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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
MAJ. BUTT AND COL. ASTOR
STOOD TOGETHER, HEADS
ERECT, AS STEAMER SANK
President Taft's Aide and New
York Millionaire Were
Heroes of Tragedy
UNAFRAID AS DEATH CAME
----- s
Butt Lined Up Women So They
Could Be Taken Off In
Lifeboats
UNAFRAID AS DEATH CAME

NEW YORK, April 19.-"Archie"
Butt died a heros death. Knee deep
In the icy wash that swept over the
bridge OF the Titanic. the last view
survivors caught OF President Taft's
military aide was his soldierly figure
erect beside fellow soldier-Col
John Jacob Astor, The rescued on the
Carpathia said that Major Butt. Col
Astor and Howard Case were the con-
spicuous heroes OF the worlds great
est sea disaster. II was Major Butt
who lined up the panic-stricken wo-
men, met the frenzy OF despair with
the cool. calm judgment OF the soldier.
and was swept into the valley of the
shadow OF death unafraid.
His last goodbye was smilingly said
TO Miss Marie Young. Formerly a
music teacher to some of the Roose-
velt children, Miss Young had fire.
quently met Major Butt at the white
house. She was on the last boat to
leave the stricken leviathan.
Major Butt escorted me to a seat
in the boat" she said today. He
helped me find space, arranged nv
clothing about me. stood erect. doffed
his hat, smiled and said: Goodbye.
And then he stepped back to the deck.
already awash AS we rowed away.
| looked back, and the last | saw OF
him he was smiling and waving his
hat TO me-"
DR.. Washington Dodge. of San
Francisco, thinks he saw the last OF
Major Butt silhouetted against the
sky He saw Butt and Col. Astor.
heads erect, their arms apparently
around each others shoulders, stand
ing on the bridge of the Titanic as
the stricken leyiathan lurched into
the cold black waters
Butt and Astor were together
throughout the panic, Or. Dodge said.
Major Butt took charge OF one Sec
ton of the ship, forced those with
the fear OF death in their hearts TO a
semblance of courage by his own
calmness and embarked all the wo-
men the boats would hold.
The North German Lloyd line of.
flcials here today said Major Butt had
planned originally TO take one OF their
slow boats home. but changed his
mind In London
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
CARPATH|A READY
TO RESUME TRIP
AFTER SAD VOYAGE
Comedy and Pathos Mark De-
parture of Titanic Survivors
From Rescue Ship
SOME DO NOT REALIZE
EXTENT OF TRAGEDY
Steamer That Saved Hundreds
May Start For Mediter-
ranean Late Today

NEW YORK. April l9.--Grim, misty
silence today shrouded the Carpathia,
ambulance of the sea as she lay at
ler dock, her work OF rescue done.
Where last night women, insane
with horror voiced their anguish in
hideous shrieks today soft-footed sail
ormen calmly prepared the Carpathia
for her interrupted Mediterranean
tour on which she will start again
this afternoon. Where last night the
sobbing of strong men sounded
through the darkness as they tenderly
cared for the pitiful Titanic surviv-
ors. today burly stevedores hustled
bales and barrels to fill the holds
emptied when the ships rescue trip
interrupted her voyage.
Passengers. captain and crew of the
Carpathia, relieved OF their burden of
rescue. slept late today. All were
worn and weary by five days of car
ing for grief-stricken men and wom-
en-, which reached the climax in the
task OF getting the survivors ashore.
1t was well into this morning be-
fore the last of the more than 700
Titanic survivors left the Carpathia.
These were the steerage passengers,
and they were cared for by charitable
organizations and taken To the city
lodging houses.
The Cunard line was extremely
anxious TO get the Carpathia under
way again as soon as possible and
although orders had been issued by
the government officials 10 allow no
one on the pier, score OF huge drays,
loaded with supplies awaited at the
gates shortly after dewn Capt. Ros-
iron, after a conference with the Of
6cials OF the line, had decided that
he could have his ship prepared 10
sail again at this afternoon, and
every effort was made TO assist him.
Buying Parties Rescued.
To this end all OF the survivors.
even those seriously injured or III
we're taken off before the pier closed
for the night No one but the pas
sengers and crew of the Carpathia
remained aboard.
When the pier opened all on board
the rescue ship organized buying par
ties TO replace the wardrobes OF pas
sengers and crew who had stripped
themselves to clothe the almost naked
survivors picked mp in the icy seas.
Ths landing of the Carpathia, last
scene in one of the worlds great
tragedies. followed no playwright's
rules in the staging of it's drama of
broken hearts.
A little group OF people-perhaps
500, possibly 400. was drawn up
around the canopied gangplank. UP
and down the huge Cunard pier were
other hundreds of men and women,
Continued Page Fourteen.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
STORY OF WRECK HORROR
DRIVES YOUTH INSANE;
SWALLOWS STRyCHNfNE
Details of the Titanic Tragedy
Prey on Mind of Daniel Wen
tilar, Young Roumanian
CONDITION IS CRITICAL
Seemed To Live Through Scenes
of Suffering as He Translated
News For Family
CONDITION IS CRITICAL

