The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-14
THE WORLD is SLOW TO LEARN

THE WORLD IS SLOW TO LEARN |yT~ o-DAY.Is THE anniversary. of three3of the
 most terrible tragedies in history--a |bIack-l letter day in the calendar of humanity.
 Two years ago to-day the giant steamship Titanic, its maiden voyage across the Allan tic, crashed into an iceberg off the Grand Bank lof Newfoundland and went down, carrying with 1t I5O3 people
 Forty-nine years ago tonight a shot rang out in a Washington theatre and Abraham Lln- Ecoln, the noblest figure Of our time, the gen ltlest memory Of our wor1d'' was lost to a na- ton at time when he was most needed. Half century ago to-day Archduke Maxi milan of Austria and his bride, Carlotta, em- parked on an Austrian frigate to begin that | great adventutre which was to end with the crumbllng Of their Mexican empire the exeeu- ton of the Emperor, and a time of madness for his devoted wife
 ls Many a time humanity has heard ssthe bil- lows roar above a sunken ship but never with such horror as was aroused by. the sinking 1 of the Titanic. Many 8 great and wise states man and ruler has been assassinated, but few 1 such tragedies have inspired such general re- gret as the death of lincoln Many an adyen- | lturer has come to grief, but MaxiInilian s ldream of conquest was more imposing and 1 spectacular than most, and his fall farther. The Titanic is now 8 hulk on the floor Of the l sea. The grim outline of it's skeleton, and of
 thoseo other grisy skeletons it holds, are soften sea fseientists sulrrnise, the Titanic will be reduced l to fossilIzed state Later still the big hulk Twill split tip, and fossilzed remnants will be
 cast ashore on the islands of the West Indies to lbeeome the objects of Speculation and conjee- l ture by the scientists of the year 5000. All over England and America memorials
 have been erected to the victims of the great disaster Thomas Andrews designer of the ] Titanic who went down with his ship, has a monument at Belfast. A great Titanic memor- lialais to be erected in Washington commemorate ing the heroism of the who sacrificed their l lives that the women passengers might be saw
 ed, and, quite appropriately, the design selected was the work of woman sculptor, Mrs Harry Payne Whitney. Another memorial of great popular interest will be erected in Battery Park l New York, in honor of Jack Phillips, the wire T less operator of the Titanic, and others of his
 Ivocation who have lost their lives in heroic per i formance of their duty. Dr. Francis Norman sI sIOLoughlin, surgeon of the wrecked ship, has
 Ibeen remembered by emergency ward in list. Nineents Hospital, New York. The United .l to perpetuate the names lof Major Archibald l Butt and Frank W: Millett, the artist Homes q for he women workers of London to be known .l as aStead hotels will serve as appropriate me Fl morials to that great journalist and servant o1 sl lhhmanity, ". T. Stead Scores Of other memo .1 riais, including Harvards new library have Ibeen or will be erected to commemorate the
 name and fame of Titanic victims, and man.
 tInores modest monuments mark the graves o1
 Those who lie buried in the cemeteries Of Hali \ fax.
 As a re suit of the wreck Of the Titanic, in
 txentors have been stimulated in their efforts te
 Iperfect devices for making ocean navigation lsafer. Prof. Howard T. Barnes. Of McGill Uni
 Iversity, Montreal, and several others have beer working on apparatus for detecting the prox ;, inity of icebergs, and it is probable that this l, grave source of danger will soon be elimin nat t lied The international Conference on the Safe Ity of Ships at Sea, held recently in London i, ladopted recommendations that may go far to 7 ward accomplishing the purpose for which tht : Iconferenee was called.
 Il But Congress continues to toy with the Sea mans bill introduced by LaFollette, which if it E provisions were law and rigidly enforced would Fl do much to protect lives at sea. The lessor z Of Maxmilian did not prevent the assassination el of Madero, there are still those who by precep 5 land example teach the killing of rulers. Tn , Eworld is slow to learn
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