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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
TO PROTECT LIFE AT SEA
NageI Favors Calling international
Conference.

Washington, April 20-Secretary
Nagel returned from New York de-
termined to recommend strongly to
President Taft the calling of an in
ternational congress to impose strin-
gent regulations for protection of life
on the ocean.
Secretary Nagel met the Carpathia
at her dock and authorized the admis-
sion to the United States of every
alien rescued. All who desire may
remain, although the secretary be-
lieves many will elect to return to
their native lands.
by an almost complete absence of hys-
terra among the aliens.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
EXPERTS SAY NO BLAME
ATTACHES TO CAPTAIN.

From Washington also came the
opinion of expert naval photographers
that no blame should attach to Cap
tain Smith, because, as they contend,
analysis of ocean charts has shown
that the skipper, warned of the pres
ence of icebergs, had steered the IT.
tanic fully sixty miles southwark from
the regular course.
In spite of this caution the mass Of
ice was struck and as preventive Of
similar disasters the photographic
office in Washington issued an order
shifting the lanes Of transatlantic
liners $50 miles southwark from the
path which the Titanic followed.
After giving his testimony before
the senate committee Captain Rostron
Of the Carpathia took charge Of his
ship, which departed for the Msditer.
ranean. The vessel had been hurried
~ renovated and cleared Of the dis
order caused by the presence Of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
ANNALS PROVIDE FEW
MORE DRAMATIC MOMENTS.

The worlds annals has provided few
more intense and dramatic moments
than when all that was left Of the
great company that sailed so gaily on
the Titanic appeared on the Cunard
pier. No hint of the story of their
miseries and of their sufferings after
the Titanic foundered had come from
the sea. 1t was not known for certain
whether some who had been given up
for dead might appear miracuousls
on the gangplank.
There were scores Of people. among
them men and women whose names
ere familiar the country over, who
waited in the most intense suspense
while the Cunarder, with her sad
cargo, made her way slowly ny the
Hudson and passed the great ships In
dock whose flags showed dimly at
half STAFF in the bars of river light.
There were some of these who had
not dared to give up all hope, who
fingered, still prey to the most dread
fuI uncertainty, who refused to believe
the cruel list of those that We're saved
and thought that there might after
all appear for them some loved face.
But nearly all Of these were disap-
pointed and turned away with looks
that no man who saw the arrival OF
abe Carpathia will ever forget
The tragedy Of the Titanic was
written on the faces of nearly all OF
her survivors. Some 1t Is true, who
were saved with their families. could
not repress the Joy and thankfulness
that filled their hearts. but they were
very few compared to the number OF
the rescued.
These others bore the IMPRESSION of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

New York, April 19.-The 705 pas
sengers taken from the Titanic's life
boats are aboard the Cunarder Car
pathia, which is headed for this port
and should arrive Friday. Among the
31S passengers in her first cabin list
and 259 occupying the second cabin
were persons noted all over the
world as financiers, society leaders
transportation magnates, literary &C.
lebrities, journalists and business
men. Perhaps the best known OF
those believed to be lost was Colonel
John Jacob Astor. Frank ID. Millet
the artist; James Clinch Smith, New
York society man, and Major Archi
bald Butt, President Taft's aide, were
other celebrities. An idea of the size
of the Titanic may be had by com
pairing her with other noted struc,
lures. AS shown in the cut from left
to right they are: Bunker Hill mon
ument, Philadelphia city hall, Wash.
ingtOn monument, Metropolitan build
ing, in New York; Woolworth build
ing, in New York; the Titanic, the
Cologne cathedral the Great Pyramid
and st. Peters cathedral in Rome.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
-FOUR PERISH TRYING TO
GET ABOARD cARPATHiA.