Temporarily derangedf by reading
with feverish interest every detail Of
the horrible story OF the sinking of
the Titanic, Daniel Wintilar, an IS
year-old Roumanian lad. residing at
No 1Sl st. Aubin-ave., swallowed
poison while reading an extra, ;"
Thursday night. and is In ST. Mary's
hospital in a critical condition
The Titanic tragedy had exerted 4
wierd influence over the young man
from the time the first meagre details
OF the catastrophe were published.
The only one of his family who
could read English, he purchased
every edition or any newspaper that
he could get hold Of. and seemed
aroused to morbid frenzy as he read
each detail OF suffering. heroism, or
heart break aboard the big ship and
among the survivors.
His room was fairly Uttered with
newspapers telling OF the greatest
wreck in history, and as he translat-
ed some OF the paragraphs to men,
bers of his family, he seemed to live
through the scenes himself, and al
blOdACu ONCi lhC hClOlSHl
OF the men, or shuddered at the
scenes of grief depicted on the print
ed page.
While reading the story OF the
heroism OF the men, and the sad part.
ing with their loved ones, Wintilar
suddenly drew phial of poison. sup.
posedly sjrychnine from his pocket,
and holding the newspaper in one
hand. dashed the contents of the pois-
on bottle into his mouth with the
other.
DR.. William j. Meridian, No. 121 st.
Aubin-ave., was called. and did what
he could for the young man, who was
later sent to ST. Mary's hospital in q
police ambulance. Hospital author
tiles said that he was too iii to be
seen. Friday.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
FORMER DETROITER TO
SING WITH TRENTINI

Thornton ID. Urduhart, a former
well.known Detroit church singer,
who received his vocal training from
William LAWN, has just signed
three-years' contract with Arthur
Hammerstein TO sing the leading
role i'm the new Victor Herbert opera
I'm which Emme Trentini will he star
red by Hammerstein next season Mr..
Urquhart was soloist in the Chureh OF
Our Father previous to his departure
from Detroit TO adopt the profession
al Stage.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
SEEKS NEWS OF FATE OF
BELGIANS ON TITANIC

Deputy Sheriff Henry Van Slem.
brouck, representing the Belgians OF
Detroit, has gone TO New York, 10 in
quire as 10 the fate OF 20 of his fel.
ew.countrymen. from DendeIhouten,
Belgium, who were supposed TO be
passengers on the Titanic, bound for
Detroit. The l1-year-old daughter of
a Belgian named Vigneaux, living on
the Kirby-rd., Crosse Pointe, is
thought TO have BEEN on the ship.
making the pilgrimage 10 America
alone. Three men, Henry Hoornert
and two brothers, named Bouckaert,
Belgians. are definitely known TO have
been on the Titanic.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
THE WEATHER

For Detroit and Nicinityi FridnN
night and saturday fair with rising
temperature; moderutc variable winds.
Lower MichIgnni Fair tonight. sat
urdaS increasing clOudineSs. probably
followed by rain in southwest portion
saturday afternoon ar night; light to
moderate variable winds.
One yenr aEo today Highest tenn
pernture. 5Ij iowcst, fG; mean. 50,
r'o"dy weather with LIS Inches OF
rain.
The sun sets at GfI7 -. m. aud rises
saturday morning nt tiII.
The moon sets at Di2f u. IN.
job PrintinR Done Right Times
Printing Co., IL John R.-st
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
''NeOer Drink, Sir; I'm Going To
= Pray" Said Titanic StOky

