New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
TITANIC ANNIVERSARY IS
FUNERAL DAY OF MORGAN
Services Come One Year from
Time Liner Owned by Company
He Organized Hit Berg.
WRECK WORKED REFORMS
Nations Safeguard Life and
Property at Sea Since I'm
sinkable" Ship Went Down
with 1903 Persons.

A year ago Tuesday the White Star
Atlantic. with loss Of l.5oS persons.
among them many persons OF prominence.
including John Jacob Astor, Colonel
Archibald Butt. MI and Mrs Isdor
straus. Benjamin GuSgenheim. JACQUES
Futrere s Ward Stanton and Henry r.
Harris.
Tie Titanic hit an iceberg at ll.35 p. m.
on April a, while travelling at speed
Of twenty-onc knots, and two hours and
forty-fye minutes later she plunged 10
the bottom. i'm latitude n:is north. 1914
west She had come fresh from the yards
Of her builders. Fla'land Il Wolff of
Belfast. and. according t. j Bruce Ismay.
president of the Intcrna,i onal Mercantile
Marine Company. her owner. she was 'in-
siukablc
The steamer cost about S7.Jo0o0o, and
since she sank suits agSrCSating almost
that sum have been brought against the
owners by relatives OF those. lost and by
survivors The presence of Mr.. Ismay on
board was a factor in the allegations of
negligence on which the actions were
based
MANY things Of moment 20 the marine
world have happened I'm the twelve
months that have elapsed since the great
liner was wrecked On her maiden VOYAGE
from southampton to this port. The loss
Of the unsuitable" ship stimulated ae-
tivity In the way Of safeguarding lfo
and property at sea. Many reforms were
put into force j. Bruce Ismay is 20
longer the head or the international Mer'
camille Marine Company. Although he
was among those saved. the shock Of the
disaster had an III effect on him. and ne
resigned the craftsmanship in favor Of
Harold a. Sanderson.
MORGAN Funeral on Anniversary.
~ ? coincidence. the funeral of J. Pier
mont Morgan. organizer Of the lnterna-
nonal Mercantile Marine Company will
be held tomorrow. tho anniversary OF
the THAMES fatal blow from the ice.
\ costly lesson was learned with the
passinc Of the liner. She kept afoat two
hours and forty-ive minutes after she
struck. but her lifeboat equipment was
Inadequate to keep afoat all her passen-
GERS AZ one time She had life preservers.
and these kept many afoat, but they
were no protection against the icy waters
NJ the Atlantic 10 the southeast of Cape
Race.
As soon AS il became known that prac-
tically all aboard could have been saved
had there been enough lifeboats the Brit
sh Board of Trade Issued orders that.
every passenger carrier and ireighter
sbould have this full equipment. Ger
many. France. Spain. the United states
and. i'm fact. almost all the maritime ma
tons needed the warning and put the lie
boat order into effect at once. Within
month every steamer coming 10 THIS port
and leaving il was fitted with all the life
boats and Hferafts il could carry. Pas
eonrors on the Baltic even complained OF
the incumbrance Of deck space when the
Owners equipped her with boats and RATS
capable of keeping her full complement OF
and crew ahoat al one time.
Changes were made in the plans OF the
Hamburg American liner Imperator' theh
I'm construction and although she can
carry 5000 persons she will have equip
ment 70 keep them ahoat when she ar
rjves here in June. The Imperator Is the
biggest passenger carrier in service.
Until the Titanic was hit constructors
had not contemplated seriously sidewlpine
by submerged berg. The ripping OF 'he
Titanic revealed the necessity OF the
double skin" and after making Re"
more trips across the Atlantic the gym
ric 2 sister ship. went into drydock az
pelfss, for six months. arriving here on
1vodr,eda, with a double bottom and