straus refused to leave her husband and live was told the committee by Alfred Crawford, ot Southampton, bedroom Stewart on the Tltanie. He said Mrs. Straus her maid to get Into a lifeboat to which Crawford was assigned to tielp them. "Mrs.

Straus put one foot into the boat and then changed her mind. Mr. Straus wa standing away back from her. She said to him: 'We have been living together a number of years; we are not going to separate now." He added that the maid was saved. SAYS ISMAY HELPED WOMEN.

The witness said the captain told him to take the ladle to a light In the distance, land them and return. We pulled and pulled for the lijht. bint It seemed to get farther away and we never returned." said Crawford. "Myself and Cook, another Steward, got In the lifeboat by Captain Smith's order," Crawford declared. "How war.y women were in It?" "About 35." Crawford said that In his lifeboat the men pulled on the oars from 1 o'clock until 4 In the morning, occasionally assisted by women passengers.

The names of the women he did not remember. "Were all the women In your lifeboat saved?" Senator Smith asked. "Yes. they all were rescued." Crawford said that he saw J. Bruce Ismay en the boat deck with First Officer Murdock lowering a lifeboat, "I think It was the third boat on the Starboard side of the ship that they were lowering." said Crawford.

"I saw Mr, Ismay helping ladies Into that boat and then saw him and First Officer Murdock lowering the boat into the sea." "Did yeu see Director Ismay get Into anv of the lifeboats?" Senator Smith asked. "I did ndt, sir," Crawford answered. "Was there an explosion on the Titanic after you got away In the lifeboat?" "Yes, sir. there was." Crawford declared. It was a sharp report.

It seemed as though everything was being blown up under the water. I saw the Titanic aink, but it Was from quite a distance. She seemed to go down bow first. That was apparent because the forward lights disappeared and could see the aft light high in the air. Then ail gradually disappeared." The committee adjourned at 10:20 o'clock to meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

pulling in the boats certainly two or three. "The first I knew of Mr. Ismay' a presence on the Carpathia," he said, -was when the last boat was alongside and the passengers were getting out." Gugllemo Marconi, the Inventor of wireless telegraphy, had entered the east room and listened attentively to Captain Rostrom's testimony. The witness said the Carpathia carried 20 lifeboats. "The ships nowadays are built practically unsinkable," asserted Captain Rostrom.

"Kach e'aip Is supposed to be a lifeboat in Itself." He stated that ordinarily the Carpathia could carry 2,50 passengers, with a crew of 300 and six officers. ROSTROM If THANKED. Captain Rostrom said that while the captain of a ship was In supreme command, that if he disobeyed orders of the owner, he would likely be dismissed. "la It customary to take orders of a director of th company on board?" senator Smith wanted to know. "Xo, sir; I take orders from no one on board the ship." Captain Rostrom said in reply.

Senator Smith said: "Captain Rostrom, on behalf of my colleagues and myself I desire to express our highest admiration for you and your conduct." "Thank you," said Captain Rostrom, Captain Roetrom denied knowing anything about the Carpathia' refusing to answer a meseage seat by President Taft. "My purser told mo," he, said, "that th Olympic had sent a message asking If Major Butt was on board; but that Is th only message of the kind I knew of. We had a message from the Chester saying that the President wa anxious about the passenger of the Titanic, and then the captain of the Chester told me he wa coming to take the name of th pavsenger. I told him the names of the first and second-class passengers and then he agreed to tak the nam of th steerage. MESSAGES NOT INFLUENCED.

"Was any attempt made to Influence you about sending messages?" Senator Smith asked. "Prom first to last I took charge or every message to be sent. We lost touch with the Olympic some time early Tues day morning. Our operator war constantly at his Instrument. I had absolutely no knowledge that the President of the United States wished to communicate with -the ship." "Was any attempt made to withhold a reply?" "My Lord!" ejaculated the captain.

"I hope not. No one on the ship attempted In any way to impose a censorship but myself." Captain Rostrom mentioned that the wireless equipment of the Carpathia was good for only 200 miles under exceptional conditions; under ordinary, for not more than ISO. The whole thing, he added, was providential. "Our wireless operator was hot supposed to be on duty at alL He was taking off his boots preparatory to going to bed. In 10 minutes more we should not have heard the Titanlc's message." Captain Rostrom was asked particularly If the Titanlc's boats were supplied with water and food.

