The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-18

reject the insinuation by the Cunard
people that the naval wireless opera
tors were incapable Of handling the
messages with due celerity.
Charts Have Been Issued.
Washington, April 1s.-For more
than a quarter Of century the hydro
graphic office of the bureau Of navi-
CATION, navy department. has been
publishing. from month to month. u
series of charts of the North Atlantic
as we'll as the location Of dangers to
navigation as reported by incoming
ships. These publications are circu-
lated freely among shipmasters and
shipping people in return for their
news Of the sea, the point Of contact
between the office at Washington and
the marine world being a chain of
branch photographic offices at the
principal seaports.
marine data has been Immensely ac-
CELEBRATED by the use of radio-teleg-
raphy. and the photographic office is
thereby enabled to publish daily. In
a daily memorandum. whatever I'M
portant reports Of dangers have been
received. BY this means Boston. New
York. Philadelphia. Baltimore, Nor
folk. etc. are daily put in possession
of the accumulated reports of dan
gerous delelicts and icebergs. which
have been edited by experts In this
line of work. Shipping companies and
shipmasters also had been put in pos
session of the experiences and judg-
ment of trained staff in the hydro
graphic office as summarized in q
pamphlet entitled North American Ice
Movements. giving a study of the en-
tire question, with diagrams to show
the usual limits Of ice for period
of ten years. The shipping commun-
ity also had been provided from
showing the conditions Of ice up to
the time Of printing. and with the
weekly photographic bulletin giving
details In regard to ice and derelicts.
and also the daily memorandum sum-
marking the collected reports of each
day.
The April pilot chart, issued March
2S, showed that in March Ice had
come as far south as latitude ~ N.
The daily memorandum prior to the
18th inst. showed that the trend of
ice was to the southwark. icebergs
being sighted below the 4ard parallel
on April Z, 8, Sand H.. ON the 9th
and 11th it had reached 42nd parallel.
ana on 1.-THE nth some 1t was seen
south Of latitude AZ.
The Tifanic's position was reported
to have been latitude 4f.16. longitude
SOFA at the time Of her risaster.
Two Miles Down.
Baltimore. April 1s.-'The bodies of
the victims of the Titanic are at the
Prof. Robert W. Wood of the chair
of experimental physics of John Hop
kins university said today.
1T is improbable that any Of the
corpses will ever return to the sur
face, as is the case with bodies drown
ed in shallow water. At the depth of
two miles the pressure Of the water
is something like 5000 pounds to the
square inch, which is far too great to
be overcome by buoyancy ordinarily
given drowned bodies by the gases
generated in time.
THAT the bodies sank to the bot
tom of the sea there is no question.
The Titanic's victims who were not
carried down with the boat followed
until the very bottom of the sea was
reached. There was no such thing
as their stopping in their downward
course half mile, a mile or at any
other point.
Great changes have necessarily
been wrought in the vessel itself by
the enormous pressure to which 1t has
been subjected. No effect was pro-
duced on any portion, or compartment,
or room to whose inside as we'll as out
side walls the water has access. In
such instances the pressure from one
side neutralized that from the other.
But wherever there was an air.
tight or water-tight compartment the
5000 pounds to a square inch pres
sure of water has crumpled those
walls of the vessel as II they were tis-
sue paper"
Royal Sympathy.
Washington. April 1s.-President
Taft has made public cablcgrams re-
ceived from the king and queen Of
England and the king Of Belgium.
conveying their sympathies to the
which have followed the Titanic dis
aster. The presidents responses to
both messages also were made public.
The following was the cablegram
from King George dated at Sandring-
ham:
'"Thc queen and I are anxious to
assure you and the American nation
of the great sorrow which we exper-
ionce at the terrible loss of life that
mas occurred among the american
citizens as we'll as among my own
subjects by the laundering of the IT,
tanic. Our two countries ore 50 in
allied by ties Of friendship
and brotherhood that any misfortunes
which affect the one must necessarily
affect tho other and on the present
terrible occasion they are both equal
ly sufferers. (Signed),
-"Georse r. and l."
President Tafts reply was as fol-
lows:
I'm the presence Of the appalling
disaster to the Titanic the people Of
the two countries are brought into
Of grief through their
common bereavement. The Arneri-
cans share in the sorrow OF thei- kins-
mon beyond the sea. On behalf Of
my countrymen thank you for your
message. (Signed).
-'s.William H. Taft"
The message from King Albert Of
Belgium read:
Il beg your excellency to accept
my deepest condolences on the occa-
sion Of the frightful catastrophe to
the Titanic which has caused such
IN the American nation"
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