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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28
TIE carpathia. Rcscuer of the Survivors.

before the Senate Investigating Com
mittee.
Their statements established the fact
that 1t was n clear. cold night when the
Titanic plunged into the iceberg. The
big vessel had been four days on her
way. Such passengers as had been un-
acquainted when the steamship left
port had established tho cordial rela-
lions which usually exist among fellow
! passengers OH an ocean voyage. Din
ner was over and there We're groups Of
carefully gowned women and men in
evening clothes in the saloons The
| smoking rooms were filled. There were
games OF bridge and other hazards at
4cards in progress.
| Outside the temperature had been
, falling rapidly as the Titanic drew
nearer and nearer to the Ice floes from
the midst of which rose the group of
ficebergs on one OF which the great ship
| was to strike. Tests of tho water had
heen taken every two hours throughout
the day and evening. but these as yet
had failed to show a dangerous prox-
Unity to the ice field. The officers
were not alarmed, and in the mind of
!!C psiSScllStIt DToDd DiS, was there q
thought OF danger The Titanic, they
believed, was unsuitable.
The biz ship was plowing ahead at
good speed. and Second Officer Lightol-
Ter. who had taken the bridge at 6
o'cEock, was still on duty 1t was early
evening. in the crows nest were Sea-
men Flint and Leigh. keeping a sharp
watch ahead. for though the iceberg
fleet was not dreaded. it was known
to be near at hand There were no
other lookouts except the men on the
bridge.
At S:55 o'clock Capt Z. j. Smith
mounted the bridge and consulted with
his second officer. The ship was max
ing twenty-one or twcnty-one and o
half knots. Tho weather was fine and
clear. a myriad stars dotted the heav-
ems.
Capt. Smith spoke with Lishtoller OF
the ice fields into which they were rl.n-
ming and OF the 1Ereat icebergs thoro.
Wireless warnings OF the existence OF
these fields and bcrgs and of their loea-
| tion had been received by tho Titanic
from her sister liners. the Olympic and
Baltic. from tho HamburG-Amerioan
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28
Capt. A. II. Rostron, Commander q
the Carpatiia, Which Rescued
the Survivors.

Captain % which Immediately advised
iEat he was proceeding FOR Inc scene
Of The disaster
The ,Virsinian at midnight was about
iIc miles distant from the Titanic and
expected 10 reach that vessel about 10
u. NJ Monday.
> A. NJ. Monday.-The Olympic at an
carly hour this tNIonday) morning was
IN latitude i032 north and longitude
81 IS west. She was IN direct com:nuni-
cation with tho Titanic and IS now
Tho steamship Baltic also reported
herself as about 200 miles east OF the
Titan!c and was making nil possible
speed toward her.
TIL" last signals from the Titanic were
heard by the Nirsinian ut 1927 4. NJ.
The wireless operator on the NirGinian
says these signals We're blurred and
ended abruptly.
This was the first word OF the disas-
ter received in America. 1t was not
until many days later that authentic
news OF the striking and sinking or the
Titanic WAS received. and it became
known how the accident had occurred
Many of the facts were gathered
from tho testimony of j. Bruce Ismay,
President of the International Mercan-
tile Marine: second Officer Charles
Herbert Lightollcr OF tho Titanic, and
Harold Bride. the Marconi operator
aboard the Titanic, which was given
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| liner Amerika, and from other liners.
Capt. Smith was serious but not
alarmed. He had been amply warned.
and If other ships could have traversed
the field in safety. surely the giant tt
tanic could make tho passage.
He ordered Second Officer LiehtollAr
to Keep the Titanic on her course. but
to notify him II thore arose the slight
est doubt as to conditions Then he
left the bridge ut 9:25 o'clock.
| Thirty-five minutes later Chief Off
Ger Murdoch relieved Lightoller on the
bridge. The weather held fine and
clear, though cold. The temperature
was III degrees. but was not considered
abnormal for the region in which the
Titanic was. The men discussed the
ice fields and bergs which the ship was
approaching, and decided that they
probably would encounter them In
about an hour. Their estimate was not
far wrong in view of the uncertainty
| as TO the exact location OF the fields
which We're constantly moving with tho
currents. for 1t was at 1880 that tho
Titanic scraped over submerged shelf
of the berg. tearing away the steel
plates of her bilge.
| Two facts stand out prominently in
| the sinking of the Titanic. One is that
, had the lookouts in the crows nest
been equipped with binoculars the dis
astcr might have been nverted The
iccberg which sent the great liner TO
! the bottom was sighted when there
was yet time TO turn the steamship
( sufficiently from her course so that
the impact of collision was felt by the
liners starboard bow some twenty feet
from the stem. The warning given a
few seconds before probably would
have allowed time for the Titanic to
have been turned aside beyond the
range OF the berg.
Tho other fact is that many persons,
most or them men, lost their lives need
lessly. Not ono Of the lifeboats which
pulled away from tho sinking Titanic
apparently went with n full cargo.
Some OF them carried less than half
the number which might have found
room In thcm. That this was so wa,
the result of tho desire of most OF tho
men aboard to ROMAN there till every
woman had boon removed.
Continued on Following -FascA
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The Titanic as She Was When She
Started on Her Tragic Voyage.

