The Detroit times., 1909-01-27
women KISS AND
\ HUG CAPTAIN OF
REPUBLIC
BANDS PLAY AND 1000 CHEER AS
BRAVE CREW REACHES PIER
IN NEW YoRK-5INNs is
LloNIzEo.

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-With bands
playing. flags flying and cheered oy
1000 men and women. hysterical with
10y. the revenue cutter Manhattan
r locked at the White Star line pier al
\ Eleyenth-st. and North river today
s and landed Capt. William |. Seal0y OF
the sunken steamship Republic, MS
brave little crew and the hero OF the
hour. Chief Wireless operator Jack
Binns. whose bravery saved hundreds
OF lives.
When Capt. Sealby stepped Upon
the dock he was surrounded by
cheering mob The women had hrst
call In this demonstration Just as they
did when the passengers were trans
ferred from the Republic TO the FLOR
ida while the White Star liner was
sinking
When the crowd besieged Sealby
the women seized him first and
Rugged him and smothered him with
kisses. After this the men picked
him ND and carried him around on
their shoulders while the band played
"America."
Then someone thought Of Binns.
"Where's Jack Binns?" shouted
man whose brother was member OF
the Republics crew. for most OF thQs"
In the crowd were wives. sweethearts,
sisters and brothers and relatives or
the crew Binns, a pale-faced. clean
shaven chap, inclined 10 be bashful,
hung back on board the Manhattan
until someone pushed him onto the
pier.
There he isl" cried a pretty young
girl standing near the gangway. Isn't
he handsome And isn't he a hero.
Then she rushed up TO bashful JACK
Binns and kissed him. II wasn't
wireless kiss but Binns. seeing about
100 other women clamorlng 10 get
near him. understood it to be &C. @.
d. message and he fed precipitately
10 avoid being Hobsonized on whole
sale scale.
Meantime Capt Sealby was strug-
Cling to get away from his admirers so
ne could go 10 the Offices of the White
Star line and receive instructions con-
corning an investigation OF the col
1ision which was begun today.
Finally he and Binns and the crew
managed TO escape the enthusiastic
crowd and they then reported them
selves ready to submit their state.
ments concerning the crash of Nam
tucket
On their way up to TIE White Star
docks from the derelict destroyer Sen
eca, which is anchored - Tompkins-
Vile, Capt Sealby. Binns anu the rest
told practically the same stories OF
tht disaster they will tell the White
Star officers. They only withhold one
detail. That was as to the blame at
tached for the collision.
But they had hard time telling
their stories. for on the way MP
through the bay, past the Battery and
into the North river their boat was
greeted by a din of whistles from
nearby craft as well as factories on
the Jersey side as well as the Man
haitian shore. 1t was probably one OF
the most stirring demonstrations seen
In the harbor since Dewey returned
from Manila, and the Manhattan used
up pretty nearly all of her steam re
plying to the salates.
Binns sat in the cabin OF the cutter
and smoked a cigarette.
sits a treat TO me. y'know," he
drawled with an English accent
while / was going through that in
ferno on the Republic did not have Q
single cigarette"
After he had landed at the White
Star docks the wireless operator tolt
the following story OF his experience
during the disaster-the first officia
statement he has made since ht
reached New York: