Bridgeton pioneer., 1914-06-04

| leap. They were picked up by boat
from the Lady Evelyn.
OF party of 40 Salvation Army
members only twenty were rescued.
They had left Quebec, bound for the
army's international conference in
London. Among the Salvation Army
passengers on the liner were the sew
enty members of the territorial staff
band, one of the largest bands of the
Salvation Army.
Description Of the Ships.
The Empress of Ireland was sister
ship to the Empress Of Britain. She
was built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding
company's works, Glasgow. She was
$40 feet long and GO feet inches beam.
The disaster recalls the accident
which happened to sister ship of the
Ill fated vessel, the Empress of Brit
ain, which two years ago rammed and
sank the collier Helvetia in almost the
same spot In which the Empress Of
Ireland collision took place.
She was built to accommodate $50
first cabin, $50 second cabin and 1..eeooa 1..eeooaa
third class passengers. She was IA $500
tons register and about 10000 tons
displacement and was classed as an ex-
press steamship. There were five pas
senger decks, with a boat deck above.
The upper deck was famous among
travellers, affording walk of about an
eighth of a mile.
She had been plying in the service of
her owners between st. Johns and
Quebec and Liverpool, and especially
during the summer months carried
large numbers of passengers.
The Storstad, a screw steamer, Cap
tain Anderson was built in 1910 at
Newcastle, England, by Armstrong,
Whitworth & CO., for A. f. Klaverness
& Co. Her registered home port was
Christiania, Norway, and she steamed
under the Norwegian flag. She was
440 feet long, So feet l inch beam and
had "a feet inches depth of hold. The
Storstad was a craft Of 1861 tons,
with triple expansion engines.
One. Of the features Of the Empress
Of Ireland was the daily magazine pub
lished during the voyage, the news be-
ing received by Marconi wireless. Be
sides her wireless apparatus the EN-
press Of Ireland was equipped with
submarine signals to insure safety as
far as possible. The big steamship
was equipped throughout with cleo
trical devices to add to the comfort of
her passengers.
Kendall Captor Of Crippen.
Captain Kendall, commander Of the
lost liner, the Empress of Ireland, gain
ed prominence in world news at al
most the very spot where his steamer
sank. He is the man who procured
the arrest Of DR.. Hawley Harvey
Crippen, murderer of his wife, Belle
| Elmore, the actress.
Captain Kendall, who holds the
rank of lieutenant in the Royal Ma
val reserves, was In 1910 commander
Of the liner Montrose, on which Grip
| pen fed from the continent with Ethel
Clare LIE Neve, love of whom inspired
him to murder his wife.
The commander Of the liner recog-
nized the lie Neye girl from photo
graphs in London paper, which he
had on board the ship. He flashed
the news by wireless, and Inspector
| Dew of Scotland Yard met the Mont
| rose at Father Point on the Canadian
| government ship Eureka-one of the
| two rescue boats that went to the
| aid Of the Empress of Ireland. The
/ Inspector had made the trip across on
| faster ship than the Montrose, pass
/ ing that vessel on the way.
| At Father Point everybody was or
dered below, and Dew went aboard
and placed Crippen under arrest.
Captain Kendall, through the shrewd-
/, ness and sagacity he displayed in as
sisting the police to take Crippen, be-
| came hero of two continents. So
carefully did he conceal his detective
| work aboard ship that not soul be-
sides himself and Llewellyn Jones, the
| wireless operator, even knew that a
| person suspected of being DR.. Crippen
was among the passengers.
Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving,
one of the passengers On the Empress.
| was the second son of Sir Henry Ir-
wing and widely known in England
rs an actor, author and manager. He
made his first appearance on the stage
with f. R. Benson's Shakespearean
| company in Dundee in 1893.
| Mr.. Irving played in his fathers
company from 1900 to 1904 and then
for two years toured with his wife,
Mabel Lucy Hackney Irving. He was
the original Crawshay in "Raffles."
| Mr.. Irving wrote many sketches for
the stage and translated Sardou's
sRobespierre," Maxim Gorkis "The
! Lower Depths" and other plays