The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-01
How Love Was Born Out
of the Greatest Shipwreck
Of Modern Times and Two
|y7ho Faced Death Side by
Side in an Open Boat
Decide to Sail the Sea of
Matrimony Together.

TIT IS refreshing 10 be able TO record
something pleasant as an after
matb of the Titanic disaster.
Tho heroisbl displayed by so
many OF The victims, it Is true.
served in measure 10 temper Inc
universal grief which the tragedy
Il occasioned, but even that nllcylatinS
4 circumstance left much to be sup
A piled. Perhaps The necessary relieY-
II ipc touch may now be furnished In
the shape Of remarkable romance
10 which the tragedy gave birth and
which has just come to light.
Karl II. Behr, the great American
tennis player, and MlsA Helen M.
Newsom, two of the passengers OF
,he ill-fated vessel that awful Aprii
night we're thrown together Ill The
same omen boat and drilted in tho
iceladen sea for hours until they
were picked up by the rescue ship.
are TO live out their lives together.
Their engagement has just beer an
pouuced and their marriage is TO
follow shcrtly.
Perhaps these two favorltes OF
fortune would have married any
wayt They had been intimate
friends for long time. Certain IL
is. however, that on the night oil the
tragedy they were friends and no
more. They were not engaged .
What the Principals Say.
Whether their relations became
changed that very night WhlIc' ZOE
greater warmth, they were lockeu
I'm each others arms in the open
boat in which they had escaped
! from the fouudering vessel, WIN
the sbrleks Of the drowning victims
ringing in their ears and the "growi-
crs" pounding the SIDES OF the irau
I(eboat and threatening every mlu'
ute TO send them to eternity, may
nevor be known. People don't
usually talk of such things.
"We weren't engaged before the
disaster," is rs far as Mr.. Behr,
who is Il lawyer aud cautious,
will so.
"We'ye been engaged since the dis
asler" is the ambiguous way In
which Miss Ncwsom, who is a
woman and tantalizing, puts 1t.
II looked very much rs If, through
the dellcacy which these TWO happy
individuals naturally feel regarding
this most interesting episode ol their
lives. the world might never know
the details OF what may have been
The most dramatic proposal OF mar
rlagc ever profGercd.
Through au intimate girl friend
of the bride-tobc, however, the real
story. it is believed, has nevertheless
been obtained,
Who tic Heroine and The Hero AIc.
Nlgs Ncwsom Is the daughter Of
Mrs. l. i. Beckwith, now of the
Weudolyu, Riverside Drive. New
York, but formerly of Columbus, o.
Sic was Il schoolmatc and intimate
I friend OF Mr.. Bchr's sister at Briar-
cliff.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Beckwith and Miss
I Ncwsom left for Europe last Fail
Il FOR a six months trip. Their holi-
day over. they shipped on the
Titanic at Southampton for New
i York via CherbourS, where Mr.. Behr
4 .1oiucd them, as had been arranged.
H. Miss Newsom Is n tall brunette
4 OF the athletic type. She WAS a fair
u tennis player herself, and naturally
4 felt great admiration for her school
mates famous brother, who in 1905
was ranked third in American
/ tennis and played on the inter-
ps tIouaI team that went 10 Eng
II land. Mr.. Bcbr graduated from
Yale in 1905 and was regarded IA
q one Of tue best aIl-round athletes
Il that university has ever produced.
d With these few details as TO the
8 dramatls pcrsonae, the story as told
d by tue heroine's friend may now be
4 unfoded.
g When tho titanic struck the Ice
u ocrg Mr.. Bchr was undressing In
d bis cabin Oh u deck There is moth
v ing very romantic In that, but this
AS true romance and the truth
v must not be suppressed.
W AT the sound OF the impact Mr..
Bchr ran TO the bow OF the boat on
tIthe lower deck. where were the
siateroom5 OF Miss Newsom and the
q Beckwiths.
VI Miss Newsom was In the passana-
r4ray.