Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-27
ISMAY KNOWS
HOW To KEEP
HIS TEMPER
BEARS AN UNRUFFLED front
Remains Soft in Words, SuaVG
In Manner

Washington, d. c., April 26.-Joseph
Bruce Ismay talks with his head tilted
back, viewing his listener as from a
great hight. His attitude is that of a
man who has been used to looking
down upon his listeners. He has pass
ed his life among subordinates, has
Ismay, from the day when he first
went abroad with an English nurse
until now, when he commands the
fleets and finances of the International
Mercantile Marine and a salary of
$4,000 year, and he displays the re-
suits of this training.
He does not seek social contact with
those whom he might perhaps regard
as his equals, as indicated by the
fact that despite his $100,000,000 rep
uted wealth-he is a member of but
one club, the Reform.
| Ismay is not much of talker, but
ne has grown more loquacious since
he left his cabin aboard the Carpathia,
edged through the crowd of survivors
who had slept on floors or crowded
hunks, and declined to tell the world
his version of what happened on the
Titanic.
Vice President Franklin of the White
Star Line, acquainted with American
ways, did not favor Ismay's project OF
leaving at the earliest possible mo-
ment for England, regardless of Am
erican opinion and taking the remnant
of the Titanic's crew along. Franklin
has been aware of the disagreeable
consequences of evading United
States Senate subponea, including
seizure, hailing before the bar of the
Senate and incidentally unfavorable
advertisement for the transatlantic
business under Ismay's direction.
Ismay himself has been profoundly
puzzled by the lack of ceremony with
which he has been treated outside OF
the White Star offices. He showed i,
on every occasion when it has been
his fate to converse with anyone not
his official inferior, and has resented
1t more than once with that fixed stare
the stare with which the King, for
example, might regard coastmongef
who trod upon his foot.
He used the stare when asked whar
advice his counsel had given as to the
results which might follow an attempt
to leave the country.
Ismay has kept lawyers pretty con-
stantly at his side since the Senate
committee began business here He
hasn't liked it that Senator Smith has
declined to allow the lawyers to in
terpose themselves as a shield for their
employer.
Little impression has been made
upon Ismay by the American upbring-
ing of his wife, who was Julia Flor
ence Schieffelin of New York.
Physically, Ismay is of type that
is rarely seen in New York. Men of
his age-50-and complexion, which is
swarthy by sort of settled rule seem
to run to avoirdupois. Ismay is tall
and slender. His height is feet 2. His
hair is black and short and curly, as
would be his mustache were it not
carefully waxed and black. Over the
original olive hue of his skin is laid
flush that extends over his forehead.
His jaw is short.
Benefitting by the same training that
is accorded the Fifth avenue little
boys, Ismay speaks always with
suave courtesy, when he speaks at ali.
modifying it over with that backward
tilt of his head. His voice, ORDINARILY,
Is deep and resonant, suggestive of
careful vocal education. There is a
chance that Ismay is singer When
he becomes excited his voice rises UNI
til it is near falsetto, bespeaking deli
lcately strung nerves.