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Show "FLEET ON THESTAND Lookout on the Titanic . Gives Important April 24. J. Bruce Ismay, chief official of the steamship Hue which .owned the ill-fated Titan' lc, was oidered away fiom one of the ship's lifeboats while it was being lowered, because, In his excitement, he was Interferrlng with the ship's officers. Language too objectionable to be repeated aloud in the senate Inquiry into tho Titanic disaster, was used by Harold G. Lowe, tho fifth officer of the ship. Lowe dramatically recited to the senate Investigating committee how he, not knowing that he was talking talk-ing to tho head of tho company which employed him, had told Ismay to "Get to hell out of here so that I can work," while Lowe and other sailors wore trying to lower the fir3t lifeboat on the starboard side of the Titanic. Jsmay Interfered With Work. Lowe declared that Ismay was not trying to get into the boat, but that he was very much excited aud was interfering with the proper lowering of tho boat. "This man Ismay," said I owe, "was greatly excited. Ho was hollowing, 'Lower away! Lower away,' and I swore at him to order him back " Lowo said ismay wont back and made no reply to him. Lowe also testified tes-tified he never would have known the man was l6may If he (Lowe) had not met a stoward ou the Carpathla who told him what he had done and asked him why he 'swore at Ismay." " Fleet Again on the Stand Frederick Fleet was called to the stand as tho first witness of the day when the hearing was lesumed at 10:15 o'clock. Senator William Allen Smith, the chairman, announced nftor .a mov ing with his colleagues that the British Brit-ish witnesses would be called as rapidly rap-idly as possible before any more passengers pas-sengers wore examined. Frederick Fleet, lookout on the Titanic, Ti-tanic, was recalled as the first witness. wit-ness. Senator Burton asked: "When you were on tho Titanic, were your ces examined?" "Yes." "How often?!'. ,, "Frequently." . ' "Can you distinguish colors?" "Yes, sir ' "Did you when in the TItanlc's crow's nest, see a light?" "No, I saw no light until I got In the lifeboat. Then 1 saw a bright light on the forward 'how. I don't know what It was, Mr. Lightoller saw it before we got off the Titanic and told us to pull toward it It finally disappeared We never made out what It was. "When .you havo binoculars what share of time do you have the glasses to ur eyes while on the lookout'" "If we fancy we see anything on tho horizon," said Fleet, "then we use tho glasses to make sure " Fleet said he saw no lifeboats loaded load-ed other than number six, the boat In which he pulled away with about thirty passengers "Were there any women on tho decks who did not get In the boats?" "No, sir; I saw none ' Men Did Not Seek Boats The witness said that there wcro men on the decks but that none of them sought or even asked to bo taken tak-en on. "Did you hear any cries for help?" asked Senator Smith. "Yes, but they wero very falnL" "Did you go back to help9" "No sir; some of tho passengers wanted to, but the quartermaster who was in command, ordered us to keep on rowing. "From your experience Jn trying to estimate how far the Titanic was from the Icoberg when you sighted it, I should Bay -vou did not have any Judgment 'of distance," Smith commented. com-mented. "No, f haven't," Fleet answered and then w'aa excused R Senator Smith then aroso and formally for-mally announced that ho wanted to meet an Inquiry that had arisen as to the purposes of the committee. After All tho Facte "It Is to get nil of tho facts attending attend-ing this catastrophe," he said. "The surviving officers and men of the Rhjp are not tho shipbuilders, and if wo can get from them what they know, it Is all that we can expect Now, a word as to the plan. It Is tho intention of tho committee to got all of tho subjects of Great Britain In this couutry and to hold them here until we have learned all wo can. ThiB course will be "pursued until the committee concludes It hns obtained nil accessible and useful Information to a proper undei standing of this disaster, dis-aster, j "Now, a word about the difficulty To tho credit of most of the officers and raembors of the crow we havo experienced little difficulty in securing secur-ing such witnesses as w thought necessary, but from the beginning until un-til now there has boon a oluntary, i gratuitous, ipeddlesomo attempt on tho part of certain persons to influence the mon)bor8 or the committee and to shape