Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-17
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room aft. When the stewards came
to the captain to bring him food he
was angry at being interrupted-he
had work to do, for the fire was get
ting bigger, and Inch was lighting
With his hands as well as his head.
He could spare no time for food
lost five minutes might mean a lost
500 lives.
Get the hell [ It of here!" he COM
manded the stewards, and as they
left he yelled that they should take
the food they had for him to Jack.
Inch did not eat from w ~dnesday
night at Z o'clock until Friday morn
ing, when he had been taken aboard
the Kroonland,f but he wouldn't let
Jack suffer.
Presented by New Jersey Girl.
Jack is still pup He is a Man
chester terrier given to the captain
by Miss Paulo Elbel, of Hawthorne,
N. j., niece of Third Officer Walter
Dusselman, about seven months ago.
He is now not quite year old, but
since he came to Inch he has never
been away from him for a day at a
time. He is black and tan in color
and stands about as high and as long
as a good sized bull terrier.
When Jack was brought to Inch
last night so the two could be pho
tographed he showed very plainly just
what he thought of his boss; he
wouldn't hold his tail or his ears still
long enough to be pictured digni-
fiedly.
Before Inch slid down the ropes to
the Kroonland's lifeboat in leaving
the Volturno he lowered Jack in a
blanket.
Here" he shouted to Second Of
ficer Mansfield, commanding the boat,
look out for my baby"
Mansfield jumped at the word and
would permit none but himself to
handle the precious bundle that Inch
so carefully lowered. 1t was so wrig-
gly and uneasy that the officer hur-
ried to open it. His surprise gave
Inch his first smile in many hours.
Only s3 Years Old.
Not word of censure did this quiet
spoken sailor have for any one. Even
when he learned that the Carmania,
according to her captains own ad-
mission, had not lowered a boat, he
had no comment to make save that
there must have been good reason for
Bars failure to do so. Nor could he
be forced into making any statement
that might be construed into a criti-
cism.
Inch might be called a small man.
but as is said of little horses who are
we'll built, he is "all horse.'
His stanch. wiry, compact, physique
gave external evidence of his cool
ness his self-reliance and his ability
to command. He looks like a boy-he
is thirty-three years old Clean
shaver, the bronzed face never lost
it's composure even under the rush
of questions that greeted him.
Praises Officers.
His eyes have a habit of looking
straight at one. They are gray and
kindly, although they have seen six
teen years of rough sea life. He
speaks slowly and with a decided
English accent. He comes from
Devon. His wife and three children
await him now in Kent.
He told a story, much of which he
had already wirelessed to New York,
but in which he gave the personal
touch and supplied the missing de-
tails that cleared up puzzling points.
He had a requiem for Chief officer
Miller and Fourth Officer Langsell,
who were in charge of the two boats
that got away from the ship only to
be swamped later They were brave
men, he said, who had met their end
trying to save others.
How Victims Died.
From the captains narrative an
important and new piece of informa-
ton is drawn and that concerns the
manner in which the 1876 met their
death His estimate Is that thirty
were drowned in the loss of Miller's
boat; forty in Langsell's boat and
forty more in Boat No. z, which got
away from the Volturno, but was
swept under her stern and in the
captains own expressive terms, eve
sat on her"
That accounts for ITO. He thinks
that perhaps six of the crew were
burned to death-he knows of no
passansArs who lost THAR uuas in