Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-28
SAYS THE TITANIC FAILED
TO GIVE EXACT POSITION
Capt. Moore of Mount Temple Terms
Liners Speed "Most Unwise."
ICE BARRED RESCUE SHIPS
All Held Factors in Loss of Ship and
Passengers by Witnesses at SEN
ate Inquiry-Seamen,
Broke" Given Money.

Among the developments OF the
hearing before the Senate commit
tee investigating the Titanic dis
aster yesterday afternoon was the
fact that Sunday evening, the
night before the accident, Frank
D. Millet and Clarence Moore
of Washington dined together.
Frederic Ray, a steward, testified
he served Mr.. Millet, Mr.. Moore
and Maj. Butt in the saloon, but
that on that Sunday night Maj.
Butt did not dine in the saloon,
but in the cafe.
Roy testified he saw Mr.. Moore
in the smoking room once after
the accident, but that he saw
neither Moore, Millet nor Maj.
Butt at the boats when the pas
sengers were leaving the doomed
ship.
Failure to give her exact posi-
ton, a great field of floating ice
that offered a frigid barrier to
ships hurrying to the rescue and
the mistake of her own captain
in rushing at top speed through
an ice-covered sea-allthese, colnA
.bined to send the Titaac and -
.boo ,xiiienins to thsaf watSfY
IA wes.sins the North Atlantic.
This was strongly indicated YES
terday in. the testimony. :.
aTitanic's Speed Most Unwise."
Capt James H. Moore Of tho steamer
Mount Temple. which SEas hurried to. the
sTitSuic in response ytU,wireless calls for
help. told Of the great stretch OF fieid fee i
which held him off. Within his view: froirs!
the bridge he discerned, he said. another
strange steamer. probably. a .'trampsnxHd :
"a schooner, which was Slnaling sher.:S
iou< :. Of = the -ice. The lights .eof af1a
ihoss SEEN ny tfis sAf fious ssurviS ofss @ 81
the Tit tanic, and which2tley. were franti-
Capt: Moore denounced, as ''most .un-
wise" the action OF the ntanic's COM
mander in rushing at twenty knots
through the night. when he had been ad-
Mount Temples conmagder testified that
he had spent Invent y. seven years, In the
North, Atiantie - sNz5sneyeI Ice was
sns snsuns 1sduasd ss sps sssn
get caaght in an fceipack he: stoppedshfs
engines and drifted tantil he was clear .
The witness also was emphatic inEhis
the esTitanic was wrong. He.said. .ihe SHIP,
was. eight miles farther eastward than ITS
operators reported. This, he 'deciafed,
he proved by observations taken the fffSt :
thing on the day following the DISASTER
Mistake a Fatal One.
With what virtually was fleet of ),
steamers within radius Of fifty miles OF
the Titanic. the officer said that this mis-
take in fixing accurately the position Of
the doomed ship was II fatai one. with
1cehergs and flowingAice covering tie
hoIthern sea, "a ship 3of even the size i,of
Through such "a variaaS
BRUCE .Ismay.; fharasing director
Kson1pany. was much icKeered;s.by the
Testimony of the afternoof ThEough-
iio,it.- the week he has .had. l1as troubled
aeoks and during the 'longstda!fyp s&s-r
siSns sssa,ns ne, I he; hss ,ssas,, So. isl si,en
PANIED HIM. Today. however. helistened
,eagerly to the accounts of his 6n3uct>at,
'thes1lfeboats. as told by the, stewards and
ssVanlen who came In contact with him, t1Afs.
,I'sgass of. the disaster ; His eyes fairsys
he had called for women. to go in ones sof
and had said tosa woman who
told him sheswas stewArdess, Fou Sare, I,
q woman; take your place in the boat?
:searnen, Broke" aGet MONEY; :.
sIsmaN listened intently, too. as stAe.
steward Bright. testified that, he shad -nats-
left lie ship until after ali thesiafge liitssst>
boatsshad gone and only; one of two .col-ss>
1apshHe boats were left fon deck. Bright
had Heen Ismay' working withs the others
starboard ,scoilapsible beat 5heS:.
last IN Isaye the. Snip from that side
Bragsts, 4ho left on the very last fboaf. & :.
thesp ppF Sonapsible. said he knew: Ismay- s
had not left the ship untn just before.t the
ptlS&x Sllapsible was lowered Into the :,
wate> htt6pe.to get onlysa hundred yards =
from.t Titanic before she.went- down. :
~Af6sr TIE session was over the Scotrider :
In TIE. Ssnate office buildings near the
colfIh4te9f was eroWdedswfth anG. /.
loiS S116f of the T1tanic;s.Hho have
been at..the call of the ,eohnfl ttee sfnces
therrescues ship Capathia brn4gf1t them
to- New York. They. were a nervous ,lpi..
lnthct,.tRey were broke. Notybetng per-
leave. they faceds the prospect
of. p SattTuay night and Suaday without
funds! Most of them are mehs Of families >
1esifostesSof sending word slffme. Mrsi:s:
[smax kpew of their. circlpstapces, ana 81;
asksH Senator Smith iflsMn4thang eoutt Z
iot be. 6oneefor them. TAeg eEes sntitl6dp
o. s4sxsaay in witness tees expenses,
,ut no;spreparation has bSak. l6ade. TO-.
pay them until they arr d6ae ~
! -fftit is too late to @ax ToHS fegy the.,.
lejlutanen." Mr.. IsmAE decId58oesI II cam
ZEE that It is advanced.,. - =.
Finally Assistant EEL :. Axans