Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-14
TODAY ANNIVERSARY OF GRIM
NEST OF OCEAN TRAGEDIES
SINCE MAN SAILED BEYOND THE
PILLARS OF HERCULES.
WORLDS GREATEST SHIP
WENT DOWN CARRYING MORE
THAN FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEO.
PIE TO DEATH IN THE BERG
STREWN ATLANTIC.
Especial to The Herdld.)
THE TITANIC.
(By Brand WhitlOck.)

AND THIS, the dark Ironic spirit
Knocked.
AS II beheld the proud new lofty ship
Upon its westering way across the sea,
This is thy latest, greatest miracle,
The triumph of thy silence, art and all
That skill thOu'st learnt since forth the
NOrsemen Jared
Across these waters in their cookie shells
In lodging back and forth 'twixt storm
and sea
Until at last in this thy master work,
Ihoudst 60 in safety and in pride, and
boast
Meanwhile of thin unparalleled achiev-
ment,
Thy victory DER my wanton will and
whim!
Ho. Little man, behold I'd not waste
cen
a tempest on thy paragon, but thus,
Upon its first glad confident adventure.
With but cast-off fragment of my store
Of pOwer-thus to the bottom of the seas
For evermOre, with this try latest mar
And with thee! HO! Ho-"
The awful laugh
Rank through the dreadful reaches OF
the Void
But 10! The calm and all sufficient an.
OF our intrepid Northern race! With
lips.
Drawn tight they look with clear, dry
eyes on doom,
And so confront the end, there in the
night
That was to have for them no pityins
dawn -,
Their kind alone of all intelligence
Feels Pity
THE women and the children first,
We stay" .&<r
No cry. no whimpering and there,
Up there, upon the dark, mysterious
bridge, -.F"E
The grizzled captain, chief of all those
victims ..,.f.
Or Its sublime stupendous bitter joke
Bu' the exemplar of that race which
How to aspire, achieve. and dare It's
wrath. 4.
And in the hour of failure, how TO die
Courtesy of Collier'sD
NEW YORK, April 14.-Just a year
aeo-mOre than 1000 persons were Joy
full that they had a share in the MAIDEN
voyage of the greatest boat the world
ever knew. playing tennis on deck, float
ing in the tempered waters of swimming
pool, dining in luxurious salons, chatting
III drawing rooms more regal than kings
palace and listening to the worlds finest
music Then came crash, darkness.
death, herOism, cowardce. the manning
OF lifebOats, the escape of those who
could get away from the sinking hull
featured the last moments of the Titanic
as she sank April ii, 1912, and the most
frightful sea tragedy of all times was en-
acted.
1t was late in the evening when the
craft ground into the iceberg of the
Newfoundland Grand Banks, four days
after she started on her first trip.
The night was clear, the sea smooth. II
was 1l:4 ships time, or 0:30 New York
time. The orchestra was playing on the
decks, the women of the first cabin were
lingering in the light and warmth and
gaiety of the dining rooms where there
was music and bubbling life. The men
were smoking goodnight cigars. I'm the
second and third cabins, there was like
Joy, with the prospect of "home" of 4
new land" but few hours away.
And then came the towering berg, the
belated needing of repeated warnings that
ice was in the vicinity, the grinding crash
and the icy sea. The whole tale has been
often tOld-hOw brides were torn from
husbands; how children were put into
boats by frenzied parents who hoped
their little ones might be saved even
though they perished themselves; how
the men, save for few shameful excep-
tons stood back and waited for death
while the women were given first place
in the life-bOats: how the musicians struck
mp Nearer My God to Thee" and played
it until the water smOthered their mel