Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-30

| nat 'dItHln itOSt1On OF tlle Jar
| pathia acted heroically.
New York, May 2S.-The American to-
day prints the following under a Wash
inSton date: \ scatching arralcnmcnt Of
j. Bruce Ismay and the White Star line
officials in New York, a stern donuncia-
| ton of many members of the "pic>-up'
crew of the Titanic and sweeping charges
| OF incompetency in the management Of
| the line Will he made in the report Of the
special subcommittee appointed to IN
vestgate the Titanic disaster by the Cni-
| ted States Senate
| The report will he given to the Senate
next Tuesday morning. 1t will be sub
mitted by Chairman William Alden Smith
| of Michigan, who has labored almost in
cessantly since the afternoon he was dis
| patched to New York to meet the Car
pathia and begin gathering facts first
hand.
From the instant of his arrival at the
dock up to the completion Of the report
and the speech he is to make on it, Sena-
tor Smith has worked unlntermittently
and effectively. He examined every wit
ness here and in New York exhaustively.
Senator Smith in his speech submitting
the report will ask for legislation to pre-
vent such calamity as the Titanic's.
DOES NOT SPARE ISMAY.
The report spares neither j. Bruce
Ismay nor his subordinates in New York,
whose juggling with the truth after re-
ceiving from Montreal information that
the Titanic had sunk is savagey
criticised
Emphasis is laid on the cruelty of send
ing out such a despatch as that received
by Senator Hughes of New Jersey, whose
daughter was on the Titanic with her
husband, and who was told in cable
gram signed "Whitc star line" that the
Titanic being towed into Halifax.
Direct responsibility for the disaster is
laid Oh captain Smith. 1t IS pointed out
that had he needed the four warnings of
lee sent him by other vessels the lives of
the l.s3l victims would have been saved.
Pointing out that the speed OF the
Titanic just before she struck the ice
berg wa; p l-2 miles an hour, and that
It had been steadily increased after re-
ceiving ice warnings by wireless. the re-
port asserts that the presence on board
of Ismay, the managing director of the
line. and Andrews. the constructor for
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were not. the impact, although equal in
momentum To the impact of the combined
broadsides of - great batteships, being
scarcely felt on the vessel, such was her
giant size and enormous stability
| The report recites that the pickup
crew with which the White Star line
manned the N's"el were u"acq"alh'eu
! with one another ana the!r dutles' lhere
was the utmost CONFUSION When tHe NeS-
! sci struck
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| lectNe ie'i''l ~ 'i'e 'hclne"ts vi Wv
Fessel al''T 'He l'e'erS mao sii" a'o''s
| her sac '"NINT 4 great ho'e III inc s'ai
hoafd n'ee 'hro"sh "h!ch W"'e' was
J pouring at such rate mat a"e sa''N
~ Ie'' "'th'h very IL" "o"'N'
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and perfect the sea "elhs cam WIN 'o
swell CONDITIONS INA, "o"'" nave oe'',
ideal lor t"e sh''"S % "'' ""h"H y" iva -
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| says put VA PERSONS WIRE pay INV Wv.
! OWING 10 'he dls"'S"l'"c" ana "'So''''''
| cohdi'ioh ol 'he ''o"
| FAILURE OF il NOR otflC EMS
snoc,a, stress is laid on the utter fail
uro NJ the tunior officers. who were
amope the first TO leave the ship. u
matt. any effort whatever to rescue
MANY NJ those I'm the water. for whom
roon, might easily have been found in
tho rrehoats
The renort riddles the assertion of
MANY members Of the crew that the sud
| don dron in the temperature. which was
| noted and testified 10 by almost eve.y
witness nIoced under examination, was
M warning of the approacn of ice
| ofrcor r5rh,o,,er sneered when asked
&C. ,ho sudaor co,d was moi an indication
~, i r.,rsod IN cav VIVA, such indi.
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