Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-26

of the United States?" 81 asked the OPP
orator about it and he told me the Ches-
ter asked for a list of the survivors and
he told the Chester that il had already
Ibeen sent, and he then gave them some
additional names. ! also asked him il
he had received any message from the
President of the United States He said
no such message ever was received and
if it had been he certainly would have
answered it,
Mr.. Mareeni said he believed the oper-
lator on the Carpathia should have used
his Judgment and sent an earlier story
or description of the disaster.
How to bring about an international
arrangements to prevent wireless infer
ference was discussed at length.
Gotham Recalled.
Operator II. r. Gotham of the Carpa-
thia was recalled and questioned as To
the distress messages sent from the I'll
TAME. He reiterated the statements he
made in New York. lie told Of getting
in touch with the Olympic. the Califor-
MAN and the Baltic.
IBID you get in touch with the Mount
| Ternpe? asked Senator Smith. Yes,
| sir about 1890 that night She gave me
| Good night but l did not get her po-
| sition"
Did you receive a wireless from the
| United States ship Chester?" Several,
asking for a passenger list replied Cot
| tam, who told the Chester that all but
| the third class passengers had been sent
and that the Chester could have them II
| wanted.
Did you know the message was from
4 81 rs
| NO 1t was only signed by the COM
mander of the Chester. lie asked about
| Major Butt
| 'There was a persistent demand for
news of the disaster, was there not?"
| There was; but | was busy taking mes
sages for passengers and In sending their
messages The captain told to ignore
passing ships and TO refuse all calls for
details We had the passengers to look
after
| Gotham said that when he arrived
| at the New York dock he went To the
| Strand hotel but could not find Mr..
| Mareoni or any one connected with
| the company Later he called Mr..
| Mareoni on the telephone. Gotham said
| that he had sold his story but that
| he had not received anything for it
| yet He said he talked only To a re-
| porter and had been told that it was
| all right for MIN To tell his story. He
| did not talk about money from the
| story, relying on the message from
| Engineer Sammis.
Asked whether there was any en-
nifty between the Marconi operators
| and the operators of other systems,
Gotham said there was some feeling.
| Senator Smith asked il any feeling
existed between the operators on the
Titanic and the one on the Frank
furt, which wass aid not TO have re-
| sponded promptly to the THAMES c.
@. D
NO. sir said Gotham. Further
more. the e. @ D.. should have heen
signal enough for the operator to
Lave reported at once The distress of
the vessel"
Gotham told Senator Smith that he
would have answered the operator of
the Frankfurt the same way that the
Titanic did-"keep out. You foof'--
had II been his place to. when. the
Frankfurt operator answered the III
tanics C. Q. d" call, % minutes
| late.
when only two hours is between
! life and DEATH said Gotham. 20
| minutes is a long time. | don't know
what else but fool to call man who
was SO foolish as to interfere with
other communication 10 answer a C.
@ d and ask What's the matter?
20 minutes late
After Other Witnesses.
Chairman smith, today. telegraph
cd the United States marshal at Bos-
ton to subpoena tire captain and wire
less operator of the steamer Califor-
MAN. which is to sail from that port,
Saturday, and to have them appear
before tie committee. tomorrow morn
ing, If possible with the Calfornian's
leg. The purpose is to show from an
official source that the Californian
appraised The Titanic of the iceberg
danger in time to enable the liner
to protect herself.
Members of the Senate investigat-
ing committee are not entirely agreed
as to the procedure With respect to
the British witnesses, but there has
been no rupture nor outspoken diff
ferences.
There is no friction in this COM
mittee.s said Chairman Smith, today.
''rhe responsibility has been mainly
upon me. because my colleagues are
busy on river and harbor and other
| matters in which they are vitality in
terested now under consideration by
the commerce committee, of which we
are members"
Some of the British witnesses con-
| tend that they should be permitted to
go, but Chairman Smith believes that
| il is the duty of the American Con-
| gress to gain from them all the light
possible upon the catastrophe that
claimed as victims so many Ameri
| cans. The witnesses have urged re-
lease and Robert Kitchens, the Ii
| tanic's quartermaster. was allowed to
sc. last night, after his testimony. for
| which he was hurried here, after two
| attempts to leave this country
| number of important witnesses whose
| names have not been diyulged, are
| being searched for. Lewis Klein, a
| Hungarian sailor. who claims to have
| been aboard the Titanic, who was
| suhpnenaed in Cleveland. after he had