The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-20
CARING FOR
 SURVIVORS
RESCUED FROM TITANIC IN NEW YORK HOSPITALS AND ON
 THEIR JOURNEY HOME.
Loving Cup by Passengers in Ap- precstion of His Splendid
 Accomplishment.

 cared for, the dead beyond recall. sur vivors of the Titanic disaster were able for the first time today to see in calmer retrospect Mondays trag- edy of the north Atlantic and from their more normal utterances there is slowly unfolding the full story of how the great White Star liner, her band playing to the last, sank off the Grand Banks with more than 1,50O soals aboard. From the Countess of Rothes, now quartered luxuriantly in New York hotel to the six Chinese Coolies, who escaped by hiding under the lifeboat seats, all of the 705 who have been provided with food and clothing, and some, immigrant and millionaire. are on their way home to England, the continent, or distant parts of the United States.
 Many, however. and of these the hospitals shelter scores, still remain in New York, where the Cunarder Carpathia brought them last night.
 Even after all that has now been told of the disaster, the death list re- mains indefinite. Last nights total estimate was 1,595; today the White Star line issued a statement, placing the toll at 1885. Exactly how many died will never be known.
 It has been established officially however, that the Titanic was travel ing 21 knots an hour when she strucf the iceberg. Notwithstanding this however, none of the survivors from steerage to saloon, has as yet con demned Captain Smith, who wen down with his ship
 The Titanic's rate of speed, whicl was approximately 261a miles. wat brought out today from the lips ol J. Bruce Ismay, president of the Tn | ternational Mercantile Marine, and managing director of the White Star | line, who appeared as a witness be fore the United States senate com mittee, which is investigating the dis aster. Nervous, but not in tears, as Captain Rostron of the Carpathia, who followed him on the stand, MT, Ismay told in whispers of his escape from the sinking liner, from the time he pushed away in 8 boat with the wo- men until he found himself clad in his pajamas aboard the Carpathia.
 He was not sure in just what boat he left the Titanic, nor was he sure how long he remained on the liner after she struck. He added, however, that before he entered lifeboat he had been told there were no more women on the deck and he denied there had been any censoring of mes sages from the Carpathia. Other wit nesses, including Captain Rostrom, bore him out in this, with the expla- nation that the lone wireless operator on the rescue ship, swamped with personal messages, was unable to send matter for the press.
 Interest. second only to that in the tales of the survivors. centered upon Mir. Ismay's recital. In Washington Senator Rayner of Maryland bitterly arraigned him before the senate and expressed the hope that this country might rely upon British justice "tc bring to bay the guilty directorate oi the company"
 From Washington also came the opinion of expert naval hydrograph CTS that no blame should attach tc Captain Smith, because, as they con tended, analysis of ocean charts has shown that the skipper, warned of the presence of icebergs, had steered the | Titanic fully 50 miles southward from the regular course. In spite of this caution the mass of ice was struck and preventive of similar disasters the Photographic office issued tonigh ] an order shifting the lanes of trans Atlantic liners 1S0 miles southwart from the path which the Titanic fol | lowed
 After giving his testimony befor' the senate committee, Captain Ros tron of the Carpathia took charge 0 his ship, which departed late toda! for the Mediterranean. The vesse had been hurriedly renovated ant cleared of the disorder caused by thu | presence of the Titanic survivors ant she left with cabins full Captain