NEW YORK April lsThi is the story of Bill Jones Titanic
He
will be again For he has sailed the Irish
trip pondand he his
Bill thought a
a and oused
said Bill so manned the When getting
pulle as fast as could
OF I
The half
dead
pulled had put
a TX, a newl found
IN to
pray, sir"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19

two ports. With William Imrie as a
partner, ne made the White Star line
one OF the greatest in the world. He
retired In 1902. and was succeeded
by his oldest son. Joseph Bruce Is.
may. The latter was married TO Julia
Florence. daughter OF George X.
Schieffelin. OF New York They have
four children, two sons and two
daughters.
On the official passenger list as
originally given out, Mrs. Ismay was
given as having sailed with her hus.
band. In no subsequent list given out
by the company has Mrs. Ismay's
name appeared either as a victim or
a survivor.
Mrs. Ismay has lived in England
many years and is one OF the great
society leaders. She is New York
er born ard her maiden name was
Florence Scheiftlin, daughter of a big
New York banker
With the Ismays. the original sail
ing list showed. We're maid and a
man servant.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
Equal Suffrage Edition Of
The Times Will Be Published
the Last Week in May

Arrangements have been completed with The Times
by the suffragists of Detroit for mammoth
Equal Suffrage Edition of this newspaper to be pub
shed the last week in May in the interest of the cause
of votes for women which goes to referendum vote
of the people of Michigan i'm November
The exact date of the edition will be announced
later.
There will be meeting in the Office of Attorney Ed
ward S Grece, 40 Home Bank building, Saturday morn
ing 1890 to be attended by representatives of the
equal suffrage movement for the perfection of plans
and assignments in connection with the Equal Suffrage
Edition of The Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
CHANGES MIND AND
MISSES SHIP TRAGEDY

MT. CLEMENS, Mich. April 1e.-
August Mayor, OF London, England.
who is now here taking the baths. is
thankful he is not at the bottom OF
the Atlantic. Mayor had arranged to
cross on the Titantic, but changed his
mind and embarked on the Olympic
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
SCULLEN AND BURNS
TALKED OF FOR SHERIFF

Former Sheriff James ID. Burns and
former County Auditor Hugh T. Soul
len have both been mentioned for the
Democratic nomination for sheriff.
hut in political circles II is not be-
lieved that they would make a pri-
mary campaign against each other.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19
TITANlc's REQUIEM.

Survivors of the Titanic say
the orchestra played this hymn
as the boat sank:
Nearer, my God. to Thee.
Nearer to Thee,
Fen though II be cross
That raiseth me!
Still all my song shall be.
Nearer. my God. to Thee,
Nearer TO Thee
Though like the ~anderer.
The sun gone down.
Darkness be over me.
My rest stone.
Yet In my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God. to Thee,
Nearer to Thee
..-.-s. :, .s-.--s-s-s-s-.-s-s-.-.-ss o.. o.
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Joseph Bruce lsmay OF Liverpool,
chairman and managing director OF
the White Star line, and president
OF the international Mercantile Ma
rine Co.. and who escaped from the
recwked White Star liner Titanic, al
though hundreds OF other men and
many women and children were
drowned. was born in Liverpool. Dec.
~, 1862.
His father, Thomas Henry Ismay,
who was the greatest of British ship
owners OF his time, took over the
White Star line OF Australian clippers
in 1867, and three years later built
the Oceanic, S,S07 tons, al Belfast, and
put her in commission between I.iv-
errool and New York, the first White
Star steamship TO ply between those
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19

JACKSON, Mich. April l9.--The state
H. Y. T. T. and Sunday school convcn-
tion, which met here during the past
three days, closed with appropriate
ceremonies last night. Addresses were
delivered by Dr. John Y. Atkinson. OF
Chicago. In place OF DR.. Fixes. who was
detained by illness. and Rev. Joshua
Roberts, Of Detroit.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19

