FEFUELICAN NEWS-HEM LAPORTE PA. The early bird doesn't get the worm merely by being early. Every little presidential candidate bas a keynote of his own. In case of a coal strike will the coal t)ln give space for a mushroom bed? The cellar of a Pennsylvania farmer bas dropped into a coal mine. Lucky man. Our own weather Is bad enough, but In China they are having a reign of terror. Being shot at occasionally Is not one of the legitimate annoyances of a king's job. A California woman with a "model husband" has been granted a divorce. She deserves it. Another blow to woman suffrage. An Illinois genius has Invented an unbreakable window. Butter can be made directly from grass, says a scientist. Possibly a misprint, for "grease." The Countess of Warwick says that s woman is at her best at fifty. Guess ; bow old the countess is. A Missouri girl wants $2,000 for seven kisses. One would almost 1m- : agine from that that kisses are scarce. The New Jersey assembly has passed a bill Imposing a $1 tax on female cats. Is there a mouse trap ; trust? This Is not such an extravagant na tion after all. A New Yorker was kill- j ed crossing the subway tracks to save a nickel. Sarah Bernhardt will get $7,000 a week for playing In vaudeville—al- j most enough to buy fresh eggs every inornlng. Proprietors of Ithaca soda fountains will not hall with Joy the news that ; Cornell students have adopted the no treat rule. A Judge in New York rules that : mother love Is not necessary to a \ child. In some cases we are in favor : of the recall. It Is said that 200 former criminals fire driving taxlcabs In New York. In reading the above sentence the "for mer" Is silent. A jraacher says that the saddest ! hour of the day comes after sunset. ! That's when most of the vaudeville stunts are pulled cff. A Parisian philosopher says that vlo- | lent movements produce violent j thoughts, lie must have found a slip pery sidewalk somewhere. Ten aviators have been killed so far this year, compared with four In the itame time last year. Does this Indi cate how aviatiou progresses? A man in Yonkers tried to kick u dog anu fell with his legs paralyzed. ! Even nature has joined in the general objection to kicking dogs around. Two New York motormen ran over ! the same unfortunate pedestrian. Those two men are wasting tbeir tal ents by not gett.ng Into Wall street. Andy Carnegie arises to remans that the farmer is the only happy man In this country. And yet we seldom bear of a steel magnate dying of «rlef. A Cleveland preacher says the Amer ican home is rapidly disappearing. He must be missing the old-fashioned din ners he used to be Invited to. Traced boots with spats have been authorized by the kaiser with the un dress uniform of German soldiers. German army officers may have spats, Vut they are forbidden to have duels. The attorney general of California has decided that when a Calilornla woman becomes the wife of an alien she loses her vote. Does a German J girl who Is married to an Irishman become Irish? Because she had a revolver in her Stocking a Dos Angeles woman was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Her hobble skirt must have been longer than most of those that Are seen hereabouts. Astronomers have discovered a new star In the heavens. Theatrical mana gers discover them In any old place nearly every day, and when the nat ural supply gives out they manufac ture them. i A New York physician who married * doctor wants a divorce because all his patients deserted him and went to her for medical advice and treat ment. Some men are so exacting that they are not satisfied merely to have' It all In the family. A. Maurice Dow in a lecture at Yale Ithe other night characterized newspa I ■per reporters as "men of trivial winds without perspective and with out education." Some reporter had probably referred to Mr. Dow as ont mho "also spoke." TITANIC SINKS FOUR DOORS AFTER HITTING ICEBERG Giant Liner on Maiden Trip Met With Disaster 330 Miles From Cape Race and Went to the Bottom. CARPATHIA PICKED UP LIFEBOATS CARRYING 866 PASSENGERS Liner Titanic. Six Liners Answer Wireless Calls for Help After Big Ship Strikes—Olym pic, Sister Ship, Reaches Spot to Find Only Wreckage Afloat—"Rule of Sea" Followed—Women and Children Put Over in Lifeboats and Are Safe on Carpathia—Picked Up After 8 Hours—l,323 Passengers on Ship and Crew of 890. New York. —The greatest marine disaster in the history of ocean traffic I occurred Sunday night