The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-24
WIDOWS FILE CLAIMS
WIDE RANGE IN VALUE PLACED
UPON HUSBANDS WHO LOST
LIVES ON TITANIC.
PERSONAL PROPERTY CLAIMS

The Amounts Asked of Ships Owners
Run All the Way From So, 200
to $1,OOO,OOO. Archie Butts
Mother Asks for Only 81, 900.
NEW YORK.-Analysis of the
numerous suits which widows have
brought for damages because of the
loss OF their husbands in the Titanic
disaster brought to light today the
striking differences in the monetary
values that women placed on their
HUSBANDS. The suits ranged from
$4,000 to $1,00O,000 the record
high figure being that sued for by
Mrs. Henry B. Harris, widow of the
theatrical manager. An admiralty
lawyer declared today that the differ
ences in damages sought was due
chiefly to the various earning capaci-
ties OF the husbands, taking into con-
sideration also the age. The style
in which the wife has ben accus-
toned to live is also considera-
ton.
Mrs. Harris asks interest on ST.
900, goo from April IA, and schedules
her own property at $4,000, includ-
ing string of pearls at $40, 000, a
string of diamonds at $4,000 and five
trunks OF wearing apparel at $780,
600. She places her husbands eft
fects at $4,625, including a $3.50 set
of diamond vest buttons.
Mrs. May Futrelle, widow of
Jacques Futrelle, the writer, asks
100000 for his death, $4,971 for
his effects, including $4,000 for man
uscript notebooks, ideas for books,
and $4,37S6O for her won baggage,
including $4,000 for a string of
pearls and $500 for two of her own
stories
Claim for Three Hundred Thousand.
Mrs. Elizabeth c. Case of Roches-
ter, n. Y, asks three hundred thous-
and dollars on behalf of herself and
four children for the death of her
husband, Howard B. Case, who at the
time of the disaster was receiving
twenty thousand dollars annually as
managing director of the Vacuum Oil
Company.
Alice M. Silvey of Duluth, Mimi,
asks one hundredd thousand dollars
for the death of her husband, and
the same amount is asked in behalf
of Mrs. Jessie Kathleen Winslow
Sjostedt, widow of Ernest Adolf Sjos-
tedt; by Mrs. JEANNE Levy, widow
of Rene P. Levy, of Montreal; by
Mrs. Mahala Douglass, widow of
Walter d. Douglass, OF Minnesota;
by Mrs. Florence Briggs Cummins Of
New York city, widow and exeeu-
triy OF j. Bradley Cummins; by Mrs.
Lilly Millett, widow of Frank d. Mil
lett, the artist; by Mrs. Mary II.
Wick, widow of George Wick of
Ohio; by Mrs. M var. DHoelv
Ohio; by Mrs. Mary D. Holverson OF
New York; by Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt,
widow of George Henry Hunt, of
! Philadelphia, and by Kate Jussila, on
behalf of Maria and Katrina Jussila.
The papers disclose no action for
death loss for heirs of Major Archi-
bald w. Butt, President Taft's per-
sonal aide; his executor Lewis Ford
Butt, of Augusta, Ga, merely asks
for $1,000 for the officers seven
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widow of John B. Thayer, vice presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad,
asks only $14,91O.51 for baggage, in
Guiding, among other things, eigh-
teen hats at $3.50 and set of ivory
dominoes at $40. No claims are in
for Colonel Astor or Mr.. and Mrs.
Isador Straus.
! The largest claim for personal
property is that of Charlotte D. NJ.
/ Cardeza of Germantown, Pa, who,
in a schedule covering sixteen pages,
lists $1O4.753 jewelry and $72,599
clothing and personal effects. She
had as baggage fourteen trunks, four
bags, a jewel case, which she depos-
tied with the purser, and three pack
ing cases.
H. Bjobenstrom Stefansson of the
Gotham hotel asks $102,030 for
property lost, of which 500, 900 rep
resents an oil painting, La Circas-
sienne au Bain,' by Blonddeli. The
Right Honorable Lucy Noel Martha,
countess of Rothes, of Leslie House,
town of Leslie, county of Fife, Scot
land, asks 2,4S5 pounds sterling for
contents of trunks, and her maid, Ro-
berta Maiona. asks 60 pounds ster-
ling for her effects.
Besides claims from all parts of
the United States, Berlin, Paris and
the British Isles are represented, and
SUSAN Shawah of Beirut, Syria, asks
SIS, 900 for the death of her hus-
band, Youssif Ibrahim Shawah.