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ne Of Gin raj he didn't seem ter
1 know what ter say: he done set darS
I loohin On oEer de prairie like be was
clar iumegasted He sh6 did look
ike dat black debbie Nhed Bit him
mighty hard Den she says slow like,
tulnin his boss round u aftIett, va
am putin up good blum, but, sny
Ga VIC, q 10 gpin ter call yo'. 70 don't
get q cent OBJ dat money less VI put
1 up des proof I'll meet yos whar VI
say but Ell | can git hols oh some ma
pers OATS missin Ill take dat grin on
20 face. De odder one iAug hed. an I
de Oh ginsral started fo' ter ride awa y /.
den he pull up he's boss, an look
I back. 'Yoi sorter herd wild dat kind
Job cattle, Bartlett B de say, sharp like
maybe so' know q gambler roun
we're called Hawley,2? De black debbie
nebber chen lose he's grin DO 70
mean Black Bart Hawley q Oats the
! man. where is he?. sDealina faro fo.s
nike Kenna In Topeka j week ago.
i friend OBJ yours n Oats none oh 70
damned business, snorted de d
ginraI. giyin his hoss de spur Sho.s.
Massa Jack, be nebber kneweti he was
Maxim tel dat sam Hawley. an dat
black debbles lest laughed as he rode
on .',' Isl
When was all this. Neb r.
bout de time va ~ went up on
dc Mil. I reck =. done come fright
we're. and waited NJ
Keith walked across the room. Sc
lected cigar and came back. mas
mind busy with the problem tiawieyi
had in some manner them got INTO
decentralization with Waite, and was
threatening him But Wi ate evidently
knew the man under another name
his given name and the gamb Ter had
/ sent him on on d false trail The lost
papers apparently contained the solu-
tion To- all this mystery, Waite be-
heved HawIeY possessed them, but
did not suspect that Bartlett and Haws
ley were the same person What
would he most naturally do now Z
4 Seek HaWley Ia Topeka PROBABLY:
seize the first opport unity Of getting
there Keith turned impatientiy to
the clerk
4 Any train running east :.
Well. they generally start one out
every day. with a glance coward the
clock !. y long bout this time, Maybe
IT'S gone. and maybe il hash. T..
III was already nearly dark OUTSIDE
\ as the two men FASTENED towand the
depot They arrived there barely IN
time y see The red tights on the iasl
\ car disappear. No inquiries made OF
those longing about brought results
t---fhav had Sfkeg, ir1fnrocf.ad IL, = trsf -
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-01-11

IRON home when only ! boz. and
naturally driIted INTO evil Company Il
| His one ambition Is tol break away
ana redeem himself: An So anxious
! ID help biinS and wish xou could real
Iizs HIS purpose. Is do. and become
This ffiend Won't yon. for ny sake
Why. even III this allair ks has not
the slightest mefcenafy purpose
has only thought of what was fishtful-
lIy mine = :, Ia Il
Kehhs Isl snsds feeilbg 10 fhs iuIi the
lw6man;s 1sstnts6 the rp6ssibIli|,
~ Of changing her liked conviction
lHaWiey had planted his sEed deep and
lweil 81 fr0tti sol n.
~ Oh make 8 st1dn Fand charming.
advocate. Miss Maclsire." Ne returned
lfeeIfng tha necessity Of saying somes
thing II should like 10 have You
equally earnest Oh MI side rel 4
will be hard h6 convince me thar
/ BLACK Bart Ii the paragon Of virtue
l3yom describe a wish l might Believe;
ifof your sake, Did he also explain
lhoM ne tame into possession 81 these.
! papers r. Il,
0h. yes. indeed there Is 40 secret
| about that They were entrusted To
Thin by an old NAN whom he diseovs
| cred siGk ii independence, and Who
/ died III his rooms three years ago
1 L1awiey has been searching eyes
! Since for the old mans granddaug
+ He Is remarkable how be was finally
convinced that ! was the one.
photograph, was Il not n .sf
"a gleain OF sudden suspicion APP
/ psared ia the brown eyes. 4 slight.
change Ia facial expressioh
hat was 4 clue. ye.s but far from
'heing all But why should I tell you
this You believe nothing
believe that yon believe. thar
you are fully Convinced OF the Justice
Eof yonrz claim Perhaps 1t Is Just. Duf
am Suspicious Of anything which
Bari Hawiey has 4 hand IN Miss
Christie, yon real make me wish t.
lretain your friendship. but cannot
4 do so II the cost INCLUDES fafth In
4 Hawley Do you know that is mot
i even his name than he lives under an
1 alias ~ a
is there anything strange III that
out 1ere2.s' she asked stoutly. 4 told
1 you how deeply he regretted his life
/ that alone would be suffl cient canse
i for In to drop hts family name DID
you eyer learn his true ma me q s'xs
10 He was NOT % only as Neb had
4 reported what Waite had cal ed the
imam vet ventured q direct reply
Bartlett, believe he uses 1t now
as d pref !. n
aaartiett. sartiett. het hands
cIasping and ur,clasping i,ervously.
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Evening journal., 1912-04-17
Salt Wafer, Not Polar Berg
Sent Titanic TO Bottom of the Sea