when the Ti j tanic of the White Star Dine, the greatest steamship that ever sailed ! the sea, shattered herself against an | iceberg and sank with, nearly, 1,500 of : her passengers and crew in less than j four hours. The monstrous modern J v 4 i £ 4__ ip _ CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH. ships may defy wind and weather, but ice and log remain unconquered. Out of nearly 2,400 people that the Titanic carried only 866 are known to have been saved, and most of these were women and children. They were taken from small boats by the Cunard er Carpathia, which found when she ended her desperate race against time only the boats, a sea strewn with the wreckage of the lost ship and the bod ies of drowned men and women. Among the 1.480 passengers of the giant liner were Col. John Jacob Astor and his wife, Isador Straus, Major Archibald W. Butt, aid to President Taft; George D. Widener and Mrs. Widener of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Harper, William T. Stead, the Dondon journalist; I>\ D. Millet, the artist, and many more whose names are known on both sides of the Atlantic. The news that few besides women and children were saved caus ed the greatest apprehension as to the fate of these. The text of the message from the I steamer Olympic reporting the sinking of the Titanic and the rescue of 675 survivors also expressed the opinion that 1,800 lives were lost. "Doss likely total 1,800 souls," the dispatch said in its concluding sen tence. It is hoped and believed here that this is unless the Titanic had more passengers on board than was reported. She carried about 2,200 per sons, including passengers and crew. Deducting 675, the known saved. L - __________ Cost of the Titanic. A member of a prominent firm of un derwriters when informed of the acci dent to the Titanic said: "The Titanic cost $10,000,000 to build. , Her hull is valued for insurance pur- j poses at $5,000,000. Then there are all 1 sorts of miscellaneous matters to be i taken into account for disbursements and for passage money and freights j paid in advance as well as for stores, bagge, and other things. I do noa sup pose the owners are covered to the ex tent of more than $7,250,00 or at the utmost $7,500,000." i would indicate a loss of more than ! 1,500 persons. The Olympic's dispatch follows: "Carpathia reached Titanic position at daybreak: found boats and wreck age only. Titanic sank about 2:20 a. m„ in 41: It! X.. 50:14 \V. All her boats accounted for, containing about ■ »>75 souls saved, crew and pessengers [ included. Nearly all saved wonten j and children. Dryland liner Californi- I an remained and searching exact posi ; tion of disaster. Doss likely total I 1,800 souls." On her maiden trip, the Titanic, i built and equipped at a cost of $lO,- j 000,000, a floating palace, found her | graveyard. Swinging from the wester j ly steamship lane at the south of the | Grand Banks of Newfoundland to take , the direct run to this port she hurled j her giant bulk against an iceberg that ! rose from an immense field drifted un | seasonably from the Arctic. Running I at high speed into that grim and silent enemy of seafarers, the shock crushed ; her bow. From a happy, comfortable I vessel she was converted in a few min- I tites into a ship of misery and dread ] ful suffering. When the Titanic plunged headlong | against a wall of ice at 10:40 p. in., on 1 Sunday night, her fate established J that no modern steamship is unsinka -1 ble and that all of a large passenger list cannot be saved in a liner's small j boats. The place where the Titanic sank | is about 500 miles from Halifax and J the water at the point, about 70 miles ; south of the Grand Banks, is at least two utiles deep. It is midway between Sable Island and Cape Race and in a line with those dangerous sands which however, might have been a place of safety had there been time to run the SB ™ ,< \, ■ •»» * kF w 112 8L • • • • i v. MRS,. JOHN JACOB ASTOR. Titanic there and - beach - her on THe" northern side. The survivors drifted about in the life boats for eight hours before they w ere picked up. The women and chil dren suffered severely from cold and exposure as well as shock. The Titanic's how crushed like an eggshell, water poured into the for ward part of the giant liner so fast tha* Capta'n Smith ordered the 1.455 jatisengers into the life boats. The majority of the women and children got awav from the doomed craft be fore she