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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
DEAF TO TAFT'S DEMAND
Log of Chester, However, SHOWS
Wireless Was Confused.
tFrom The Tribune Bureau.


yeelinpton April pa complete record
of the scraps OF wireless messages picked
I'M by the Chester, which was sent to get
information from the Tltanic sui WV
being taken to New York on the Carpathla'
received to-day at the Navy Department
emphasizes the great confusion which eA-
listed I'm regard 10 the operations OF 'ne
wireless operators, and at the same tili'e
eee,rs IN indicate certain disregard OF
tho demands made by the United states
government. through President Taft the
log will be transmitted 70 the Senate coih-
mittee investigating the disaster
Full contents Of the record OF the "re-
less operations during the tense hours wheh
the ear OF the nation was strained Tor
nows from the Titanic have not been made
r,,bltc and no doubt will be kept a secret
until the Senate committee officials receive
the Information. However, enough has
heen stated 10 show that there was I'M
limited confusion and not little humor'
Bits OF baseball talk-what the Giants
were doing, how the Athletics came OUT
etc.-are included in the record. as Is much
about different ocean travellers returning
home
Keep out of there" Keep off. What
are you doing" and many similar ex-
pressions. mingled with quite little pro-
family. from the various operators up ana
down the coast. stand out conspicuously.
II is assumed that some OF the scraps came
from the Carpathia, although not a WORD
refusing to give information about the sur
yivors IS contained in the record.
II. . has tlnA inf nj IA
ton can have on the Senate investigation
&c 70 show what may be assumed to be
Indifference" to the queries OF President
Taft relative to Major Butt and others
However, there is no proof that the replies
were not sent or that the queries were
received. so the officials OF the Navy De-
partment regard the record as valuable
chiefly az emphasizing the necessity or
governmental regulation OF wireless opera
tons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
BOATS ON WHEELS PROPOSED
Scientific American" Suggests
Plan for Big Liners.

The Scientific American" in its current
issue after discussing the Titanic acct
dent and suggesting that had the Ice warn
ing been needed and speed considerably
slackened the great liner might be ahoa'
to-day. or would have hoated until all her
company were saved. takes up the Ques-
ton of lifesavlng apparatus. 1t says:
For years the British Board Of Trade.
renowned the world over for the jealous
care with which II safeguards the HE OF
the individuals has been guilty OF the
amazing anomaly OF permitting the passen-
ger ships Of the vast British merchant ma
rinc to put TO sea carrying boat accomino-
dalton for only one out OF every three per-
sons on board. The penalty for such un'
speakable folly. We had almost SAID crimi-
nal and brutal negligence. may have been
long DELAYED. but IL was To come this nleht
I'm a wholesale Ringing away or human llle'
which has left blot upon TINS institution
which can never be effaced! Had the rcsu-
latons called for the boat accommodation
demanded Nv the German or our own gov
eminent, every soul on board the lItahiC
could have been transferred ana picked up
by the rescung ship. -
We can conceive Of no other motive tiIaN
that OF commercial expediency. the desire
TO reserve valuable space FOR restaurants
sun parlOrs, or other supernuouS Dut hl'
tractve features OF the advertising pam,
INLET and the placard for this criminal
reduction OF the last recourse OF the snip
wrecked to small a measure. 10 prdc-
teal steamship man can claim that tne
provision Of boat accommodation loI tne
fun complement Of a snip like the Iltanlo
Was impracticable. The removal OF deck-
house structures from the boat deck OK the
shin and tho surrender Of this deck TO us
proper uses would give ample storage room
for the sixty boats. more OF Tess "i'icn
would be necessary.
plan which might solve the boat PROV
lem In which the number or boats on shlps
Ike the Titanic may be raised from twenty
to fifty-siX and the accommodation from
about 0rD 10 about 3.loo. IL a. follows: inc
boats carried continuously along the Who!e
length of the boat deck rails. and between
each pair of smokestacks two lines or Tour
Loafs each slowed athwartshlp. Inc
checks I'm which these boats fest are pro
yIdcd with gunmetaI wheels, which run IN
,ransverse gunmetal tracks, countersunk
ON IN. deck As soon az the boat at the
rail Is loaded and lowered the next boat
inboard is wheeled to the davits and Loaded
ready 10 be picked up and swung outDoard
as soon as the tackle has been cast loose
from, the boat that has been lowered rms
mc,hod has the great advantage that II
The shir, has n heavy list practically the
whole OF the boats can be transferred &c
the low side OF the ship. u .L,,
'But." says the shipping man. an .ni'
means heavy top weights. the loss OF Na,u
able space and heavy costs TOT lnstaIiat'Vi
and maintenance: to which we Iepiy, ~
Tho words Of certain venerable book
"By how much, then. Is the NE oa '"a'
worth more than that OF sheep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
TAFT PATRON OF Benefit
Elaborate Programme Arranged
for METROPOLITAN Performance.