follow her wake UP New York Earbor,
but no word could come from them
sooner than from the Titanic herself
New York settled down to await the
first report from the big ship. and it
came on Sunday. April II, when. at
2:lJ y. NJ. the Titanic was reported
1.2S4 miles east OF Sandy Hook and
due In New York at o'clocl. Tues
day afternoon.
The giant liner was no four-day boat.
In speed she could not compete with the
Lusiton!a or Naurctanla. though to
no others need size yield. but New Yori.
was content TO wait for the coming of
the greatest ship .afloat.
The report from the Titanic would
como on Sunday in time for publication
In the newspapers OF Monday morning,
and should show her 800 miles or more
nearer New York. That was the mes
sage which was awaited. Instead. late
on Sunday night, this is the messag e
which cnme:
CARE RACE, Newfoundland sun
tonight the White Star Line steani-
ship Titanic called &C. .. D. 10 the
Mnrconl wireless station here and re-
ported having strucl. an iceberg. The
steamship sa.d that immediate assist
nHoo was required.
Half an hour afterward another mes
saSe. came reporting that they were
sinking by the head and that women
We're being put off In tho iifeboats
The weather WAS calm ana clear. tho
THAMES wireless operator reported
and gave the position nf the vessel as
li.iG. north latitude and 5o.1I west lon
Gitudc.
The Marconl station at Cane Race
notified the Allan liner Virginian, The
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28
THE FATAL VOYAGE
Lasted Just Five Days and Ended
Two Miles Beneath Atlantic's Surface

