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states, and then, after hostilities ceased,
ne took up the peaceful palette and brush,
ana within few years he had made
enough OF name to be connected with
the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Ant
Werp. Since that time he has been a
leading spirit in great movements for the
betterment of art, and the identification
OF cities all over the world.
1t is significant fact however, that
whenever the war cloud lowered Frank
Miilet was sure to be somewhere in the
neighborhoOd. and he dropped his paint
brush for the field glass and pencil OF q
war correspondent In the Russo-Turkish
London Times when Dewey sailed into
the harbor The list Of decorations con-
ferred upon him in every country is a
long one. In addition to being an artist
of foremost rank, he is story writer.
Prominent In Society.
Col. Archibald Oracle Of 1927 10th street
has been in Europe only a short time.
and was travelling for recreation. Col.
Oracle has been resident Of Wash
ington for several years and is prominent
in society. His wife and daughter. Miss
Edith Oracle, are very active socially.
Clarence Moore is Washingtonian, es-
pecially interested in horses. His stables
contain some of the finest animals in the
city. He is we'll known as club man,
and belongs to the most exclusive or
ganizations in this city and elsewhere.
He has been abroad only few weeks.
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In the British admiralty court that the
naval officers were to blame. The court
saw the thing differently and blamed
the Olympic. The damage to the ship
was more than a hundred thousand
dollars.
Strikes Floating Derelict.
That would be enough bad luck for
most sea captains. but Capt. Smith had
more to follow.
The big ship patched up her sides and
made even better the interior Injuries
which had been injured by the Hawke.
and made several passages Of the sea
with thousands Of happy, care-free peo-
pie, who little suspected the luck which
was pursuing the brown-faced man who
spent so much Of his time squirting into
the night from the bridge.
Then, February 2. the sea kelpie" got
hungry again. The voyage east from
New York had been uneventful. from an
adventurous standpoint, but there hap
pened to be sunken wreck in the ocean
all the room in the world in which to
maneuver, this sunken wreck had to
choose to be exactly in the path followed
by Capt. E. ]. Smith.
Propeller Is Smashed.
The OIympic'S PROV turned the wreck
over and it rolled under the great ships
keel. tumbling heavily in its waterlogged
fashion, and then. coming up under the
stern. smashed propeller.
The wireless operator sent out q hur-
ried bulletin, which told the world that
the Olympic, on her way to Southamp-
ton, had to turn into Belfast, Ireland, for
repairs
The Olympic was put into drydock and
the damage Of the sunken wreck repair
ed. Meantime the Titanic was about to
make her maiden trip and Capt. Smith
was feeling the elation Of a man who has
charge of the biggest thing of its kind in
the world.
The ''sea kelpie" was hungry for bad
luck again. and when the Olympic was
let down into the water again in Belfast
harbor, and started to nose her way out
into the Atlantic, she banged against the
bottom rocks on the shores of West Twin
Island. She had to go straight back into
dry dock, for her plates were badly
broken underneath.
Nearly Causes Jam.
That was the last recorded accident to
Capt. Smith as long as he commanded
the Olympic. Last Wednesday, with him
in command, the Titanic started on its
first voyage from Southampton. AS she
pulled out Of her berth. the suction OF
her three great propellers pulled the
steamer New York. lying near at hand,
from its mornings and the steamer
Oceanic. also at hand, nearly was JAM
med. The Titanic had to stop until the
New York was towed to place of
safety.
Old seamen who believe in signs and
ghosts and other superstitions Of the sea
said that was q terrifically bad start for
q new ship, and lot Of them felt in their
bones that the voyage was Inflated.
Perhaps they knew what they were
talking about. for early this morning
Capt. Smiths sea kelpie' put an iceberg
in his way,
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KELP|E" ACTIVE
Has Pursued Capt. Smith of
Titanic With Bad Luck.
SEEMS VICTIM OF HooDoo

