The Washington times., 1912-04-16
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an hour later the young man emerged
weeping bitterly. and was assisted into
his auto and taken home.
Straus Secretary Arrives.
Sylvester Byrnes, private secretary OF
lsidor Straus, another victim. remained
at the offices OF the line all night. He
went home at $50 o'clock. saying there
was no doubt that his employer and
all of the other noted men on board
had perished.
Other relatives of the missing con-
tinued to arrive and all were told that
the list of survivors would be made
public as soon as possible. This came
TO the White Star offices by wireless
but the work of compiling IL was slow,
as II had been sent from the Carpathia
to the Olympic. and by IL relayed 70
| another ship, which sent Il into the
wireless station at Siasconsett, Mass.
and from there It came into this city
over the land lines. But before they
would give the list out the line officials
verified II.
II was seen at once that there had
been no class distinction, but that the
women of the steerage had been cared
for in the same manner as their more
elbtSTS OF tne nrSt ana sec
ond classes. The women had been
taken or and the men remained to die
and even in their deep sorrow it was
plain that most of those who heard the
| sad news were proud to know this fact.
The officers of the line were SEEM
ingly stupified by the news. Only once
did Vice President Franklin flash and
flare up, and that was when he was
ga llN
credited that the company had With
i held its news of the disaster and muz-
zled the wireless so that reinsurance
might be secured. He said: ---.---
...r---, Calls 1t Lie. ---.-~
That is an absolute lie, and those
who made the statement know they
lie! We did not admit the Titantc was
sunk until we were absolutely assured
that II was a fact. We are now doing
all we can to md out who were saved
and who were lost"
When Franklin was asked why the
company gave out the wireless yester-
day, saying that all of the Ttantic' {
| passengers were safely on board the
| Carpathia, he failed to reply.
| Besides the personal appeals for news
the offices were deluged with frantic
appeals by long distance telephone and
telegraph, To all the same reply was
made that as soon as the actual facts
were knows the news would be made
public.
1t was accepted everywhere from the
start that Capt. e. ], Smith, admiral OF
the White Star fleet. went down with
his ship. For forty years he had been
a navigator, and for more than twenty
master OF ocean ships. His first &C.
cident came last fall, when, as master
| OF the Olympic, he was on the bridge
when that sister ship OF the Titanic
was smashed by the British cruiser
Hawke. Then at the outset OF his work
as commander OF the Titanic he had
encountered an accident when he lust
missed destroying the steamer New
York by falling to shut OF his en-
gines when passing her berth at the
Southampton docks.
His friends said there could be moth
ing for the veteran to live for after
losing the Titanic. The very fact that
he had failed to sense" the lcebergs
would always have been held against
him, and the men who knew him best
said he would hardly have lived 10
come to port even though he had saved
his passengers
Alfred @. Vanderbilt, at frst supposed
| to have been lost. cabled his relatives
here that he did not sail