TS HE TITANIC sailed from South
ampton. England, on Wednes-
h day, April 10. Scarcely had she
drawn out of her berth when
she narrowly escaped collision with the
American liner New York, which was
yanked from her moorings. her haw-
sers snapped. by the tremendous sue
ton exerted by the new steamship. The
great Titanic drew the New York to-
ward her s nm iron filing Is drawn 10
Z magnet. and the smaller vessel float
cd. hclplessly. stern first. down on the
giantess OF the seas.
Her passengers lined her decks on the
side off which tho New York lay.
laughing with pride that they were
aboard such q ship. when they learned
that II was tho Titanic's suction which
had strained the New York from its
moor!ngs. That the narrowly avoided
collision was prophetic OF that other
collision IN which the Titanic was 10
play the part OF the pigmy could not
have entered the mind OF single per-
son aboard.
Then the big steamship gathered
"o"u""S oSSiH' MOVING slowly WElIe
she was in range OF other shipping,
that the occurrence of the New York
might not be repeated. but increasing
her speed as she left tho shore behind
until finally She was racing through
ocean waves, cleaving to n line which
her navigators had lain down for her,
off at last on her maiden journey with
Now York no l,ar rooi
News of her starting was cablcd to
that city and tha departure from,
England of the greatest steamship
in the world was heralded far and
wide. For several days there could be
no news OF her. She might speak other
ships bound for foreign ports, or
ships headed rs she was yet which
must bow to her superior speed and
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Star Line. the biggest ship afloat
- when she sailed from southamp-
ton. England. on April 10. on her
maiden voyage to the Port Of New
York. lies to-day n broken wreck. =. go
fathonls beneath the oceans surface.
some 500 miles from shore off the great
Newfoundland Banks. The ship that
was unsuitable. In the minds Of her
makers and the men that ran her. has
been sunk. The Queen OF the Seas is
less to-day than one OF her lneboats
which bobs up and down on the broken
surface OF the Hudson River. safe be-
tween the piers OF the White Star Line.
And in her sinking the Titanic ex-
acted greater toll than humanity ever
before had been made TO pay for its eff :
forts to conquer the sea. or the 2.3i0
persons composing passengers and crew
of the big liner only 705 ever reached
this port. More than two-thirds Of
those who embarked on the Titanic for
her maiden 1ourney-1.635 persons ex-
actly-went down with her when she
snubbcd her nose beneath the waves.
hung. quiverlng an instant. half above
and half below the surface. and then
started her downward plunge to the
bottom. nearly two miles below
Since then the cable ships aIackay-
Bennett and Nina have been at the
scene Of the wreck searching for bibles.
Some have been identified by articles
way to Halifax aboard the Mackay-
Bennett Altogether 205 had been picked
UP last Thursday. The steamship is
due there this morning. Others were
recommitted to the eea after 1t had
been found that they we're unrecoen!za-
bic. The Nina will remain at the
scene OF the disaster for some days TO
come. and It will not be until there is
a fair certainty that everybody recov-
erable has been found that the search
will be abandoned.
1t was collision with an iceberg which
caused the destruction OF the Titanic
and those VINO would morali2e over the
great ships loss can see In such meet
ing the hand OF Fate, which required
tho greatest example OF mans handi-
work afloat on the sca to point its
seems certain that nothing less than an
iceberg could have withstood collision
with the enormous Titanic. Than her
no ship which sails the seas was bet CT
prepared to meet unexpected encoun-
ters with others. Even war vessel,
the heaviest Dreadnought, probably
must have succumbed to the rushing
impetus OF the monster Titanic had
they Jostled each other in tho narrow
lanes OF the ocean.
1t had to BIO something greater than
any ship afloat to sink the Titanic, and
that something was supplied in the
tremendous berg, eigkt-ninths OF whose
bulk skulked beneath the waves while
1t presented paltry lump OF ice. some
100 feet in height to do combat with
the steamship.
1t is thirteen days since the Tt.
tanic sank--fourteen since che plungc,
into the berg. Through many of those
days her owners and those who waited
ashore for news of dear ones aboard
Oh" big liner were forced to ba con.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28

Now tina: tho fts, shock OF the IT,
tanlc disaster. with the succession or
wild runlors which IT brought. has
given place to something Ike certain
knowledge Of what occurred on tho
te -!hle night that the giant liner
plu. -ed to the bottom Of the sea. the
followers co,nplet. narrative OF tho
wreck. sIith the events that preceded
and followed It, : rendered most time
ly. With It's swift alterations Of
scenes OF horror and hero!s;m. or grim
struggles for lie and awful suffer
iuss. it IS probably the mos, dramatic
,ruo story OF the sea ever writer.
1t Is printed at the reaues, OF many
readers.
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messages, sent and received. from
which an accurate account of the loss
of the Titanic. OF the circumstances of
her encounter with the berg, of the ef-
forts made 10 save the ship, and of the
death OF the many and the saving of a
few, can be constructed
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28

TS HE TITANIC sailed from South
ampton. England, on Wedncs-
b day, April 10. Scarcely had she
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Continued on ToliowiuH Pasea
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25

charge o. sewage INTO the lakes
As between purncation Of the W
ter supply OF city and the puri1ca'
tion OF the sewage discharged into tne
source OF that supply. DR.. sNcIaugn'
lin sanctioned water puriiication.
holding that Il Il both cheaper and
more effective. - ~ -.
Oficers of. the Pure Water .assooia-
tion were chosen. They are:
President. DR. Charles y. Hastinss,
Toronto; vice-president. DR.. Guy l..
Kiefer. Detroit; secretary-treasurer
DIR. Paul Hanson, Chicago chairman
OF the executive committee. DR.. q. n.
Ford. Cleveland: editor. III. H. Whit
taker. Minneapolis.
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25

that requires much consideration. He
POINTS out that all through passen-
gers would be required to- transfer
from one car, to another. and walk
across the Campus. which In itself
would cause q crowded Campus. and
In addition, the emptylng and loading
OF cars would be apt 70 cause conges-
ton
Commissioners croul ofers tenta-
tive plan as a substitute His plan
Is TO send all eastbound sherman
cars down Cass-aye. from Michigan
ave. TO State-st... when they would
follow the double track now used only
by Fourteenth cars. east bound He
points out that westbopnd cars OF
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25
CROUL HAS PLAN FOR
RELIEVING CONGESTION

