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Show uu REAL TERROR OF THE SEA I For three months the cutter.-, Seneca and Miami have been patrolling patrol-ling the trans-Atlantic lane of travel Mssssssns ssstasminaaH I to prevent a repetition of the disaster, disas-ter, which overcame the Titanic when she Struck an Iceberg and sank. Had 1 1 not been for the perfect working of the wireless telegraph perhaps nothing would ever have been heard from the ill-fated vessel. The captains cap-tains of ihe patrolling cutters have just made Ihejt report of their three ii. mi m1- wuiK, iii wiin ii iney nawri that icebergs are the real terror of I the Bea, giving no warning of their approach in thick weather and offering offer-ing the suggestion that the only safe and sane course for a ship's captain 1 to pursue in a fog is to stop his engines en-gines and wait for the haze to lift. Among the theories refuted by tho men detailed for the work of watching watch-ing for icebergs and notifying transatlantic trans-atlantic steamers of their prevalence was that a sudden drop of temperature tempera-ture indicated the proximity of one of the sea's real terrors The observers observ-ers woted little or no change of temperature tem-perature In the vicinity of Icebergs. i.i report thai 'bis Indication is entirely en-tirely untrustworthy. It is presumed that a similar patrol pa-trol o fthe laue of travel will be made DOXt spring during the season when icebergs float down from the Arctic z-wCT-r n, .i ii rr ii hi iMim m .regions as a matter of precaution J although irom the r"p(jri ii would 1 seem that little good can he aceorrrjB pllshed i, ihe patiol Th.- i i "bergs 1 give no sign .i their ie .. i n nnd Commanders ni . . -.!- are ,irud i during fos to shut down their cnS i glnes and wait till the haze lifts, Ali i the pa'rol in ihe '.vorld can do noth- 1 ing H iue s. a captains win noi ioi-low ioi-low the advice based on observation i-and i-and experience That icebergs are the real terrors of the sea to fast flylnH steamships is certain but they hold i small terror for vessels whose cap- J ti Ins are willin-z in com" lnlo port a 1 little lati rather than in iake t he IT chance of hutting into the Impene- treble mass of ice I R m r |