Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-05
PATROL BOATS SEARCH COAST
FOR 10 SURVIVORS OF CAROLINA
Passengers and Members of Grew Lost Still Ad in Small
Boas-Atlantic City Proves Real Samaritan.
Philadelphia Shriners Aid

for these men. many Of whom are
great distances from home. Many
citizens of prominence favor the plan
of the hotel men, the Red Cross and
other organizations interested in
human welfare.
For the first time since their some
what thrilling arrival here, twenty.
one members of the crew of the
Carolina took a bracing walk on the
Boardwalk early this morning. They
were considerably refreshed by their
stay last night at the Morris Guards
Armory, and there was little to indi.
cate in their general appearance that
they had had such close call for life
The men were cheered heartily during
the course of their walk.
The women survivors at the City
Hospital are also greatly improved to-
day. They include Miss Charlotte
Perkins, of Boston; Miss Caroline D.
Higgins, of Cambridge, Mass; Miss
Gertrude Luciano. of Porto Rico
Mrs. P. ]. Hamilton and Miss Carlotta
Hamilton. wife and daughter of Chief
Justice Hamilton. of the Supreme
Court of Porto Rico.
Physicians at the hospital this morn.
ing said the conditions Of all were
very favorable.
As the survivors disembarked the
Lu Lu Temple Shrner Band of Phila
delphia played The Star Spangled
Banner"
Nothing more dramatic ever was
witnessed on that stage of spectacles,
Atlantic City's cleaning beach. For
weary hours tens of thousands, deeply
stirred by the tragedy of the sugar
steamship TeXel. whose skipper and
crew landed here at midnight, had
been watching the sea for signs of
small boats containing fugitives from
U.boat outrages.
Shortly before . o'clock Edmund
Shaw, a Boardwalk policeman. de-
tected boat in the offing. AS it drew
nearer thousands on the Boardwalk
gave way to frenzied enthusiasm.
Beach guardsmen drove their white
skiffs seaward to meet the slowly
moving ships long boat, lifting the
women and children over the side into
their lighter craft to hurry them tc
the beach. The Shriners' Band parad
perial Shriners' meeting hall, JOINED
the crowd.
"Women First" Is Rule
While the band struck up the "Stal
Spangled Banner" as a greeting. mem
| peTS OF the LII Lu fdtTOl, III IIel
splendid uniforms, and hundreds o
men, women and boys fully clothes
rushed waist deep into the tide Il
drag the boat upon the beach.
First the women, then the two chill
dren tenderly were lifted out and car
ried by ready hands to the beach. Sew
eral of the former were in an almos
complete state of exhaustion. Th
men sprang ashore in all kinds o
makeshift garments, some of then
with tears of JOY in their eyes. TIL
great crowd cheered time and again.
AS soon as the crowd caught tn,
meaning of the piece of rag that flut
tered from the prov of the boat from
a broken oar, realization came upoi
the thousands and they threw off thei
rcloak of indifference to become activ
patriots.
Woman's Garment SienaI
This little white herald, fashioned
into a flag Of distress. had once beer
worn as a brassiere by a woman pas
senger. who tore 1t on ~ soon a. tn
: castaways had started on ,their 1our
ney TO safety.
The band caught ~ nsUhssion snd