Police Commissioner croul win ap.
pear before the common council com
mittee, Monday, to discuss Aid. Bur
tons proposition for relieving heavy
street car trafic on the Campus Mar
thus. Aid. Burton has drawn q reso-
luton. providing for the looping OF
the east and west-bound cars at each
Side or Woodward-ave., and sending
them back over the half route. pre-
venting them from crossing Wood
ward-ave. Commissioner Croul says
that the measure is sweeping one
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25
KIEFER is ELECTED
V1CE-PRESIDENT

CLEVELAND o., Oct. 25.--Ameri-
cans and Canadians attending the con-
vention OF the Great Lakes Interna-
tionai Pure Water association. found
themselves divided yesterday on the
question OF sewage disposal. Dr. Al
len j. Mclaughlin, OF the govern
mental health service. discussing sew
age pollution OF the Great Lakes. de-
clared for guarded and regulated
discharge OF refuse into those bodies.
His stand was opposed by Canadians.
who favor general law IN both
countries that would forbid the dis
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25

both sherman and Fourteenth lines.
now cross woodwardaye. at the rate
Of about "a per hour during the rush
hours, while only about Is east-bound
cars cross during the same time.
About 20 Sherman cars now cross the
Campus. eastward on Michigan-ave..
at the same time. and these could
easily be handled on State-st.. he
points out
His plan would require the opening
OF 500 feet OF new track on Cass-aye.,
from Michigan-ave. 20 State-st
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25

NEWARK. o., oct. 2s--Three pris-
'6riers In the county jail here, placed
dummies IN their cell hunks, conceal
'6t themselves IN the fail corridor over
1siRht and early today beat the Turn
t6y INTO nnconsciousness and escaped
.fkey are still at large. This II the
fl13rd jan delivery here In six months.
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25

Bnsssess-iike PrtssfsE. 40 russ ana
10 fcatnerA 'Lne plain. neat kind tear
looks right Tr,r- ppinfrnG Co. 10
1ehp R-st Pm Mair 1895 ~ rs.v hasa
The Detroit times., 1912-10-25

,:':;'.: ,''::'ss :: $ .: 81: .:s.- re.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT.

With the outside gang also there was
less intimacy Of association than among
those convlots who worked in me prison
itself. al tailoring or mailbag making or
in the bakeries and cook houses. It
sometimes seemed to Rimington that all
the slyest. most crooked natures congre-
gated in those workshops-the men who,
possessing intelligence rather than physi-
cal strength. had used it for outwitting
their fellow men Here In The very prison
itself they were using 1t for the same
purpose; il was amazing to him to fnd
how all the vigilance Of the warders was
outwitted There was more than one
code in existence hy which conversation
could he carried on under the warder
ewes, the most wonderful ingenuity had
gone TO the construction Of a cipher AL
phabet that enabled the prison news TO
circulate with the completeness and We
racity Of a newspaper While he was
amazed al its cleveruess, a sense OF honor
uncommony rare in a prisoner, since
prison air is fatal to the blossom OF
traightforWardness and truth, MADE
Rimington shrink from participating in
II, as he would almost have been forced
70 participate had he remained inside
with the outside gang conversation of
not such as TO render him anxious to
pursue IT, II ii was not coarse and hes
tal. II was sad and heartrending Some
times he wondered II the stories told him
could possibly be true they were so
strange so heartrending He learned in
time that many an unknown Francois
Nillon piled his merry art of picturesque
ina gination in that gloomy place.
Thoughts OF Betty.
In the meantime, Of the outside world
he heard nothing He was not forgotten
in the bitterest moments he could not
bring himself 70 believe that Betty had
not forgotten hu-yet But after her
who was there to remember or to care?
He did not know II his uncle had died, as
he was supposed TO be on the point Of
dying His aunt the strange, enigmatical
little lady who, in her most intimate mo-
ments. had always seemed so sinRularly
aloof, had been silent all through She
had never cared much for him. he knew
that-Toby had been her favorite Now
he supposed she eXecrated him In her
heart, white souled little Puritan that she
was
Then, all unexpectedly. the silence was
broken. He was informed that he was
permitted to have a visitor with his
heart in his mouth. wondering by what
chance this unusual concession had been
made-for his time Of probation was not
yet over, dreading he hardly knew what
he marched 10 the visitors room and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
The Gates of Silence
By Meta Smmfn5, Author Of "Hu5hed Up"

