The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-23
CROWDS AWAIT
 RESCUE SHIPS
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(COntinued from page One.) extricate her. Green is reported to bt :! in a Newport hospital.
 | Early Tuesday in New York Mir. anC Mrs. Jacob Silbert, father of the dead girl heard of the collision. They rushed l to. the dock and waited alr day foI the Priscilla and the Providence. About noon telephone call from Green was relayed to them from their home. Ii said Rose was safe and coming on the Priscilla.
 "Hurrah-she's safe!' shouted Sill bert to his wife at the far end of the dock and the two parents settled down happily to wait for the Priscilla.
 Soon everyone on the dock except the Silberts knew what had happened to Rose. Then the Priscilla came. Mrs Silhert, who played a part in "Abie's Irish Rose," stood nervously and ex. pectantly at the end of the gangplank Her husband, a tall, powerful man stood fidgeting. Their faces fell-ever so slowly-as the long line of passen. gers filed off the Priscilla.
 . They waited for the Providence and still Rose did not come. Then kind 1 ly poliaemsn suggested they go home that word might have arrived that Rose was coming by train. ..s,,:.' ..:r. ,r a s,"Come On-maybe we got a, message at home," shouted Mrs. Silbert to her husband, and the two, their spirits re vived, rushed away.
 Editor Is Lucky
 Clifton B. Carberry, managing edi. tor of the Boston Post, was perhaps the luckiest person aboard. First, he escaped unscathed, although his state room was one of the eight which were wrecked, and next to that of Copeland who was mortally wounded. Second as newspaperman, he was able to get to Fall River in the afternoon to file a graphic and comprehensive story to his paper.
 From nearly all the passengers came praise for the heroism of seven sisters of charity from Boston. These nuns were almost the last to leave the dam aged liner. As soon as they could dress and reach the deck they knelt and prayed for the safety and souls of the other passengers and then some of them aided in quieting and reassuring the more frightened. But the sisters themselves refused to tell of their work to interviewers here.
 '"The men among the passengers did some remarkably good work" one de clared, who seemed to head the group | and that was all she would say. Among the passengers were couple whom newspapermen recognized as Corliss Palmer, the famous beauty, and Eugene V. Brewster, millionaire pub. | fisher who fixed up a love nest for l Corliss and later auctioned off the feathers after a reported separation Their names were not on the passenger list.
 The negro porters and walters grab bed all the life preservers," according to John Ford of Cambridge, Mass, but other accounts gave the colored men more credit.
 Ford and a companion said they aided in getting the women passengers to the side of the boat nearest the tanker, and the men on the other side so that when the women were in the lifeboats they need not be rowed around the ship.
 -. Saw Ship Coming
 "We saw the swift arrow coming, said Ford. Through a porthole wt saw her lights 30 feet away and as stunned she'd pass. But she couldn't stop. The Boston was going very fast and the tanker seemed to be going very slowly"
 It took 45 minutes to an hour tc lower the life boats and the negroes made mess of the operation, accord ing to Ford. Some other stories con firmed Ford in this but still other, | said the hfeboats were in operation within 10 to 15 minutes.
 Harry Field, Boston, who had never had an oar in his hand before, wa, thrust into a boat with his wife anC seven other women. They floundereC about in the boat, half-filled with salt water, until they were picked up, ac cording to Field. Both Field and his wife, like many other survivors, haC on only their nightclothes during this ordeal. They borrowed scant outer clothing later in which they arrived here. -.'>
 Captain F. E. Bonnell, of the Provi. dence, explained that the fog Monday night was pretty bad" You can't tell what's going to happen when you cant hear or see anything in a bad fog like that" he said. "A search ughL IS aOSOIutely useless Tn 1og.
 The blame for the crash will be fixed by a board of steamship inspec- tors, according to Col. J. A. Coates, of the Eastern Steamship company. He made no attempt to fix the blame in an interview with newspapermen, but said that the Boston had the right of way.
 Coates fixed the time of the collision as II :43 ?. m., standard time The total life-boat capacity of the Boston was 1,0S0, he said, and there were GAO passengers and 190 members of the ship personnel on board Meanwhile, the steamer Calvin Austin, temporarily will take the place of the Boston on the company's schedule.