Capt e. ]. Smith, in command of the Ti-
tanic. is victim of one of those strange
fatalities of the sea which make the SUI
perstitious seaman shun an Inflated ship
or a captain. and which furnishes food
for thought for even the most frivolous
passenger on the promenade deck. When
the plates of the maritime giant Titanic
were ripped apart. and as the big ship
groaned and shuddered when it tried con-
illusions with floating island OF Ice to-
day. the sea kelpie'' which has been
spreading bad luck In Capt Smiths ocean
path for six months counted five acci-
dents to the captain since September last.
! Capt Smith is about as well known q
figure in the lanes OF ocean travel as
any man who ever stayed on bridge all
night during heavy Newfoundland fog.
AS navigator he stands high up in the
estimation Of the travelling public and
the officials OF the White Star line.
s'sea Kelpie" Gets Busy.
Appreciation OF his merit 10 seen In the
fact that Capt. Smith commanded the
great Olympic. the White Star liner which
had Its day as the largest ship afloat.
and was transferred from that ship to
the present ill-omened Titanic.
The sea kelpie' began to spread bad
sea luck for Capt. Smith hast September.
On the twentieth Of that month the pro-
tected cruiser Hawke. one of the swift
ships OF King Georges navy, was moving
along in the waters OF the north coast
of the Isle OF Wight. There was plenty
Of room for both ships. but. strange to
say, they crashed together. The sharp
ram Of the cruiser ripped the Olympic
and came near to sinking her. Capt.
Smith managed to get his ship. to Q pogG
md tha NINA stas lima 0l1cia1n an1nod
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RAN INTO ICE FL0ES.


LIVERPOOL. England. April 15.-The
Canadian Pacific steamship company's
liner Empress OF Britain, which left st.
John, N. B., April s. arrived here today
and reported having encountered an ice
field of a hundred miles IN extent wher>
three daya- out. from Halifax.
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VALUE OF IS. 0. S
Futile Unless Ships Position Is
Communicated.
LOCATION ALWAYS KNOWN
Exact Whereabouts Of Vessel Con-
stantly Matter Of Record.
SUN AND STARS ARE GUIDE
Observations With Delicate Instru-
ments Taken Every Day at Noon
by Liners Officers.

How did the Titanic know at night its
exact position on the trackless and trail
Less ocean,"
That question is asked by many persons
today, as 1t is every time q wireless mes
sage comes out of the air from a vessel
calling for help. The rs. o. s." gives
the signal that tells Of lives endangered;
but how futile would be that call II there
was not attached to it's statement of the
exact spot on the unmarked waters of the
boundless sea where the help is needed.
A ship. however. especially one of the
great ocean liners that carries q popula-
ton sufficient to make small village.
keeps track Of its exact position practical
ly every minute and knows, within a
short distance. exactly where it is at all
times. Il
Use Sun as Guide.
known to every navigator and scientist
reckonings are taken every day a noon
by the. sun If that is possible. That en-
ables the captain on the bridge to fix the
exact latitude and longitude Of the boat
at that time. The ships log is always
registering. and the direction of the
steamer since the last reckoning is known
from the compass.
On chart in the-pilothouse, lined SO
that minutes of latitude and longitude
are accurately shown, the progress Of the
boat. determined by the log and the
compass. is marked practically continual
~. beginning when the last suns reckon
ing was taken.
Chart Tells Ships Position.
So when an accident happens, the can
tain has only to glance at his chart and
he knows exactly where the ship Is. This
record Is, OF course, checked up by reck-
onings On stars. In case there is no fog
and no clouds.
Every one who has crossed the oceans
Is familiar with the big chart that hangs
In one of the saloons, upon which is in
dictated every day at noon the exact posi-
ton Of the steamer and the number OF
miles it has gone since the noon Of the
day before. The chart, however. Is
only a toy as compared with the char
which hangs in the pilot house, and upon
which is shown, not the ships position
every twenty-four hours. but the ship's
position practically every minute.
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18th street at about O'Clock this
morning.
The Carmania's experience in an ice
Held was one that seldom comes to even
the Oldest seafarers in the cross-Atiantic
lanes. Thursday the passengers on deck
found themselves in amazing surround
ings.
To the horizon on the north for leagues
to the southwark and far ahead to the
west. stretched fields Of crystal. The
cakes. every one larger than lifeboat,
ground and rasped against one another
great swell smote the liners sides.
Niagara Formerly the Corse.
While fearsome persons still were star
ing at this spectacle came the wireless
message from the Niagara, leagues
astern, saying that she had been injured
in the ice. The Niagara is a twin screw
steamship of $500 tons gross. built in
1908. She was formerly the Corse.
The advance guard of the ice field was
cluster of bergs far to the north. The
main body of the field ice appeared from
the same direction In the forenoon. 1t was
a. ragged surface with no wide crevices
perceptible between the huge cakes and
the chunks, which undulated upon the
swells in mad tumult Of clanking and
grating. Capt. Dow made out a berg
to the northward which he guessed was
in the 10000. OO0-ton class. he said yes
terday.
Remarkable Picture Snapped.
AS the Carmania was lodging her way
along a picture Of the biggest iceberg was
snapped. The sun shone brilliantly. Pas
sengers said they never had beheld any,
thing so beautiful.
Almost simultaneously with the dis
tress call from the Niagara Capt Dow
decided to work his way out Of the ice
a-rear. He did it only by steering to the
northeast and going back upon his course
An hour afterward he was able to re-
shape his course for New York.
At 3:1O pm. that day the weather
cleared and full speed ahead was ordered
Within three hours the Carmania had
passed twenty-five icebergs. At pm
she was in dense fog again. She stopped
ana then proceeded, passing bergs and
the cakes rose and fell gently they SEEM
ed to be resting upon a sea of OIL
Delayed by a Fog.
At 4:25 pm. the weather cleared again,
and once more the bridge telegraph re-
corded Full speed ahead" But the ship
was still surrounded by a large quantity
OF bergs." as the log put 1t. Early yester-
day the Carmania ran into an off-shore
tog, and 1t was not until early afternoon
she reached her pier.
The German tank Excelsior, which ar
rived here yesterday from Hamburg ran
into field of ice fifteen miles long and
passed the bark Eugene Pergeline, stuck
In the ice April 10, when 1000 miles east
Of Sandy Hook.
The Leyland liner Armenian, arriving
from Liverpool in Boston yesterday,
steamed through seventy miles of ice
April Z.
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TAXED AS COSTS.
Virginia Directed to Pay SEC, 00o
Fee in Debt Case.

