The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-29
Valuable Horse Killed
BLAME FOR TITANIC DISASTER SHARED BY CAPT. SMITH AND CAPT.
 LORD OF CALIFORNIAN
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 ->-~~-~->---~-->~--~~~~--> planted themselves in the very pathway 5.i this snIp ana were so large and 50 numerous that, in the absence of fog they should have been easily discernble by the lookout, if, he says In his test-
 nony, he had been supplied with glasses.
 Captain Smith knew the sea and his clear eye and steady hand had often guided his ship through dangerous paths: Tor 40 years storms sought in vain to VeN
 him or menace his craft. His indifference to danger was one of the direct and con- tlibuting causes of this unnecessary trag- edy while his own willingness to die was the expiating evidence of his fitness to
 live; those of us who knew him well not in anger, but in sorrow-fie one spe- cihc charge against him, overcontidencc and neglect to heed the oft repeated Wa rnings of his friends: but. in his hor- .lble dismay. when his brain was afro with honest retribution, we can still see
 In his manly bearing and his tender solic- tu0e for the safety of women and little children some traces of his lofty spirit.
 Overconfidence Dullcd Caution
 "The mystery of his indifference 70 danger, when other and less pretentious vessels doubled their lookout or stopped their engines finds no reasonable hypo- 
 m shipbuildng was supposed to nave au- tained perfection and to have spoken her .ast word; mastery of the ocean had at fast been achieved; but overconndence set ms to have dulled the faculties usually SD alert With the atmosphere literally charged with warning signals and wire less messages registering their last ap- real, the stokers in the engine room fec inelr fires with fresh fuel, registering in that dangerous place her fastest speed. Nature gave warning of approaching peril so significant that passengers in stateroom and steerage shut out the chill and spoke to one another of the sudden cold. Sailors off the Grand Banks know lne importance of the thermometer which is almost as necessary to their safety as is the compass. Even the quartermas- ter Kitchens. who regularly took the l temperature of the water from the sea. said: It suddenly became bitter cola and added that the first order recevel by him from Second Officer Lightollor at s o'clock Sunday evening was to take his compliments down to the ships car pcater and inform him to look to his fresh i water, that il was about to freeze.
 Senator Smith declared that the com hand of the officer of the watch 70 avert the disaster actually exposed the most vulnerable part of the Titanic to the ice when the shock came.
 Distracted by the sudden appearance of danger, said the speaker. ''he sharply turned aside the brow, the part best pre- pal ed to resist collision, exposing the tenn pie to the blow; at the turn of the bige the steel encasement yielded to glanc- ing blow so slight that the Impact was not felt in many parts of the ship, all though representing an energy of more than 1000, GOO tons, said to be the equiva- lent of the combined broadsides of 20 of the largest guns in our battleship fleet fired at the same moment, with blow so deadly many of the passengers and crew did not even know of the collision until tardiy advised of the danger by anxious friends. and even then official statements were clothed in such confident assur- ances of safety as to arouse no fear.
 Censures Ships Officers
 Senator Smith said that the awful force of the impact must have indicated to mas for and h,ilder that the shin was doomed