The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-04-24
ISMAY GRI[LED
BY SENATORS
Warned of Ice, White Star Line
| cad Said: I'VE Will Go Faster
ARR0GANTLY DEFIED DANGER
Unwarranted Belief That Ship Was
Unslnkable, Reckless Navigation
and Wonderful Calm After I'M
pact Brought Out at Hearing.

New York City.-Without vast
ing a minute the subcommittee of the
U. S. Senate Committee on Com
merce got down to business in its in
vestigation into the Titanic disaster.
President over by Senator William AL.
den Smith, a lawyer of note of Michi-
gan, the inquiry began at the Waldorf.
Astoria.
The remarkable and unwarranted
faith OF Captain +. j. Smith and his
junior officers in the unsuitable char
acter of the Titanic, the recklessness
OF navigating the Titanic at full speed
in view of the advices that there were
icebergs in the vicinity and the won
derful calm which prevailed among
passengers and officers after the col.
lision-these were the salient facts
brought out.
]. Bruce Ismay, William Marconi
and Second Officer Lightoller of the
Titanic were witnesses before the Sen
ate committee investigating the dis
aster. From Ismay and Lightoller
was drawn, reluctantly the admission
that the Titanic was going at almost
her maximum speed when she hit the
iceberg, that Captain Smith had been
warned of the presence of bergs, but
that the speed was not slackened in
the least.
J. Bruce lsmay was the first witness
called, and was not fortunate in the
impression he made on the committee
and others present That Mr. Ismay
had been concerned chiefly with his
own safety seemed TO be generally
suspected.
Ismay seemed to feel the antagonis.
tic atmosphere. He sat in the extreme
corner surrounded by his business as
sociates. With him were two private
detectives, who have been assigned as
his bodyguard since the Carpathia got
in and who are never away from his
side.
Mr. Ismays manner on the stand
was constrained. He was plainly i'll
at ease. Whatever good may have
been in the impression he made seem.
ed to be wiped out b.. the damaging
statement made later by Lightoller
that the first man he saw on the boat
deck three minutes after the Titanic
struck was Ismay standing alone.
Major A. G. Peuchen said that J.
Bruce Ismay, managing director OF the
line, had laughingly told woman pas
senger that the ice warning, so far
from keeping the Titanic back, would
only cause her increase her speed, SC
as to get more quickly out of the ice
field.
Other criticisms of Mr.. Ismay by
passengers on the Carpathia who OBJ
served his conduct after he was res
cued, and by landsmen, were numer-
Gus. 1t was learned that he occupied
the doctors cabin on board the Car
pathia, denied himself to all inquirers
and caused the report TO be spread
that a sick woman was in the cabin on
whose door appeared the notice.
Don't knock"
Major Arthur Peuchen, OF the
Queens Rifles Of Toronto. Canada,
made this statement at the Waldorf
Astoria:
81. Bruce Ismay knew of the pres
ence of icebergs, but afrogantly disre-
garded the danger of them.
And when the Titanic was every
instant facing the possibility of run
ming into an ice mountain, Mr.. Ismay
was dining with Captain Smith-both
of them in evening clothes-in a lower
saloon, when the Captain, at least,
should have been at his post of duty
on the bridge"
Lightoller, second officer OF Titanic,
admitted that he knew of the ship re-
ceiving a message on Sunday warning
Captain Smith of ice.
Marconi talked of the work of wire
less and intimated that only economi-
cal reasons prevented all passenger
vessels having an operator constantly
on duty.
Captain Restrain and Wireless Oper
ator Cottam OF the Carpathia denied
receiving a message from President
Taft.
William T. Stead the writer, Is sup.
posed to have perished in his state
room. President Hays was seen on
the deck just before the last boat left
the doomed ship.
Senator Rayner of Maryland ar
raigned ]. Bruce Ismay and the direct.
ors of the White Star Line as criminal
ly responsible for the loss of the Ii.
tanic.
In various hospitals and charitable
institutions are 204 survivors of the
Titanic, some i'll, practically all desti-
tute.
Two of the sailors of the Titanic
confirmed the report that men who
tried to rush the lifeboats were shot.
Revised reckoning of the Titanic
disaster statistics resulted in the Off
cial announcement that only 705 per-
sons were rescued, and that 1885 met
death. The new figures were given
out by w. w. Jeffries, passenger traf-
fic manager of the White Star line.
The 705 survivors, as announced by
Jeffries, consist of 2O2 first cabin pas
sengers, 115 second cabin, 17S steer.
age officers and 2o6 of the crew. Of
those saved almost third were mem
bers of the ships company