The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-27

had sighted ice was by a wireless
message received from the Baltic.
This was handed to me hy Captain
Smith without any remark as he was
passing me on the passenger deck
on the afternoon of Sunday. April IA.
! read the telegram casually. and put
it in my pocket.
|. AT about $40. while I was sit
ting in the smoking room, Captain
Smith came in and asked mo to give
him the message received from tho
Baltic In order to post it for the in
formation of the officers. handed
it to him, and nothing further vas
said by either Of us. | did not speak
to II of the other officers on the
subject. n the information I receive
ed had any apprehension In
my mind--which it did mott should
not have Nentured TO make n sus-
gestions to a commander of Captain
Smiths experience. The responsible
ity for the navigation of the ship
rested solely With him"
In spite of MIR. lsmay's detachment
from all that concerned the Titanic.
whose work he was making n special
trip to observe. it appears that Cap
tain Smith did confde to him knowl-
edge Of This ice report-"without any
remark" however. Mr.. lsn1ay says
and did break the prevailing rule of
silence between them far enough TO
explain. as he asked for the report
which Mr.. Tsnsay savs that he read
~"casually" some hours earlier and
tucked away in his pocket--that nc
wished Ito post it for the informa-
zion of the officers" We can scarcely
imagine that Captain Smith would
have confdcd this report to any or
binary passenger, or that he would
have explained to n passenger the
method by which he proposed to give
information to his subordinates.
The fact is, we should say. that Mr..
lsniay has assumed, in this personal
statement. an attitude of humility
and absolute obsourity which he did
rot maintain during the few days in
which the Titanic remained afoat.
He mnN he timid--his departure from
the Titanic While a good many wo.
men were still on board. particularly
in the second class and stecrage quar-
tors. suggests this-hut that he is so
''s '' Nv IIlktS IlIIlSSII
out t" ba Is not credible.
In this same statement he de-
%clares:
A | have already testified, at no
i'm did the Titanic during the voy-
age attain her full speed. Ii was not
expected that she would reach New.
York before Wednesday morning. II
she had been pressed. she probably
could have arrived Tuesday evening""
These are the words OF the man
aging director, who knew very we'll
what the ship was doing. what she
was expected to do, and what the
plan was that she should do. Yet
Just before this Mr.. Ismay said that
during the royae he exercised no
greater rights n privileges than any
other passenger" Exercise ia al;
big word for a man in his position
to use in such a connection. wholly
apart from every natural presump-
ton. and wholly in the light of his
other assertions. AS to The Titanic
not being under full speed when
she struck. that is n bald and wholly
Shameless bubble. She was going as
fast as She had gone at any time since
leaving Southampton. and the cable
report posted a, I.loyds. in London,
described that as full speed"
The next time MIR. Ismay
a personal statement for the Ameri-
can people he would better do with
1t as he did with the Baltic ice re-
port-put it in his pocket.