The benefit performance In commemora-
ton Of the victims of the Titanic disaster
and for the benefit Of the families or the
victims. to be held on Monday night at the
Metropolitan Opera House, VIII be under
the patronage Of President Taft and the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught. The ex-
ecutive committee is composed OF Amos
Pinchot chairman. Mrs. Benjamin GUM
ness, Mrs. Otto II. Kahn, Mrs. John Leslie.
Mrs. Amos Pinchot. Miss Elsie de wore.
W. Bourke Cochran. Rawlins Cottenet,
Frank Damrosch, Archer Huntington.
Rinaldo Stroppo- Qua glia and Prince Pierre
Troubetskoy.
The committee consists Of Mayor Gaynor.
Mrs. c. d. Alexander, Mrs. Lloyd Bruce.
Nicholas Murray Butler, Mrs. Lewis s.
Chanler. Joseph II. Choate, Mrs. w. Bourks
Cochran. Paul d. Cravath, Mrs Walter
Damrosch, Justice Gerard. Mrs. G. d. Glib
son. Mrs Robert Goelet. George J. Gould.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt Mrs. Archer Hun.
tington, Mrs. c. p. Huntington. Mrs. r.
Irwin. Mrs J. r ID. Lanier. Miss Annie
Leary, Mrs. Lydig. Mikail Pupin. Theodore
Roosevelt, Thomas F. Ryan, Herbert L.
Satterlee. Jacob II. Schiff Isaac Seligman.
Mrs w. D. Sloane, Mrs. r. Stevens. Osca-
.. StTdus. Prince anu ITiUCcSs IIOu-
betskoy. Princess Pierre Troubetskoy, Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. II. p. Whitney.
Mrs. Orme Wilson, Otto II. Kahn. Mrs. J.
Borden Hartman and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth.
After an opening orchestral number
Frank Damrosch will conduct an cappells
chorus by Bach, sung by the Oratorio 60
ciety, and then w. BOurke Cochran Will
deliver the commemoration address, which
will be followed by the playing Of tAu-
tumn" and Nearer, My God, to Thee"
A golden coramemoration tablet will be
presented to Mr.. Marconi
During the intermission there will be on
sale In the foyer cast reproductions OF
Prince Paul Troubetskoys commemoration
tablet and postcards In commemoration Of
the event, designed by Prince Pierre Trou-
betskoy. Charles Dana Gibson has drawa
figure for the programme.
Alfred Hertz will open the second part Of
the programme with the funeral march
from "Lobetanz." Among those who will
appear in this part are Mary Garden. Mime.
Lillian Nordica, Miss Katherine Pariow
and Enrico Caruso who will sing The
Lost Chord" in English. with orchestra
accompaniment. Antonio Scott has as
sured the committee of his services as we'll
as Enrico Console.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
ASTOR'S BODY FOUND
That of ISidor Straus and G. M
Hays Also Picked Up.
RUSHING THEM TO PORT
Mackay- Bennett Steaming to
Halifax with Burden of
Titanic Dead.

