The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-21

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 Bride was closely questioned as tc the first call for aid sent out by the Titanic. He said the first vessel to answer was the Frankfurt, of the North German Lloyd line. The op orator on the Frankfurt according to the witness, apparently considered the call more or less trivial, for half an hour after receiving the imperative appeal of the sea, he called the ri tanic to inquire specifically just what was wrong.
 "Mr Phillips said he was a fool, 2 Bride testified, referring to the chief operator on the Titanic, who lost his life, and told him to keep out"
 No effort was made to re-establish communication with the Frankfurt all though Phillips felt certain the yes sel was much nearer than the Car pathia, with which communication had been established This, Bride said, Phillips judged by reason of the greater power of the Hertsiaa waves.
 MT. Smith expressed astonishment at the statement. He repeatedly 
 pressed the witness to answer why the aid of a vessel many miles nearer a sinking ship was not invoked. Bride eyaded a direct answer by saying he did not know. that probably the Frankfurt's operator could not under stand Phillips, his superior, had used his own judgment
 Another phase of the laxity of the wireless, so far as man is concerned, was developed by the chairman He drew from the witness an acknowl- edgment that on Sunday evening. Bride was sitting, the telephonic ap- paratus strapped to his ears, adjust ing his accounts, while the steamship Californian, seeking to warn the ri tanic that icebergs were invading the lanes of ocean travel, called inces- sanity Bride said he heard the call but did not answer because he was "busy."
 It was not until half hour later that the Californian. striving to reach the steamship Baltic, also reached the Titanic. whereupon the warning that three huge icebergs had been sighted was noted by Bride and verbally com. municated to the liners captain.
 Senator Smith established by Gug- lielmo Marconi, inventor of the wire less system bearing his name, that both the Titanic and the Frankfurt operated virtually the same type of in. struments. In the opinion of the in ventor there existed no reason why communication between the two ves- sells should not have been perfect, provided weather conditions were fla vorable. The night, it previously had been established, was clear and there was no fog of other atmospheric tiis- turbances.
 Under insistent questioning, Bride began to show signs of collapse, so Senator Smith ended the wireless in quisition and questioned him about the final scenes aboard the Titanic.
 Bride and his superior, Phillips, were among the last to leave and were witnesses of the closing scenes on the boat deck, the topmost parade deck of the lost ship. Brides story was fragmentary because it was drawn from a memory that had not ceased to see the actual living horror of it. Without Senator Smiths in, terrogations, it ran about as follows:
 We didn't feel the shock when the ship struck. In fact, l was asleep at the time and was not even awak- ened by the impact. When the en- zines stopped Mir Phillips called me and put on the telephone apparatus, wnhe ne went out to see what was the trouble. A little later he came back. He said things looked queer By queer I suppose he meant every thing was not as it should be.
 At this time. however, neither of us worried about it.
 When he heard the confusion went out to investigate and when l returned I found Phillips sending out COD call giving our position. We raised the Frankfort first and then the Carpathia and the Baltic. As have said we didn't try for the Frankfurt for any length of time, but concentrated our messages on the Car pathia, which had answered that she was rushing to our aid.
 "The captain came into the wireless cabin from the deck when the Car pathia advised us of her position and figured out the time when that vessel