Its procedure. Misrepresentations Made "Misrepresentations have been mado, I have heard. I have not. how. ovcr, read tho newspapers; because T did not wish to bo prejudiced. "The representatives of tho press have all co-operated In every possible' pos-sible' way to lighten the burden of tho committee. "The committeo will not tolerate any further1 attempt on the part of anyone to sliape its course. We shall proceed in our own way and the judgment of our offorLs will be withhold with-hold until those who criticize our course mayi hare oppori unity to examine ex-amine the official record.'' ; . i --(Continued on Pa"ge "Eight) FLEET ON I sir xi a mi (Continued From Page One.) As Senator Smith delivered this announcement ho spoko emphatically and punctuated his remarks by pounding the table with his fist. Afterward Af-terward he did not give any detailed explanation of what actuated him to make the statement Ordered lemay Away Fifth Officer Lowe of the Titanic told the senate committee that ho ordered or-dered J. Bruce Ismay, head of the line, to get away from No. 5 Hfcloat. Ho said Mr. Iamay was interfering with tho lowering of tho boat. You wero present at the test of the Titanic In Belfast harbor?" asked Senator Smith. "Yes " "What did you do?" "I looked to tho lifeboats With Mr. Moody and Mr. P xhall, I looked over ov-er the lifeboats, examined them care-fullv care-fullv and found everything in them, except that In ono a dipper was missing miss-ing " As to tho collapsible boats, Lowe said ho could not remember precisely what was found. "Wo did find there were plenty of oars with extra oars for each boat" Drill Was Postponed Tho witness said while it had been planned to hold a lifeboat drill April 1. it was postponed because thero was a breeze. In fact tho witness said, it was almost "squally " Ho said that before the Titanic sailed a drill of tho crew was held. He could not remember whether it was held at Belfast or in tho harbor at Southampton. He also hesitated when asked his station and did not know whether any other officers wero at their stations on the Btarboard sido of the ship where his station .'as located lo-cated "I was a complete stranger in tho ship," he said In extenuation. Later he remembered that the test was held at Southampton. Ho was In charge of one of the two boats lowered there. The entire drill, he said, consisted In rowing about the harbor for a half hour. "Now, Mr. Lowe," ihe senator continued, con-tinued, "no other drill took place after af-ter that until the accident?" "No drill took place after that" "Was there no fire drill no alarm, a drill requiring tho presence of each man at a gjvon place?" Fire Drill With Boat Drill "There always was firo drill when we had boat drill. Thero was a fire drill prevlou3 to the general drill at Southampton." "Are vou quite sure you had that fire drifl?" "Let me see," said tho witness, "I don't want to be telling a story I may bo conflicting here -w'lth somo others of the ship" Lowo thought for a long time and then said: "Wo will annul that, because I am not suro." "Well," said the senator, "we will not annul that and I want your best answer." Doesn't Remember "Well, I'm here to help you all I can and I don't remember.' "Then that is what you want us to understand. You do not remember?" remem-ber?" "Yes." Lowo said most of the officers of the. Titanic at the beginning1 were strangers to oach other. 1 "Did yon ever hear of ice near NewfoundlandC" " "No sir." "Did you ever hear of an iceberg?" inquired Senator Smith n surprise. "Yes sir; off Cape Horn." Tlls one, Lowe said, was tho only ho had seen In bis career until he saw several at dawn following the collision. "Wero they in the-course of the Titanic?'- "Yes, sjr. They must have been for they wero all around the horizon." Biggest Icebe-g. The biggest, ho said, was at least 100 feet hiGn- Th,B w-aB four t0 fIvQ mllesaway, and all within a radius of six miles. . The secretary of the treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, arrived at the committee room during Lowe's examination, exam-ination, and sat at the committee table ta-ble near-fhe chairman throughout tho morning session. "Was tho Bbip on its true course .it tho time of the collision?;' the pallor was asked. "I was in bed but from the-position on the chart r believe Bhe 'wosron tho track," said Lowe. , I i "Was the Titanic on tho-north track or tho south track?" "I think sh was on the north track, sir" l, , "What makes you think so?" "The general .run, of- things." . |