New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-20
TO REPLY TO THE MAYOR.

Trips Of inspection were made yesterday over
tbe course taken by the General Slocum by two
parties Of officials. representing the government
investigation os the catastrophe and the in
opries Of the local officials. Secretary Cortelyou
made the journey in a tug. accompanied by some
~ his subordinates- Coroners Berry and O'Gor-
man and Police Inspector Albertson made their
inspection IN the police boat Patrol. Edwin Y.
Weaver, assistant pilot OF the Slocum. was at
tbe wheel Of the Patrol. and related the Incl
dents Of the terrible journey he took last
"Wednesday.
Before his return 20 Washington last night
Secretary CorteIyou declined TO make any COM
rert on the letter OF Mayor Mcclellan. which
eonta!ned an appeal for a reinspection OF all the
psssenger carrying boats at this port He said
he would give fFe subject his earnest attention
end send a reply TO the Mayor his return TO
Washington. out Of courtesy to the Mayor he
VIII not discuss the subject until he has replied
70 the Mayors letter.
Secretary CoTtelyou says he believes that there
should be a suspension of judgment regarding
the causes of the Slocum disaster until the in
yestigetioas have been completed 1t is his Pur-
pose 10 have the government investigation made
50 thorough and complete that fun reasons Will
be given for needed changes IN the regulations
governing passenger boats. to prevent similar
disasters and that ample proof will be found
TO the guilt or innocence OF any government in
Epectors
The bodies Of two women, whose arms We're
looked around a life ring, were recovered yes
srday near North Brother Island These rings
are made OF canvas filed with cork, and
supposed 70 hoat four persons. The ring was
noi out Gym last might 10 see with what It
was flied. but v hen IL was thrown on the
water il sank immediately. The ring was pre-
served by the police. and viii be turned over TO
the coroner.
Assistant District Attorney Garvan spent yes
teTday in preparing for the inquest on the
socum disaster, which Will be begun at II a. m
to-day in tie arrnory OF the ID Battery
Bathgate-aye.. near Observation-Disclosures
eighth-st- The Bronx. Mr.. Garvan VIII conduct
the examination OF witnesses at the inquest,
while Corcners Berry and OGorman viii pre-
side. About two hundred witnesses probably
viii be examined, and the inquest is expected to
last about week
With the recovery OF forty-aine more bodies
yesterday from the scene Of the Slocum disaster
The total of the known dead was increased to 632.
The new identdcations OF bodies yesterday num-
bered twenty-eight and there are still remaining
tWenty-nine unidentified bodies in addition TO
were buried IN one grave in the Lutheran Gene
iery The list OF the missing was first increased
yesterday BY reports received AT the information
bureau regarding eleven persons who were sup
posed TO have been on the Slocum and have
failed 10 return to their homes, and then the
list diminished by striking of seventeen
names OF persons who had been found. or whose
bodies had been identified. The list Of the MISS
ing approximately last night was 325.
TRIP or THE POLICE BOAT.
The police boat Patrol, in which the city Of
tdals went over the Slocum's course, was in
charge Of Police Inspector Albertson. Ia the
party were Cororers O'Corman and Berr;. eE-
Fire Marshal Freel representing the District At
loFley's Office ana Captain Van Glider chief OF
Inc pilot service Of the New Haven Steamship
Line. Viewer was in The custody Of PatIo!man
George c. Manning.
The Patrol left East One-hundred- and-thirty-
heeond-st at $40 ,. m. 1t was In charge Of its
regular pilot. and passed down the river until
fortieth-st. WAS reached. There the turn WAS
'aaae and the trip up the river over the course
msde BY the Slocum vas begun, with Weaver
a the wheel. Coroners Berry and O'Gorman
''eoa al his left while Inspector AIbertson and
@-fFe Marshal Freel remained at his right.
Just as the Patrol Was making the turn the
''Fyooat John 3. Hollis putting out from
l SIP ~ East FoTfy-secOnd-st-, carrying "a
1H''e snd a black hearse. with company Of
-ouraers on its way 10 the Lutheran Cemetery
VIA victims Of the disaster.
'I tfe way up Weaver told Coroner Berry the
,--'aents he noted on the day OF the disaster.
= said that he was in the pilot house from
O'leth-st. 10 North Brother Island. He did not
me wheel any time, Captain Van
.1la1ek ana Chief Pilot Van Wart alternated
a plotting
p i'id Coroner Berry the first warning they
1 OF the fire was received from Mate Flana-
@ through The speaking tube 70 the pilot
,1"e. az q point bout one hundred feet south
lAe Kills. or about thousand feet north Of
NE spa buoy.
~@plain Van Cider was thcn asked by the
''fF whore, ~ he had been IN charge Of the
-P he would have beached her The reply
a. uiat he would have run the steamer in AT
80 'oot % East OEe-hundred d-ilnd-twenty- ninth
tine
N'her Berry took Weaver 10 the end Of the
NeA OF esorth Brother Island Weaver
-'a '9f the exact spot just north of the wall
b- iae vessel grounded the first time The
Ass since drified with the tide. Weaver
:, "-fh taGen back 10 the fremont station,
80 ne Is detained as a witness.
1easr Berry said:
Nc took this trip for the purpose Of gather