Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-04-29
EXPLAINS SOME MYSTERIES
SAYS OPERATOR ON REscUs
SHIP WAS TOO susY TO AN.
swER MANY INQUIRIES
THE CAPTAIN DIDN'T OBJECT
WOULD HAVE ALLOWED ALL THE
NEWS TO HAVE BEEN SENT
TO NEW YORK.

Washington, April -Endeavol
ing further to repudiate any intlma
tions that he had sought to suppress
or delay news of the sinking OF tn
Titanic, Guglielmo Marconi, invento
of wireless telegraphy, appeared to
] day for a third time before the sen
ate committee of inquiry.
Mr.. Marconi had discovered aftel
leaving Washington last week that hs
had sent message to the operator
of the steamship Carpathia urgina
him to send news of the disaster e
the wireless station at Siasconset
Mass, or two vessels of the United
States navy. He read copies of these
messages and declared that when he
was examined before he had forgot
ten about that message.
Mr.. Marconi also produced copies
of many other messages which passed
between the Marconi office and the
Carpathia in an endeavor to get def
mite information. Mr.. Marconi was
excused by the committee in order
that he might sail tomorrow for Eng
land.
Mr.. Marconi read several additional
messages asking for news Of indivsJ,s,
uals, among them Mr. and Mrs. fs'a
dor Straus. Colonel John Jacob As.
tor, Charles M. Hays, BENJAMIN
Guggenheim and Major Archibald
Butt.
why did you not get any reply to
these messages, sent by high officials
of the Marconi company"
Il have no explanation to give ex-
cept that the operators, believe,
were busy on the Carpathia all the
time sending messages from the sur
vivors on board to their families and
relatives and friends ashore"
Mr.. Marconi said he did not be-
lieve that the captain of the Carpa.
thia had any disposition to prevent
the sending of news.
F. NJ. Sammis, chief engineer of the
American Marconi company, also tes-
titled, explaining what had actuated
him in sending messages to Operators
Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia
to hold their stories for -four fig
ures." He had made an arrangement
with newspaper for them to sell
their personal stories and had sent
the messages to the boys" informing
them of that fact.
.'If, as matter of fact, the wireless
operators on the Carpathia were busy
80 busy they could not answer mes
sages from the managers Of the com
pany which employed them-is there
not some means of checking up the
exact amount of the business they ac-
tually transmitted during those four
days the senator asked.
Yes Mr.. Marconi answered. 1T
would take time. We would have to.
check up with the Carpathia.
The senator suggested that Mr..
Marconi find out Just hoy much bnsi-
ness was done by the operators and
whom it was transacted with. He
said If passengers on the Carpathia
were sending as many messages as
had been claimed he thought It
strange that the public did not get
the news from relatives o. the sur
vivors.
Chief Engineer Sammis interrupt
ed to explain that he had handled al
the messages from the family OF G.
M. Hays of the Grand Trunk. and
the Astors and, that the information
did come that neither MI Hays nor
Mr.. Astor was on board.
I'VE can show that during those
days personal messages we're coming
from the Carpathia at the rate Of 20
to so an hour said mf. sammfs