New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-16
BATES GAVE LIFE
TO Aid WOMEN
VainIy Tried to Rescue
Major Pearls Children
as Liner Sank.
.LEAPED INTO SEA
WHEN HOPE FLED
Brother Gives Up Search for
Body. but Gets Record OF
Heroic Acts.

Word Of the last gallant minutes N
the life Of Linden Bates. u" mas
reached his fstheT. who rs vice-cnelr
man Of the Commission for Rei'et IN
Belgium. The young man had hnl'n,ed
luncheon and was on deck "lrn tne
torpedo struck the Lusitanla VIM
him were Major and Mrs. Pearl OF
New York Some Of the Pearl chill
dren were still below. -.
With a word 10 their parents, MI
Bates rushed for the companion way
10 seek for them Already the dynA-
mos were idle and the corridors were
dark. He CROPPED his way. call 20
the children "a he progressed. ! ne
water stopped his search. and he MADE
his way back TO the deck.
By that time the liners bow was
dining lower with every wave and
the angle OF the decks was precipitous.
Passengers huddled in hopeless groups
or ran about aimlessly. Tearing on
his lifebelt. Mr.. Bates strapped II
about woman who was without one
With firm grip and hcartenin2 words,
he assisted weaker passengers UP the
incline to the temporary haven OF the
stern.
At Rail as Ship Sank.
When that work was over he joined
a little group that stood by The raj.
They were Herbert stone, Dc. Hough-
ton and Nine. De Page. Like MI
Bates. both mon had given away 'heIr
lifcbelts. A subdued uproar pervlded
the vessel. From tho bright voters
oversize came frequent splGshes ana
half.strangled shrieks. The woman and
tho three men stood silent.
Inst before the final plunge % the
ship Mr.. Bates threw off his ovtrcoat.
The vessel went down almost as the
four leapcd into the sea
Iindcll T. Bates. who. with herbert
c. Hoover. London chairman OF the
Commission for Relief in Belgium. got
the precious record of mis- brother
death for his parents. sent this mes
sage TO Mr.. and Mrs. Bates:
Leaving to-day. One thousand BODIES
} missing. Storm heavy. Chances for
recovery infinitesimal. All arrange
ments made in case miracle happens.
Can return on notice. Am staying
with Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover. ! am the
last to leave. Have done my best.
Hundreds of sympathetic messages
have reached Mr.. and Mrs. Bates
Theodore Roosevelt sent the following:
81 hesitate to intrude upon your
grief. and yet / must express the
heartfelt sympathy | feel IN the loss
OF your gallant boy. lie was one OF
the finest young fellows | knew
was not only fond Of him. 5ut 40
mired and respected him, and had un
limited faith in his future. mere J.
an added horror wien he was Soihe
abroad on an errand OF mercy
MANY Messages from Friends.
From Mrs. Melville +. Stone, mothel
of Herbert Stone. came such a mes
sage as one stricken mother may sent
N another. Letters or kilograms wer.
received from Ex-Governor simeon
BALDWIN of Connecticut. Paul Hage
mans. Belgian Consul at Philadelphia
James Lyman, r. Fl. Keep and iron
many others.
The LAFAYETTE Fund shipped NOR
comfort kits Yesterday on the Rocham
beau. One was sent to Paul Lecercq
of the 18th French Infantry. He wrot'
70 the fund that three German bullet
had ruined the shirt he received IRON
the Lafayette Fund. and he would b'
grateful for another gift. The La
fayette Fund is now S64,522lt,
NAV. a festal month in Polish churcf
calendars, as in those Of other nations
is chosen by Nine. Marcella Sembrlci
as the time to urge women OF th'
United States 70 send aid TO the womer
of Poland. May %, Whitsunday, is Sc
apart in the Polish calendar as WON
ans DAY." Nine. Sembrich yesterday
appealed to the women and churches o
New York to make Whitsunday and th'
following Wednesday days of gifts fol
Polish war relief.
A sanitation corps of twenty-six
headed by Edward Stuart and Dr. Fleet
wood Gruver. was sent to Serbia yes
terday by the American Red Cross. IL
members sailed on the Athinai. On IN
Duca d'Aosta were nine nurses VIM
will Join American Red Cross units II
Austria Contributions amounting Z
s253.t5 we're acknowledged By the Ne'
York Office Of the Red Cross. It's fun
is now S494.032.
Recent gifts to the fund Of the Amer
lean Polish Relief Committee make tn
total $55.244.20. Among the glyer
we're Charles Dudley Warner, 500
. Mrs. Charles B. Smith. 500; James
: Goodwin, $500; James Byrne, 500, an
Miss Dorothy Eaton, 500. The Be-
glan Relief Fund is sl,036, 1885,
Among the gifts TO the Secours Ma
, tional was 500 from Mrs. David
= Kimball. Of Boston. The fund amount
to S7i,355.l0. The Serbian Agriculture
/ Relief Committees total receipts ar
S59.i43.sl Gifts TO the Persian Wa
Relief Fund amount in all to $50
; 9S422.