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The Detroit times., 1914-10-28
GIRLS HUNGER
FOR KNOWLEDGE
WINS COURT
Judge Hubert Tells Yetta, 16,
She May Continue in
School
FATHER, POOR RABBI,
WOULD HAVE HER WORK
Court Spectators Brought Near
To Cheers by Child's Fervid
Plea

Before an audience Of social work
ers. Judge Hubert and newspaper
men. little Yetta. 16-year-old Russian
Jewess. Tuesday paid fervid and Inn
passioned homage to the world OF lit
erature and declared her determine
tion to give battle to all the powers
of the city rather than give up her ed
ucation.
The girl IL the daughter OF poor
rabbi, and was brought into court at
the request Of her father, who declar-
ed she would not mind him. Nineteen
months ago she was an immigrant,
with but dozen English words at her
command. Today she is pupil In
the Cass technical high school and has
mastered the work Of eight years In
less than two.
She Is little. dark thing. with great
black eyes and a wilful mouth. She
fairly radiates energy and tempera-
ment and the nres of genius burn In
her veins. Pushing her hair back. she
faced the court and talked for i've
minutes In perfect English. and when
she had finished the social workers
and Newspaper men that had heard
her came near TO cheers.
Il am q girl, q poor girl, and my
parents do not understand" she said.
Less than two years ago I came to
this great. beautiful country knowing
not its language or its ways. but in
my heart was happiness. for here |
a xuo al q hxr
mother 10 ignorant. do not blame
her for this. but do not intend to be
like that. I read book In Russia
and 1t was the story Of my people and
their sufferings. and In the story were
hints of the world OF books.
IL said to myself when / steamed
into the harbor Of New York and saw
there the great stone Goddess Of Lib
ertv 49,. I would know the world of
education. worked night and day
at my books. | read till my eyes
Eched and haunted Libraries. There
was -"tAing could not remember,
and l finished books In school in q
month that served others for the term
At nights read the histories of the
old countries and Of this. I read phil.
osophy and old English masters.
poetry and sciences and political
works.
I'm Detroit I have been happy be.
cause there were many books and
could read. Now. when I am 16, my
father wants me to leave school and
go to work. He does not believe In
higher education for women. But I
will learn. will work nights, Judge,
and 60 to school In the day, or I will
work days and 60 to night school.
Please let me learn. II you knew the
hunger that Is in my heart for knowl-
edge. I want to help my people and
the poor, and how can I II / do not
know the wisdom of the world?
"If you could see my poor people
In Russia and the poor of other creeds
and know their awful plight and the
darkness Of their ignorance you would
not blame me for wanting the light.
Please, please, your honor. let me 60
to school,"
Judge Hubert questioned the father
for moment and then carefully ex.
planned the great need that the girl
continue her studies. and the father
after listening gravely, nodded his
head and agreed. Wednesday Yetta
went back to school.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28
PdIduer of NJ
The Politicians

f! The Seventeenth ward True Blue
Republican club viii give a smoker
In Odd Fellows Temple, Park View
and Kercheval-aves.. tomorrow even
ing. All candidates on the Republi-
can city, county and state tickets
have been invited TO speak.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

The Metropolitan club. an organiza-
tion OF policemen. firemen and other
civil service employees, has gone on
record as opposed to the constitution
al amendment barring the operation
OF fraternal Insurance companies In
the state. The club alleges that the
adoption OF the amendment would do
away with the benefit systems Of
their respective organizations.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28
WEALTHY BANKER
SHOT BY LAWYER
Steubenville, o., Capitalist Kill
ed by Attorney, Who Then
Takes Own Life

6TEUBENvrLLn, O, Oct. 2s.--
Dohrman J. Sinclair. so. millionaire
banker. was shot and probably fatally
wounded In his once In the Union Do
posit bank ct $40 q m, today by
Charles Gilmore. an attorney. Oil.
more then killed himself.
One Of 0flmore's shots hit Sinclair
In the shoulder and the other In the
stomach. His condition is serious.
Gilmore, his friends say, had. been
eccentric and had not practiced for
years. Police say the shooting was
the result Of an hallucination held by
Gilmore that Sinclair had injured him.
Gilmore was member Of q well-to-do
family. Sinclair was connected In .
legal capacity with the family at one
time.
Sinclair is president Of the Union
Deposit bank. and is one OF the big
gest industrial and realty owners In
this section of the country. He was
in the habit of going to the bank ear
ly. Gilmore entered q few minutes
after Sinclair arrived today. and the
shooting followed.
What transpired between the two
men before the shooting is Q mystery.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28
at
Dyspepsia
~ oimpIy Using . stuart's oyspepsls
Tablet After Any Meal You
Want 70 Eat

