Show I PRECAUTIONS p paper asks what Jin cn in ince hi c case ce Re a a t troopship carrying soldiers and women and anel children to and from the Philippines was vas to meet with a a fatal accident As A 4 we understand it it is against the law for forand women omen an and children to be on boa board a n troopship That j is is' is for forthe the soldiers A dispatch last week said that the government was adding ld ng many boats to those transports an and still we suspect there would be a great loss of life The government is putting up Sup wireless stations acl across SS the continent and it is said from San Sail l Francisco there will be another placed at Honolulu another perhaps at Guam and another at Manila l But the trouble on t the e Pacific would be he that it would woul be merely an accident or rather we should say a providence were there a ship to be in reaching distance from a disabled ship even on a wireless call be because ause the Pacific is very large and her commerce is as yet limited The great catastrophe on the Atlantic has made such a stir that we ve think in 11 England a plan is being devised to double the means l ans of escape in incase incase incase case of shipwreck We Ve have no doubt the same stud study is going on in the United States That part of navigation h has hs s been neglected since passenger enge ships have become great l and nd splendid steel steamers steam steam- ers s with double dt machinery all around and so constructed constructed constructed con con- that they are arc practically lj unsinkable against any ordinary ac accident ident Had two t or three of the time Titanic's compartments compartments' been filled with water she still would have floated but she met with th the unheard-of unheard calamity of having not only her bows smashed but hut one side raked by the ice clear back to which tore so much of her plating lating off that so many compartments were filled with water atel that thc r carried the they great ship down I |