Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-05

the national anthem was played. Pale
and wan women in the lifeboat smiled
as they heard this welcome. while the
men staggered feebly out Of the boat,
trying till the end to cheer and com.
fort the women unfortunates.
But once the survivors felt the sand
beneath their feet, they Joined In a
spectacular scene. AS II seized by a
common impulse the men and the
women dropped to their knees and
prayed. The effect of this spectacle
upon the multitude that was damned
in Gordon about the waits was mag.
ical
Women and men alike Joined in the
devotions, while others of the sterner
sex wept openly. Women, too, cried
and sobbed bitterly, and even the little
children We're affected by the solem.
nifty of the affair.
All Assist Castaways
But this emotional sympathy gave
way soon to the sterner realities of the
assistance that was needed. Men tore
off their coats and wrapped them
about the bare shoulders of their suf.
fering fellows. Women took off their
wraps and handed them eagerly to
their sisters, who had been robbed of
raiment in the hurry to leave the
doomed ship.
Then, led by Lieutenant j.. J. Nc.
Earen. one of the Carolina's officers.
who had charge of the lifeboat, the
little cavalcade walked to the Board
walk.
Eager hands sprang to aid the VIC
tlms' automobiles and hotel busses
were impressed into service and the
castaways taken into the hostelries
ana given warm drink and plenty Of
food.
Mayor Bacharach was apprised Of
the arrival Of the lifeboat He reached
the shore and ordered that the armory
be thrown open for the reception Of
the survivors and that nothing be per-
mitted to disturb them
He also sent the following message
to Secretary Daniels:
Lifeboat No. 5. of steamship Caro-
lima. sunk by shellfire from submarine.
reached this city at las o'clock this
afternoon in charge of Lieutenant ].
j. McLaren: boat contained twenty
nine survivors, nine women and twenty
men. and came In under own power.
Carolina was abandoned at 6:45
Sunday evening, June >. AS far as Is
hiOWH, everybody was clear or ship
when sunk. Twelve boats were
launched. 1t is believed that Carolina
was sunk by daylight Monday.
Survivors were Immediately taken
to hotels here and every possible at
tention, including medical, is being
given. All survivors appear to be in
good condition.
United States dredge Absecon is
| now looking for boats"
One Aged Woman
Women pushed forward to support
gray-haired woman in rough dun.
garees, tall young woman beside
her, as she stumbled and nearly fell
! from exhaustion. She was Mrs p j.
! Hamilton, of San Juan, the wife of
the Chief Justice of the Porto Rico
| Supreme Court, the girl beside her
Miss Carolotta Hamilton, her daugh-
| ter.
| Two women, weary-eyed. spent to
their last inch of resistance, fell to
women wept as they knelt beside
them and bathed their faces to restore
them. A police patrol wagon and pri.
vate motors hurried the women of the
survivors party to an uptown hotel,
| where the survivors of the TeXel were
| housed today by the Government. The
men were taken to the headquarters
of the Camp Community Commission
in the Norris Guards armory
Two, Charlotte Perkins, of Boston.
and Felix Capegille. of Baton Rouge
were sent to the City Hospital The