The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-30

did. After the captain told us we could go we stayed on the boat awhile and Phillips sent another C. o. D. After that I don't think he got an answer. If he did he didn't tell me"
 Did you see Phillips after?'
 T saw him walking down the deck aft as I was helping to get out the collapsible boat
 "Then you never saw him again?'
 NO; he died later before he got to the Carpathia in lifeboat'
 What was the hour when the Califor- nian tried to get you?'
 About o'clock.
 You didn't answer him for about half hour because you were busy with your ac- counts?''
 Got Warning of Ice
 Tt was about 20 minutes. I think. picked up the Californian warning of ice being nearby as she was sending 1t to the Baltic. As near as l can recollect the message was to the effect that the Cal- ifornian had just passed three large ice- bergs."
 The interchange of messages between the Titanic and Carpathia were detailed again by Bride. He said the Carpathia was the first to announce it's position and the beginning of its rush to the rescue. Phillips, said Bride, figured that the Frankfurt was much nearer because of much stronger signals.
 Well, if you had given your position to the Frankfurt" said Senator Smith. there might be very different story to- day
 Yes, sir
 Senator Smith called attention to the testimony of Captain Rostran of the Car pathia to the effect that the Carpathia did not get the Titanic's "C. Q. D." until Monday morning This, he said, was a discrepancy of 55 minutes between the time the message was sent from the Ti- tanic and received by the Carpathia.
 Asked how he accounted for that, Bride said it might have been a discrepancy in the clocks.
 Fourth officer James G. Boxhall of the Titanic. who had been i'll in Washing ton since testifying last Monday, ex- plained thattthe operators clock had been set forward fully half an hour at mid night. which also entered into the dis crepancy.
 Bride said that at least 10 minutes elapsed after the collision before the captain appeared in the wireless room and ordered that call for aid be sent out
 Lights on Steamer Distinct
 J. G. Boxhall then was asked again about the lights of a steamer seen from the deck of the Titanic the night of the disaster Boxhall said he was quite posi- tive they were steamers lights.
 She was coming toward us and l think about five miles away" he said. When I got into my lifeboat after firing the rockets, she had turned around and l could see the stern light
 Senator Smith said he had evidence to support the belief that the Californian was but II miles from the Titanic.
 Do you think you could have seen the lights of the Californian?' he asked.
 T don't know said Boxhal, but 1 should think that we could not have seen the Californian's lights that far that night"
 Had the Californian fired rockets to signal you that night, do you think you would have seen them IA miles?"
 T think not" said Boxhal
 Boxhall was followed on the stand by Operator Cottam of the Carpathia
 Senator Smith drew from the witness the fact that he had received s750 from a New York newspaper for his story of the disaster. He was asked if he had received a message instructing him to kill message containing the Titanic story. He said he had not.
 Senator Newlands asked Cottam point edly when he had received word that he and Bride would be paid handsomely for their exclusive stories.
 When we were docking" said the wit ness, q was preparing to go ashore when Bride took the message"
 At the conclusion of Cottam's testi- mony, Senator Smith announced that the examination of the officers and crew Of the Titanic had been concluded and di- rected Assistant Sergeant at Arms Cor nelius to arrange for all of them to de- part for their homes.
 J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, the senator said, would be recalled to the wit ness stand tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.