Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-05-03
lSMAY DID NOT 60
IN LAST LIFE BOAT
Woman Passenger IN Last Boat to Leave
Sinking Titanic Declares That
Ismay Left me Ship on
Some Other Boat.

New York.-0n the authority of Mrs
Henry B. Harris, whose husband wa
drowned in the wreck of the Titanic, tn
international News Service is enabled +,
state definitely that j. Bruce Ismay diC
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 beer
picked up aliye, are her mother, Mrs
Samuel Wallack, Mr.. and Mrs. William
b. Harris and Mrs. Samuel King and
Miss Edna Wallack, Mrs. Harris sisters
1t was Miss Wallaek who represented
Mrs. Harris in an interview with the L
N. s. reporter.
Have you heard from Mrs. Harris the
exact details of the wreck and the I'm.
loading OF the passengers" Miss Wal.
lack was asked.
i have. She has told us almost every.
thing she can remember of it. OF course
we do not let her talk about IT any more
than we can help, as she naturally be-
comes hysterical as she recalls her awful
loss. She and Henry had been married
twelve and a half years and their life
together had been one constant honev.
moon.
She still hopes that in some way
Henry has been saved, but that if he
mas not his body may be recovered. I
think that only this hope is keeping her
from a complete nervous breakdown"
Miss Wallack, in which lifeboats did
Mrs. Harris leave the Titanicf"
The last one, the canvas collapsible.
There were three first cabin women pas.
sengers In that boat-my sister, a Mrs.
Hoyt and another woman, whose name
my sister does not now recall. The re.
mainder of the people in that boat 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.
"Ihe steerage women helped, too, but
not very much, as they seemed dazed by
what had happened without the power
to gather their spirits for a long enough
time to be of any real avail in rowing
the boat.
Sailors Were Incompetent.
"Ihe one member of the crew who did
DO some 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 sick or else the
cold and exposure had gripped them SO
hard that they simply could not handle
the oars. So my sister and Mrs. Hoyt
had to do the work of these two incom.
petents.
As it was the Carpathia came lone
too soon. The c~ollapsible was getting
deeper and deeper in the water every
moment. 1t had left the Titanic at ex.
2:15 by my sisters watch-that is
the time it hit the water-ard the Tt.
sank at $3.50. When my sisters
boat was picked up just two hours later
by the Carpathia it sunk until its gun
wales were almost flush with the sea.
About half an hour before the Car.
was sighted Second Officer Light
boat pulled over towards the
boat my sister was in and took it in
tow. Lightholler told my sister that if
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
such a purpose, anyhow"
rs Mrs. Harris certain that her boat
the last to leavet' Miss Wallack
asked.
She is. There wasn't another boat in
sight of the Titanic when my sister en-
the collapsible with the assistance
Of her husband and some man who was
a stranger to her."
"Was Mr.. Ismay in you sisters
boat ?"
He was not. There wasn't a man in
the boat except the three members of the
I%ltanic's crew I've told you about"
Then if Mr.. Ismay says he left in
the last boat it is not true?"
MY Ismay did not leave in the last
My sister did, and he was net in
The boat. Her boat was the very last
boat launched. She knows because she
had waited with her husband until there
might be an opportunity of leaving to-
When he saw it was the last
boat he simply lifted her right into it
that she could be sure to get away.
my sister has not told me what boat
Ismay left in if she knows. and I
not know whether or not she does
know. But she is sure that he left the
ship ahead of her and that there were
still women aboard the Titanic when she