sank. _ i Launching of the Titanic. The launching of the Ttanic at Bel fast on .May 31, 19l:>, like her depar ture for New York the other day, was made a function of more than usual importance. J. Pierpont Morgan at tended the launching, as well as Pirrle, chairman of '.he Harland & Wolff Company of shipbuilders, and J. Bruce Istnay, chairman of the Interna tional Mercantile Marino Company. Among the innovations in marine de signing were the two private prome nades connected with the two most luxurious suites. Staggering In the Ice field Into *?hlch ehe had driven at great speed, the Titanic sped call-after call to the hur- I rying liners of the upper roads —the . Cunarder Carpathia, the Virg'nia and I the Parisian of the Allen Line, the > Baltic, and the big Germans that were plowing their way between the conti , nents. The Carpathia and the Virgin ian, wheeling in their course, sped through the night, and raced up to at tempt to save the passengers and crew. Hundreds of telephone calls and telegraphic inquiries poured into the offices of the White Star Line in low er Broadway, asking information as to ( the safety of friends and relatives who | were on the Titanic. From about 7 o'clock in the evening on the answers given by the company were far from reassuring, and a little later in the evening people began to come in person, seeking to get more definite news. Vice-President Fran.Oinof the White Star Line could tell them only that his latest information from Captain Had dock of the Olympic was to the effect that the Titanic sank at 2:20 a. m. Sunday, and that 075 passengers had been saved. Vincent Astor appeared in the of fices of the steamship company. "Have you received any additional information?" he inquired of an offi cial. "Nothing," was the reply. The young man, after vainly strug gling to control himself, buried his face in his hands and sobbed. The Titanic ran into the same ice field off the Grand Banks that was re | ported by the Carmania on her arrival I here. The ice was so tfiickly jammed | that, crevices between the pieces could j not be seen, and great icebergs, to the I number of at least twenty-five, were j drifting in the field. The steamer/ j Mura and Lord Cromer, both of which have arrived in New York in the last 'few days, were damaged in making their way through the ice packs. MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT After reporting that the ship was sinking and that women and children j I were being put off in life boats, the j 1 next message from the wireless opera tor on the Titanic stated that the j | weather was calm and clear. He gave j the position of the vessel 41.4ti north ' latitude and 50.14 west longitude. The Titanic, exceeding in size any- j thing heretofore launched, is the pride ; of the White Star Line. She is 882 1-2 feet long, 92 feet broad, with 6G.000 tons displacement, i Her registered tonnage is 45,000. The boat deck of the gigantic vessel is more than sixty feet above the wa ter. Built stanchly and heavily, with out especial regard to speed, she was regarded as one of the safest vessels afloat. Twenty-one ki ats is her aver age rate of progress. The immense amouni 'f space re- ; quired tor high-powered engines was ' saved, in the building of the Titanic, I so that it might be devoted to cabin [ accommodations. Five thousand passengers can be comfortably accommodated 011 the ves j sel. There is room for 600 cabin pas- j sengers and for more than ;!,000 steer age passengers, while the crew—the largest that ever manned a boat —num- bers about 800 men. Before the launching of the Titanic there was grave apprehension 011 this side of the Atlantic as to the ability of the port to shelter so huge a craft. 'Special arrangements had to be made for the benefit of the Olympic and Ti tanic. The Titanic has nine steel decks, the upper three being designed for promenades. The main saloons are the largest on any craft afloat. The appointments are fully as splendid and uearlv as commodious as those of the greatest hotels in Europe or America. The ship is equipped with a swim ming pool, a gymnasium, a beautiful veranda cafe on one of the upper decks, a grill, a palm garden, and a hospital. Quickly Read Fact* of Disaster to Titanic. ( HI GO was worth $ 750,000, reinsured at 50 per cent. Col. Washington Roebling believed to have gone clown. She had L',358 persons on board. In cluding crew 903. Ship valued at $10,000,000, protected by $5,000,0000 