Show JAST HOPE fOR TOR r RESCUE OF t tf f t MORE PASSENGERS I ABANDONED OSS OF 0 If LIFE OW SAID SA J TOa TO NUMBER a 1350 ain twin Smith Met Death Like Gallant SkiPP e 1 Without Without ut Bern Being Able to Communicate ate With Employers m p loyers o Unwritten ers Unwritten r Law of lh the Se Sea En En- Enforced for forced ore eel ed When en Lifeboats Were Lowered anc and Men en Were Told to Stand Back as Women and C Children h dren Were Looked Af After ter-CaPathia ter Carpathia r Expected Ex Ex- c eel to Reach New York Thursday Afternoon After Ater- noon oon With Survivors on Board John Board John Ja Ja- y cob Astor c ob Astor tor and Major Archibald W. W Butt Aide of rf f President Taft Undoubtedly dl Drowned Drof 1 pinnacles s. s of fact concerning g the w worlds world's great great- disaster disaster disaster the sinkin sinking of the great eat White liner finer Titanic off the banks of Newfoundland stood Newfoundland stood prominently today as sifted f from on the wireless reports With th revised figures figur s there remain 1 1350 persons pas pas- I and crew of the Titanic who today are un united ted led for and are probably lost ie f e s ea with Mth cargo and jewels perhaps rha haps s more a total loss mention Lm i a among ong the survivors of Colonel JohnA John A star r His bride who was Miss Force of N New evi been saved Major Archibald W. W Butt Presh ft s. s aide is still unaccounted l for as are man many Y p o of i international t import importance nce ruce Ismay president of the international merI merle mer mer- le e I marine owners of the White Star line lino is among y vo ts ts as is his wife Wireless ireless reports say Cunard liner Carpathia a has on survivors the total thus far accounted for She ting king for N New w York and should arrive Thursday loon eon The rescued passengers drifted in lifeboats my ny j hours before succor r came 4 6 Captain E E. J. J Smith commander 1 of the Titanic blY ly went to lies his 1 s grave ve with his vessel with- with nee being able ble to communicate direct with the agents JS s line Aside from the C 0 Q D. D sent by his wireless j tor r not o one e word from him was vas received u up to the t e the Titanic sunk lie e Iii p presumption is that he met his death at his ris post gallant skipper should That t he and ll his s crew cre enforced rigidly the unwritten n i f the sea women sea ea a and nd children first first is is plainly indi indi- br the preponderance of women among the partial I f survivors r that the wireless has given Although though h rated as one of the most able commanders the e advent of the modern steamship Captain f. f s 's career recently had been marred d with ill luck Continued on nR aee 2 LOSS OF LIVES VES Continued from pae el J. J He was in command of the Titanic's sister ship hip the Olympic when that vessel was in collision with the British British British Brit Brit- ish cruiser Hawke Exonerated of all blame for this occurrence he lie was placed in charge of the Titanic only to graze graz disaster when his new nev charge fouled the steamship N New e York after leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage which has bas ended so disastrously disastrously- He had been in the li lines fines e employ employ employ em em- ploy more lore th than thirty years and his first important command command com corn mand the Majestic was vas Although persons ar aro reported to be on the Carpathia it is apparent p that not not all of them are passengers for it was wa necessary f for r members of the tho Titanic's crew to man the l life c boats bonts which set setout out from the sinking liner H How w many of the crew were were assigned assign d S to each boat i is a m matter of c conjecture nj A similarly unsettled matter vis ds is the percentage of first class passengers among those saved While the names of survivors o ob obtained ot- ot ta taiLed ed are largely those of or salon passengers the rule women first should apply equally equall to the second cabin and steerage a regulation which may have cost the life of many prominent men above deck Fals news and false hopes and an international belief that th tha palatial Titanic was practically unsinkable followed d the thc slowly unfolding un un- ua- ua folding Iding accounts of her loss in a way without precedent Eager Ct in dozens of cities in the United States besieged bulletin boards hoards when it became known that the he giant lin liner r had really sunk with terrible loss Joss of life and in New Tork ork City well wen known men and women crowded into th Vh White te Star line offices seeking news of relatives s. s I Vincent Astor Aster Colonel Astor's son spent the entire night Dight waIting waiting waiting wait waIt- ing for some wireless tiding of his father alternately visiting the White Star headquarters and the newspaper