Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-05-13
ALL PASSENGERS
IGNORED WARNING
OF THE DISASTER
Sailed on the Lusitania in the Face of Newspaper
Advertisement and Anonymous Personal
Notes.


Now York. Nav The first news of
Tho +oru.d,irr and sir1<ino Of tbc
Curard liner I.usitania came shortly
after 1.oo n m to-d.v thro,agb an
announcements from, tbo local orficos
If tho Cunard limo which stated that
or urcordr,,od ,,,,,or +o that cffoc+
had too, ,o,ai,ad rro,,, ohro,d e.,
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WALL - KEEL SfA\tN.
The publication of the news created
tremendous excitement in Wall Street
and there followed a violent decline
in the stock and cotton markets TN
der an avalanche of selling orders
which reached their greatest volume
during the last hour of trading. stocks
fell from to 80 points and cotton
$3.50 a bale. The so-callcd war
stocks, like Bethlehem steel. We're es-
| pecially affected.
nan os1 pAcct,>-c.E,DS
se"scrS "'oa'o' "a "'o'' 49,
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w. Carn,a,, ,,ar 1ora docreo
This warming. published in the form of
an advertisement, did not result in the
| cancellation of single passage nor did
anonymous notes Of warming said to have
= been received by some passengers jus
before the big liner left her pier deter
any one from sailing
| Reports from Washington that it was
privately known in official quarters that
| the Lusitania was to he torpedoed al the
first opportunity, gave color to the opin-
| ion expressed in shipping circles tonight
that the embassy's warning was intended
to apply particularly to the Lusitania
travellers intending to embark on the
Atlantic voyage read the advertise
ment, are reminded that state OF wal
exists between Germany and her allies
and Great Britain and her allies; thai
the zone of war includes the waters ad
jacent TO the British isles; that IN ac
cordance with formal notice given by the
lihperlai F"NeII'ileH'' NesSe'S n''"I Inv
nag VI 'r'"' i'''"'" VI any VI "'' '.''o'
are ''a"'e u "'s''"''''i III ''''9' ""'''
anu '""' 't'"T :" '''
zone on ShiPs OF "rc"V hI''"I" ~ "V'
a'Hos u" :" at '"e'' WV" '''"'
CtNARlp OFFICERS BfSlEdf.p'
All this afternoon and tonight anXiou!
friends and relatives of the Lusitania
lpassengers besieged the offices Of tn
Cunard line and the scene recalled taos
lat the offices OF the White star lin
when the Titanic sank three years ago
Officials Of the Cunard line announce
to-hight that tneS hau 'e'e'N ~" '''"'
imam o'' 'e'eP''oile anu 'e'es "P' ''i'''
les relatNe 10 the SAFETY Oh paSse"e
ieleerahS were r'ce'Nt u ''o"' "' ="
north as montreal as lar sou'h as ~
'ahta ana as iar west as 81 Ho"''
MANY PROMINENT PASSENEEkS
Among the well known passengers OF
the ,.usitania are Alfred Gwynne Van
lderbilt; Charles r Bowring Of Ney
York. head of tho firm OF Bowring Broth
ers; Alexander Campbell, general mana
ger for John Dewar g. Sons. London: FL
bert Hubbard. publisher Of the Philis
tine. D. A. Thomas, the wealthy Welsl
: o,, onoro,or ara ris d,u,b,e,. lad,
sa.,.-,,antr a. Unn,,sh ,mf,,aca,to an,
the Rev Basil ". Maturin of oxford
England.
Mr., Vanderbilt was among those cred
tied with receiving anonymous letters o
warning,
All deprecated the possibility of DANCE
to the ship and Charles i. sumner, gen
eral agent of the line. announced at IN