Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-21

! be further inconVenienced in his de-
parture with his ship after his most
| credita ble conduct, worthy of the
highest praise, We felt that it would
not be an evidence of our apprecia
ton to detain him and his ship and
passengers after he had brought the
survivors of the Titanic voluntarily to
this port We examined the second
officer because he was in command
during the hours Immediately pre-
ceding the collision and we thought
il wis to take his testimony i'm
mediately. Mr. Bride. the wireless
telegrapher Of the Titani, who sur
vived, had been injured and was un-
able to be conveniently moved from
New York. As his testimony and the
testimony of the wireless operator of
the Carpathia were so intimately re-
lated we concluded to take the testi-
mony of both forthwith and in order
that we might, beyond preadVenture,
have the statement of Mr.. Ismay for
mally on record, we decided to take
his tastimony immediately All Wer"
notified OF the Ldct laat Nsc ..uo h.tf.
finished with them and they We're re-
quested to remain.
After comforting with our asso-
ciates we concluded to exercise our au-
thority and formally subpoena these
officers, together with about twenty
men of the ships crew and take the
further testimony at least for the time
being at Washington, where the en-
tire subcommittee could be present.
In summoning the surviving pas
f,f xkrh
tressed. some quite i'll and others in
jured. we have thought 1t wise to pro-
ceed with care and consideration for
their physical and mental condition.
Many of them have already been sub
poenaed, but returns have not yet
been made and | am unable to give
a list of those subpoenaed We are
discharging our debt of graft
tude to the representatives of
the press for their marked consdera-
ton and courtesy and to assure them
that everything that has transpired
has been i'm their presence and that
this course will be pursued so far as
/ am concerned in the future hearings
of the committee
The committee devoted its entire
day to an investigation of the con
nection Of the wireless with the dis
aster II. T. Cottam, the operator on
the Carpathla WAS the first witness.
Senator Smith sought to establish
certain testimony he had given on
the stand yesterday and this soon
was ended. Then came the star
witness" of the day
. Seated in an invalid chair, Pride
WAS wheeled to the end nt the tabl'
He was hollow-checked and whit,
and had just come from ply
sician's care. His hands We're never
quiet and he locked and interlocked
his fingers necessarily.
Like Cottam. who is % years old.
Bride is merely a boy. Neither had
any telegraphic experience previously
to taking up wireless and both told
tales of long hours at low wages and
DAYS and pights spent without sleep.
This inexperience and tha mental
condition of the young operators were
the two points on which senator smith
bore persistently. He 10 put Cot
tam through gruelling examination.
in which the youth testified that he
had not slept more than eight or ten
bours between sunday night when the
Titanic called for help. and Thursday
night. when the vessel docked here.
Brides story was one that bore out I
virtually all that Cottam's had estah- I
Iished except that his was one Of |
rervous strain and worry and high /
KEYED suspense.
Bride was closely questioned as To /
the first call for aid sent out 10y the 4
Titanic He said the first vessel L"
answer was the Frankfurt OF the North .
German Lloyd line. The operator on
the Frankfurt. according TO the Wit
ness apparently considered the call
more or less trivial for an hour after
receiving the imperative appeal of the
sea ne called the Titanic to inquire 1
specifically just what WAS wrong.
Mr.. Phillips said n was fool
Bride testified. referring 20 the chief
operator on the Titanic. who lost his
ife. and told him to keep out
No effort was made To- re-e~ia hlish
connection with the Frankfurt al
though Phillips frlt that the vessel
vas much nearer than the carPathia
with Nhich communication had been
established. This. Bride said. Phillips
Judged hv reason - the greater power
4 the hertizian waves.
senator smith expressed sstonish-
n~nt al the statement He repeatedi, !