Arizona republican., 1912-04-24
Men in the Lookout on the Titanic Were Not Even Provided With
 Binoculars
FEARS ALLAYED
 BY A CARD GAME
Men Kept Up Game of Bridge to Prevent Panic Among Women and
 Children
I TASS0ciated Press DiSbQtchl

1SSOCiuttU IESS DtSPuECH
 WASHINGTON. April 23.-Like the missing horseshoe nail which cost a monarch his kingdom. the failure to provide binoculars for lookouts on the Titanic was one of the contrib uting causes to that ships loss and with it the loss of more than 1,600 lives. Two witnesses before the sen ate investigating committee today agreed on this They were Frederick Fleet. lookout on the liner, and Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen. a Canadian manufacturer and yachtsman, who was among the rescued passengers. Fleet acknowledged that if he had been aided in his observations by d good glass he probably could have spied the berg into which the ship crashed in time to warn the bridge to avoid it. Major Peuchen also tes- tified to d much greater sweep of vision afforded by binoculars and as a vachtsman he said he believed the presence of the iceberg might have been detected in time to escape d collision had the lookout men been so equipped.
 It was made to appear the blame for being without glasses did not rest with the lookout men. Fleet said they asked for glasses at south ampton and were told there were none for them one glass in a pinch would have served in the crows nest. Major Peuchen condemned in strong terms the lack of experienced sailors on board the Titanic. He said when the call to quarters sounded not enough of the crew responded to undertake the work required in lower and filling the boats. He furthermore said no drills had been held from the time the ship left Southampton, al- though it is customary to hold drills every Sunday.
 Herbert J. Putnam third officer of the Titanic. told of his failure to turn back q lifeboat in which he and his passengers were idly drifting, to attempt q rescue of others when the Titanic went down. Shuddering at the recollection he said the cries for help made one long. continuous moan" Passengers insisted that to go back to aid them would mean their destruction. he said, so that after starting in the direction of the cries he responded to his orders and waited for the dawn Twice he begged to be spared the recital of the facts, but Senator Smith pressed him. The opportunities and activities of squad of photographers today so aroused Senator smith that he in dignantly ordered them all to be excluded from the chamber.
 This inquiry is official and sol emn,' he said in explanation, and 1 there will be no hippodroming o: commercialzing it. l will not per i init it."
 | An amateur photographer man. aged to slip past the guard later 1 but was ejected summarily when he sought to get snap of the escene. l J Bruce Ismay. managing director 1 of the International Mercantile Marine and Vice president P A. s. Franklin of the White Star line. today ur- 1 gently requested the committee to 1 permit them to reutrn to New York. | In executive session the committee
 declined to allow either to leave l Washington until no longer needed.
 Ismay has not been recalled to the
 witness stand today but may be re-
 called tomorrow. though this is not l determined. It was decided to call no more passengers as witnesses until
 all the British witnesses have been l heard
 NEW YORK. April 23.-A group of men passengers on the Titanic kept a card game going for three quarters
 of an hour after the ship had struck the iceberg. to allaY the fears of others. according to George Bradley one of the first cabin passengers Bradley was playing bridge in 2
 room far aft on the ship and fell
 only a slight shock from the colli-
 sion. Henry E. Harris, in another
 party in the same room, Bradley saiC
 left his game to go on deck witt
 Bradley to investigate Harris. Brad
 ley said found his wife. saw her tc
 one of the boats. and then went bacl
 to the room to which Bradley haC already returned.
 He told me there was danger
 Bradley said, but for the sake O
 women and children to make II,
 sign. The orchestra struck up Alex
 anders Ragtime Band and we wen on playing cards There was not
 man in the game who did not realiz, the stake he was playing for Ther,
 was not a man who did not know |