Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-19

move her from her stolid, fearless
virgil.
Among the dead is John S. March. OF
S. Emmett street, Newark, mail super
%intendent on the Titanic. He went
down at his place in the liners post
office. dying with the heroism that has
always been displayed by those who
guard the United States mails. He
was formerly on the Olympic, but, with
others, was transferred to the new
White Star liner.
A few days g r. j. O'Crowley, OF
1162 Broad street, received a picture
postal card, on which was written:
Hello. Joe-Kind regards to your
self and family. I expect to be home
April Is. Your friend,
~. s. MARCH"
Above was written. 81 s. Olympic,
London. April 8. 1872"
William Hull Botsford, 26 years old,
an architect for the Lackawanna rail-
road, is among the lost. He lived for
two. years at the Y. NJ. G.. A. building,
Orange.
Mr.. Botsford went to Paris with a
party of business men. He was not
expected by his friends in Orange to
return for a month or more. Neverthe-
less he wrote to one of them that he
would surprise them all by coming
home Unexpectedly. He was a graduate
Of Cornell. Three years ago he held
the Eastern Y. NJ. G. A. wrestling
championship, and last year he was the
captain of the wrestling team.
After searching in vain through the
lists Of the survivors for her brother
Jonathan, who was the third assistant
engineer on the steamer, Miss Frances
Shepherd, 10 South Twelfth street,
went to the o1sces of the Whate Star
Steamship COMPANY today in a last
attempt to learn something definite.
He may be among those who are
unknown said Miss Shepherd, "and I
cannot rest until / have exhausted
every possibility of finding him. If he
has persisted with the others | want to
know 1t and end this awful suspense.
To think of him dying out there with
out.any burial service is more thar I
can bear. / must find out what the
White Star people are going to do"
Mrs. Lillian Reniff, of 21b Florida
street, Elizabeth, one of two persons
of 4 party of eight, who included her
husband and two brothers, to be saved
from the Titanic, is half-crazed with
grief today at her home and spends
her time weeping, refusing absolutely
to be consoled.
Mrs. Reniff was asleep when the
crash came and was awakened only
when her husband pulled her from the
bed. and, rolling her in a blanket,
pushed her into a 1ifeboat. That was
the last she saw of her husband, Peter
II. Remit, and she had no opportunity
10 see either of her brothers. Clifford
and Ernest Jeffrey. all three of whom
went To their death.
Tie other member of the party who
WAS saved is Miss Emily Rugg. OF
Wilmington, Del.
w. Anderson Walker was wo.shipful
master of Hope Lodge. r. and \. NJ,
of East Orange. He lived at n East
Park street, East orange. and was
w~ell-known for his ho~rsslnanship. Two
a ago Mr.. Walker. while horseback
riding, was thrown and seriously i'm
iured.
Mr.. Walker was - years ole. He was
connected with a rubber goods firm in
New York, and it had been his custom
to make frequent trips to Europe for
the firm. He was born in England and
is said to have always retained his
allegiance To that country. He left this
country on his last business trip
March 30.
Many of the lost. who did not them
selves live in New Jersey, had friends
or relatives in this State.
Charles Melville Hays, president OF
the Grand Trunk railway, of Montreal,