no way in which to account for the un-
usual number Of bergs that have i'm
perilled vessels in the north Atlantic
lately. Neither the unusual severity of
the winter, which caused ice of extraor,
binary thickness 10 form all along the
coast Of New Foundland. nor the gales
that have swept those coasts during the
latter part of the winter and the early
spring, can be held altogether respon-
sible, as equally severe winters and gales
of as great intensity have been expert
enced in past years without causing any
such number of icebergs.
Whenever an ice field or a berg is re-
ported by any vessel, or from any shore
station, tine photographic Bureau is no-
titled and at once sends out official warn
ings, giving the approximate size of the
berg its longitude and latitude, and the
rate of its apparent drift.
In this memberships at sea, equipped
with wireless, are enabled 10 know in
advance Of the approach of an iceberg
or the far more dangerous submerged
ice masses called ice fields The unheard-
of number of these bergs and fields this
spring, however, has hamPered the work
Of the bureau, for the reason that the
floating mountains of ice were of such
frequent occurrence as TO render it al
most impossible TO keep track Of them.
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

WASHINGTON, April IL "Was
Capt Smith of the Titanic warned that
there were icebergs in his pathg" is the
question asked at the United States
photographic Office. If he had been so
warned the experts say, he probably
would have taken extra precautions and
so would not have driven his ship TO de-
struction.
Capt. Charles A. McAlhster, engineer
in-chief of the revenue cutter service, to-
day expressed the belief that the mass
which sent the Titanic 10 the bottom
was a salt water iceberg and not a polar
berg of glacial formation He pointed
out that the ratio of ice above water in
such az iceberg IS only oHe-nihth Of its
bulk; in other words with only nine feet
visible, there would be eighty-one feet of
solid rock hard ice submerged
The fact that there is an unusual field
of large icebergs in the steamship lane
has been known on both sides of the At
lantic for several days. the news having
been flashed to shore by several steam
ships that narrowly escaped striking
these dreaded submerged objects Daily
the photographic office has sent out
maritime notices calling attention 10 the
unusual number Of icebergs in the At
lantic this spring
photographer Knapp said that there is
Evening journal., 1912-04-17
Accommodations For Only 1171 PersOns on Ships LebOafs