"As far as I can see," he said, "all the regulations had been complied with. There were bread tanks and water breakers on all -the boats I noticed, end I saw bread in some ot them." MARCONI ON STAND. Outglielino Marconi was the first witness at the afternoon session. He said that the operators of his company were responsible to the company for commercial messages. The company worked under the International code find the small ships usually carried one operator, and the larger boats, such as the Titanic, Olmypic, Ma ure tarda and Lusitania two operators.

Th number of passsngera NEW 8TOWE TOWNSHIP BRIDGE. Th footbridge connecting Stove township with th plant of th Pressed Steel Company at Nicol avenue, wa completed yesterday. It was erected aa a cost of 125.000 by th Stow township board of commissioners, of which Thomas B. Thompson Is president. QUERY FOR COMMISSION.

HARRIS BURG, Pa, April O. Farrell, vice president of the Treadwall Engineering Company, of Easton. has Inquired of the State railroad commission If th Pennsylvania Railroad Company Is Justified in accepting freight Intended for Easton without notifying th con- signor. as they hav no station, railroad or freight faculties In Easton proper. BABY IIZVEa 7TXL KH0W FAKEBTS IS STTBKKS NEW YORK, April IS.

Nearly MS of th survivors of the' Titanic were in hospitals tonight suffering from shock and exposure, but as far could be learned none was In a serious condition. It was expected that all would be discharged within a tew days. Most of them were third-class passengers and members of the crew. Mors than were children under 10 year old; several of them orphaned and a few unidentified. There was for instance, a wailing -month-ow baby, tossed Into a lifeboat by Its mother, that probably will grow up without knowing who Its parents were.

More than 100 were cared for in St. Vincent's hospital, which was a scene today of many pathetic incidents. Not only were there tearful but happy reunions between the survivors and friends and relatives who had missed meeting when the Carpathia docked last night but there were scores, still, hoping against hope thAt some of their dear one, not named among the survivors might, through some oversight, be among th cued, who called to mako Inquiries During the day many philanthropic women, well-known in the city aociaJk ly, visited the hospital to render assistance. Financial aid to relieve many cases of destltutloa was promised by these women. SAY COWARD F0IHTED REVOLVER AT 70" Survivors Assert Youth Forced Way into Lifeboat by Use of Weapon.

Pittsburgh Post Bureau. Herald Building, NEW YORK, April One tale of base cowardice, reinforced by a revolver wielded by man passenger of the TiUnic, was told today by passengers of the Carpathia. The Carpathian passengers and Mr. Brown, the purser, learned from the Titanic survivors that this man, a dapperly dressed young fellow forced his way into a boat containing women. He aimed a revolver at them to make them stand aside for him, while he stepped Into the smaller boar.

Once In th boat he lay down, so a to become concealed by the women wn were In It or entering It. To every rebuke he answered with a sinister pointing of his revolver. When ordered to take an oar and row he refused and hi revolver kept him Immune from punisn-mcnt. As soon as the boat was picked up by the Carpathia this coward rushed Into th first-class saloon, seised blankets and made himself comfortable, lighting a cigarette. Men passenger of the Carpathia, hearing the accusations, advanced on the craven who waved hi revolver at them.

They then Informed Mr. Brown, the purser, who walked up to th man and wrenched the revolver from his On man tried to force a fight on the coward, ordering him to pull down a curtain. The disarmed mm meekly obeyed, removing, any pretext to strike him. His name was given by all who related the affair. RAI8E IN WAGES.

NEW KENSINGTON, April Notices have been posted by the American Window Glaaa Company in Its plant In Arnold of a 9) per cent rise for all the 100 glass cutter employed, the Increase to go into off set at once. brought on board and died that morning at 10 o'clock. He and the other were burled at 4 p. m. One of my own officers and those of the Tltanle identified the body a far as possible.

Captain Roetrom was asked If any or the women had been Injured. He said that several women who had been in the boats wer brought on board slightly injured about th anna and minor Injuries of that kind. II said that all th rescued people behaved magnificently. They wer quiet as they got alongside the ship and bore up splend'dly when brought en board. PICKED UP 15 "How many lifeboat were there he was asked.

"We had IS boats alongside of us with passenger In them. I saw one lifeboat close to th ship which had been abandoned berans it wa in a sinking condition. The occupant had been taken out by another boat. Two or the 15 boats were of the collapsible kind, low flat rafts with collapsible sides. Kach would hold from 40 to 75 comfortably.

We found ea collapsible boat capaised among th wreckage. We took the boats en board, leaving some of them on our davits. Captain Roetrom said he did not know personally, but he had heard, all the people on the Titanic had been supplied with Uf belts. Th depth of th water at that point be would say was over 0P fathoms. He said that the last message received of the Titanic wa that her engine room was filling.