Il sounds almost ridiculous to think
Of eating big meal without pain and
discomfort afterwards. doesn't 1T
Well, try this simple remedy and dem.
onstrate its truth. You know that IL
men q jury decide the laws of our
land. Not only have IL men o. KID
etuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, but hum
dreds Of thousands a. well
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

A ccin In the slot machine has been
invented for checking umbrellas,
canes or small packages In public
places.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

=. y. T.srsn. Deneerstss candidate for
nayer. spoke q the plant q the
noon today. After the Democratic
the evening he viii address the Unit
ed West Side Improvement associa-
tions 1T the Board Of Commerce. AZ
ter this he WIN addrsss the American
sssis for 81 4 aSS issess s%ss Is sepssi ss 20 3
tss public !er hsip n the vork q
cold spell n eausing : great 6oeI cf
so9sTing and the sesourses q tbe
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

An English railway in 1s4s ran the
first smoking car.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28
Children CrY
FOR flETcnER'S
G a . TO RIA

to
roof
ssrnsq or wns three csn
satisfied tomers and buildings et4
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

r:'ss,.I 5ss r.t.si;f d.a 4 JoS. DS.. p s,eAs TIN
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

Rinderpest IL decimating Phillip
pine cattle.
The Detroit times., 1914-10-28

Impeachment proceedings against
Patty" McGraw and the other mem
bers of the election board In the ninth
precinct of the Fourth ward, failed to
make their appearance In the COM
mon council, Tuesday night, when
several of the aldermen were absent,
making 1t impossible to take up the
case. McGraw and his board, charged
with fraud by Charles M. Carson, will
thus be ION the job on election day.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Burns Desires to
 Be Kept Informed

London. May 29.-John Burns. pres ident of the government board, today twice visited the Canadian Pacific rail- way offices to obtain the latest news about the disaster to the Empress of Ireland and requested to be kept fully informed.
 A constant stream of anxious callers including many members of the Saliva tion Army, also went to the offices of the company.
 The flags on the shipping offices in London were half masted on receipt of the news of the disaster to the Empress of Ireland. The insurance held at Lloyds on the Empress of Ireland amounts to $2,90O,O00.
 When the first news of the accl- dent arrived a considerable amount of reinsurance was effected at 47 1-4 per cent.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Gulf of St. Lawrence
 Strewn With Wreckage

Wreckage strews the St. Lawrence for many hundred yards near the spot where the Empress sank. The sun shone brightly during the forenoon and though the water Is still icy, the temperature today was not low enough to increase the suffering or the survivors.
 The vast majority of the saved were members of the ships crew Early estimates here indicated that not more than sixty passengers were saved. Besides Captain Kendall, the first and second engineers and the ships surgeons were rescued. The captain was too overcome to give at first any extended account of the dis aster. He had sent a wireless to his line after the vessel was struck, say ing ship gone.' .t ..
 The residents of Rimouski, num- bering only 5000. came silently to the dock where the dead and eX- hausted living were being landed and, under the direction of the mayor, H. R. Fiset, gave aid wherever possible. Every doctor in the town was on the scene, and many of the injured were taken to private homes. From cedar chests and closets the townsfolk brought garments of all descriptions for those who had lost their belong ings. Two headquarters were estab- lished--at the wharf and at the sta- tion of the Intercolonial railway. At the station those injured and not removed to homes were cared for.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
First News Came
 From Father Point

Quebec, May 29.-First news of the disaster reached Quebtc shortly before three o'clock this morn ing. It came from the Marconi station at Father Point to the Marine department agent here and announced that the Empress of Ireland had col lided with an unknown ship thirty miles east of Father Point and was sinking. Ina Marconi station had heard the IS. o. s. signals of dis tress and reported that the Canadian government steamer Eureka and the mail tender Evelyn, which were at Father Point had been dispatched to the rescue. The wireless people re- ported that they had been in com munication with the Empress of Irc- land but short time when the mes sages suddenly ceased. This led Co fears that the steamer had sunk and this afterward proved true.
 Nearly an hour after the first mes sageS were received Father Point re- ported that 1t was the Hanover, of the North German Lloyd Line, which had been in the collision with the Empress of Ireland and that proba bly, both steamers had been lost. This added gravely to the disaster as the Hanover was known to have over 1900 immigrants aboard bound from Rotterdam for this port.
 The report about the Hanover, however, fortunately proved to be an error and Father Point announced that he had learned that it was the collier Storstad that collided with the Empress of Ireland and that both vessels had gone down soon after the collision.
 At six o'clock this morning reports that survivors were being landed at Ram ouski were received here. It was stated that the Eureka and the Lady Evelyn had landed $50 persons but that more than 800 were still miss ing and were proba bly, drowned
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Scene Was Similar
 to Titanic Disaster