BusIness-Iike Printing. No fuss and
no feathers The plain, neat Kind that
looks right. Times Printing Co.. IL
John R.-st Ph. Main 1893 or City 1855
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02

from the ground and supply the countless needs OF
humanity, we have not class made a success OF
our lives, and the sooner recognize this fact and
act sody to claim fair share OF material wealth.
the better it will be for all mankind
I'm the past Is years, while men have been fairly
successful in organizing unions and associations for
defensive measures against the minority in control
of business, the greedy captains of finance have in
vented new schemes by which to keep the majority
of American citizens from their just share of the
profits from labor
The readers of this newspaper are familiar with
the common forms of trust exploitation of the whole
public, of jobbery in politics, of the gigantic and
wieldy fortunes that few have built up. The
people who suffer from the increased cost of living
because their incomes have not kept pace with their
enlarged family expenses, know from bitter, every
day experiences that materially they not well
off as were their fathers and grandfathers.
If they think for themselves they know positively
that while they may earn 10 or Is per cent higher
wages than five years ago. the food they eat clothes
they wear, houses they live in, amusements they in
dulge inall that they consume and have-costs from
to100 per cent and therefore they poorer
They know that this is the system of the merci
less men who control the sources of the nations
wealth.
They not fooled by the pretended causes of this
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against this accursed trust conspiracy during the
past five or ten years
However dark and unsatisfactory present material
conditions affecting the majority of working people
may be- we venture to declare that the future--per-
haps the immediate future-is bright. The change
will come through politics. We believe this not be-
cause we have unbounded faith in the power of any
set of men to correct conditions but because
the American people beginning to put into NOR
practical use the knowledge they have gained in thu
wonderful age of popular education. They are no
longer easily fooled. They strongly feel that they
must act together for themselves if they to have
justice.
Statesmen springing up who willing to
fight for common rights and return to the princi-
pies of direct democracy. The whole scheme of po-
litical lifes changing to conform to the awakened
and enlightened public mind The republican party
is on the rocks because it's corrupt Anticipated
leaders have failed to the order of things
The vital issues of the very important campaign
entering, concern the material well-beng of
the original producers and ultimate consumers of the
country.
All this is proof of approaching read justment Of
the system which governs the distribution of wealth
We may be fooled in the men now before lis as can
didates but not fooled by these positive signs
of fast changing order.
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brutal high-cost-of-ving cheat-stories of shortage
the vast plains of the fertile west the cheapness of
gold the greed of the farmer the Excessive profits
of the retailer, the extravaganza" of the common
people, overtaxing natural supply, and all such silly
CUFF. The people who read and think know
that the increased cost of living, while either causes
may figure slightly, is mainly attributable to the
cursed predatory trusts holding upwards of 25,000
100000 of watered stock---thn air, cheap as blue
sky, mere printed slips of paper--on which labor
must earn in annual dividends something like bill
lion and threequarters of dollars. Watered stock has
two purposes Q to permit the Morgans to grab vast
unearned shares in industry and (2) to shield big
profits BY covering their profits capitalists are able
to tell their workmen they ''cant afford to pay
higher wages, give shorter hours, etc. Thus does
labor the burden of watered stock without hope
of compensation fair recognition of its
achievements in making fine profits from the real HI
vestments of capital.
This seandalous big business scheme, and the
amazing high tariff fraud in operation, the lat
ter protecting the capitalists not the workers. and
deprivng the consuming public from buying in for
eign markets when trust exactions are unbearable
are the true causes of the high cost of living
No man can say what human Indebtedness. des-
pair domestic unhappiness and death can be marked
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02
LABOR DAY rs an important holiday, mainly /

LABOR DAY is an important holiday, mainly be-
cause it is significant Of the increasing spirit of
democracy. 1t means that, more and more, the men
and women who do the world 8 work are demanding
and gaining their right to participate in the glory of
the achievement Tt is also striking sign of the in
creasng power and independence of working men
and women
The day is coming when these toilers will claim
in full their rightful share of the profits long
nopolized by their partners in business, the CAPT
talists.
We suggest to the aboring men and women who
will march today, as well as the larger army of
salaried workers who not organized that this
an appropriate time to take Stock of the condi-
tons of the people of our land who labor for wages
AS class we have made great progress ntellec-
tually in the past quarter of century, thanks to
public schools inexpensive and plentiful literature
and free speech
As a class despite the barbarous industrial condi-
tons, probably better off physically than our
fathers, because of medical and surgical scientific
discoveries and the popular intelligence regarding
the proper treatment of the human body.
Are in better shape materially? Considering
the marvellous development of the means to human
comfort the God-given resources of magic coun-
try and the efforts that have made to take wealth
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CONSUL JIMMY
BY A. NJ. Per.kerson