"Captain Rostrom said that the cap. tain wa In absolute control of a ship, legally end otherwise. He asserted positively that th Olympic wa on the Southern- route, which makes, he added a great elrcl to avoid 1c at this season of the year. He said it wa most exceptional to have warnings of icebergs In that vicinity and th course he would consider safe at this time. DENIES tLIOHTINO PRESIDENT.

He amid that had gone at full speed to answer th Titanic' signal, and that extra officer and an extra watch had -been on duty, and he felt he wa Justified ta taking some risks In th chance of saving numerous live. He had heard of no special suffering on board the boats. Pre for answer to a question about the number of life "oats required on a modern Uner. he said that a ship nowadays waa built to practically unstnkabto and was supposed to be a lifeboat In Itself. He told, ta answer to a question, that he had seen women ef the aiotrees sneeoase.

and upon re-oerrtas oaeuraace picked up a point 00 oar cooroo. and a et couroe to north f3 west, tree mUo from my poeltlon. After telling of his preparation for the care ef the sunrlrors ho said: RC3TCOM RESCUE. We mad the tut mile la 3 hours. I atayped the engine at o'clock when we were close to the first boat, but it 1 was that we made out a flare about a point on the port bow which we tsehr te be the Titanic ttaelf.

The light seemed so high I wa almost lure the Tttaale mmt etUl be afloat. It was a tttt) after that that we mad out an Iceberg on our port bow. Between and 4 o'clock were pausing Icebergs either aide ef ua. At 4 the first beat wa alongside. But just before get tins te ft saw an Iceberg- ahead aad bad to starboard my helm.

Th first ttoal which picked up was In oharg of an officer. saw was not ta control ot her. He sang out that he had only one seaman. had to maneuver a little to ret htm alongside. Cy the time we had got the first lot wi beard, it was making day and then saw about ta the rest ef the boats.

In the neighborhood also were about P) kaberg. ranging from -160 to 200 feet fcich, with numerous smaller one, of the Tclad call 'growler' running up to 3r 12 feat ta height. We had all the ssspla from the boats on board by were then elos to where the Titan! had gono down. There was a ot ef wreckage, broken up tuff; but nothing larce was floating about. CALIFORNIAN ARRIVES.

At o'clock the Iyland liner Can-f ota fan had com up and asked If she eou4 search around. asked her pleas ta do so. Immediately after the sor vtvors were on board we bad a prayer servtee of thanksgrrlng for those who were rescued and a burial service. MI new only one body floating In th watr. said Captain Roetrom.

in answer question from Senator Smith. It was a man. and he had a life preserver onv Apparently It was on of th crew. It wa Only ICS yard from th ship and euCJ he plainly seen, lying a on side the head awash. I did not tak It board, from th boats took tar ed smb.

They had died ef exposure. order to get messages of distress from hips. Each ship, he declared, should have two operator. He said that amateur hampered tthe wireless communication with the Carpathia, and declared that there was no attempt by the company to censor messages. He was surprised when he read In the papers that the message from President Taft had been ignored by the Carpathia operator.

OFFICER ON 8TAND. From a man of the sea, Charles W. Lightolier, second officer of the Titanic, and senior surviving officer of th ship, there came a narrative of what preceded the sinking of the Titanic, how the women were taken away in boats as brave men Stood by and what happened When the Titanic took her last dip. It wa a story of heroism, told quletly and calmly. Thomas Cottam, 21 years old, of Liverpool, the Marconi operator on th Carpathia, waa the first witness at the evening session.

He denied himself some glory by saying he had no stated hours for labor on the Carpathia. Previous witnesses had testified he wa not "on duty" when he received the Titanlc's signal for help. He was uncertain whether he was required to work at night, finally saying It depended on Whether he had commercial or ship's business to get off. When word of the Titanic' distress was received. Operator Cottam said he Immediately sent the position of the Carpathia and added that she would hurry to the rescue.

any reply to that?" asked Senator Smith. "Tea, air; immediately. They acknowledged receipt of it." The witness said the next Communtca tion with the Titanic was four minutes later when he confirmed the positions of both vessels. At this Juncture thn Frankfurt, of the North German Lloyd line, broke in on the communication, having heard the Titanlc's Call for help. Later the steamship Olympic also replied.

"What did you do then?" asked Ben-ator Smith. "I called the attention of the Titanic to the Olympic" "What wa the answer?" "The Titanic replied ah could not hear Another man, oae ef the I.