The rescue boats Eureka and Lady Evelyn, found on reaching the point where the Empress had sunk, a scene not dissimilar to taht which greeted the liners which rushed to the Ti- tanics aid. They found the ship sunk, and the surface of the water. fortunately calm, dotted with life boats and filtered with floating debris.
 In the life boat were huddled the survivors, daZed and moaning, some of them dying of injuries sustained in the rush of leaving the sinking steamer. Few could give anything but mcoherent. almost hysterical ac- counts of what had happened. J. l.. Black and Mrs. Black of Ottawa, said they had Jumped together into the river. They had been reused by the shock of the collision and unable to get into a life boat. had made the leap. They were picked up by a boat from the Lady Evelyn. Another ser vivor was Mrs. Patten of Sherbrouke, Quebec.
 First reports had it that the collier Stortsad had also sunk. These proved to be incorrect. Though her bow was badly damaged the Storstad was able to keep afoat. Some reports said she had aboard 36O survivors. This, if true would reduce the death list ma terially--from more than a. thousand to less than seven hundred. Among the survivors here thirty-four were from the Empress second cabin.
 The Empress of Ireland was valued at $2,000,000 and with her cargo, valued at $25O,O00 was fully insured
 At low tide today the tops of her tunnels could be seen. She is lyins in the channel. It is thought by navigators here that it may be pos sible to raise her. At present the wreck is a menace to navigation.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
of Ireland Cut Wide Open by Collier Sorstad in Gulf St: Lawrence Early This Morning During
 Very Dense Fog

Storstad twenty miles out from Father Point. The Empress sank within ten tclnutes. The s. o. S. signal sent out was received at Father Point and the government steamers Eureka and Lady Evelyn were despatched to the dis tressed vessels assistance. The Elm press of Ireland listed and was un- able to get many of the boats out.
 Captain Kendall was saved, being picked up on some wreckage by No. 3 lifeboat, thirty minutes after his ship had foundered. Both wireless op- orators, assistant pursers. chief en- gineers and chief steward were saved. the missing"
 Danfort, the Marconi operator of the Eureka, reports the following in- complete list of survivors at Rimous- Xxi:
 F.. H. Parkinson, bedroom steward i; w. Rowan, steward; Alex Dudley, Cooms, pantryman; A. Reginald. Moreland, White, Grey, James Will Hams, assistant steward E. Foster, A. Elliott, baker; A. c. Ferguson, s. R. Simon, Nostal, Doeliz, Speddon, No- vek, A. w. Gaade, chief engineer; S. Sampson Swan, tenth engineer; T. Bradwick, sailor; N. Murphy, T. Be- rah, reported quartermaster; Duck worth, electrician; J. Salio, Sapete Donovan, A. Williams, H. Clarkson, T. Hanon, Charles Clarke, K. Laski, Savein. King, Scott, Haes, assistant purser. G..- ... .'''
 Only one woman, Mrs. Simon, Is among those picked up by the Eureka. The greater number are members of the crew and third class passengers.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
36O Survivors Reported
 Aboard Collier EtOrstad