The bodies OF John Jacob AstOr. 1sidor
Straus and Charles NJ. HAYS are aboard the
Mackay- Bennett. which is now steaininG
toward Halifax. She Is expected there
some time Sunday or early Monday, accord
ing TO information given out at the White
Star Offices in this city last night
A dispatch from Halifax yesterday after
noon stated that the body OF Mr.. Hays IN"
Grand Trunk Railroad president had been
picked up by the cable steamer Nina sent
10 the scene Of the wreck 10 relieve the
Nackav- Bennett I'm her search II such is
the case IT will in all probability not reach
shore until the latter part OF the week
Whetber the name IL. Butt" which APP
peared in yesterday mornings list sisniiied
the presence of the body Of the Presidents
aid. Major Archibald w. Butt. among those
recovered. the White star line was uhaDie
TO CAV Yesterday. More definite informa-
ton on this point was anXiously awaited
during the day. but the wireless failed TO
bring II in.
Ninety-two names have been sent ashore
from the funeral ships since they ocgah
their search for bodies over the waters
where the Titanic went down with her cargo
OF human lives. nearly two weeks ago. ne
Mackay- Bennett reported on THURSDAY t"d'
abe had found 205 bodies all told. ana II IL
supposed that the names flashed ashore
Yesterday were merely further idcntica-
tions and not other bodies picked up. FROM
messages sent by the Mackay-benneu on
Thursday 1t is presumed that she mas WI
the scene OF the wreck, ana that c'nse
ouently any addition TO the lst OF pouI'9
found will come from the Nina.
News OF the finding OF Colonel AFtor
body was received at the office OF the Astor
estate. No. % West Goth street YESTERDAY
morning. and shortly afterward transmitted
IN Mrs W. H. Force mother Of the young
u,idow She with her other daughter.
Katherine. left Immediately for the Astor
borna While Mrs. Astor's condition Is re-
nor,ed as improved since coming ashore II
was thought best to have the news Oh inc
finding of her husbands body broken 10
her with the greatest care.
Her friends have said that several ti'"''
since the wreck she has Expressed inc con-
viction that Colonel Astor must be awe
somewhere Vincent Astor collapsed y'"ter-
day on learning that his fathers body hau
been found. lie had clunr TO the nope that
the colonel might have been picked up pS
= fishing boat or some passing liner nov YET
heard from The Aston yacht Norma ~ en-
pected at Halifax by the time the Mackag
Bennett arrives. and will take charge OF
the body.
All the names sent by the cable snip IN
the list of those embamed are found Ola the
first and second cabin lists with the eXcep-
,ion of one, which has not yet been ue-
termincd. They follow:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
VETO TITANIC PICTURES.

Chief Of Police Yore Of Bayonne iss' Ied
instructions yesterday TO the police nof to
permit the exhibition OF moving pic lures
relating to the Titanic disaster. TheI chief
said all such pictures are frauds and he
does not intend to permit the People Of
Bayonne 10 be hoaxed. Several theatres
had arranged to show the pictrfes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27

II was suggested by one familiar with
,eleeraphy last night that the name APP
nearing I'm the list as wv. Hanton" should
road ''W. Stanton" or Samuel Ward STAN
ton. n second cabin passenger. In the
Morse code the letter So is three dots and
the letter 1t" "A dash. The letter ~ on
the other hand. Is four dots. and IL was
nointed out that the st" might easily have
been mistaken for this
w. II. Marriott, whose name appeared on
Yesterdays list of bodies recovered. was
the official stenographer OF the Hudson
Fulton celebration and had an Office in the
Tribune Building. His name mas not APP
peared on any passenger list published
since the accident, and II Is supposed that
he decided to take the ship at the last mo-
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27

INERS
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Scientific
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27

FIRST CABIN
Z. - lanes W. G. Dulles.
ts,dor Gfraus II. J. Allison.
n ~ tiarrison w II George Graham.
IIarrison?D. JACOB BiTnpauih '"'"
r ". Newell "a. W. baum Jakob -
NewcI0. Austn iaItI''' , 1,
Iohn Jacob Aston. F. VIM" W
Milton Clong tMiiton G. Nmte - ,.....,,..
Long"D. lIyreh w '"''"''7''
SECOND CABIN.
Re-, Butler UReginad BuuerD.
NOT LOCATED.
Uendrick Is. Wilmer.
Few OF the other names forwarded ny
tho ship can be found among the cabin
passengers. Some of them doubtless belong
10 the third class and crow. while others
are obviously errors. This Is the list as
given out by the White Star office:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27

tribunal. which II terms a burlesque by
Senatorial busybodles."
The Times says:
We all feel that the circumstances are
unprecedented, and although the inquiry
bv the Senate and the compulsory detention
OF British subjects seem strange. yet the
American desire for prompt ard search,
Ing investigation Is perfectly natural ana
the Senate is within its rights.
The criticism here Is directed rather to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
TROTTER DAN S
HURT IN RUNAWAY
Racer Left Track While Being Work
ed Out This Morning and
Was injured Along With
Henry coombs.
CRASHED INTO GATE
Frightened on Track and Gave Dis.
play Of Disposition Which Made
Him Hard for Train
er to Manage
CRASHED INTO GATE

