Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-23
IsMAY IN HURRY
To LEAVE VESSEL
Did Not Wait for Last LifebOat,
Says Mrs. Henry B.
Harris.
DESERTED SHIP BEFORE
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Wife of Theatre-0wne Contra
diets Statement of Lines
Managing Director.

NEW YORK, April 23.-on the au-
Ethority of Mrs. Henry B.. Harris, whose
husband drowned in the wreck OF the
Titanic and who herself is in a pre-
carious condition as Il result of the
shock. exposure and a broken arm II
is stated definitely that J. rue Ismay
did not leave the Titanic in the last
lifeboat to be launched from the
stricken ship.
In constant attendance on Mrs. Har-
ris. who has not given up hope that
somehow her husband may have been
picked up alive. are her mother. Mrs
samuel Wallack. Mr.. and Mrs. William
b. Harris, parents Of Henry b. Harris,
and Mrs. Samuel King and Miss Edna
iWallack, Mrs. Harris's sisters.
1t was Miss Wallack who represented
Mrs. Harris in an interview.
Have you heard from Mrs. Harris
The exact details OF the wreck and the
unloading of the passengers Miss
tWallack was asked.
Il have. She has told US everything
she can remember. OF course, we do
not let her talk about it any more
than we can, as she naturally enough
becomes hysterical as she recalls her
terrible loss. She and Henry had been
marrid twelve and a half years and
their life together had been one con-
slant honeymoon.
'She still hopes that in some way
Henry has been saved. but that il ne
has not his body may be recovered. l
think only this hope is keeping ner
from a complete nervous breakdown.
Miss Wallack, in which lifeboat did
Mrs. Harris fleave the Titanic" she
was asked.
The last one, a canvas collapsiole.
There were three first cabin women
passengers in that boat-my sister, a
Mrs. Hoyt. and another woman whose
name my sister does not now recall
The remainder of the people in mat
hoat were steerage women and three
members of the Titanic's crew, two OF
whom proved unable TO handle the
oars and Mrs. Hoyt and my sister had
to help them row
The steerage women helped too, but
not much. as they seemed dazed oy
; what had happened. without the power
to gather their spirits for a long
1 enough time TO be of any real ava IN
rowing the boat.
1.-THE one member of the crew who
did real work from the time the col
lapsible left the Titanic until it was
picked up by the Carpathia cursed his
two fellow-sailors, but even that did
no good. They were either seasick or
else the cold and exposure had gripped
them so hard they simply could not
handle the oars. So my sister and Mrs.
Hoyt had to do the work of those two
incompetents.
1t was the Carpathia came none
100 soon. The collapsible was getting
sieeper and deeper in the water every
moment. 1t had left the Titanic at
.xactly a:15 by my sisters watch
that is the time it hit the water-and
the Titanic sank at 2:2o. When my
sisters boat was picked up, just two
hours later. by the Carpathis, it had
sunk until its g%unwales were almost
flush with the sea.
foiiapsItle Bontx No Good.
about half an hour before the Car
pathia was sighted Second Officer
Lightoller's boat pulled over towards
the boat my sister was in and took ii
in tow. Lightoller told my sister il
the Carpathia had come half an hour
later the %collapsible would have sunk
completely. as it was no good and
those were not the right kind of boats
to use for such a purpose
rs Mrs. Harris certain her boa was
Ia at to leave2' Miss Wallack was asked.
she is. There was not another boat
in sight on the Titanic when my sister
entered the collapsible with the assist
ance OF her husband and some man
who was a stranger to her"
Was Mr.. Ismay in your sisters
boat?"
"He was not. Their was not a man
in the BOA except the three members
of the Titanic crew I've told you
about
Then If Mr.. Ismay says he left in
the last boat"
Mr.. Ismay did not leave in the last
boat. My sister did, and he was not in
her boat. Her boat was the last boat
Nunched. She knows because she had
waited with her husband until there
might be an opportunity of their leay-
ing together. When he saw it was the
last boat he simply lifted her into it
so she would be sure to get away.
My sister has not told me what
boat Mr.. Ismay left in, If she knows,
and / do not know whether or not she
does Know. But she Is sure he left the
ship ahead OF her n that there We're
still women aboard the Titanic when
she left
Miss Wallack said Mrs. Harris had
not yet been subpoenaed by the United
States Senatorial committee and that
it would be at least three weeks be-
fore she could undertake a trip to
washington II that were necessary.
NEW YORK RECIPROCATES.