Mosier bulletin., April 26, 1912, Image 2

SURVIVORS LAND
IN NEW YORK
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Total of 1,601 Went Down On
Atlantic Liner.
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i
I
s
Guns Sounded First Alarm— Safety
Compartmenti Were Locked
Captain Stood by Ship.
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Titantic’a Death List 1601.
Persons on Titanic:
Passen gern................................
Officers and crew.......................
Rescued by Carpathia:
Passengers.....................................
Officers and crew.............................
1400
040
/ f
2340
686
210— 746
Died in lifeboat---
Died on Carpathia.
Total death list...
1601
By Carlos M. L. Hurd, Post-Dispatch and New
York World stafF reporter, who arrived on the
Carpathia.
A bird, and that she attended a meet­ but otherwise she «a s not wholly d e
ing of witches at Salem village. She void of feeling She was really sorry
was not Insane, but the horror of for this poor little woman who was
the accusation brought against her fighting so bravely to save her hus>
had been too much for a weak mind. band. No doubt she had Inveigled
Howard's confession may possibly be Howard into marrying her, but she—
due to some such influence."
Alicia—had no right to sit in Judg­
“ I hope for his poor father’s sake," ment on her for that. If the girl
said Alicia, "that you may be right had been ambitious to marry above
and that he may be proved Innocent, her, in what way was she more guilty
but everything Is overwhelmingly than she herself had been in marry­
against him. I think you are the only ing a man she did not love, simply for
one In New York to express such a his wealth and social position? Be­
doubt."
sides, Alicia was herself sorely
“ Don’t forget his wife,” remarked troubled.
Her conscience told her
the judge, dryly.
that a word from her might set the
"No,” she replied. “ I really feel whole matter right.
She might be
sorry for the girl myself. W ill you able to prove that Underwood com­
give her some money If I—”
mitted suicide. She knew she was
The lawyer shook his head.
a coward and worse than a coward
“ She won't take it. I tried it. She because she dare not speak that
wants me to defend her husband— I word. The more she saw her hus­
tried to bribe her to go to some other band's anger the less courage she
lawyer, but It wouldn’t work."
had to do it. In any case, she argued
“ Well, something ought to be done to herself, Howard had confessed. If
to stop her annoying us!” exclaimed he shot Underwood there was no sui­
Alicia, indignantly. “ Mr. Jeffries suf­ cide, so why should she incriminate
fers terribly. I can hear him pacing herself needlessly? But there was no
up and down the library till three or reason why she should not show some
four in the morning. Poor man, he sympathy for the poor girl who, after
suffers so keenly and he won’t let any all, was only doing what any good
one sympathize with him. He won’t wife should do. Aloud she repeated:
let me mention his son’s name. I feel
“ I’ll see the girl and talk to her.
we ought to do something. Try and She must listen to reason.”
persuade him to let me see this girl
“ Reason!” exploded the banker,
and—you are his friend as well as his angrily. "How can you expect reason
legal adviser.”
from a woman who hounds us. dogs
Judge Brewster bowed.
our footsteps, tries to compel us to—
“ Your husband is a very old friend, take her up?”
Mrs. Jeffries. I can’t disregard his
Judge Brewster, who had apparent­
wishes entirely—”
ly paid no attention to the banker’s
There was a knock at the door of remarks, now turned around. Hesi­
tatingly he said:
the private office.
“ Oome in," called the judge.
" I think you do her an injustice,
The door opened and the head Jeffries. She comes every day in the
clerk entered, ushering in Howard hope that your feelings toward your
Jeffries, Sr. The banker, still aristo­ son have changed.
She wishes to
cratic and dignified, but looking tired give color to the belief that his fa­
and careworn, advanced into the room ther’s lawyers are championing his
and shook hands with the judge, who cause. She was honest enough to tell
greeted him with a cordial smile. me so. You know her movements are
There was no response on the bank­ closely watched by the newspapers
er’s face. Querulously he demanded: and she takes good care to let the
"Brewster, what’s that woman doing reporters think that she comes her«
out there again? It’s not the first to discuss with me the details of her
husband's defense."
time I've met her in this office.”
The banker shifted impatiently on
Alicia looked up eagerly. “ Is she
his chair. Contemptuously he said:
out there now?" she cried.
“ The newspapers which I read don't
“ Wliat right has she to come here?
What’s her object?” went on the give her the slightest attention. If
they did I should refuse to read
banker irritatedly.
With growing irritation he
The lawyer shrugged his shoulders. them."
"The same old thing,” he replied. went on:
“ It’s no use talking about her any
“ She wants me to take her case.”
more. What are we going to do
The banker frowned.
"Didn’t you tell her It was lmpos about this latest scandal? This wom­
an is going on the stage to be ex­
sible?”