Dan S, a trotte- with a mark Of
2:191-4, owned by Harry Dietz and
Henry Coombs ran away while being
worked out over the fair grounds
track this morning and was quite bad
ly hurt when he plunged into gate
outside the grounds. Henry Coombs,
who was driving the racer. was bruis-
ed up some, but not seriously.
Details Of the accident could not be
learned fully this afternoon, as it was
impossible to communicate with the
fair grounds attendants. 1t was stated,
however, that Driver Coombs had just
begun to. work the horse out. when
the animal frightened and darted off
the track and out through the open
gate. The horse continued on his mad
tear until he crashed into cemetery
gate nearby. One of the shafts pune
tured the horses side. according te
the report. Driver Coombs suffered 9
cut across his nose.
Dan s is a bay gelding about sever
years old, which has been worked witt
| Indifferent success The horse wal
purchased jointly by the present own
ers and has been worked by Henr.
Coombs almost constantly. Dan
possesses great speed in his class, bu
has disposition not easily managed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
TERRIBLE TORTURE
FOR LITTLE ONES
Body Of Nellie Goethler Was One
Mass of Bruised and Broken
Flesh.

[ United Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-When the in
quest into the death of little Nellie
who it is charged was beat
en- and tortured until she died, began
today, physicians of the coroner's
office testified that the five year old
child's body was one mass of bruised
and broken flesh. DR.. Rheinhardt
testified that never before in his
practice had he seen a body with the
flesh SO bruised and swollen. He told
that the blistered feet indicated that
the child had been tortured either by
being made to stand on hot stove
or that hot bricks were placed at her
feet
William Goethler and Mrs Regina
Schiller. with whom he was living
are both charged with the murder OF
the child.
The police have communicated with
the Philadelphia authorities in an eff
fort to secure information as to the
records of Goethler and the woman
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
STOP THAT DANDRUFF

before it kills your hair. You know
dandruff is a germ disease and it
leads slowly and surely to badness
and there is only one way to cure
dandruff and that is to, kill the germ
that causes the trouble.
Greasy salves will never do this.
ZEMO and zEMO SOAP kills the
germ and are guaranteed to cure
dandruff, itching scalp and all other
germ diseases of the skin and scalp.
ZEMO and zEMO SOAP are the
true scientific remedies for these at
flictious. To show our faith in ZEMO
and ZEMO SOAP we have instructed
the druggist selling them to refund
your money if you are not satisfied
with the results from the very first
bottle and the first cake OF soap.
We can afford to make this offer
because one bottle Of Zemo and one
cake of soap are sufficient to show
their healing qualities and if used &C
cording to directions, they will effect
permanent cure.
Sold by druggists everywhere and
in Keokuk by City Drug Store.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
CITY NEWS.

Have your two door automobile
turned into modern four door auto
mobile at Wustrow Carriage and
Wagon Works
Mrs. Frank L.. Venning, $50 Grand
avenue, daughter of Major w. B.
Collins, is critically i'll today. Late
today her death has been expected
hourly.
Nicholas Mckenzie, lockmaster
on the canal, is confined to his home,
zoe North Seventh street, with seri-
Gus cold, which threatens to termin-
ate in pneumonia.
Advertise for results-use Gate
City want ad.
A marriage license was issued to
day to John A. Murphy of Sturgeon
Bay, Wis, and Miss Matilda Will
liams Of Minneapolis. The couple
will be married tomorrow by Rev
James Dunnion, pastor of ST Francis
de Sales. The groom is a water pow
er employee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
Scientific Wrinkle
Remover Easily Made

(From Ladies Favorite Magazine.)
A few dermatologists have long held
the secret that certain product,
known to the drug trade as saxolite,
had the property when used in solu-
ton, Of instantly reducing wrinkles.
Any one can readily make this same
solution by dissolving an ounce of
powdered saxolite In a half pint Of
witch hazel. Battle the face in this
and note the Immediate tranforma-
ton! The skin tightens, becomes
firmer- deepest wrinkles at once be-
gin to smooth out. This action will Of
course also reduce hanging cheeks
or double chin.
When the hands show signs of
aging, the skin becoming coarse,
creased, or flabby, battle them in the
solution Since the recent publica-
ton of this formula. men and women
all over the country have taken advan-
tage of the information, according to
reports, with most satisfactory re-
suits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30

less gross and net than in the same
month of 1910. but in both the gross
earnings were larger than in 1909 and
the net about the same. Prices of
active stocks rose somewhat sharply
in the early hours, Reading gaining
five,eighths; Union Pacific one and
one-eighth. During the early after
noon, part OF these gains were lost in
another professional attack, but We're
almost Immediately recovered, except
in st. Paul which failed to regain its
ewlier high prices. 1t was clear,
However, that what was going on
was nothing more than wrestle be-
tween the two factions of professional
traders, with the spectators for the
rise temporarily at an advantage.
Otherwise the market was no different
than what it has been pretty much
throughout the month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
JOHN M. FRENCH
HOLDS NO. ONE
Name Of Well-Known Keokukian at
the Top Of the Iowa Travelling
Mems Association.