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE White
Star Company's office at Liverpool re-
ports by cable that the lifeboat equip
ment of the Titanic was the same as
that of the Olympic-twenty boats.
This information comes in answer to
cable request from the United States
Government.
According to an examination made of
the Olympic at New York by the United
States Steamboat Inspection Service,
the capacity and life-saving equipment
of that vessel is as follows
Gross tonnage, $4,000 tons.
Passenger capacity, 1924 persons.
Crew, 923 persons.
Liieboats, 20.
Life preservers, 3,A55.
Life buoys, 4s.
Total lifeboat capacpity, LII persons.
/ Of the twenty lifeboats four are Of
the collapsible type.
There are practically no differences
between the laws of the United States,
Great Britain Germany and France as
to the life-saving appliance requirements
for ocean steamships, according to a
statement made today at the Office of
Supervising Inspector General Uhler of
the Steamboat Inspection Service.
The laws OF each of the three foreign
countries named are out OF date because
they have not been amended in much de-
tail since the yards began TO turn out
vessels exceeding 10000 tons in size and
weight.
Under the United States revised stat
utes passenger ships must be provided
with "such numbers of lifeboats, floats,
RATS, life preservers, line-carrying
proiectiles and the means of propelling
them, and drags as will best secure the
safety OF all persons on board such ves-
sci in case of disaster
The specific requirements as TO life
boats for the steamships of from $50 TO
10000 gross tonnage are as follows;
A vessel of $50 tons shall have life
boats to carry "a persons.
For each additional 500 gross tons
there shall be an added lifeboat capac-
ity of not less than i0.5 persons. The
capacity OF lifeboat is figured in cubic
feet, ten cubic feet being calculated for
each person.
The United States law Just noted
works out at toHnages as follows;
A ship of 5000 tons must have life
boats for 3s7 persons.
A ship of 10000 tons must have life
boats for sl4 persons.
ship OF $4,000 tons must have life
boats for 1899 persons
ship of 10000 tons must have life.
boats for l.2i2 persons
United States Rule in Titanic Case
BY a regulation of the United States
Steamship Inspection Service i'm fore,
January. 1911, vessels OF over 10000
gross tons shall be provided with an ad
ditional lifeboat capacity of 225 cubic
feet 1925 personsl for each additiona
800 gross tons or fraction thereof.
Under this rule the Titanic, If she haC
been under the American law, would
have had to have lifeboat capacity oN
1920 plus $4,000 cubic feet, or $50.
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

and his daughter Helen, who were re-
turning from tour of Egypt; James
Lamb, a theatrical man. who had been
on three menths' tour abroad, and
Harry sullivan.
Edward A. Kent was one of the lead
ing architects of Buffalo, \. y.
Is Multi Millionaire.
Walter d. Douglas. of Minneapolis,
who was with his wife. is a multi-mil-
lionaire and with his brother is owner
of what is said TO be one of the largest
starch manufactures in the world at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr.. aud Mrs. John
Pillsbury Snyder, prominent in Mime
apolis, who left in January on their
honeymoon trip to Europe, also were re-
turning on the Titanic.
percival " White vas = Msssscha
setts cotton manufacturer. Friends at
Brunswick, Maine, say that he was ac-
companied by his son, Richard +. White,
a senior at Bowdoin College, and not by
Percival W. White, Jr., as was first re-
ported.
Mrs. George n. Stone, of Cincinnati,
was returning from year in Europe and
Egypt with relatives. She is the widow
of a former president of the local Bell
Telephone Company.
Ernest Crease and Roland Stanley
were returning TO Cleveland after an alb
sence Of several years abroad. They have
not been accounted for.
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

later when the travelling public are not
SO iastidious about going up and down
stairs, and when they do not require to
walk practically more than half the
length of the ship without opening a
door, aud when the Board of Trade
makes it compulsory not to have any
watertight compartments open either in
the hold or between decks between sun
Set and sunrise, then, aud not till then,
enormous amount of risk in ships may
and can be eliminated If the points as
TO the closing of the watertight com
partment doors and the carrying of
boats are carried out, the public viii be
so per cent safer
IL am of the opinion that the large
ships of the present day do not carry
anything like sufficient number OF
boats. but until the Board of Trade and
the Governments of other countries re-
quire sufficient boats TO be carried, ship
owners cannot afford such extra top
weight
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

passengers OF course. they do not
really say this, but their action in block
ing efforts to compel them to carry a
sufficient number of boats is equivalent
to such a statement.
Should Garry More Boats.
"Tkere is no doubt that the big liners
should be compelled by raw to carry
enough boats to take care of all pas.
sengers and members of their crews.
The United States, however, has no
jurisdiction over British vessels and
cannot compel them to be so equipped" !"
Chairman Alexander of the House
Committee on Merchant Marine stated
today that his committee would at once
get to work on legislation to prevent, il
possible, any more ocean disasters due
to inadequate lifeboat facilities.
"Ihere appears TO be no doubt" said
Representative Alexander. chat the Ii
tanic did not have enough lifebosts to
take care of her passengers let alone her
crew. The disaster directs attention to
the serious defect in the laws if they do
not require ships to carry ample life
boats for such emergencies as this
"There is no need for ships as big as
the Titanic. They are more liable to
accidents than ships OF ordinary size
that can be handled in an emergency
with greater care. The fact, too, that
the larger ships carry so many more
passengers is an argument against their
construction, since in case of their sink
ing the loss OF life is so much greater,
In truth, these monster ships are
subject to peculiar hazards, SO that in
the event of an accident the results
may be most appalling on account OF
their difficulty of navigation This was
shown before in the accident occurring
to the sister ship Olympic not long ago
in the English Channel and emphasizes
the fact that this catastrophe ought to
put stop to the building Of such
leviathans"
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

