The Washington times., 1912-04-19
WORKED ALL THE TIME.

we worked all the time. Nothing
went wrong. Sometimes the Carpathia
man sent and sometimes 1 sent. There
was bed in the wireless cabin. l
could sit on 1t and rest my feet while
sending sometimes.
To begin at the beginning, Joined
the Titanic at Belfast. was born at
Nunhead, England, twenty-five years
ago, and Joined the Marconi forces last
July. I first worked on the Hoverford,
and then on the Lusitania. Joined the
Titanic at Belfast"
Asleep When Crash Came.
II didn't have much to do aboard the
Titanic except to relieve Phillips from
midnight until some time in the morn
ing, when he should be through Sleep
ing On the night of the accident. I
was not sending, but was asleep. 1 was
due to be up and relieve Phillips earlier
than usual. And that reminds me--if
1t hadn't been for a lucky thing, we
never could have sent any call for help.
The lucky thing was that the wireless
broke down early enough for us to fix
1t before the accident. We noticed
something wrong on Sunday, and Phil
lips and l worked seven hours to find
It. We found Secretary burned out,
a
before the iceberg was struck.
Phillips said to me as he took the
night shift. You turn in, boy, and get
some sleep, and go up as soon as you
can and give me q chance I'm all done
for with this work Of making repairs
Ihere were three rooms In the wire
less cabin One was a sleeping room,
one dynamo room. and one an ope-
rating room. / took off my clothes and
went to sleep in bed. Then l was con-
sclous OF waking up and hearing Phil
hPS he wss sending sapdi0g to Cape Race read what
remembered how tired he was,
and l got out OF bed without my
clothes on to relieve him. / didn't
It had happened after the Captain had
ever.
Told to Rest.
Il was standing by Phillips telling
him to go to bed when the captain put
his head in the cabin.
We've struck an iceberg the CAP
tain sail. land I'm having an inspec-
ton made to tell what it has done for
us. You better get ready to send out
call for assistance. But don't send
II until I tell you"
The captain went away and In ten
minutes. l should estimate the time,
he came back We could hear a ter
lible confusion outside. but there was
not the least thing to indicate that
ther" was any trouble. The wireless
was working perfectly.
Send the call for assistance Or
IereI the captain, barely putting his
head in the .loor.
Whit call should 1 scnd?' Phillips
The regulation International call
for help Just :hat.'
Then the captain was gone. Phillips
sGsI sSsan At t" i send nd &C C., g cd D He flashed
80: All of us made light of the dis
Joked at Distress Call.
1--WE joked that way while he flash
ed signals for about five minutes. Then
the captain came back.
What are you sending?' he asked.
&C. Q. D. Phillips replied.
Ihe humor OF the situation appealed
TO me. ! cut in with little remark
that made us all laugh, including the
Send IS. o. ST. said. It's the new
call. and 1t may be your last chance to
Phillips with laugh changed the sig
nal to IS o. s." The Captain told us
we had been struck amidships. 1t was
ten, minutes, Phillips told me, after he |
had noticed the iceberg, that the slight |
Jolt that was the collisions only sig |
nal to us occurred. We thought we
were good distance away.
we said lots of funny things to |
each other in the next few minutes We |
ricked up first the steamship Frank |
rurd. We galve her our position and |
said we had struck and iceberg and |
needed assistance. The Frankfurd op- |
orator went away to tell his Captain
He came back, and we told him we |
were sinking by the head. BY that time |
ward.
The Carpathia answered our signal |
We told her our position and said we |
were sinking by the head. The operator |
went to tell the captain. and In FIVE |
minutes returned and told us that the
captain Of the "Carpathia was putting
about aid heading for us.
Great Scramble On Deck.
"Our captain had left us at this time.
and Phillips told me to run and tell him
what the Carpathia had answered. I
did so, and / went through an awful
mass OF people 10 his cabin, The decks
were full Of serambling men and Xom-