In last Sundays issue of the Regis
ter and Leader a feature article ap-
pears relative to the Iowa TRAVELLING
Mems Association. A facsimile of a
letter of Nov. 81, 1880, is reproduced
containing the names of the first
twelve original members who signed
the roll of membership at the first
meeting. Keokuk takes the lead in
this historical document by having
John M. French's signature at the top.
He holds No in the Iowa Travelling
Mems Association. S. Goodwin is No.
4 and A. D. Kerron No. 9, both for
mer Keokuk mer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
&SS||''|{|Z|EIE'|l7|
Monday Music Club.

E-.
Mr.. Vim. f. Bentley will be here all
Of tomorrow, and has arranged a spec
ial practice with the sopranos and
altos of the Monday Music club chorus.
at p. m. in the Y. nj. C. A, auditor
ium. A like practice will be held for
the tenors and BASES in the same
place at p. M, and at $50 a general
practice for both men and women of
the chorus.
Rehearsals on 1.-THE Swan and the
Skylark" are progressing very salts
factorily-The chorus is large and en-
thusiastic and the work very beauti-
full. The following well known artists
have been engaged to take the solo
work in the Swan and the Skylark:
Sibyl Sammis McDormid- Soprano.
Alice May Corley-C ontralto.
John B. Mlller-Tenor.
John Read-Bass.
! Following are the names of new
members of the club:
Mr.. johnson Haywood.
Mr.. Earl Wood (Hamilton, ND.
Mr.. Earl linn.
| Mrs. Conlee.
| Mrs Eugene Maxwell.
Miss Nellie Vandendool.
Miss Mary Lilyestrom.
/ Miss Greta John.
Auxiliary
Mr.. Edward Schmidt.
Miss Fay BrumDack.
Miss Beatrice Williamson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
STUBBs SAYS HE
rs THE ONLY ONE
Holds up Roosevelt as Ono to Step in
and Restore Our
Confidence.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Jan. Theodore
Roosevelt is the only man who can
restore confidence to the people of
the United States" said Governor
Stubbs of Kansas today just before
leaving for Washington. The cover
nor had an extended conference with
Roosevelt
ut is untrue continued Stubs,
"that l have been organizing league
of governors to force the nomination
of Colonel Roosevelt by the national
republican convention. l have been
in communication with certain COVER
nors, and possibly in my letters the
name of the colonel has been mention
ed, hut it was only incidental because
most of the letters were on matters
OF interest to the several states"
Stubbs said that he had asked
Roosevelt to address a conference oil
Afro Methodist bishops in Kansas in
May. but that the colonel told him
that it would be impossible. He said
! there was no doubt in his mind that
| Roosevelt would be nominated and
elected. but insisted that this was his
individual view.
The colonel was communicative
on general matters today insisting
I when questioned, that he did not have
"a darn thing to say"
When asked regarding the authen-
ITCHY of story that appeared in tbs
Chicago Evening Post which purport
ed to be statement from him, tn
colonel said:
Il have certainly made no state
ment to the Post, and SO far az
know I have not been interviewed b
: any representative Oh that paper Tn
{ Post does not say who its correspond
i ent was, and until know of cours
4 l cannot say whether he has been
: see me or not. But l will say tina
/. nobody was authorized by me t
make any statement regarding m
/ views, and have no statement t
. make at this time"
]. Roosevelt told Judge Sadgelbarge
$ of Akron, Ohio, when the latter Gale
$ to ask Roosevelt to speak before tn
Y Akron progressive league on Feb. 2
that he was declining all invitation
at this time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
He Don't Believe 1t.

BLOOMINGTON. Ill.,, Jan. so,--"We
do not believe that it is possible OAR
row can be guilty" said John B. Len
non, treasurer of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor, here today, when in
formed that Clarence S. Darrow had
been indicted on charges Of jury brib-
ing in Los Angeles.
personally, would as soon think of
committing suicide as to prevent the
honest and proper findings of a jury
that was trying a case in court he
continued Il have no sympathy with
any such procedure and sincerely
trust and believe that when the case
against Darrow is heard, he will be
acquitted"