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Show H INDIFFERENCE COST 1635 LIVES. Hl The day after the Titanic disaster, the Standard charged the H loss of life to the reckless action of those in control of the ship speeding the vessel in a field of ice and to the criminal negligence of the company in failing to provide sufficient lifeboats to care for H the passengers and crew, To these indictments must be added much H more that has been disclosed in the congressional investigation of H the wreck, including the following startling admissions made at the H s Inquiry yesterday: B H Third Officer Pittman said the big ship was making more than H twenty-one knots an hour. H First Officer Murdock was warned of the proximity of icebergs H j by H J ILife-saving boat No. 5 did not go back toward the sinking ship, H j but rowed away. i J The third officer admitted his boat could have taken many H I vj more passengers without difficulty. H , ) The man in the crow's nest had no night glasses to watch for H icebergs. H i l' "Thank you" was the only reply Lookout Fleet got when he H ' ( reported the big iceberg to the bridge. H j The Titanic struck a mass of ice about twenty"feet from the H bow on the starboard side. H Several minutes elapsed after reporting the sighting of the icc- H , bergs before the collision. H As a Washington correspondent says, a pair of marine binocu- H l ars, costing at most .$50, would have saved the lives of the 1635 H L men women and children who perished when the Titanic went H I "They told us there wouldn't be any glasses," testified Look- H out Fleet, who sighted the iceberg from the crow's nest of the H doomed vessel, when he was asked about them before the special H I senate committee. Hl I "If w'd had them we could have seen the berg quite a bit H I sooner time enough to have cleared it." H 'V Failure to give attention to small details; failure to take little H precautions to guard against accidents; failure to be alert and cau- H tious cost 1635 lives B What a lesson for the heads of other steamship lines to learn. H Will they be impressed and, being impressed, act, or will the awful B story be forgotten before the ocean transportation lines put in prac- H tice that which the terrible calamity teaches? |