Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-01
Magazine Review
story of the Galveston Flood

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Story Of the Galveston Flood
The Trail by Water, the narrative
of a personal experience during the
great Galveston flood, is tnrillingly de-
scribed in the June issue OF Sports
Afield. An account of famous Maine
shooting ground is followed by Bircn
Greeks Big Trout; after which We
note capital article on the The Sport
of Trap Shooting, with some early day
"reminiscences. At the Edge of the
Cloud CMr. Barnes story of frontier
life during the Civil War; increases
steadily in interest amply warranting
the cordial wecome accorded it in al
parts of the country. White Bass
Fishing in Wisconsin, Our Trip to
Halfway River, Trout Fishing in Can
ada, the Best Gun TO- Upland Sport,
Game Conditions in Pennsylvania, and
a strong editorial against our nefari-
GUS enemy the cat, are some OF the
especially good articles in the June
Sports Afield. Your newsdealer can
supply you; if not, send Is cts. to
Sports Afield, 542 South Dearborn st.,
Chicago, Ills.
What Caused the "Titanic" Disaster?
The two main questions in which
not only the investigation committee
were interested, but which vitality con-
Germ the travelling public of the world,
are: Q) Who is to blame for this
appalling disaster? (2) What pre-
cautions can and should be adopted in
the future against repetition? 1t
does not seem possible to prove Grim
inal negligence. Rather, 1t is already
evident that the disaster was due to
three causes; the faulty system of reg
ulattion of ocean travel for which the
governments of the United States,
Great Britain, France and Germany
must, to adegree, be held responsible;
the ever-increasing competition OF
most of the larger steamship lines
to provide larger and faster vessels
in which, of late years, the luxurles
and elegances of travel have crowded
out the appliances manded by the
public and supplied by tle steamships
in response 10 the demand. Admiral
#. E. Chadwick, in letter to the New
York Evening Post, the day after the
tradgedy. summed up the situation
when he said:
The Titanic was lost by unwise navi-
CATION, by running at full speed,
though so amply forewarned, into the
dangerous situation. which might east
~ have been avoided. This is the
fundamental, sad. and one important
fact. 1t accounts for everything.
When she struck tine iceburg the
Titanic was going at the rate OF 81
knots (24k) miles) an hour, despite
the warnings already given by passing
ships of the presence of icebergs, and
also despite the fact that the stand
ing instructions of the White Star line
to it's captains are that they are to
run no risks" that "the safety of
lives of passengers is the ruling prin.
ciple"; and that 1T is the earnest de-.
side of the management to ensure a
reputation for safety These were
the rules, but now often an appalling
disaster has shown how easily custom
eSLdDllSlleS Quduy uA"llIIou io"S 'no'.
override printed instructions! AS one
editorial writer has pithily put it, mot
a single life on the Titanic was saved
by the tennis court" Despite the
great and expensive precautions taken
to render tie ship unsinable,-which
the passengers to their destruction
devoutly believed to be tuEe-the great
amount of space taken up for luxur-
ious appointments resulted in an in
sufficient number of lifeboats, and the
"unsinkable" ship now lies two miles
below the surface of the Atlantic
From 1.-The Progress of the World" in
the American Review of Reviews for
June.
A Hen Lays on the Average 70 Eggs
A Year