Only one of the Titanic's survivors
died while the Carpathia was driving
through fogs and storms to this port.
Four of the Titanic's people had PEI
ished trying to get aboard the Carpa-
thia and another Titanic passenger
lost his life by the overturning Of a
boat.
One woman, second cabin passen.
ger, who was landed, was suffering
from a broken arm. But the general
conditions OF the hundreds so dra.
matically saved from death was a
cause of inexpressiDle pleasure 10 the
thousands who saw them land. There
WAS no need, az it turned out. for the
ministers OF death.
The Carpathia reported that there
were TO saved out OF passenger list
which the White Star line figured at
ESQ. making a loss Of 40 lives The
statement from the Titanic's passen'
gers says there were 745 rescued out
of a passenger list of 2,34O.. .....
The list of names furnished on the
Carpathia on her arrival shows 1873
first cabin passengers saved. l15 in
the second cabin. 17S third class and
200 of the crew, total of 6S1 saved.
A woman passenger on the Carpathia
heard from the ships doctor that 495
of the passengers and 20 of the crew
tad been saved and that thirty-nine
women lost their husbands. Six Of
these were brides
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
SAY LOSSES WILL
BE PAID PROMPTLY
ACcidentInsuranCeC OncernsSuf-
fer Severe Blow.

New York, April 1S-Accident in
surance companies in this country
and England stand to lose approxi-
mately 100000, it was estimated
by insurance experts, as result of
the Titanic disaster The loss, it was
explained, will be doubled by reason
of the so called double liability
clause" which requires insurance com
panies to pay twice the amount of the
death benefits where the policyholder
loses his life while travelling on pub,
lie conveyance propelled by steam or
electricity"
An official of leading accident in
surance company said that the present
catastrophe had put the double liza
bility clause to the severest test ac-
cident underwriters have ever en-
cOuntered. All the companies have
their inspectors estimating the aggre-
gate liabilities, in case most of the
first and second cabin passengers are
actually lost. AS soon as it is estab-
lished that no survivors have been
picked up claims will be paid without
delay, 1t was announced.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
RELATIVES GREET THEIR
RESCUED ONES QUIETLY.

The depression of death was oppres-
sive on the spirit Of the waiting men
and women. Those who found their
gladdest hopes realized, and looked
through the press to make out the well
known face Of husbands and fathers
and sisters and wives, could not con-
ceal their tremendous citation, their
thankfulness that all suspense and dis
heartening conjecture was over. But
they greeted their rescued ones quiet
ly for the most part, with thought
ever present for the Overburdened
hearts of the many VINO had been be.
reaved.
So well made were the police and
other arrangements at the pier that
there was no surging Of crowds, no
hustling and batting of the Titanic
survivors. The crowds were held back
two blocks from the pier on the north,
east and south. Everything was done
10 expedite the passage of the rescued
ones and make their transference
from piers TO homes or hotels as easy
and as comfortable as possible.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
CARPATHlA'S STAY IS BRIEF
Vessel Which Rescued Titanic Sur.
vivors Again Sails.

New York, April 20-Less than
itwenty-four hours after the Cunard
line steamer Carpathia came in as
Iescue ship with 745 survivors of the
Titanic disaster she sailed again for
the Mediterranean cruise originally
started upon last week. Just before
the liner sailed H. S. Bride. the second
Marconi wireless operator of the Ii
tanic, whose legs were crushed on -
lifeboat, was carried off ON the shout
ders of the ships officers to ST. Vim
cents hospital.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
their time Of darkness when their

their time Of darkness when their
people passed in an accident that
seemed like an insane vision OF the
night. Their faces were swollen with
weeping. They had drunk as deeply
Of sorrows as Is ever given to human
kind. But many, whose spirits Were
fainting from despair, walked firmly
enough down the gangp!ank. Some
walked unseeing in kind Of dreadful
somnambulism of despair.
1t was with difficulty that the
tongues OF many were loosened 70
speak of the scenes of agony and fear
that fell over the Titanic's peaceful
company when 1t became swiftly
known that the ship must go down.
Some told haltingly with dread still
frozen in their eyes of men who strore
and struggled against women for the
HfebOats and of officers shooting them
down.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
DISTRESSING STORIES
OF LiFEBoAT EXPERIENCES.

