Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-19

steps to have the measure given aid
from this city. AS he received the
communication this forming he fail
ed to find time to act In the matter
up to noon.
kilograms have been received
from thirty-eight out of forty-nine
mayors In New York state, stating
they were in favor of the measure,
which has been introduced in the
senate and House Of Representa-
tives and is now pending in con-
gress. 1t provides that vessels of
5000 gross tons and over, carrying
passengers, shall not clear from a
port in the United States until there
shall have been advertised: the
number of passengers the vessel is
licensed to carry; the number Of
persons It usually carries oAher than
passengers, and the number Of per-
sons for the intended accOmmOda-
ton of whom it is provided with life
boats or life RATS. The letters are
sigend by w. P. Capes, secretary of
the conference.
Sister of TottenyiiIe Woman, Home.
Miss Mary Davis, a sister of Mrs.
Austin Langford, Of Sprague avenue
T~ottenyille, arrived at her sisters
home last night after two days and
two night of suffering on board the
.Carpathia. by which she was rescued
from a life boat OF the Inflated Ii
tanic. which settled to a watery
grave early Monday morning. Miss
Davis was met at the Cunard docks
last night by her brother-in-law. who
found her suffering from cold. grief
and recollection OF the frightful
scenes on board the Titanic on that
fatal day. The suffering woman, i'll
from exposure, collapsed in her SIS
ter's arms when she reached Totem
willie and today was forced to decline
to receive visits from sympathetic
friends and relatives Of the Langford
family.
Miss Davis was helped into a life
boat by the heroes on board the Ii
tanic, and was allowed no time in
which to become properly clothed,
She wore a night dress and scat
when rescued by the Carpathia. The
four hours OF vigil floating on the
Atlantic in a little row boat seriously
undermined Miss Davis condition, II
Is thought, and a doctor was called
last evening to the LangfOrd home.
Her statement OF the conditions on
biard the huge liner after the COLI
sion with the iceberg c~orrobOrate the
re]collections of many other passen-
gers, as reported. 1t is Miss Davis
first visit to America from England,
her home country.
Mr.. ONenham Greets Brother.
Theodore Oxenham, Of Pleasant
Plains. S. l.. was at the Cunard
dock last night when the Carpathia
landed and greeted his brother,
Thomas, with a loving embrace.
Thomas was euroute to America from
England on the Titanic and was
saved in o miraculous manner, he de-
clares. He said that he stood by the
rail after collision and assisted the
women and children to the life boats,
After they were shipped safely away.
he was pushed by the frantic men
through the guard rail into the sea.
He came up along side a boat and
was pulled aboard. For six hours
and n hall he assisted in rowing and
keeping the boat above the surface.
and was rewarded by rescue. He will
visit his brother Charles at New Dun
ham for the present and later spend
a week at Pleasant Plains.
Mrs. Meyer Frustrated With Grief.
Mrs. Edgar J. Meye and baby, the
former a cousin of William Hook
heimer. of this city, was among the
rescued on board the Carpathia when
it landed last night IN New York.
Mrs. Meyer sem word 70 Mr.. Hook
heicer this morning thai sac is near
lily prostrsted with grief over the loss
of her husband, who stayed with the
pheroes on board the doomed IT.
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