persons, as against a lifeboat capacity
of LII persons, if her boats were no
bigger than those of the Olympic
Alexander Carlisle, the designer of the
Titanic and Olympic, is quoted from
London today as asserting that the I'll.
tanic had so per cent. more lifeboat ca.
pacity than was required by the rules
of the English Board OF Trade. which, in
the absence of specific Parliamentary
laws, govern in such matters.
The American law provides that not
more than one-third of the lifeboat ca =
pacity on any vessel may be substituted
by its equivalent in approved life RATS,
or approved collapisible (foldng) life
boats
There must be one good life preserver
for each person aboard ship.
Supervising lnspector-General Uhler
said today:
ANY liner with large number OF
passengers, meeting with such disas.
ter as the one that sent the Titanic tc
the bottom, would take down with it a
large proportion of It's passengers and
crew, simply because its lifeboat and
the life raftscapacity could not care fol-
them, though it is true that all steam.
ers OF whatever size are compelled tc
carry life preservers enough to give
one TO each person on board in case ol
accident But preseryers are OF little
use in case such as that of the tt
tanic
In the case of the big liners the life
boat capacity is not rated according tc
the number of persons the boat can ac
eommodate, but according to the YES
sells tonnage.
Small vessels, those rating under
10000 tons, carry lifeboat equipment
adequate to care for both passenger.
and crew. The big ships do not. anc
make no pretense of doing so. Their
owners say, in effect, If you compel u:
to carry enough boats we cannot carry
Evening journal., 1912-04-17
Says Titanic Had Room For
Many More Lifeboafs

LONDON, April 1.-THE Titanic had
davits for four times as many lifeboats
as she actually carried, according to
statement made today by Alexander Car
Isle, designer of the Titanic and Olym-
pic.
AS a matter of fact he said, "both
the Titanic and the Olympic were fitted
with davits designed for and capable of
carrying four times the number of boats
actually fitted in the ships when they
went TO sea Although large margin
was then left. / think am correct in.
saying that the Titanic carried 95 per
cent over the number of boats required
by the Board of Trade rules The Board
should make It compulsory TO close the
watertight compartment doors of ships
between sunset and sunrise"
Mr.. Carlisle said he believed the ice
berg tore the side out of the Titanic. and
he sdded
Il have little doubt that sooner or
Evening journal., 1912-04-17
Wealthy Men 90 Down TO
Death When Titanic Hits

sportsman, whose wife was Miss Mabel
Swift, daughter of E. C. Swift, the Chi
cago meat packer, and Charles NJ. HAYS.
president OF the Grand Trunk Pacific
and vice-president and general manager
of the Crank Trunk Railway of Can
ada. Mr. Thayer was accompanied bv
his wife and young son.
#. w. Cavendish, of England, with
his American wife, who is the daughter
of Henry Siegel, the New York mer-
chant, were first cabin passengers.
Christopher Head is "a London barris.
ter and son of the senior member of the
firm of Lloyds, underwriters.
Noted French Sculptor.
Paul Chevre, the well-known French
sculptor, who made the Champlain
Monument, was in the first cabin on his
way TO Canada TO complete the MercieI
memorial.
James Cliner Smith, a hrother-in- law
of the late Stanford White. is well
known in New York society circles. He
married Miss Bertha Barnes, of Chicago
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Ryerson, their two
daughters and a son, of Philadelphia
were returning to attend the funeral OF
another son, Arthur l.. Ryerson, Yale
student, who was killed in an automo-
bile accident last week.
T. ID. NJ. Cardeza, a wealthy sports
man and biggame hunter, and his
mother, Mrs. J. w. NJ Cardeza. of Ger
mantown, are widely konwn in Philadel.
phis William @ Dal!es, whose country
home is in Goshen, n. Y; Mrs Thomas
Potter, Jr., and her daughter, Mrs. Boul-
ton Earnshaw, were other passengers
from the Quaker City.
c. Duane Williams and his son, Rich
ard Norris Williams, from Geneva. Swift
zerland, We're on their way TO visit rela-
tives in Philadelphia.
Robert w. Daniel, a member of a
banking firm in Philadelphia, made his
home in the Southern Club.
Missionary Returning Home.
Mrs. A. o. Becker was en- route TO
Springfield. Ohio, from the missionary
fields in India. with her three children.
She is daughter Of j. A. Baumgardner,
Of that city.
Young Heiress Saved.
Miss Georgette Nadill is one of st.
Louis youngest heiresses. She is Is
years old. BY an order of court a year
ago she was awarded an annual 'pin
money allowance of $500 10 pay for
her clothing and education until she be-
comes of age. Miss Madill is the prin.
cipal heir of Judge George A. Madill
who Is a prominent banker of this city,
-Four Providence Or. H. persons are
known to have been passengers on the in.
lated Titanic. They include f. c. Ostby
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