The most distressing stories are
those giving the experiences of the
passengers in ,lfeboats. These tell not
only of their own suffering, but give
the narrowing details of how they saw
the great hulk of the Titanic stand on
end stern uppermost for many min
utes before plunging to the bottom.
AS this awful spectacle was wit
messed by the group of survivors in
the boats they plainly saw many of
those whom they had just left behind
leaping from the decks into the water.
j. Bruce Ismay, president of the In
ternational Mercantile Marine COM
pany, owners of the White Star line,
who was among the men saved; p. A
s. Franklin, vice president of the
White Star line, and United States
Senator William Alden @ nth, chair
man of the senate in yes. eating com.
mittee, held a conference aboard the
Carpathia soon after the passengers
had come ashore.
After nearly an hour Senator Smith
came out of the cabin and said he had
no authority to subpoena witnesses at
this time, but would begin an investi-
CATION into the cause of the loss Of
the Titanic at the Waldorf-Astora no.
tel.
He announced that Mr.. Ismay had
consented to appear at the hearing
and that Mr. Franklin and the four
surviving officers of the Titanic would
appear for examination by the senate
committee. He said the course the
investigation would follow would be
determined after the preliminary hear.
In
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
TITANIC TEARS THROUGH
CLEAR NIGHT TO HER DOOM

Not only was the Titanic tearing
through the April night to her doom
with every ounce of steam crowded
on, but she was under orders from the
general officers of the line to make all
the speed of which she was capable.
This was the statement made by j. III.
Moody, quartermaster of the vessel
and helmsman on the night of the
disaster He said the ship was max
ing twenty-one knots an hour and the
officers were striving to live up to the
orders to smash the record.
1T was close to midnight" said
Moody, and ] was on the bridge with
the second officer, who was in COM
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
Regulations for Lifeboats.

The Perkins resolution even pre-
scribed that the lifeboats should have
not less than three cubic feet of dis
placement for each person.
The MARITIME resolution was referred
to the foreign relations committee and
the Perkins resolution went to the
commerce committee.
The house committee on merchant
marine will speedily take up the many
bills and resolutions which have been
introduced bearing on the Titanic dis
astef.. Representative Alexander of
Missouri, chairman of the committee,
introduced two resolutions.
One would direct the president to
invite the maritime nations of the
world to appoint members of an inter-
national commission to define ship
lanes and routes and to minimize the
danger OF collisions at sea. The other
would extend similar invitation to
steamship travel to form a commission
to arrange for patrol of North At
lantic waters to warn ships.
Representative Sulzer of New York,
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee, offered a joint resolution iden-
tical with the senate resolution intro
duced by Mr.. Perkins. The Perkins
Sulzer provisions would require one
life preserver for each person aboard
They would also make 1t a felony
for any captain, executive officer or
resident general agent of a corpora
ton actually charged with control,
management, operation, equipment or
navigation of ocean vessels to know
ingly permit a vessel to sail from any
port of the United States without full
lifesaving equipment. The penalty
would be Imprisonment at hard labor
for not more than ten years
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

mand. Suddenly he shouted port your
helm I did so, but it was too late.
We struck the submerged portion of
the berg
OF the many accounts given by the
passengers, most OF them agreed that
the shock when the Titanic struck the
iceberg, although ripping her great
sides like giant canopener, did not
greatly jar the entire vessel, for the
blow was a glancing one along her
side - 49,.
The accounts also agree substantial
ly that when the passengers were
taken off on the lifeboats there was no
serious panic and that many wished
ito remain on board the Titanic, be-
lieving her to be unsuitable"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
isMAY TEsTiFlES TO
SPEED OF GIANT SHIP.