“ That
makes
no
difference,” hibited all over the country and she
laughed the judge. “ She comes just proposes to use the family name.”
“ There is nothing to prevent her,'
the same. I've sent her away a dozen
times. What am I to do if she in­ said the lawyer, dryly.
The banker jumped to his feet and
sists on coming? We can’t have her
arrested. She doesn’t break the furni­ exclaimed angrily:
“ There must be! Good God, Brew­
ture or beat the office boy. She sim­
ster, surely you can obtain an Injunc­
ply sits and waits.”
"Have you told her that I object to tion restraining her from using the
You must do some­
her coming here?”
demanded the family name!
thing. What do you advise?”
banker, haughtily.
"I advise patience," replied tha
"I have,” replied the Judge, calmly,
"but she has overruled your objec­ Judge, calmly.
But Mr. Jeffries had no patience.
tion.” With a covert smile he add­
He was a man who was not accus­
ed, "You know we can’t use force.”
Mr. Jeffries shrugged his shoulders tomed to have his wishes thwarted.
He did not understand why there
impatiently.
"You can certainly use moral force,” should be the slightest difficulty in
carrying out his Instructions.
he said.
“ Any one can advise patience!" he
“ What do you mean by moral
exclaimed, hotly, "but that's not do­
force?" demanded the lawyer.
Banging the desk
Mr. Jeffries threw up his hands as ing anything."
If utterly disgusted with the whole angrily with his fist, he exclaimed:
business.
Almost angrily he an­ " I want something done!”
swered:
Judge Brewster looked up at his
"Moral force is moral force.
I client with surprise. The Judge never
mean persuasion, of course.
Good lost his temper. Even in the most
God, why can't people understand acrimonious wrangles in the courts
these things as I do?"
room he was always the suave, pol­
The Judge said nothing, but turned ished gentleman. There was a shade
to examine some papers on his desk. of reproach In his tone as he replied:
He hardly liked the inference that he
“ Come, come, don't lose your tem­
could not see things as plainly as per! I'll do what I can. but there Is
other people, but what was the use nothing to be done in the way you
of getting Irritated? He couldn't af­ suggest. The most I can do is to re­
ford to quarrel with one of his best main loyal to you, although— to be
clients.
quite candid—I confess It goes against
Alicia looked at her husband anx­ the grain to keep my hands off this
iously. Laying her hand on his arm, case. As I told your wife, there are
she said soothingly:
certain features about It which Inter-
“ Perhaps if I were to see her— ”
est me keenly. I feel that you are
Mr. Jeffries turned angrily.
wrong to— ”
"How can you think of such a
"No, Brewster!" Interrupted Mr.
thing? I can't permit my wife to Jeffries, explosively. "I'm right! I'm
come In contact with a woman of right!
You know It. but you won’t
that character."
admit it."
Judge Brewster, who was listening
The lawyer shrugged his shoulders
in spite of the fact that he was seem­ and turned to his desk again. Lacon­
ingly engrossed in his papers, pursed
ically, he said:
his lips.
"W ell, I won't argue the matter
"Oh, come,” he said with a forced
with you. You refuse to be advised
laugh, "she's not as bad as all that!”
by me and—”
"I'm sure she isn't.” said Alicia, em­
The banker looked up Impatiently.
phatically. "She must be amenable
“ What Is your advice?”
to reason.”
The lawyer, without looking up
The banker's wife was not altogeth­ from his papers, said quietly:
er bad. Excessive vanity and ambi­
"You know what my feelings In th«
tion had steeled her heart and stifled matter are."
Impulses that were naturally good,
(T O BE C O N T IN U E D .)
New York— Facts which I have es­
tablished by inquiries on the Carpa­
thia as positively as they could be es­
tablished in view o f the silence o f the
surviving officers are:
That the Titanic’s officers knew,
several hours before the crash, o f the
possible nearness o f the icebergB.
That the Titanic’s speed, nearly 23
knots an hour, was not slackened.
That the number o f lifeboats on the
Titanic was insufficient to accommo­
date more than one-third o f the pas­
sengers, to say nothing o f the crew.
Most members o f the crew say that
there were 16 lifeboats and two col-
“ It's No Use Talking About Her Any More.”
lapsibles; none say there were more
than 20 boats in all. The 700 who es­
caped filled most o f the 16 lifeboats.
Had the ship struck the iceberg
head-on with whatever resulting shock,
the bulkhead system o f watertight
compartments probably would have
q u it e
saved the vessel.
As one man ex
pressed it, it was the impossible that
happened when, with a shock unbe­
lievably mild, the ship’B side was torn
for a length which made the bulkhead
system ineffective.
