The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-19
THE SEA TRAGEDY.

The Titanic was sacrificed Devil Of Record; She was al
new ship the best that could devise and she had been
required make specie? test OF speed ow OFTEN a' ' accounts
for many historic tragedies and horrors especially IN n"'
The speed issue on the Atlantic route OF travel began
the first dewheeer OF which Were never neata iro
T President which vanished forever among Newfoundland ogs
anf f s b I tbe "propeers" which were to sgnaze
Of speed That greyhound OF the seas the Ivy II %
of the liner again In later years the largest
White Star freight then built her maiden voyage to
freight could be taken over to America he only
of her days lonely rowboa tossing on the c
the sea- which every of human occupants had vanished
The bones of the Naronc may he near where the Titanic went
OF other vessels sacrificed amid the peri foggy North
Atlantic the mooc Of records was the White Star liner an'
French liner Sank off the same coast by collision l808 going down
with 500 lives Her line then in speed competition with the Ws
La Bourgone shaped to the graveyard OF the
On land as well as sea the sacrifice of life for record
gone steadily load history with proof by citation
may himself the lives that lost in the early bicycle
races and IN contests between automoDIeS IG - w th
the record flights OF aao are marked IN the heCoSy u es
immediate days by the tale OF disaster 1t all tor speed
The most impressive vision had by the survivors wreck
OF the Titanic was perhaps sight of the ship going down with
the captain officer standing mterngy the bridge
Many repeons of have sened the effect of the in
divdua heroim shown Captain Hendon standing alone on the
quarterback OF the lost Pacific Mail steamer Central America before
was only type had long been familiar in the annals of
steamship who saved himself and let his passengers drown we re-
call the of such and lives he is the scored
No doubt the band Titanic did its best turn the minds
passengers the canness of resignation, while its members
upon the sinking and sopng deck for such things
unprecedented Did the ships of the sinking
British oopshp Brknead its sepuher singing God
Save the Queen Did the of German gunboa sunk off
the Shanung promonoy few form in line the
sing Watch the Rhine and cheer the with
all occasions like these the world has
pest that the of discipline will do their duty.
What will be the legislative effect calamity? Will in
ternaona require all passenger ships plying between Europe
North America follow southern and thus abate the
pers of Newfoundland ogs and cebeg What it if tre
time lost? The world got along well with months
sailing voyages between the continents easily stood three
voyages by An eight day trip
few years ago. did stop the wheels of traffic Is necessary
that should any nearly roaroad time? Will
the cable and the wireless may business between Europe
America be done without and peril
Suppose the best steamship should week the passage be
Liverpool Queenstown and New York-what then
Would anything be lost which is worth skng human life for il
the mass? Paraments and consider these question:
1t is time.
few ago the Titanic would have had its told
Carpatha would have that she had pae
close burial of the OF the souls gone that boun
from which traveller returns the world would have had na
record But for the wireless that payng passengers
greatest ife-savng age
and children escaped the Titanic wreck and all the passenger
might have done the impact with the iceberg had been
meday fatal For those who spared from DEATH
give thanks the Providence that lighted the spark genius
mind of Marcon well lowered the hearts and souls of
of the Titanic with the sublime attribute of courage