Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-24
ASMAY ASKS 10
 BE RELEASED But Senate Investigating Committee Decides to Hold
 Him For a While.
Cries and MOans of Those Who Per- ished on the Titanic Too
 Much For Witnesses.


 i marine binoculars, costing at the most i 535 men, women and children, who 63o men, wOme nan dchildren, who perished when the Titanic went down. They told me there wouldn't be any glasses testified Lookout Fleet who sighted the iceberg from the crows nest of the doomed vessel when he was asked about them before the Special Senate Committee today.
 Could Have Seen Iceberg.
 eff we had them we could have seen the iceberg quite a bit sooner. Time enough to have cleared it.
 J. Bruce Ismay, sat within two feiet of the witness when this testimony was given, scowled savagely at him, but Fleet continued his story He said that he had always had glasses on the ocean. Poor ones, but of suf ficient power to be of help in seeing ahead. Glasses had been furnished the Lookout till the ship left South amption, then when they asked for them they were told that there were none and would be none for the voy- age.
 Ismay Unmoved By Testimony.
 Fleets story together with the dreadful narratives of Major Arthur Beuchen, passenger, and Third Of ficer Pittman Arthur Beuchen, pas senger. gave MT. Ismay rather an un- comfortable day But he sat unmoved throughout them all, and even when Peuchen and the officer told of the aw- full chorus of cries and moans that went up when the Titanic sank and continued growing fainter and still more faint for more than an hour while the other lifeboats lay still or pulled away, the chief owner of of the Titanic remained to all appearances unaffected.
 Ismay Asked to Go Home.
 When the hour of adjournment arr rived however, Ismay sought out Chairman Smith and asked permis- sion to go to his Liverpool home.
 My wife is i'll, either I must go home or she will come to me. Il pledge my word as gentleman that I will return whenever you want me. .
 The committee toop up Ismay's ap- peal, but came to no decision tonight. If he is called to the stand tomorrow. he will probably be permitted to re- turn. If he is not, he will have to await his turn, even if he is forced to listen to such stories as those which were told to the committee to- day.
 Gave Warning Too Late.
 Fleet, the outlook, in a dull and un- prepossessing British seaman. His very dullness undoubtedly assisted the truth about the company's parsi- mony to. come out He told of sight, ing the iceberg, so far away that it semed no longer than cable. Big ger and bigger it grew as the, ship rushed upon it, until at last despite the swing to that port that followed his warning to the bridge, the star board bow cashed into it. It stood fifty. feet out of the water, high enough to send shower of ice down on the deck. The glasses that were denied him, he said, would have enabled him to see it quite bit earlier. AS it was. he had hardly time to sound his warn ing. Hardly had the word s"Thank you" come back from the bridge to the crows nest when the ice was tumE- ling goard and the submerged frozen reef was tearing great gaping hole in the vessels bilge.
 Cries of the Doomed.
 Pittman who preceded Fleet on the stand and Major Peuchen, who fol- lowed him, both told in different ways the story of the terrible cries of dis tress that came across the water when the Titanic finally disappeared. Pitt man was calm and matter of fact. One of the lifeboats fell to his charge. a boat loaded with women. He got her safely away from danger of the ships suction. and lay on his oars as she went down.
 First there were loud screams and