The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-01-26
before we knew we we1 - be trans
ferred ire. to the Florida. IL.

Finally Capt. sealbs ksle -.
self toward US with his hariu~ aiak.
as a signal for our attention, wn.0l
needless to say was quickly given.
Then he said: The passengers will
be transferred to the steamship Flori-
da.' He told US the women and children
would be the first passengers. There
was no jostling and no exhibition of
frenzy. All in all, the conduct of the
women was excellent. 1t is unfortun-
ate that right at the start there
should have been an exhibition by one
of the men that was otherwise. He
was not an old man either, but he
surely did seem the most scary person
of all. He clambered into the first
boat lowered. There was a yell of
derision from the passengers. The
sailors who we're to row the life boats,
and the officers who were in command
Of them, plainly showed their con-
tempt for the fellow. An order was
shouted to put him out of the boat.
He came back up to the high deck of
the Republic in very ignominious
fashion, being made to haul his way
up on a ladder, the passengers jeer-
ing all the while he was making the
journey.
"The life boats made the trips in
almost uniform procession. There was
so much to admire in the proceedings
that our fears were all the more dis
PEELED.
An Italian OdOr.
Eve made our way to the deck of
the emigrant vessel up a ladder and
found ourselves on very different
sort of steamship than that from
which we had journeyed. We had left
what, to the minute of the accident,
had been truly floating palace. When
we left it only the ugly cash in it's
side detracted from It's grandeur. From
that abode we journeyed to a hovel
for the poor. Women squatted on
matches, sat on potato bags or leaned
their tired bodies against the rails.
The air was filled with the odor of
macaroni. Macaroni proved the larg-
est portion Of our fare during the long
wait on the Italian boat for the second
rescue. It was plain Italian macaroni,
just the sort that is doled out to the
Italian steerage travellers. We were
hungry and we enjoyed it.
1--WE expected that the Baltic or
La Lorraine would reach us by p.
m. We waited patiently. That hour
came, but no Baltic. We became anx-
ious. Four o'clock and no rescuer in
sight and we were a worried lot of
people. Five O'Clock found us just
bordering close to despair though l
am proud to say we were not the peo-
pie to say It.
The First Light
But o'clock was to tell differ
ent story. At a quarter to the hour
far off a light shot up into the heav-
ems. Hundreds of US saw it at the
same time. We had been on the watch
for it, for we had learned much of
the life of the sea the half day pre-
ceding and. we knew nearly all of us
what the light meant. 1t was rocket
from the Baltic. We jumped to our
feet with one common impulse and q
hurrah went up"
Among those aboard the Baltic, the
steamer whose looming bulk afar In
the dim fogginess had aroused the
cheers and new hopes Of the trans
ferred passengers on the Florida, was
Henry Savage Landor, the famous
traveller. I'm my travels through two
hemispheres,' he said today, never
have I seen displayed spirit of woman
hood that could be better in such an
extreme than was that of the women
on the Republic. When we of the
Baltic met them 1t was as they were
being brought to our vessel in a toss
ing sea in small boats after nearly a
score of hours spent on the crowded
Italian emigrant vessel to which they
had been taken from another wreck.
They had seen, many of them, the
mangled bodies of women who had
been their fellow-passengers. Yet no.
where was there whimper and they
actually came aboard with smiling
faces"