A message received here by the Canadian Pacific offices from Rimou- ski said that All the passengers had been picked up by the boats of the Lady Evelyn and Eureka" A similar message was received by La Patrie, a French newspaper from a Rimouski correspondent. He said that four hundred survivors had been landed and that the Lady Evelyn and Eureka were going back to pick up the remainder of the passengers who were in boats.
 The foregoing information does not agree with previous dispatches in the matter of loss of life. From the word ing of the Canadian Pacific message 1t could not be determined whether "All the passengers meant all those on board the Empress of Ireland or sim ply all those who were able to make the life boats.
 The collier Storstad has 360 sur vivors from the Empress of Ireland on board, according to an announce ment made by the government signal service. With approximately 400 landed at Rimouski, this accounts for 76O souls aboard the Empress. leav- ing GIT unaccounted for at 10 o'clock this morning.
 The text of the message received by LaPatrie from Rimouskf reads: Lady Evelyn and Eureka docked at Rimouski with four hundred passen- gers. Captains both reported that all the passengers were saved in the life boats of the Lady Evelyn, Eureka, and Empress of Ireland. As soon as passengers are disembarked, both steamers will leave for the scene or the wreck to pick up other passen- . gers"
 Arrangements have been made by the Canadian Pacific Railway with the Allan Line to send the survivors to Liverpool on the Alsatian, which arrived at Quebec today. The story published this morning by La Patrie indicating that all the passengers of the Empress of Ire land had been saved has not been substantiated.
 The estimates of total loss of life range from 67s to over 1000. Among the $50 persons reported rescued are twelve women.
 Twenty-two of the rescued died from their injuries after reaching shore.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Delegates of Salvation
 Army Were Aboard

Winnipeg, Man, May 29.-The Sal walton Army delegates to the London worlds convention who were booked on the Empress of Ireland follow:
 Commissioner and Mrs. Rees. Tor onto: Field Secretary Colonel Daskin and wife: Field Secretary Colonel Maidment and wife: Adjutant Beck sted of Grace hospital. Winnipeg; Brigadier Scott Potter, financial sec retary, Toronto; Brigadier Walker, editor of the Canadian War Cry. Tor onto: Major and Mrs. David Criegh- ton of the immigration department; Major and Mrs. Findlay, Winnipeg; Major and Mrs. Howell. manager printing department Toronto; Major Turtin manager trade department, Toronto; Major Frank Morris, di- visional commander of the London de- Dartment. London division; Staff Cap tam Arthur Morris, Toronto; Staff Captain McAmmond, Winnipeg: Staff Captain Hayes, commanding officer of Temple corps, Toronto: Staff Captain Goodwin, commanding officer, Ottawa; Adjutant Brice, matron, Hamilton Rescue Home, Hamilton; Adjutant Edwards mems social department, Ottawa: Ensign Jones. Calgary: En- sign Peacock, Calgary; Ensign Knud- son; Captain Ruth Rees daughter of missioner and Mrs. Rees.
 Staff band. composed of officers
 (Continued on Eleventh Page)
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS
 TENDER PRESCRIPTIONS
Four Instructors Notify Su- perintendent Holmes That
 They Will Leave.

Four teachers on the New Britain High school faculty, Miss Alice Brigham, Miss Hazel Buckley. Miss Helen Lamprey and Miss l.. Amelia Reidel. have rendered their resigna- tions to Superintendent of Schools Stanley Fl. Holmes, all to take effect at the close of this school year.
 Of the quartet, Miss Brigham is the oldest member. of the faculty. Judging from a point of service. She came to the school at the beginning of the year 1905. For the greater part she has taught history since that time, and has become very popular, not only with her pupils but with their parents and the alumni at large. All will regret her decision to leave the school.
 Miss Brigham could not be reached this afternoon and it Is not known just where she will teach next year. Her home is in Hartford. She is a graduate of Wesleyan college.
 Miss Buckley has had charge of the stenography and typewriting depart ments since the middle of the season 1912-13, when she came here to sue ceed Miss Dorothy Harding Her home is in Rockville.
 Both Miss Lamprey and Miss ReideI have decided to quit teaching, as they are to enter into the bonds of matri- mony before long. Miss LAmprey has been at the High school for but one year, but has made wonderful progress as a teacher of first year algebra and history. Miss Reidel en- rolled under Principal Winfred C. Akers at the beginning of the school year of I912-13.
 With the resignation of Miss Cath crime Wilbur. which was received a few weeks ago, the High school loses five capable instructors. Principal Slade has already begun to look up competent teachers to succeed them, but as yet only one position has been filled. Miss Clara D. Frost of the Grammar school has been engaged to take the place of Miss Flora Smith, teacher of English for afternoon classes, who has been chosen to suc- ceed Miss Wilbur in the morning classes.
 Miss Millie c. McCauley, who came to the High school last year from the Central Gramar school, will take charge of Miss Brigham's work next year, says Principal Shade, so the new history teacher will take Miss Me- Cauley's place rather than Miss Brig hams.
 Other resignations. received by the superintendent of schools, were from Miss Leila Wiggin and Miss Eva Lind of the Grammar school; Miss Eleanor Bodley. domestic science instructors: Miss Doris Dixon of the East street school; Miss Elizabeth Brady of the Smalley school; Miss Doris Carney of the Buritt school and Miss Catherine Helm of the Lincoln school. All will take effect at the end of the present school term.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29