The Supreme Court OF the United
States today directed the commonwealth
OF Virginia to pay into court so. 900 m 4
fee for former Representative Charles e
Littlefield Of Maine special master IN the
Virginia-West Virginia debt case. The
amount Is to be charged as costs In the
final disposition OF the case.
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LARGEST SHIP BUILT
Titanic 882 1-2 Feet Long and
Carries As, 900 Tons.
COST ABOUT 100000
Accommodates $500 Passengers and
Has Crew Of $50.
DWARFS EVEN DREADNOUGHTS
Liner Is More Than Twice the Size
Of the New Delaware-Has
Eleven Steel Decks.
COST ABOUT s10,ooo,ooo
DWARFS EVEN DREADNOUGHTS

The Titanic Is the largest vessel ever
built, this statement including warships
and vessels Of every description. Built
in the shipyards Of HarIand & Wolf, Bel
fast. Ireland, where all the White Star
line steamers have been constructed the
Titanic is $50 feet inches over all, or
about 331 feet longer than the height of
the Washington Monument Taking the
average city block as 300 feet in length,
the Titanic would extend over about three
blocks.
The estimated cost OF building the ship
was $1OOOO.OO. and this is probably con-
siderably within the actual cost of the YES
sci fully fitted up and equipped. The
registered tonnage of the Titanic is 45 900,
and the ships displacement is $4,000
tons. which means that 1t displaces that
many tons of water when afloat.
The vessel accommodates 900 passen-
gers and carries crew of $50 officers
and men. In it's construction more than
three million rivets were used, their ag-
gregate weight being 1900 tons.
Has Eleven Steel Decks.
The Titanic is "a feet wide over the
boat deck and It's feet high from the
tops Of the tunnels to the keel 1t has
eleven steel decks. and the body of the
ship is divided by fifteen water-tight
bulkheads. 1t carries 200 sidefights
Each of it's anchors weighs fifteen and a
half tons and the chain anchor cables are
made up of links weighing It's pounds
each. The wing propellers weigh thirty
eight tons each. while the center propeller
weighs twenty-five tons. The rudder
weighs 100 tons.
The vessel has sports decks, wide and
extensive promenade decks. squash and
racquet court, Turkish and electric bath
parlors, salt water swimming pools, glass
tnclosed sun parlors. q la carte restaur-
ants and veranda cafes. besides the grand
dining saloons. Both the first and Sec
ond class cabins are reached by electric
elevators
Engines Of Latest Design.
The driving power for the monster
steamship Is furnished by combination
turbine and reciprocating engines Of the
latest type and highest efficiency. The
| engine rooms also contain the engines
| that furnish power for generating the
electricity for lighting the ship. operatine
| the elevators and supplying the current
for the wireless apparatus.
1ce-maktng machinery is also included
| In the equipment OF the Titanic. which
| has a complete cold storage plant. "A
| somewhat rare feature Of the ship I
equipment Is q completely equipped hos
pital and operating ward. In charge OF {
corps OF surgeons and nurses, where even
the most delicate surgical operations may
be performed as safely as II the patient
were in hospital ashore. Few vessels
l even of the largest type, II is said, have
| added this feature to their equipment
Ak1 AA ne MbitA Star line ateamekR
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Augusta Fire Loss 500, 600.