Untold wealth was represented among
the passengers of the Titanic. there be-
ing on board at least six men each of
whose fortunes might be reckoned in
tens of millions of dollars. A rough os-
innate Of the total wealth represented
in the first-class passenger list would
reach over half billion dollars.
Tho wcalthiest OF the list is Col. John
Jacob Astor, head of the famous house
whose name he bears, who is reputed to
be worth $l50,O0O000. Mr.. Astor was
returning from a tour of Egypt with
his bride, who was Miss Madeline Force,
10 whom he was married in Providence
on September Q. Nrs. Astor was res
sued, but the Colonel probably went
down.
Benjamin Guggenheim, probably next
IN financial Importance, is the fifth OF
the seven sons of Myer Guggenheim,
who founded the American Smelling
and Refining Company, the great min
ing corporation, and is a director of
many corporations, including the INTER
national Steam Pump Company, of
which he is alSp president. His for
tune is estimated at $95,000,000. His
WIFE whose name does not appear on
Rhe passenger list, is the daughter of
James Seligman, the New York banker.
Big Traction Magnate.
George ID. Widener. is the son of p. A.
B. Widener, the Philadelphia Traction
king whose fortune is estimated at
$4,000 600 He is a widely known finan-
cier and sportsman and was returning
with his wife and sun from Europe,
where they had gone for the purpose of
purchasing a bridal trosseau for their
laughter.
Isidor Straus, one of New Yorb's most
prominent dry goods merchants and
notable for his philanthropies, has a for
tune also estimated to be worth $50
100000 He is a director in various
banks. trust companies and charitable
Institutions.
Founder Of Company There.
j. Bruce lsmay, president and founder
Of the International Mercantile Marine,
who has always made it a custom TO be
a passenger on the maiden trip of every
new ship built by the company, IS said
to be worth S40O00O0O. It was MIR.
lsmay who, with j. P. Morgan, consoli.
dated American and British steamship
Inns under the International Mercan-
tile Marines control
Col. Washington Roebling, builder OF
The Brooklyn Bridge, president and di.
rector OF John A. Roebling's Sons Co. il
credited with a fortune OF 81, 600
Second Vice-P President Of Pennsy.
Among others of reputed wealth VIII,
we're on board are j. P. Thayer secon,
vice president OF the Pennsylvania Rail
road; Clarence Moore, well-knowi
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

temperature Of the air sometimes in
dicates the presence of an iceberg but
the berg may sometimes be approach
ed without any such fall being noted
The same is true Of changes in the
temperature Of the water, and when
such changes are noted they are often
observed too late to serve as a warn
ing. There have been numerous known
collisions with icebergs in which the
Evening journal., 1912-04-17

NEW YORK, April 17.-Icebergs,
which are uncharted and move from
place to place. are a danger TO navi-
cation against which the skill Of man
has proved fuile Various inventions
have been made with a view Of en-
abling the navigating officers OF a
ship to know II they are approaching
an iceberg. but none of these has
proved certain. A sudden fall in the
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Ser Mihter, Der @ngeflagte, Der
Me6tspraftifant, Die 4lagerin
Ser @eri1tsotener.