The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-21
THAT man |SMAY,
T|TAN|C'S JONAH
Pen Picture of the Managing Dlrect 4
Whose Name Cannot be s
Found in the Hero
AN ENGLISH sNoB
More Concerned Now Over the Loss
Of His Wardrobe Than
Of Anything
Else.
N ENGLISH SNOB

United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, April 2o.-Joseph
Bruce Isnay is going to Washington
tomorrow. He will make no attempt
to evade the senate investigating COM
mittee's subpoena. He said as much
this evening, leaning against mantle
shelf in the Waldorf Astoria and smil-
ing his peculiar, indulgent smile.
Really said he, Eve should have
gone without a subpoena, SO long as
this matter is pending
Isnay talks with his head tilted
back, viewing his listener as from a
great height His attitude is that OF
man who has been used to looking
down upon his listeners. He has
! passed his life among subordinates,
has Ismay, from the days when he
! first went abroad with an English
nurse until now, when he commands
the fleets and finances of the Inter-
national Mercantile Marine and sal
ary OF $4,000 pounds year-and he
displays the results of this training.
He does not seek social contact
with those whom he might perhaps
regard as his equals, as is indicated
by the fact that despite his 100000
! pounds reputed wealth-s160 900, 600
American reckoning is member
/ Of but one club-the Reform.
i lsn1ay isfnot much OF a taiker but
he has grown more loquacious since
he left his comfortable cabin aboard
4 the Carpathia. politely edged through
J the crowd of survivors who had slept
on the floors or crowded hunks and
smilingly told the world his version of
what happened on the Titanic.
He has recovered his composure. He
J said so. He had in mind the replace.
ment of his wardrobe, which he ne
elected to save.
Misses His Clothes.
"I have been anxious to procure
other clothing he said land am
about to do so" He indicated the cord
i ed black coat and white piped vest
: which he has worn since he landed.
Were you able to save only this
suit?" he was asked
He replied with a stare. The little
smile vanished and the black eyes, un
) winking remained fixed on the ques
} toner for a quarter of minute, his
5 small head drawing further and furth
er back until the social distance be
r tween him and the interrogation hat
{ been fixed Evidently he believed tht
J little later he resumed conversation
!, "I cannot understand this sen
7 tence," he said Il wish to return tt
, London, and have received urgen,
' cable messages asking me to do SO
. Doubtless | shall appear before tn,
board of trade there, in an inquir.
9 similar to this. But, as I said 8,
= long as the matter pends, shall re
main.'
Ismay spoke as man who make
the best of an unpleasant situation
: He left the mantle shelf and leane
: his weight against a picture frame.
: Is one of his habits to lean his weigh
against the nearest convenient object
and since his arrival in New York h
has leaned rather heavily upon Vic
. President Franklin of the White Sta
q line.
e Franklin, acquainted with America
g ways, has not favored Tsmays projec
- re l<,, ~ no r1i iocf, oy,t f/,
9 England. regardless of America
opinion and taking the remnant of tn
n Titanic's crew along Franklin ha
# been aware of the disagreeable cons
| quences of evading United State
e senate subpoena, including seizur,
II hailing before the bar of the senat,
It and, incidentally, unfavorable adve
8 tisement for the transatlantic bus
d ness under Ismay's direction.
II Expects Homage.
Ismay himself has been profoundl
puzzled by the lack of ceremony wit
which he has been treated outside tn
White Star offices. He has showed
8 on every occasion when 1t has bee
IL his fate to converse with anyone nj
e his official inferior and has resente
1t it more than once with that fixe
2 stare that stare with which the kim
y for example, might accost a costt
D monger who trod upon his foot.
n He used the stare this afternoo
g when asked what advice his couns
had given him as to the results whic
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