AUGUSTA, Me-, April l5.-DAmage es-
timated at 100000 was caused by q FIRE
In Water street early today. The old
City Hotel building. the Theater Comique
AnA = fAnewapt hause Hesa destroyed /,
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NIAGARA ICE VICTIM
French Liner Also Damaged by
FIoes at Sea.
REFUSES CARMANIA'S AID
Latter Reports Learning by Wireless
Of Ships Predicament.

NEW YORK. April 15.-Pushing into
the fog at this port yesterday morning,
having passed through a sea Of ice, the
Cunarder Carmania delivered q wireless
message from the French line steamship
Niagara that two holes had been punched
In the latter ships hull by ice.
The holes are below the water line, 1t
Is understood. but Capt. Juham has the
situation under control, and the
Niagara 10 making her way unaided.
The French liner left Havre April for
New York with about 100 second-class
and 500 to 800 Storage passengers.
Capt. Dow Of the Carmania put about
In response to the wireless call for help
from the Niagara, but received 8. second
wireless from Capt Juham informing
him that the Niagara could take care
Of herself. Being Q mail ship, the Gu
harder resumed her course for New
York.
Urged to Say Nothing.
Capt. Dow would not discuss the state
OF the Niagara yesterday. It was un-
derstood Capt Juham had begged him
by wireless not to say anything In New
York to worry the friends OF Niagara
passengers.
At TAO am. Saturday the Niagara
Wa reported by wireless as 70O miles
east at Sandy Hook, with the prophecy
th1f 1nezEoIlldk IT h0n pi1Ez1tW aat
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Called to Door and Murdered.

CHICAGO. Ill, April 15.-Antone Gasiar
twenty -6lve years old, was called to the
door Of his home on the. West Side early
today and stabbed to death. Three mel.
were seen running away from the house
It is believed the slayers were Italians
with whom Gasiar had Quarreled over q
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PRESIDENT IS CRITICISED
BY WASHINGTON CLERGY
Revoking of Anti-Garb Order
for Indian Schools
Causes Action.

That the action Of the President Of the
United States in revoking the anti-garb
order Of Commissioner Robert G. Valen-
tine forbidding teachers In the Indian
schools to wear the garb of any religious
order SIS a profound disappointment to
the great majority of the Christian citi-
zenship OF the republic" was the declara-
ton voiced in resolutions passed by the
Pastors Federation, at a meeting at the
Y. NJ. c. A. today.
Nearly 100 ministers Of the various
sembled to hear the anti-garb order
discussed. BY rising vote they
adopted the resolutions presented by
the executive committee of the feder-
alton.
I'VE earnestly protest." it was further
set forth. against the proposed action in
Congress to appoint a Columbus day as
a national holiday, because the demand
limited number of our people, and these
being connected with one certain eccle-
siasticism, we believe 1t to be a covert at
tempt to secure a future saints day as
national holiday, and thereby establish
a legislative and permanent recognition
of this ecclesiasticism in our national
life"
Referring again to the revocation of
the order by the President, it was said:
1T Is not American and a complete sur
national life, which ordains the separation
of church and state" 1t was added:
The President adds the immense in
fuence of his name and office to the work
of converting the Indians to Roman
Catholicism"
DR.. Radcliffe's Views.
Rev. DR.. Joseph T. Kelly. pastor OF the
Fourth Presbyterian Church. who is
president of the federation, called on
Rev. DIR. Wallace Radcliffe for a state
ment of the hearing held by Secretary
Fisher OF the Interior Department sew
eral days ago relative to the question
at issue.
DR.. Radcliffe said that the impression
seemed to prevail that Professionalism
would be satisfied with the gradual elm
mated OF the priests and nuns from
the schools by resignation and death, but
this idea. he said, is distinctly a wrong
one.
The nose Of the camel is in the tent.
said DR.. Radcliffe with emphasis. land
We must see that 1t Is thrust out II
must be done right away. Now is the
time for action"
GLOWING DR.. Radcliffe. Rev. DR.. Ran
dolph II. McKim, rector Of the Church OF
the Epiphany: Rev. DIR. J. ]. Muir, pas.
tor Of Temple Baptist Church, and Rev
DR. Samuel HI. Woodrow, pastor OF the
First Congregational Church, made brief
addresses on the resolution, Dr. MuiI
declaring there should be no amendments
to the paper.
DR.. McKim said that the question q,
the complete separation of church ant
state must be zealously guarded by al
true Americans and that he would be on.
Of the first to oppose the proposition. 4
nuns OF the Episcopal church ATTEMPTED
to teach In the Indian schools in theil
garb.
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FOUR RESIDE IN CITY
Capital Men Aboard Titanic
Are All Prominent.
MAI. BUTT HAD BEEN ILL
Taft's Military Aid Returning From
Trip for His Health.
F. D. MILLET IS NOTED ARTIST
Col. Archibald Oracle and Clarence
Moore Both Well Known So
ciety and Club Men.
!. D. MILLET IS NOTED ARTIST