insurance. International Mercantile Marine shares Ml $2.00 a share In London. Property loss, not including the ves sel, will reach $15,000,000. DETAILS OF TITANIC CRASH Wreck at High Speed and Panic. Taie from St. John's. CAPTAIN SMITH WAS WARNED Bottom Said to Have Been Ripped Off from Bow to Amidships—Perfect Order Reported Turned to Pan ic as Liner Sinks. St. John's, N. F. —A detailed story of collision of the Titanic with the ice berg and of her sinking is current here. The source of the story is the British steamer Bruce, which was in this port 011 March 1!) and is now on her way to Sydney, N. S. She picked up bj r wireless the story from other ships which were near the Titanic and from other vessels which took up the thread as they received it from inter cepted wireless messages. According to this account, the Titan j io was steaming at the rate of eigh ! teen knots when she hit the berg, and | that the impact was so terrific as al- I most to tear the ship asunder. The deckings were broken through and the bulkheads forming the watertight com partments were crushed in from the bow to nearly amidships, it is said. COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR. ; The story has it that the force of the 1 collision smashed several of the boats j and all the upper works to pieces. The Titanic is said to have piled up bow 011, the blow being greater on the | port side, which was torn to pieces, j causing her to list far over and almost | turn turtle. The leviathan, it is de ; clared, reared half out of the water, tearing her bottom off on the ice from the bow to amidships. The steamer, as the compartments tilled, settled by the head, and, although the after com j partments for a time served their pur \ poses, it was seen that the vessel was j doomed. I Perfect order was maintained for a J time, long enough for most of the j j boats to be launched, it is declared, j Less than one thousand had been em- I barked, the report says, when the cry went up, "She's sinking!" and order ! changed to frenzy, and the crowd rush- j I ed madly for the lifeboats within j ! reach. Some of these were swamped I and others smashed to pieces as they i were lowered. The boat is said to have settled rath- ' er than sunk, the wajer finally reach- j ing the engine room and dynamos, cut- j | tig off the wireless and lights, so that j death came to those aboard the Titan ' ic in darkness. Titanic's Captain Had Warning of Icebergs. Philadelphia.—The records of the \ I United States llydrographic office, re ! ceived here, show that the captain of i the Titanic had full warning of his \ ; danger. At on the night of April j i 14 the captain of the Hamburg-Ameri- ! | can liner Amerika reported by radio telegraph that he had passed two large icebergs in latitude 41.27, longi- ! tude 50.08. This report further shows \ that this Amerika message was relay ed to the Government station by the ) Titanic. One hour later, in latitude 41.46, longitude 50.14, the Titanic struck the iceberg which caused her : togo to the bottom. Naval men here figured that the Ti tanic had steamed a litte more than ! nineteen miles front the time she sent | the report of the iceberg, relayed from j the Amerika, and the time she struck ; the berg. Havre.-—The French liner l.a Tou- ! raine. reports that she was in commu nication with the Titanic on the after- j noon of April 12. The l'resse Nouvelle quotes the cap tain of l.a Touraine as saying he sent a wireless dispatch reporting the pres ence of the icebergs to the captain of the Titanic, who acknowledged the message with thanks. FOR CONGRESS INQUIRY. Resolution on Titanic Referred to Committee—Sympathy is Voted. Washington.—Representative Mott of New York Introduced a resolution directing the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries to in quire into the facts relating to the Titanic disaster. The resolution was referred to the Rules Committee. The House passed unanimously a resolution extending the sympathy to the families of the persons lost on the Titanic. TITANIC'S BOATS INADEQUATE Life Rafts Sufficient to Rescue Only One in Three. SAD TALES OF SURVIVORS | Marine Architects Say That Had the Number of Lifeboats Been Com mensurate with the Human Cargo | Many Lives Been Saved. "Wireless Station, Camperdown, N. | S.