They were sending Jimmy to a
strange land to reform him. Some
how he had been drawn into a
overlapping swindle that was
found out, and only Influence had
kept the district attorneys office
from interesting itself in him.
The same Influence had got him
foreign appointment, and he
was sailing for Pesago, which is
in the interior of the Philippines,
to become its consul.
81 don't mind the leaving so
much, SIR" he unused, as he
leaned over the railing and looked
toward the bustling wharf. I'm
going to start over out there.
But Edith says this ends every
thing. 1t wouldn't have been so
bad IL I could have said goodby
and told her how it was"
A big he'd sun was going down
in the west one evening when he
came to a collection of bamboo
houses set on the verge of a thick,
bioSh lOlCo "A -ldCCu
young man wearing dirty duck
trousers and no top shirt came
out to meet him and introduced
himself as the retiring consul.
They adjourned to the most pre-.
tentious of the bamboo houses
where the sallow-faced young man
prepared a cool concoction and
explained the situation of af-
fairs.
"All you have to do 1t two
things: Don't worry, and take
the quarterly collection"
''How's that?" asked Jimmy.
well, there's an old rascal of
there" pointing toward the for
est, "who has got together a
band of robbers, and preys on all
the villages In this part of the
country. He's too strong for
them to resist, and the govern
ment has too urgent need for
troops elsewhere to hunt him
out, so all the natives can do is
pay up every three months. The
village here hands its money over
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to me, and l give 1t to the mes.
senger from this old scoundrel.'
The retiring consul left the
next day. About noon Jimmy
went into the edge of the fores,
and cut a number of straight
poles. The next morning he
called together the men of the
village. distributed the poles, and
set about teaching them simple
formations. In a months time
they were drilling fairly well
Then the drill sticks were re.
placed by guns. and the next day
rifle practice started.
Jimmy was moodily looking al
ring which he carried in a small
plush box, when he heard com.
motion down the one street OF
the village, and a rather wild.
looking fellow, followed by o
crowd of jabbering villagers, ap.
preached. In gesticulatory gut.
teral he explained that he had
come for the quarterly tribute.
..Tell him." directed Jimmy tc
one Of the villagers, "that we
don't pay any more tribute and
that IL he doesn't make himself
scarce in a hurry. we'll send a
bullet after him."
Hardly had night fallen when
the attack came. With a frightful
screeching and bowling, the rob-
bers charged towards the village.
When they were within SO yards
Jimmy ordered his men to fire,
and the robbers turned, screech-
ing louder than ever, and fled
with Jimmy and his men at their
heels.
There was wild pursuit,
through thick underground, the
dark forest where the trees grew
close together, then Jimmy ayd
his men tumbled unchecked over
the paHisade of the village in
which the robbers intrenched
themselves.
Jimmy was leading the way
down the marrow little street,
when he heard a scream. He
udsucu litO one Oh the nuts 10 MS
right. A white-haired old man
lay bound on the floor, a girl,
seized by the hands, was being
dragged towards a rear exit by
a bnshy-haired native. At sight
OF Jimmy the fellow fled and the
girl turned her face around.
Edith" he. cried.
While the villagers were un-
tying the old man he held her
soothingly In his arms. At last
she brokenly explained. To for
get him, her father and mother
had taken her to Europe, then to
the East, to China, and Japan.
and at her request had come to
the Philippines. Leaving her
mother behind at Manila, she and
her father were taking trip in-
to the interior when captured.
In the morning the return to
Jfmmy's village was begun. He
walked beside her.
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The Times Daily Short Story

What dreadful country thfs
u.s." she exclaimed. 81 loathe
it."
Jimmy's face turned white.
What Is it," she demanded,
anxiously.
81 can't go back" he said.
She slipped one hand into his.
Then it's a beautiful country,
Jimmy. love it."
The consul at Pesago no longer
lives alone. When he walks in
the evening now by the great dark
forest there is slim figure be-
side him, which the villagers
worship almost as much as the
consul himself.
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ALMOST

He-Are you happy dear?
She--rm within hat and two gowns and paraso OF
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CHILD LOGIC

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STREET ETIQUETTE

Dear Miss Grey; Should when walking
at night with lady, II what
when offering it? FRITZ.
to the take lady
unless there absolutely need of help
me help this" -