night clothes. No baggage was saved. The condition of the survivors was pitiable. Some had broken arms and legs, and all had suffered terribly. l.. E. Gossetin, a prominent lawyer from Montreal. saved himself by clinging to a raft. When the rescue ships docked here, the station platform was converted into a hospital and the townspeople, bringing food and clothing, united in a common effort to aid the sufferers. Twelve bodies with faces covered lay side by side on the wharf. They made the life boats only to be fatally hurt.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29

. ciaI account of the disaster to the Empress of Ireland came from Capt. Kendall, who sent wireless message early today to Capt. Walsh, marine superintendent of the Canadian Pa- cific here as follows: Empress of Ireland stopped by dense fog. Struck
 amidships in vital spot by Collier Storstad'
 Capt. Kendall won renown as the
 man who first detected Crippen, the
 murderer, on the steamship Mont fort.
 Captain Kendall in conveying the intelligence to Captain Walsh that the
 Empress had gone down, said Ship gone.''
 A special train was despatched from here at S:30 to Father Point to
 bring back the survivors. The Empress of Ireland was a twin screw vessel of 14, 191 tons. She was built in Glasgow in 1906 by the Fairfield company, Ltd., and was owned by the Canadian Pacific Rail-
 way company. She carried full
 wireless equipment. The Storstad registers 6.02S tons.
 She was built by the Armstrong Whiteworth company at Newcastle, In
 1911 and her owners are Dampsk,
 Aktieselk Maritime, of Christiania. Norway She is a single screw vessel
 and is loaded with coal. She carries a crew of fifty men. The Empress of Britain, sister ship of the vessel sunk today, two years
 ago rammed and sank the collier
 Helvetia in almost the same spot that
 the collision took place today. The Empress of Ireland had a crew of $50 officers and men, making, with the passengers, a total of 1,437 on board.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Reports Show 337
 Saved By Lady Evelyn

New York, May 2s.--Jenks, Gwynne and Go, New York stock brokers. received this message from their offices at Quebec at 10 o'clock;
 Latest reports show 337 saved from Empress of Ireland, including Cap tain Kendall picked up among wreck age along with two Marconi operators by the Lady Evelyn. Twelve women were among those saved. Twenty-two died on reaching Father Point. Steam CT Storstad is still at Father Point"
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Pathetic Scenes at
 Offices of Company

Liverpool, May 29.-Crowds gath cred today at the offices of the Cana dian Pacific company awaiting infor- mation concerning the fate of the pas sengers and crew of the steamer Elm Iress of Ireland.
 Many of the seamen and firemen of the vessel gelonged to Liverpool, and pathetic scenes were witnessed when their wives and children turned away with the information that no names of survivors had yet come through.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
RUN DOWN BY BICYCLIsT.

The five years old son of MT. and Mrs. Angelo Logano, of Church street was run down by an unknown bicy- clist this morning at 6:45 o'clock. The youngster was crossing Church street in front Of No. 311 when the acci- dent took place. Dr. Joseph Walsh attended the boy andefound his face to be severity scratched and several painful Jumps ond the back of his head. The boys nose bled profusely but he was not badly injured.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Deny Report Collier
 Storstad Had S Ink

Father Point, Quebec, May 29.- The collier Storstad, which was in collision with the Empress of Ire land did not sink as was reported. Early today she was proceeding slow ly toward Quebec under her own steam with her bow badly driven in. It is understood that she has on board a few survivors from the Em- press of Ireland. The Empress sank in nineteen fathoms of water.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
TO LUNCH AFTER PARADE.

All veterans of the Spanish War, whether members of A. c. Hammond camp or not. are invited to meet at the rooms at S3 Arch street tomor- row morning at o'clock to march to the various cemeteries to decorate the graves of their dead comrades. After the parade the men will march back to headquarters where lunch will be served
New Britain herald., 1914-05-29
Message Expresses Belief
 Passengers Were Saved

St. John, N. B., May 29.-A mes- sage received by the local passenger department of the Canadian Pacific railway, supposedly from Rimouski. expresses the belief that all the pas sengers on the Empress of Ireland have been saved.