—Messages filtering through here in- I dicate that the ; passengers in the life ! boats from the Titauic had thrilling ' experiences: "Huge quantities of field ice covered j the ocean and the boat steerers had to ! guide their craft with the greatest care. "In some cases the ice was so heavy I that the boats could not force their way through it and as a result,-many 1 of them became widely separated. "Many of the passengers in the life | boats were scantily clad, having beei: ! hurried out of their berths in the dead j of night and ordered into ihe boats. I "The transfer of the passengers from the steamer to the boats "was at -1 tended' by much excitement and pan ] Ic." New York.-r-So that, seemingly, was | the end of the magnificent Titanic; ii j the worst is true men worth hundreds \ of millions of dollars met their t'ato I with her, a priceless cargo was in her j capacious holds,- a consignment cf $5,- j 000,000 of diamonds in her strong rooms. Insurance men here say she was 1 insured for scarce $7,000,000. Her loss must be a severe blow to a line which lost the Republic a few months ago. The news of the greatest, ocean'trag edy since newspapers existed really was "filtered;" sputtered intermit tantly by wireless telegraphy from the Titanic and from the steamships'Pari j sian, of the Allan Line of Canada, the j steamship Virginian, of the.same line and the steamer Olympic, the Titanic's | little smaller, but Wider sister; the j three, all in the ice-flicked steamer lane raced to the Titanic's aid in ans j wer to her calls for help. The toll of almost fifteen hundred dead on the Titanic may be traced di rectly to lack of suufficieiu lif«j saving appliances in the equipment ol the ship. -• ■* -> Of the twenty-two hundred who | were on board the stricken vessel, but i 875 were saved. Wireless reports from the scene of the disaster say-that all of the Titanic's life .Jjpats ..have been accounted for. Oyer 1,500 human j beings never had a'chance t'6'r then lives becsfu'Se J no jirovtrton •4itM«'-been made'for thetr.safety in just such a ! contingency as arose. Moreover, inquiry at file Bttreau of j boats, or rafts, have only a' total ea- I the shocking fact that there isscarce ly a ship sailing out of New York that ! is provided with life boats to the full | measure of its passenger-list. Not only j that, but otjjciaJst of tjie: bureau say J that it is customary for a ship.to car ] ry only sufficient life boats for ' one j third of the total number of its.pas | seugers and crew. In the case of the Olympic, for in j stance, which is identical with the Titanic, save that she is 3,000 tons lighter, the total number of passengers and crew carried is 3,447, while her ' sixteen lifeboats and four collapsible ! be taken off in safety, but 875, or a I paci.ty of 1,171. About the same .percentage main i tained on the Titanic, it would seem, since a total of 2,200, in round num | bers, who sailed on the ship, with I every opportunity existing for all to | be taken off in safety, but t!75, or a j third of the total, were saved, "because there were no more boats in which t< ! carry them to safety. In a sea, : which any number of boats could have | weathered —as these few did until the j rescuing liners reached the scene—the I 875 crowding all of the available life boats carried by the ship, i pelled to float Idlv on the water and watch the great ship carry down with it the fifteen hundred for whom no provision had been made. Bureau of Inspection officials admit ted frankly that these conditions exist. There is no way to prevent it. they said. No ship is required to have suf ficient boatroom to accommodate its complete passenger and crew list, be cause it would be impossible, it was said, to carry such a number of life boats in positions where they could easily be lowered into the water. LINER'S GRAVE TWO MILES DEEP. Location of Titanic's Deathbed Placed By Canadian Marine Official. Halifax, N. S.—The deathbed of the ten-million-dollar steamer Titanic, and of probably many who must, have been dragged down with her, is two miles, at least, below the surface of the sea. NEW ORLEANS BANK LOSS. Series of Defalcations Amounting to $1,000,000 by Officers, Disclosed. New Orleans. —That the Teutonia Bank & Trust Co., which was closed by state bank examiners is involved to the extent of more than a million dollars was the opinion voiced by the examiners. Among the papers found by them were $500,000 of securities known to be worthless and $450,000 re garded as doubtful. Vice-Pres. Gomila surrendered by his bondsmtn. I . ..
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