| found himself face 10 face with his aunt.
This was a part of the kingdom of 81
leuCe he had never visited, this Inter
view room" RimnRton glanced round It
! curiously as he entered and took t -
with a comprehensive glance and AT. ~
telligence quickened by these starved
mouths during which small things were
great. He saw a small bare room di-
vided by iron ratings into three portions
and having two doors-the door from his
own world by which he entered and the
door by which the visitor from the other
world enters The visitors door led into
section Of the room divided from the rest
by iron bars running from floor 10 ceiling;
beyond this was a space about three feet
wide, where the warder stood, and be
yond that behind another railing, a space
where he himself stood
Mrs Rimington was in mourning Her
sombre dress, in which every detail
seemed exaggerated crepe heavier
and deeper, the veil longer and more vol
luminous, the lawn cuffs and collar wider
and more snowy than ever he had seen
before-told Rimington without words
that his uncle was dead lie stood star
ing stupidity at the little figure that
seemed TO make the desolation OF the bare
room complete. and said no word Speech
does not come readily 10 a man after
months Of imprisonment a Bilmouth
II was the woman who broke the silence
first She threw back her veil with the
tmperious little gesture Rimington re-
membered and turned to the warder
who is this man. she demanded in
her small, clear voice. that was like the
Tote Of fairy flute, Rmington had often
laughingly told her 1T is my nephew
John Rimington, that l wish to see"
A Great Change.
This IS John Rimington' the warder
said, civily enough The question caused
him no surprise. he was too well accus-
toned to the change that prison works in
! a mans looks, to the leveIing influence
Of prison dress and discipline, that speed
lily brings into line the prince and the
peasant
But to RimnEton the question was a
shock and an awakening. He realized
now a g he had hardly realized before.
! that he was in no way different in APP
| pearance from those other shaven clowns
among whom his days were passed
Yes, il is /, aunt" he said. and his
very voice was changed, the hesitating
voice OF one who seldom speaks Even
more than the physical change in the
man before her, this change Of voice from
/ the gay, pleasant tones she knew to a
/ low pitched servility hurt the woman
staring at him with wide eyes behind the
| bars Of the cage.
/ "Oh, jack didn't know never
guessed she said, falteringly
/ Tie could see that her small face was
| gray and pinched, that the large brown
/ eyes seemed almost too big for the tiny
! face out of which they looked Under
| the widows bonnet the plentiful brown
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07

TO. Seeing do see" illusions in
y miar objects realized by inversion. No. =
Making the oblque lines appear continu-
Gus. Hullner's illusion. No. 3--The illusion sub
divided space. % seeming higher than it is broad,
'E broader than it is high. No. 4-Cubes that
first one up and then the other diagram that
changes while looked at. No 5An effect Of irradi-
alton, circles which distance look like hexagons
No. 6-Converging visual axes; bird that enters the
cage when the diagram is held the eyes. No. =
An illusion of motion obliQue line that oscilates
when the diagram is moved vertically. No. S-COor
produced by movement. white spirals fringed with
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
By Frances L. Garade

mood of despair that Mrs. Lysander
John saw an opening to make one more
argument in favor of equal suffrage.
I'VE would have an additional and
never-falling way to make meaes," sn~
said, at a meeting of the Finance Com
mittee. IF we had the Power of the
Ballot"
The ladies. having heard so much of
the Power of the Ballot, looked bored
I'VE had the right of suffrage in the
state l came from" resumed Mrs, APP
pleton. and when occasion demanded
it. we registered and then sold our
votes to the highest bidder. All, those
were palmy days."
There was an Awful Silence. Then
a roar of protest Would Sister Apple
ton they said, with scorn, suggest that
women fight for the ballot that they
Sell Their Votes? Would she so far
forget the Sanctity of Womanhood as
to hint at such a vile proceeding?
Would she demean Her Own Sex by
approving, nay pointing the way, to
Corruption?
The roar grew in volume and strength
till Mrs. Appleton. heightened at the
storm she had evoked slipped out a
side door and went home.
Nothing Like Knowing.
But alas it is said that the leaven
she dropped is beginning to work.
How much at least three dozen
debt burdened church working women
asked their husbands that night, do
these low-down INSCRIPTIONS ONCE
seekers nav for votes"