New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-22

DUCK Pants Sl.fo. Leather Belts 400, csc
soon as you car" The alarm for are-sx bells on
me main deck.was Tung. kept the whistle going
g 3,-How far were YOU from North Brother Isl
Meadows? About half a mile
QI>,Did the captain return to tho pilot house?
mo. l did not him again until
y@01 T SiS Al could see four of them
DID YOU see any attempts made to launch
81 2-How long from the time the alarm was given
before the Slocum was beached? About two
, SDd you see any Of the crew trying 70 save
beached. WI '''''' "''s' ''' emp WIS
IF you had been in command of the slocum."
Coroner Berry asked, where do you think she
ought to have been beached?"
In the exact spot where she was put"
Mr. Dittenhoefer and Mr.. McManus We're
pleased with the answer that they made tho
stenographer repeat it twice to the jury.
Why did you beach her just where you did"
Coroner Berry asked
To get her out Of the flood and to pay her
so that the wind would take the flames sea-
ward and give tho passengers a chance 10 &c,
ashore"
Why did not you take her TO Locust-ave. and
sand yards nearer than North Brother Isaud?"
"Couldn': do it That boat takes two min
utes to swing. and there room. No
one would have lived 10 tell the tale"
Did you not tell Sucday?" demanded
the Coroner, that II it had been left 10 you the
Slocum would have beached at one hundred
and .tW enty- ninth-st-7"
Il did not. The tide would not let her turn"
To Mr.. McManus Weaver said 10 turn the
boat any other way than the way she was
turned would have been to invite the flames 10
rake her fore and aft
TO turn the boat and beach her on sunken
Meadows would have taken 1--WE TO eight min
utee. 1t would have been the height OF folly"
he declared.
In the courtroom yesterday were only those
who had business there. Under subpoena were
many Of the survivors women dressed IN black.
sad eyed Who paid the closest attention TO the
testimony. and boys with heads bandaged.
Daniel O'Neill a deckhand told OF seeing n
man go UP TO the hurricane deck with "a rule or
something" presumably to inspect. but no didn't
know what this Inspector did. lie didn't see
any life preservers taken from the racks for in
spection. He first lear,sd Of the fire when he
heard the people shouting. Then he to the
hose. II coiled and burst when the water press
urc reached It.
Il heard Flanagan shout. Get another hoser
I and go: the rubber washing hose. but the
coupling woul3 not fit the standpipe." he said
Q-What did you do next? Al OF trying 10
pacify the people There a small rowboat
coming up. and the people were jumping I'm.
jumped TOO. and the boat capslzed swan
ashore.
The bookkccper. Miss Hall. explained carefully
that she had erased the name Grand Republic"
from the bills for life preservers with acid and
substituted tho name General Slocum," because
the SIocum had received the supplies and she
wanted TO keep the accounts separate She did
go
10 erase a record deserted. by what
right she changed bills rendered by another con-
Germ than her own She could not remember
when she made those erasures. Neither could
she tell whether life preservers had been bough.
for the Slocum since 1895. She inspected her
ledgers and discovered in 1902 and 1903 record
OF two bills, but she not certain that they
were for life preservers.
Miss Hall said that since she had been a
bookkeeper she had used acid to make correc-
tons She showed in the ledger several places
where she had made such erasures. Regarding
the bills put in evidence by Mr. Garvan. Miss
Hall said she positive that none OF the
ensures had been made within a month
oscar Kahnweiler. OF David Kahnweiler &
Sons. said he sold to the General Slocum her
original equipment OF life preservers. She took
. $50 life rreservers in 1891. Since 1895 the
firm had sold no life preservers to the Slocum.
He estimated the life OF life preservers properly
cared for, at twenty years.
Il have seen life preservers twenty-eight years
old as good as any putting out to-day"
the witness said
And you've seen some that ought to be
thrown away in loss than ten years." asked Mr.
Garvan.
Il have" the witness replied.
Il will show you one now said the Assistant
District Attorney. he carried in dramatically
{ nd laid across the knees of the witness a di-
lapidated looking llfebelt that was taken from
the wrecked Slocum.
TN trust myself to that belt now. with hands
and feet tied" replied Mr.. Kahnweiler
Mr. Caravan tore the rotten arm strips off the
belt and returned to his seat with a disguised