Arizona republican., 1912-04-28
Man Who Commands the Mount Temple Criti- cises Action of
 Capt. Smith
ISMAY GETS
 AN INNING
Witnesses Declare Conduct of Director Was Not So Bad
 After All
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WASHINGTON. April 27.--Failure to give her exact position i'll the great field of floating ice that offered a frigid barrier to ships hurrying to her rescue, and the mistake of her captain in rushing at top speed through an ice covered sea combined to send the Titanic with her 1900 vic tims to their waterY grave in the North Atlantic, according to testi- mony today before the senate com mittee Investigating the ocean trag- edy.
 Captain James II. Moore, of the steamer Mount Temple, which was hurried to the Titanic in response to wireless calls for help, soM of a great stretch of field ice which held him off. Within his view from the bridge. he said ne discerned another strange steamer, probably a tramp" and a schooner, which were making their way out of the ice The tights of this schooner, he thought, probably were those seen by anxious surViV- Ors of the Titanic, and which they franicauy tried to reach. Captain Moore denounced as most unwise" the action of the Titanics commander in rushing at twentY-One knots through the night when he had been advised of the proximity of the ice. The Mount Temples commander tes- tified he had spent twenty seven years in the North Atlantic. When ever ice was around he said. he doubled his watch, and reduced speed yr [. . l in m ice pack he stopped his engines and drifted until he was clear.
 The witness was also emphatic in his declaration that the position sent out by the Titanic was wrong. He said the ship was eight miles farther eastwarl than it's operators reported This. he declared, he proved by ob- servations taken the first thing the day following the disaster. With what was virtually a fleet of steam CTS within a radius of fifty miles from the Titanic. the officer said this mis- take in fixing accurately the position of the doomed ship was a fatal one. With icebergs and floating ice GOV ering the northern sea, a snip of even the size of the Titanic might well be
 
 J. Bruce Ismay, managing uirecto' of the International Mercantile Ma rine company, was much cnecred by the testimony of this afternoon. He listened eagerly to accounts of his conduct at the lifrSOGts, as told nE stewards and seamen His eyes fairly beamed when Steward Crawford told how Ismay had called for women to go in one of the boats and had said to a woman who told him she was 0n1v q steWardesS, "YOu are W9- man; take your place in ,he boat Ismav listened intently, too, as Stew ard Bright testified he hal not lett the ship until after all the large life boats were gone and only one or two collaDsible boats left on thc dech. After the session was over q corridor in the senate building the near com mittce room was crowded with anXi- ous sailors of the Titanic who have been brought at the call of the com mittee since the rescue ship Carpashia brought them to New York. They were a nervous lot. Not being per mitted to leave. they faced pros pect of Saturday night and Sunday without funds If it is too late to get money for the sailor men," lsmay declared. T. can see it is advanced. Finally, they were escorted to, the Capitol in a body and advanced wit ness fee money. P. A. Franklin. vice president of the Marine company, left for New York late in the afternoon to return Monday. Ism2y did not leave.