The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-26
TITANIC MONEY STILL
KEEPS COMING IN FAST
Enough on Hand to Help Bury
the Bodies Recovered. Is
One Suggestion.
TALES or THOSE IN NEED
Plenty Of Clothes to Give Away,
Including Two Trunks Of
Satin Gowns.

| Gifts for the survivors of the Titanic
disaster kept coming in yesterday to the
Mayors fund almos. as though II didn't
have more than 3iO?.VO in IL already.
The record yesterday was S3.37I.5s. most
of it in small sums i x. Barton willing
Of Philadelphia. brother Of Mrs. Ava
Willing Astor. sent his check for $500
and st. Thomas's Church gave $iOno.
Save for these gifts and a few others
Of 500 apiece the money came in bills
or in checks for small amounts.
fyoungster who signed himself simply as
A Boy" sent in s. in memory Of the IT.
tanic's bandsmen. 4 three-year -old
Sv edish child down on the list as Han
Axel sent :s cents. The Violet Club. u
class Of settlement children, sent $50
and from Geneseo. ~ ". came a 81 bill
from the Forget -me-not club which is
made up Of little girls Mapy churches
and secret organizations sent collections.
All ir all they showed how generally
people Of all ages everywhere have been
touched by the news frorm the Titanic.
, The women Of Mrs Nelson II. Henry's
relief committee have about finished their
work. Next week will come n detailed
report showing what they have done
with the AL 200 that was sent to them for
the immediate relief Of the survivors. From
row on sll requests for hip will he t,irretie
over to the Red Cross except in cases where
| -elat yes Of those who died ara in need Of
money TO bury bodies recovered by the
Mackay Bennett The women's relief
fund still holds about 81. OOo and it is ex-
pected that this will Re needed Ivy those
who want to go to Halifax 10 climb their
| dead
II was supposed that perhaps the White
Star Line would do something toward
taking care OF the bodies of thos" who
went down with the Titanic. But those
who inquired yesterday at the offices OF
the line were told that the company
would send the bodies ~ pieces Tor which
the passengers we're originally booked
provided complete identification should
he established. The line could not do
more. So the women Of Mrs Henry 8
committee decided that they would hello
wherever help was necessary. They
would provide tickets to Halifax and in
some cases they might I've able to aid in
the burial expenses.
Night before last a woman rang the
doorhell at the house OF Mrs. Edward
r. Hewitt. a member Of the finance COM
mittec OF the relief fund. to tell Mrs.
Hewitt that she had no money. Her
husband was q BAPTIST minister who
went down with the Titanic. He had
with him what little money the family
possessed. The woman. who was Mrs
Annie Mitchell, was living on East ls4th
street, in The Bronx with her two chill
dren. and she had been trying to get
along as beat she could after the new 6
came that her husband was dead. Mrs
Mitchell was horn in Maine and her
husband was an Englishmsn; He had
night there was no money left in the fat
on East 1s4th street. not even the price Of
a subway ticket.
So Mrs. Mitchell put on her things and
started to walk the nine miles to Mrs.
Hewitt's house. Mrs. Hewitt lives at
i27 East Twenty first street
Il had TO walk around the block three
times before l could ring the bell" she
told Mrs. Hewitt. i didn't hardly dare
to come in. for thought mebbe there e
be some mean ones here"
Mrs. Hewitt gave her some money and
asked her to come down again yesterday
morning to the Office Of the committee
in tho Metropolitan Building. Then
she got enough to keep her and the two
children for two months
Il want some work." ehe said Il want
|
! The committee asked her if she had any
friends
Il haven't any friends" she said. NV
husband was enough. ! suppose I'll
have TO get some friends now"
| From New Haven came the mother
Of Mrs Elizabeth Dyker. whose husband
was drawned in the wreck. She said
that Mrs. Dyker was desperately i'll in
, New Haven and that she had taken the
last - that the family had in the bank
, for the trip to New York; hoping that
Dyker had been cared for on the Cunard
, pier the night that the Carpathia came
in by the Rev. Mr. Usher OF st Bartholo-
news. and when she got to New Haven
and found how badly on the family was
she told her mother TO come back and
see MIR Usher. The clergyman directed
. her to the relief committee,
The house near New Haven had been
: mort gagged for the fourth time she said
I in order to send her daughters husband
: back to Sweden TO see his father. who was
y dying. And 40 when Dyker died aboard
: the Titanic there was no help for the
I family here. The committee sent heI
away happy.
Before she wen, she passed onto the
y committee a story her daughter told o
friend of her husbands. Oskar Johansen
When the Titanic sank Johansen had beer
q unwilling TO take Il place in IA lifeboat
t SO he dived into the water and came uI
alongside piece of wreckage He man
= aged to pilot il TO the boat in which Mrs
Dyker was being rowed. He asked Il
T be taken aboard. There were onlv twenty
=, four persons In 1t. but the mau in charge
, would not let the Swede be taken in. 4
! woman took on \ shawl that she hat
e-ound her shoulders and threw one enc
of il TO Johansen. He grabbed il and wa
towed through the ocean for five hours
Then when he was nearly frozen the sea
b. man in charge took pity on him and le
him come inside, Johansen is in New
Haven getting over the frost bites.
y Robert Hopkins, a sailor OF the Titanic
went to the committee yesterday ant
n asked for help. He told them that he i
h the man who appeared in one of the news
2 papers as the authority for the story tha
n pa ssengers paid the Titanic's crew to saw
y Them.
i Il am through with the sea-" he said
I Now ] want q job as longshoreman,
= but when 60 TO look for work they sa'
n TO me. You're the man who said the crev
took money to save passengers. end
q am turned down. l never said such
v thing What | did say was that Mrs
y Astor and some OF the other ladies CAV
It us little money when We got to tn
= Carpathia."
n The committee gave him some none
II and he went away.
e The Red Cross committee, which ha
Il been supplemented with two or thre
r members Of Mrs, Henry's committee
went to work to find out how the relic
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