offices The rite peed at which the Titanic was traveling when she shattered shatter i herself against the iceberg win will perhaps not be known until the first firt of oT her hors fur survivors reach p port rt Whatever her ber rate of progress how- how C r er ship b builders here and abroad must admit that while the modern mod mod- ern nil ma may defy wind and weather ice and fog remain an evet ever pI t ent element clement of danger No ship bip they point out ont no matter how bow built nor nol how man many water tight bulkheads protect her har may o lonc- lonc lonca a against a a. wa wall of ice without cravo rao results Tho The general opinion is that the Titanic's equipment was put to an extraordinary test which no vessel c could have hac withstood Helpless Before BeCore Icebergs S f ordinary circumstances these water wilter tic tight t compartments will frill 1 pre rc C a ship from sinking said A. A L. L Hopkins vice president of the Newport New port News Shipbuilding and Drydock company in New Ne- York but but sma smashing hin into an an Iceberg r could coul produce such effects of ef that would render a ship helpless beyond e ond the tho protection of any tiny design n yet known In fore and nit aft collisions where the compartments are vt punctured the lowering verin o of either cither r enl end o of the tho ship produces an in increased strain on the tho other compartments Granting Grantin that only the forward bulkhead of the Titanic had bad been crumpled up tip iu in tn tho the impact with the it iceberg Mr Hopkins was inclined to think that the relative buoyancy of the r remaining compartments would have bae been sufficient suf to save the vessel Inasmuch as be was not familiar with the relative division of the Titanic's compartments he could not estimate bow many compartments must have ivon way under th the impact t of tho the col col- col- col Robert Stocker naval nl constructor of ot othe the he Brooklyn navy nay yard says st-s. In In the case cae a of th the Titanic 1 I am m In Inclined In- In to think that thal her sinking wa due ue 0 o the effect of grounding rather than to he Impact of 01 the collision Frequently i L ship strikes what t Is known as ucle rock ripping open her tier ke keel l. l The ceben against which the the TIt Titanic d her bow ma may have ha had bad some luch uch submerged projection which did ad- ad damage to the th keel If It the forward for lor- ward vard bulkheads of the vessel usel had held the Impact which smashed mashed the bow t certainly seems leem that the tile relative buoyancy buoy- buoy incy ncy of the remaining compartments would woud have liae been sufficient to keep the afloat Believes She Vas Waa Speeding I r 1 am nm compelled to believe that a A. mn many of her compartments must nave be been n punctured or 01 sprung L Lewis Nixon the naval archi d is lIned inclined to think the th Titanic was wu tra traveling at full Tuli speed peed or perhaps trashed rashed Into a berg no so tr tremendous rn thai there here was practically no give I If the tho Titanic hit one of those great greate ice Ce e m maMea said Mr Nixon It lt is sha ho struck that had one no more morere LIve five than rn rock k Under these thes circum- circum eS something had to give way and andla la 13 the th cb Iceberg r did dd not the g eal ship had hado 0 o crumple up It 1 Is t. conceivable that an of or this thU sort ort might h have v buckl buckled rl ie irr longitudinal plates from mm end to end off err and starting rivets and up the water 1 tI tight ht compartments the tue length of the vessel yeuel How Fogs Togs Deceive For many years ears steamship men have that the safest urel place Is Ie a well won ocean liner In proportion to toe the e number carried statistics show there thre 4 5 Ie ICS IC'S s loss lops of or life and less lees chance of in- in lur lury on board a a. mod modern rn liner than there a 5 in any other m means mans ns of transportation Fleets come and go from Now Naw York and ther ither ports ports' with the r regularity aul of oC the ides and those carrying malls mails main maln- jUn a schedule which almost e equal tul In 5 punctualIty that of railway mall mali trains Trans Atlantic steamers travel tra In well lenn routes known a a. steamship Inn ines the westbound and the eastbound This reduces tn to a a- minimum the ch chances nce X t C collision But k Icebergs and derelicts save no r respect for these rules rule and float noat nto the paths ath or wallow across them to toe e a dire menace In time of oC tog fog or orny very ny weather There is no no wa way to give warning until too oo tate late Out of oC a smother of fog COc a palt pal- pal t Id shape hape ma may be glimpsed over the bows bo o be followed follow d a. a half minute later b by bybe bylie lie he cr crash lh of the bows against the maw mat if f Ice |