The Titanic's rate of speed, approx
imately twenty.six and one-half land
miles, was brought out from the lips
Of j. Bruce Ismay, president OF the In
ternational Mercantile Marine and
managing director of the White Star
line, whe appeared as a witness be.
fore the United States senate commit
tee Investigating the disaster.
Nervous, but not in tears, as was
Captain Rostron of the rescue ship
Carpathia, who followed him on the
stand, Mr.. Ismay told in whispers OF
his escape from the sinking liner, from
the time he pushed away in boa.
with the women, until he found him.
self, clad in his pajamas, aboard the
Carpathia.
He was not sure in just what boat
he left the Titanic, nor was he sure
how long he remained on the liner
after she struck. He added, however,
that before he entered lifeboat he
had been told there were no more
women ON the deck, and he denied
that there had been any censoring of
messages from the Carpathia Other
witnesses, including Captain ROstron,
bore him out in this, with the explana-
ten that the lone wireless operator on
the rescue ship, swamped with per-
Isonal messages, was unable to send
matter for tie press.
Interest second only to that in the
tales Of survivors centered upon Mr..
lsmay's recital. In Washington Sena-
tor Rayner of Maryland bitterly ar.
raigned him before the senate and ex.
pressed the hope that this country
might rely upon British justice ito
bring to bay the guilty directorate Of
this company"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
TO CARRY MORE LlFEBOATS
Allan and Other Steamship Lines Act
Promptly.

NttdT duo StnOi otSNIfSbtP NV
Promptly.
London, April 20.-The Allan and
other lines already are taking meas
ures to increase the number Of life
boats on their steamers.
The Times in an editorial pays a
warm tribute to the behavior of the
milliopaires on the Titanic. 1t says:
after the women it was clearly a
matter of pure chance which men We're
saved. Most of the millionaires were
drowned, while many third class pas
sengers Were saved. Indeed, it Is es-
tablished beyond DOUBT that the mil'
honaires were treated exactly like
any one else and that they gave an. x.
hibiuon of courage, sef-restrafnt ana
obedience to orders second to none.'"'
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
nurre woman /; inJureu.

New York, April 19.-Mount Sinai
hospital sent two ambulances to the
pier and brought back Mrs. Parish of
Butte, Mont. Her right foot was
crushed and she was suffering from
shock. Mrs. Shelley, address unknown,
was taken there. She is suffering from
exposure and SHOCK
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
ONLY SEVEN HUNDRED
AND FIVE SURVIVORS
InquiiyOtticia|ly Yes.
sci Was Travelling at
Twenty-One. Knots.

New York, April 2O.-Horror giving
way under merciful administration,
and calm entering where frail human
minds, appalled,, wandered affrighted,
survivors of the Titanic disaster were
able for the first time to see in calmer
retrospect the tragedy of the North
Atlantic. From their normal utter.
ances there is slowly unfolding the
full story of how the great White Star
liner, her band playing hymns to the
last, sank off the Grand Banks with
more than 1890 souls aboard.
From the Countess of Rothes, now
Quartered uxuriously in a New York
hotel, to the six chinese coolies, who
escaped by hiding under the lifeboat
seats, all Of the 705 have been provia-
ed with food and clothing.
Some, immigrants and millionaires,
are on their way home to England, tho
continent or distant parts of tho
United States. Many. however, and
OF these the hospitals shelter scores,
still remain in New York, where the
Cunard liner Carpathia brought them.
Even after all has been told of the
disaster the death list remains APP.
proximate. The White Star line is-
sued statement placing the toll at
1886. Exactly how many died will
never be Known.
1t has been established officially,
however, that the Titanic was trav.
cling twentyone knots an hour when
she struck the iceberg. Notwithstand-
ing this none of the survivors, from
steerage to saloon. has condemned
Captain Smith, who went down with
his ship.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
Directs More SoutherIy Route.

Washington, April 20.-An order is
sued by the branch United States n.y.
drogYaph Office at New York directs
that the lanes of Atlantic liners be
moved 1S0 miles southwark from that
which, was being pursued by the tt
tanic when she ran against the ice.
berg last Sunday night
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
SENATE ORDERS
WRECK INQUIRY
Passes Resolution to InveSii-
gate Titanic Disaster.

