The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-01-31
We Did OUR BEST AND OUR.
|. CONSC|ENCES ARE CLEAR"
--BOATSWA|N MCCARTHY


Are Marine Inspectors Whitney and Turner in posi-
ton 10 get the real facts in the question Of who
blame for the wreck Of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
panys liner Valencia and would be proper for the
federal authorities institute thorough investigation
Through entirely independent and unprejudieed board9
These questions now being asked on every side
by people whose opinions should carry weight Rev r. l.
Wharton who appeared before the present examining board
with this pertinent inquiry, is only Of large number
who expressing the same ideas
ARE NOT MARINE INSPECTORS WHITNEY
AND TURNER SITTING IN JUDGMENT ON THEIR
THE VALENCIA AS SAFE AND HER EQUIPMENT
IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW1 This is even prohib-
tied in courts Of common law.
DEVELOPS LITTLE.
The investigation has far developed but little direct
testimony along lines desired What the people
to know Who TO Bame2" the inspectors conduct
ed their questioning along the subject covered in
the examination Of the first witnesses IL would take them
million years TO get at the real facts.
WHY is 1T THAT THE INSPECTORS so
ADROITLY SIDESTEP DIRECT QUESTIONS WHEN
WITNESSES REACH THE LEADING ISSUE OF
REACHED THE VALENCIA FROM THE SEAWARD
SfDE2 They hammer away good fashion about the life
belts because has yet been disputed by any Of the
Witnesses that these febel,s good enough in quality
pass the required But these lehel could
nh and did any lives Ii the hfebosts from
the Queen the City OF Topeka which those despairng
souls waited for and upon which they pinned their hope for
PROTECT STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
When Witness MeCafirey voluntarily expressed his
belief that the not competent tina, the
ratified and that due their being their
tons tho night the struck that lives
were lost in the boats. THE INSPECTORS. TO SEW
ERAL IN THE ROOM AT LEAST. APPEARED TO
BE TRYING TO BREAK DOWN THIS TESTIMONY
They sought constantly show that the witness wrong
and because he fully familiar with the and
sailor vernaeulaT partially succeeded Why did the in
spevors seek 20 disercdn these statements3
IL been disputed that with the exception Of the
captain and other officer all the officers and
changed the Valencia from the City of Puebla this
her last trip up from San Francisco Does it stand
reason that the familiar with their posts
THERE HAD NOT BEEN a SINGLE LIFE DRILL
ON THE VOYAGE OUT. Then why is IL that the in
speetoTs do ask OF the rescued and Of
feerx questions along that lne1
WHY DIDN'T THEY ACT3
Why again is il that the inspectors do ask Boat
swain Mccarthy OF his party ashore voun
teer crew. WERE YOU NOT SENT ASHORE FOR
THE DIRECT PURPOSE OF REACHING THE
BLUFF BACK OF THE STEAMER AND HAULING
IN LINEG Up the present, this question has ap
peared in the examination The public understands that
Mccarthy and his dispatched 10 reach the cliff
with the intention OF hauling in that life line They did
do Witness Allison says he has heard of good
reason why Neither has the public
The inspectors going deep enough into this in
vestg CATION either get the real facts underlying
surface satisfy the public The public already knows
about the actual wreck in detail the survivors have been
interviewed time and time again the general incidents
what everyone is waiting for is WHO is TO
HLAME2 To find this will require skllful probing
The company going voluntarily confess any derec
its part such exists IL up the inspectors
make tho officials tell Unless foreible method
questioning is employed this cannot be done