Show give THE SEA OSE ORE LIGHT the new faw toik world moralizes mora mor lizes alkes on rho loas 1089 of ilia albe kibe asks arlis whether low of life was really luna volda ble whether there la Is no better safety safely for life at sen sea than was wag furnished when the elbe went down und and closes lie its article with these words the lifeboats life boats rafts ant and 1 life I re belt of the seem to lo have been of no more 0 use when hen they ihly were needed than the n t I 1 hon loso the tope rope ladders fand fire colo of a new york beehive tenement in on an early morning conflagration what lit if tit alin capacity apa cIty or of the lifeboats life boats for av ing life on a passenger ot eamer ilow how many life boals can be counted on oil how ionic ong doon doe it take to lower and man them what to 1 the use of watertight water ater tight compart ments and bulkheads bulkhead a with open doors in a bril ahat barety la Is there for hu roan lire life in the hour for ulilla MI nil I 1 the corbly and ar of safety safely 14 1 4 designed all thac th ac safeguards sound abound well vell lo in the lou but t what are they worth athen A hen the a oc a hinlo inin liLe beann boath to blind hundreds reds what we want to learn from the 11 ll 11 be disinter disaster 14 i how to prevent it pop ble a repetition of such a horror in tho the future the official inquiry ought to throw now new light on this problem pr we no think the official investigation will develop that the elbe was struck nearly by the cra title that when the tha Cr crathie athle sheered hatred oil off raking tho the plates from the side at 0 the he alloe albe Il loe and opening all the otter after compartments of the ship to 0 the sea cea that the whole after halt half of 0 the ship was waa filled with water that the weight of the water caused that part of the A vessel easel to sink anh so BO deep that the forward part of tho the ship was waa thrown bagh in the air making her deuc a a steep inclined plane and making it impossible for the seamen to launch any except the ilia two boats which were really 0 opposite to where the blow to the E elbe abel was given that the compartments of tho the ship were really oder after the accident a disadvantage that had the ilia whole ship kalp been lining filling at the same time it would have kept on at level bevel and then there would have been beef time alnio enough to have launched all the bouts boat the account shows that just exactly such A disaster never happened before the nearest iLli approach to it was waa tile the sinking of the hie steamship oregon but that craft only received a blow in one compartment the ship chip was nearing new york and the doors between the compartments had been opened la in order to bring brine tho the baggage on deck to havo have it ready tor for landing early tit in new york that morning and so BO it tilled the whole length at the same time ind and kept on a level until it went down we a do to not see gee what can prevent a similar accident to that which happened to tile ulbe te except bellr bell r lookouts arid and better lights of course the ocean la Is wide and do not lot very often col collide lille at tea sea the watch on the Crat crathie Cr athle ble must have been becat or utterly unlit unfit tor for the place at A tile the oame fiame time it if a great ocellia light nr r liblit had bem been on oft lie mildge of tile the allm I 1 around in ili that light we belice tha I 1 oi al ident w giuld have be 1 n I avol avoided ded be auit ther will ani tie no fog ther was wan still slin ply oly lipford A ili hi lit hi cm can I 1 penetrate a tog log VT very tar far but a when there la is tie io rog oe can in no lAih cHt night reveal anything for or a murle lont apace all around aro und to malic make it easy eaby to elvod |