A t 11:45 came the sudden sound of
two guns, a warning o f immediate
danger.
A M D
The crash against the iceberg which
had been sighted at only a quarter of
r
t
h
u
r h ornblow
a mile, came almost simultaneously
ILLUSTRATIONS
R AY W A LT ER S
with the click o f the levers operated COMBGXT, IVOV, er O.W. B U .L IN C H A « BY
COMAA HY
by those on the bridge, which stopped
not for the fact that Mr. Jeffries has
SYNOPSIS.
the engines and closed the watertight
exacted from me a promise not to
doors.
Howard Jeffrie«, banker's eon, under take up this case, I should be tempted
Captain Smith was on the bridge a
the evil Influence of Hubert Underwood,
moment later, giving orders for the fullow-etudent at Yule, leads a life of dis­ to— consider the matter. In the first
summoning on deck o f all aboard and sipation, marries the daughter of a gam ­ place, you know I always liked How­
bler who died in prison, and Is disowned
for the putting on o f lifepreservers by hi« father, m »• fa out of work and In ard. 1 saw a good deal of him before
He
desperate strait«. Underwood, who hail your marriage to Mr. Jeffries.
and the lowering o f the lifeboats.
been engaged to Howard's step­ was always a
wild, unmanageable
The first boats lowered contained once
mother, Alicia, Is apparently in prosper­
more men passengers than the later ous circumstances. Taking advantage of boy, weak In character, but he had
his Intimacy with Alicia, he becomes a many lovable traits. 1 am very sorry,
ones, as the men were on deck first sort
o f social highwayman. Discovering
and not enough women were there to his true character, Alicia denies him the Indeed, to see him In such a terrible
house.
He sends her a note threatening position. It was hard for me to real­
fill them.
•tilclde. Art dealers for whom he acted
commissioner, demand an accounting, ize It and I should never have be­
When a moment later the rush o f
make good. Howard calls at lieved him guilty had he not con­
frightened women and crying children his cannot
apartments In an Intoxicated condi­
to the deck began, enforcemet o f the tion to request a loan o f $2,000 to enable fessed to the crime.”
to take up a business proposition.
“ Yes,” she assented. "It is an aw­
women first rule became rigid.
Offi­ him
Underwood tells him he Is In debt up to
cers loading some o f the boats drew hlB eyes. Howard drinks himself Into a ful thing and a terrible blow to his
maudlin condition, and goes to sleep on a father. Of course, he has had noth­
revolvers, but in most cases the men, divan.
A caller Is announced and Under­
both passengers and crew, behaved in wood draws a screen around the drunken ing to do with Howard for months.
s
le
e
p
e
r.
A lld a enters. She demands a As you know, he turned him out of
a way that called for no such restraint. promise from
Underwood that he will not
Members o f the crew discredit al 1 take his life. He refuses unless she will doors long sgo, but tho disgrace is
reports of suicide and say Captain renew her patronage. This she refuses, none the less overwhelming."
and takes her leave. Underwood kills
The lawyer looked out of the win­
Smith remained on the bridge until himself. The report o f the pistol aw a­
just before the ship sank, leaping only kens Howard. He finds Underwood dead. dow and drummed his fingers on the
Realizing his predicament he attempts to
after those on the deck had been flee and is met by Underwood’s valet. arm of his chair. Suddenly wheeling
washed away. It Is also related that Howard Is turned over to the police, round, and racing his client, he said:
( ’apt. Clinton, notorious for his brutal
when a cook later sought to pull him treatment o f prisoners, puts Howard
"You know this girl he married Is
aboard a lifeboat, he exclaimed, “ Let through the third degree, and finally gets no ordinary woman."
an alleged confession from the harassed
me g o ," and jerking away, went man. Annie, Howard’s wife, declares her
“ O h!" she exclaimed, sarcastically.
belief In her husband’s Innocence, and “ She has succeeded In arousing your
down.
says she will clear him. She calls on
The following named men o f world Jeffries. Sr. He refuses to help unless sympathy.”
The judge bowed coldly.
wide note are known to have gone she will consent to a divorce. To save
Howard she consents, but when she finds
"N o," ho replied. *T would hardly
down on the Titanic:
Colonel John that the elder Jeffries does not intend to
Jacob Astor,
financier; Renjamin stand by his son. except financially, she sny thnt. But she hns aroused my
scorns his help. Annie appeals to Judge
Guggenheim, mining magnate; C. M. Brewster, attorney for Jeffries, Sr., to curiosity. She Is a very peculiar girl,
Hays, railway magnate; W. T. Stead, take Howard’s case. He declines. Annie evidently a creature of Impulse and
determination. I certainly feel sorry
English editor; Isidor Straus, mer­ haunts Drewster's ofhee.
for her. Her position Is a very pain­
chant prince; Colonel Washington
CHAPTER XIV.—Continued.
ful one. She has been married only
Roebling engineer; Clarence Moore,
sportsman; Major Archibald Butt,
"Tou mean about the Underwood a few months, and now her husband
hns to face the most awful accusation
soldier and personal aid o f Priesident •age?"
thnt can be brought against a man.
