The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-26
LEFT c. c. JONES
LEANING UPON
TITANIC RAIL
Rescued Passenger Brings Word
of Lost Superintendent
A. H. BARKWORTH OF ENGLAND
Tells Of his Acquaintance Made with
Bennington Man on Steamships
First and Last Trip

The first information relative 10
Charles C. Jones, the superintendent
of the j. C. Colgate estate, VINO los'
his life in the Titanic disaster, was
published in the New YORK sun yes
tnrdav in the course of the narrative
of II. Barkworth, an Engnshmah'
who jumped from the doomed steam
shin. kent afoat by means OF plank,
afterward climbed into capsizeu
boat and lived to be rescued by the
Carpathia. NJ.
Following is the story OF Mr.. BARK
worths experience as published ny
the Sun:
"While part of the experiences Oh
II Barkworth, a survivor from the
wreck of the Titanic, have Deen lolu
it has been only part. MI BARK
worth is an Englishman, a justice Oh
the peace, and his home is at TranOy
House. Hesse, East Yorkshire. lie
was lust running over he said 10
spend a vacation, partly in making
trip on the biggest ship in the world
Mr.. Barkwortn was found yesterday
morning in the lobby OF the Imperial
patiently smoking his matutlnal pipe
while he awaited the coming OF A. W.
Mellor, another survivor
"Mr Barkworth explained that Mel
lor had been second CABIN passeh-
ger, whom he had taken into his state
room on the Carpathia. Meilor hau
terrible experience while the ship
was sinking III being hit by a wave
that rushed over the forward deck
and swept HIM against q stanchlon'
He had a foot frozen and his other
ankle was seriously injured lie
used to be a valet TO Sir Frederick
Schuster and was coming over here
to better himself, having saved up
little money, and Mr.. Barkworth said
Yesterday he had been looking after
him and hoped to see him with JoD
before he himself went back TO Eng
land.
Coming over made the acquain-
lance OF two most agreeable chaps,
said Mr.. Barkworth. One was CHAP
named Jones, who was a sort OF Iar-
mer, he told me, up in Vermont. /
think he had once lived in England,
for he could initiate the Dorset shep
herds to perfection. The other man
was A. II. Gee. He was coming over
TO take a Job as manager OF linen
mill near Mexico city. ] was Css-
cussing in the smoking room with
them late on Sunday night the sci:
ence of good road building, in which
/ am keenly interested l was going
down, but somebody said they were
going to set back the clock at mid
night, and | stayed on, as | wanted
TO set my watch. When the crash
came somebody said we had hit an
iceberg, but | didn't see 1t. | went
down to my stateroom and got coat
and a life preservef and came back
on deck.
" TO tell the truth, didn't think
about getting into lifeboat and the
boats were all gone before we real
lied the condition of the ship was so
serious. Jones and Gee were looking
over the side. | learned swimming
at Elton and made up my mind If II
came to the worst | would try my
luck in the water. When the ship
gave the first dip we all went aft.
remember somebody shouted: &c
gently! as If a sudden shift of weight
would have disturbed the ships pos
ition. Well | had read somewhere
that ship which is about to sink
gives a premontory dip, and when
the Titanic did that | simply chucked
my despatch case, containing all my
money and some papers, into the
scuppers. Jones and Gee were stand
ing by, with arms on the rail, lookine
tlown. / imagine they were prepar
ing for death ] saw near by Howard
Case, the manager Of the Vacuum
Oil company in London. / said some
thing to him.
My dear fellow he replied
wouldn't think of quitting the ship
Why, she'll swim for a week AnC
4 he calmly lit a cigarette.
This was not reassuring to me
q had had enough of the Titanic 81
NJ climbed upon the rail, holding OF
to a stancon. | was afraid to dive
because the water was full of steam
er chairs and other things. | shoul'
SAY the distance then from the raj
to the water was some thirty feet.
s simply stepped off.
4 cannot recall that had an,
sensations as | went down, but whel
struck the water II seemed terrif
bally cold went under, and mus
S. have had my mouth open at the time
Tor came up, splitting out salt water
struck out away from the ship, TO
feared the danger Of suction. The
IN of a sudden something hit me
S terrific wallop on the nose. It pu
hat organ out Of use for three days
put II was my salvation, for what ha
S IL me was plank, and II helped m
o keep aHoat. Well, swan an
wan, and finally managed to reac
capsized boat, to which Q lot Of meA