Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-01-25
D%EST|TUT|ON,
TITANIC CLAIMS
Woman Writes Of pitifuI
Plight Owners Refer
Her TO Charity.

tbtItg-lHitt pAAS VI SHUts. OtlieE
items are $500 for a lace parasol, $3.50
for a lace and mother-of-pearl fan,
$50 for an elephants breath paradise
feather and St.7j for a cake of soap.
Her jewels were valued at S104, 753,
among them being a Burma ruby ring
worth $4,000.
This claimant says she paid 5000
for her passage.
Painting His Chief Loss.
Another big claim for loss OF per-
sonal effects Is that of II. b. Steffanson
Of the Hotel Gotham, who asks $102,-
030 He values a painting by Blondel.
ia Circassienne au Bain," at 100000.
The Right Hon. Lucy Noel Martha,
countess of Rothes. Leslie House, Fife,
Scotland, asks $12,425 for her ward.
robe. Her maid wants $500 for hers.
Mrs. Catherine Harbeck of Toledo,
widow of w. II. Harbeck, wants S2a,-
600 for his death aud $55,S23.S4 for his
belongings. Among these were no.
900 feet of moving picture films, which
she values at $4,000.
The Merchants Marine Insurance
company asks $132,000 for twenty-six
property schedules on which it has
paid insurance.
One of the pathetic claims Is that Of
Mrs. Angelo Noutal OF London, Eng.
land, who writes TO Commissioner Gil
christ on heavy mourning paper. She
says she is destitute as the result Of
the death OF her husband, Iiahman
Noutal.
Il am totally %unproyided for" she
writes. land have Il little daughter and
my mother to support. Froiu the lord
mayors fund | am now getting $50 a
month. hopelessly inadequate for three
people. ] have written three times TO
the White star line. They have re,
piled, regretting they could do nothing
and referring me to the charitable
funds. | cannot believe that they are
10 be permitted to refer victims of their
neglect to charity"
Helen G.. Candee asks $4,000 for per.
sonal injuries and $i.04G for baggage
She says she was forced to jump from
the deck of the Titanic to a lifeboat,
that there was no proper arrangement
of oars or equipment in the boat and
that in the confusion she fell and broke
her ankle, from Which she suffers lame
ness. She asserts she had to help TO
row the boat for hours.
Mrs. Frederick C. Quick OF Detroit
claims SO. 100 for suffering due to the
shock Of the disaster.
II and my daughter have never been
the same since" she says.
George Rheims was on "a submerg
ed, defective collapsible lifeboat for
hours" he says. and for shock and
anguish" he demands $1,000; for bag.
gage, $6.41S.
Mrs. Florence Angle asserts she suf.
fered terribly from shock due to her
own physical hardships and the death
Of her husband, William A. Angle.
She claims $11 900 for her personal
sufferings and $4,000 for her hus-
bands death.
Was Kept From Lifeboat.
Mrs. Elizabeth l.. Rothschild Of New
York sets forth that her husband.
Martin Rothsehild. was prevented from
entering the lifeboat" with her and
was lost. Her mental state was such
that she was under a physicians care
for n long period. for which she asks
$4,000. with $4,000 for her husbands
death.
Several other widows say their hus-
bands were prevented from entering
the |lifeboats." Several claimants re-
fer to the presence of j. Bruce Ismay
on board and assert he had knowledge
that the ship was being uavigated reck
lessly. Captain Smith is mentioned in
n claim for incompetence.
The spinal column was meant to be
horizontal and to protect from injury
the internal organs and the soft parts
OF the body, which ought TO hang from
1t. The spinal column is, in fact. prop.
erly the rooftree OF a man and fulhlIs
this use in the case of the other man,
mails.
Mans upright position, concludes the
professor, hampers particularly the di
gestlve process. This is owing to the
organic displacement which it entails
hence men suffers from many sto
machic maladies from which the less
aspiring quadrnpeds are free
DR.. Klotz has found that very few
human beings who are past twenty
years OF age have al their organs in.
the right place. They have sagged o.
dropped or wandered to a more or lest.
degree. Especially is this the case
with the stomach
1t is declared that it is amazing wha,
the Klotz ctre viii do One only has
to try it 10 discover how eflcacious il.
Is. say itS nIvOratpS.