Washington, April 1S.-Congress act.
ed swiftly on the Titanic catastrophe.
Bills and resolutions designed to pre-.
vent repetition of the awful disaster
off the Newfoundland banks poured
into both houses.
The senate agreed to a resolution
directing thorough investigation by
the commerce committee into the
cause leading to the wreck with par.
ticular reference to the inadequacy of
lifeboats. The resolution, the first in.
troduced in the senate, presented by
Senator Smith of Michigan, who ranks
neXt to the chairman of the commerce
committee, was adopted by unanimous
consent in one hour and twenty min.
utes.
Senators MARITIME of New Jersey and
Perkins of California, the latter chair
man of the naval affairs committee,
also introduced bills
Senator MARITIME proposed that the
president be advised that the senate
nations to regulate the safety of ocean
craft and their passengers and crew.
Senator Perkins resolution provided
for the equipment of steamers with
adequate lifesaving apparatus. 1t
would require that every steamer shall
have sufficient number of seawOrthy
lifeboats to carry Eat one time every
passenger and every member of the
crew; that it shall not clear any port
without so certifying to the several
supervising inspectors who would de.
termine the character of such equip
ment but would have no discretion
| whatever as to the number of life
boats, which would be determined
solely by the actual capacity to carry
all aboard.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-01-04
SOLD CENTRAL TELEPHONE
PROPERTY

Sheriff Romer sold Saturday at
auction the entire property known
as the Central Telephone Company
of Stutsman county, known as the
Dwyer telephone properties, accord
ing to legal notice to the highest
bidder. The property was sold to
the North Dakota Independent Tele-
phone Co., of Fargo for $4,000.
There were several other bidders,
among them o. J. Seller of this city.
The property was sold to satisfy
a judgment obtained by Henry ].
Rusch against the Central Telephone
Co., and other parties defendants.
The offices at Medina and Streeter
and all poles, wires, phones, and
other property used in operating
telephone lines were included in the
sale.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-01-04
ROLLER RINK AND BOWLING
ALLEY

A roller rink for jamestown is
now assured. Harry Wasser has
leased the first floor and basement of
the Elks building and, as soon as
the present occupants, Rathman-
Hall Co., move into their new quar-
ters in the Hotel Capital block, he
will take possession. Mr.. Wasser
will have the roller rink on the first
floor, which is about 50x130 feet
in dimensions, and billiard and
pool hall and also bowling alleys
in the basement. The rink and
bowling alley both should be we'll
patronized from the start, as James,
town has been without these popular
forms of exercise and amusement
for many years. About 100 pairs of
skates have been ordered for the
rink, which is expected to open about
February LIST.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-01-04
1909 CLASS REUNION

The class of 1909, jamestown high
school, were informally entertained
Friday evening by Miss Lila ingalls,
at the residence on the north side.
There were eight of the original class
of 16 present and the reunion was a
most happy one. Leroy Aylmer,
formerly instructor, who is stu
dent at the N. D. U. law school, was
the honor guest. The rooms were
tastefully decorated for the occasion
with the class colors, yellow and
black. Miss Edna Porter and Clau-
dine Chenery gave a duet, being the
same one rendered at the grammar
school commencement exercises, and
also songs that were sung at the
high school commencement. Those
attending besides the hostess, were
the Misses Helga Johnson, Edna Por-
ter, Claudine Chenery, Marion
Knowles, Alice Northrup, Linn Chal-
loner and Alfred McCully.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-01-04
ANSWERS QUESTION

w. G. Palmer of the Agricultural
College was asked the question why
our railroads are interested in bet
ter farming. The answer is: The
products of the farm are the meas
ure of their business. There are
now two families in town to each one
on the farm. The process has been
thus: The hired men who ran the
cradle are now in town making bin
ders. Those who helped in the diff
ferent operations of the farm are
now in town making implements to
help do their work, or making such
things as shoes, clothing. furniture
or selling notwithstanding them
yet virtually the farmers hired hands
though often thousands of miles a.
way. The railroad is the go-between
the farmer and these hired hands.
They take the products of the farms
to the towns, where these workers
have congregated and bring the pro-
ducts of their toll to the farmers.
This makes it plain that the more
the farmers produce the more the
railroads will have to haul, both
from the farm to the city and from
the city to the farm.
For the railroad, the encourage
ment of better farming may often be
a better and cheaper way to increase
business than to increase the mileage.
When the future is considered It is
the safest way Of insuring q stable
business.