The four Washingtonians aboard the
Titanic are as we'll known in this city
as any of it's residents. Maj. Archi-
bald Butt. military aid to President
Taft; Clarence Moore. Frank Millet
artist, and Col. Archibald Oracle are
the four Washington men who sailed
on the Titanic Wednesday.
Maj. Butt, military aid to President
Taft and to President Roosevelt in the
previous administration. went abroad
six weeks ago for q rest. The con-
slant attention to duty at the White
House made 1t imperative that he
should have a change OF scene While
in Europe MAI. Butt visited several
European capitals. and in every city
he was treated with more than usual
honor and distinction. on account OF
his close personal relations with the
President OF the United States He
was given a cordial reception at Ber-
lin. and at Rome fhe presented per-
sonally a note from the President to
the Pope.
Formerly Newspaper Man.
Maj. Butt is one OF the most popular
men in the city Of Washington. He was
newspaper correspondent before enter
ing the army at the outbreak OF the
Spanish war. and since serving the
United States he has had a signally dis
tinguished career. He saw three and q
half years OF service In the Philippines
was depot Quartermaster in this city,
later held the same position In Havana
with the Army Of the Pacifcation. He
is q short story writer and has written a
treatise on finances.
Frank D. Millet is one Of the Presi-
dents fine arts commission. and renown-
ed the world over as an artist. Probably
his greatest work has been done In the
painting of splendid pictures Of ships.
and a frieze in the Baltimore custom.
house showing the advance Of shipping
from the days OF the galley to the modern
ocean liner, such as he was on last nigh,
when It rammed an iceberg, IL said t
be the finest and most accurate work OF
it's kind anywhere.
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Was Soldier Of Fortune.

Mr.. Nillets Washington studio Is at
t256 wisconsin avenue northwest. He has
been q soldier Of fortune and world
citizen and war correspondent In the
days when that position meant more adj
venture than II does today. He was
6ontIact si21geoR "a Tia war shetYeen the
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the Titanic is four-funnel vessel
Her average speed is rated at twenty
one knots per hour, and this can be
exceeded under forced draft II neces-
sary.
Dwarfs Even Dreadnoughts.
Compared with other vessels afoat
the Titanic's mammoth proportions
become apparent. She Is more than
twice the size of the dreadnought Della
ware, and her tonnage is more than
5000 tons in excess of that Of the larg-
est battleships.
The vessel left the ways at the Bel
fast yards last May, and her maiden
trip has been heralded throughout the
world. In the ships construction the
greatest care was exercised, and the
Titanic was supposed to be the final
word in shipbuilding as regards
stanchness, safety, carrying capacity
and sustained speed.
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no difference what she hit. The report
should not cause any serious anxiety"
Good Chance Of Rescue,

There was an excellent reason for be-
lief in the earlier hours that, even though
the Titanic was in dire straits. there was
a fair chance that no lives would be lost
The Cape Race dispatch reported the
weather as calm and clear, and in a
reasonably quiet sea there is little danger
in transfer of the passengers to the life
boats in which they might await with
reasonable tranquility the arrival of the
Virginian this morning.
1t was difficult for even mariners to in
terpret the situation from the Marconi
dispatches. They could not understand
why 1t should be necessary to take off any
passengers if the liner was sinking slight
ly at the bow, unless her captain felt
that the water-tfght compartments would
give way
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OF TITANIC
IN CRASH WITH ICEBERG,
SAFE ON OTHER VESSELS

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