The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-28
SAD SCENES
 AT HALIFAX
RELATIVES OF TlTRNlc'S DEAD AWAIT THE COMING OF THE
 FUNERAL SHIP.
Forty Undertakers and Rows of Cof fins Ready at the Pier-Steam- ship Company to Transport
 the Remains Home.

Halifax, N. s., April 21-Under a leaden sky from which drizzling rain descended, Halifax went grimly forward today with final arrange ments for receiving the Titanic's dead expected Monday on the cable ship Mackey Bennett. The so-called dock yard, otherwise dominion hayward, has been reserved by the White Star line for the unloading of the dead, and upon a stretch of pier ordinarily used for coaling, all that remains of John Jacob Astor. Isidor Straus, F. l D. MilIett, George D, Widener and many others will be placed in collins for the inspection of relatives.
 Five tents to shield the dead have been erected on the pier, more than 200 pine collins are piled nearby and 20 wagons have been engaged to ! transport the bodies from the water front to the morgue established in a curling rink.
 The identified dead. especially the bodies of surh prominent men as Col onel Astor, MT. Straus, President Hays of the Grand Trunk, will be taken di rect to an undertaking shop, there to be placed in collins and hurried from town by special car The uni identified will go to the morgue to re- main unclaimed or a fortnight having ! passed. to be buried in cemetery plots here which the steamship company has provided for.
 The task of identifying will be as tedious as it will be .gruesome. Many I bodies, surgeons say, will be almost unrecognizable, and not few of the bereaved have supplied themselves with dentist plates of victims teeth, hoping thus to claim what would oth- erwise be form battered beyond rec ogntion.
 Forty embalmers will assist the To. cal undertaken and his corps Many 1 persons waiting here for bodies al ready identified have purchased cas- kets for the final burial of their dead, so that there will be no delay in starting homeward. John Snow, the undertaken in charge of the work, per formed similar duties when La Bour- gogne sank in 1898, and is familiar with the ordeal ahead.
 The doekyard rests on a secluded terrace in the upper end of Halifax, and is surrounded by a high brick wall Sentries and police will guard the entrance, and none but those with bodies to claim will be admitted Many waiting for bodies will shun the spectacle at the pier, preferring to wait until the undertaking skill has erased as far as possible, the in evitable effects of the immersion in sea water
 A. j. Riddle of Philadelphia is ex pected here tomorrow with pri vate car to join Captain Richard Rob erts of the late Colonel Astor's yacht in taking the colonel's body tC New York. More than 20 others who hope to find bodies arrived during tho day, and hotel corridors are crowded with bereaved persons and their rela tiyes
 A group of those waiting for bodies had a conference tonight and obtain ed permission from the steamship of flclals to send out the ship Seal, nov [ in the harbor, to intercept the Macke! 3 Bennett and provide her with addi tional embalmers and materials. Thi f should facilitate the preparation O tho bodies before the cable ship dock |. and hasten the work of removal aft CT they are landed. A wireless mes !. sage was sent to the captain of tn !, Mackey Bennett asking for informf o tion concerning her route and pro il gress toward the city, and inquirin
 how many embalmers could be accoH
 modated Pending the reply, the Seq
 is being held in the harbo,, fully pr'
 visoned and ready to start at m'
 ment's notice.
 The little vessel is a sealer as he
 name suggests. and performed a sim a lar errand for the dead when |
 Bourgogne was sunk.
 Major Blanton Winship, U. S. A.,
 close personal friend of Major Arch T Butt, President Tafts aide, who wei
 down with the Titanic, arrived in Ha flax tonight and will inspect the loI