T a ft; F. D. Millet, American artist;
Alicia nodded.
G. D. Widener, "traction
k in g;’ ’
"Yes, Mr. Jeffries la terribly upset. She Is plucky in spite of It all. and Is
W alter D. Douglas, millionaire manu­ As If the coming trial and all tho rcBt moving heaven #nd earth In Howard's
facturer; George Floyd Eitemiller, of the «candal were not enough. But defense. She believes herself to be In
automobile magnate; Henry B. Har­ now we have to face something even some measure responsible for his mis­
ris, theatrical manager.
worse, something that affects mo even fortune. Apart from that, the case
more than iny husband. Really, I'm Interests me from a purely profession­
al point of view. There arc several
frantic about It."
China Names Yale Man.
“What's happened now?" asked tho strange features connected with the
New York— Chung Mun Yu, the old
ease. Sometimes, In spite of Howard's
lawyer, calmly.
Yale cox wain, has been appointed min­
"That woman Is going on the stage, confession, I don't believe he com­
ister of the Chinese repblic to the that's a ll!” she snapped.
mitted that crime."
United States, according to a Shanghai
Allda changed color and, shifting
"H ’m,” said tho lawyer, calmly.
dispatch to the Herald. Chung entered
"Just think!" she cried, “ the name, uneasily on her chair, scrutinized the
Yale in 1883, after preliminary studies
Mrs. Howard Jeffries'— my name— lawyer's face What was behind that
in the Hartford, Conn., public schools, paraded before the public! At a time ealm, Inscrutable mask? What theory
v ary .. __
.y a )
and made the crew in his Freshman when everything should be done to had he formed? One newspaper had
year, steering Yale's shell to victory keep It out of the papers this woman suggested suicide. She might herself
against Harvard. He was elected to Is gotug to flaunt herself on the come forward and declare that Rob­
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, stage 1”
ert Underwood had threatened to
the only one o f his race to be so hon­
She fanned herself Indignantly, take his own life, but how could she
ored. Later he acted as an interpre­ while the lnwyer rapped his desk ab­ face the scandal which such a course
ter at the legation in Washington.
sent-mindedly with a paper cutter. would Involve? She would have to
admit visiting Underwood's rooms at
Alicia went on:
Tongs End Bitter War.
'You know I have never met the midnight alone. That surely would
San Francisco — The tongs have woman. What Is she like? I under­ ruin her In the eyes not only of her
promised to be good.
An executive stand she's been bothering you to husband, but of the whole world. If
committee o f the Six Companies ac­ take the case of that worthless hus­ this sacrifice of her good name were
quainted representatives o f the Bing band of hers. Do you know she had necessary to save an Innocent man's
Kong Tong and the Sing Suey, with the Impertinence to come to our house life, perhaps she might summon up Hypothesis That Sesms to Explain movement of the eyes, and next a
the terms o f an ultimatum delivered and ask Mr. Jeffries to help them? I enough courage to make it. But, after
movement of the body. This causes a
the Constant Revolution of
by the chief of police, and signatures asked my husband to describe her. all. she was by no means sure her­
peculiar jerking motion of the eyeballs
the Eyeball.
to a peace pact were soon had.
“ No but all 1 could get from him was that self that Underwood had committed
during the whole time of the turning
suicide.
Howard
had
confessed,
so
she
was
Impertinent
and
Impossible."
more gun piay or a closed Chinatown,”
The medium In which fresh-water of the body.
said the captain in effect.
" A closed She hesitated a moment, then she why should she jeopardize her good
fishes live gives them a chance to see
name
uselessly?
Literary Vaudeville.
Chinatown means a cordon o f police added: “ Is she as pretty as her pic­
"No,” repeated the Judge, shaking a great distance only in the horlxontal
A New England admirer of Longfel­
around the quarter, warning away all tures In the paper? You've seen her.
direction.
It
seems
Impossible
to
ex­
his head, "there's something strange
low proposes that the afternoon of
Europeans, and withdrawal o f all of course?"
In the whole affair. I don't believe plain the constant revolution of the February 27 of each year be set aside
Judge Ilrewster frowned.
licensed guides.
eyeball
on
any
other
hypothesis
ex­
"Yes," he replied. "She comes here Howard had any hand In It."
In the public schools as a time to give
every day regularly.
She literally
“ But he confessed!"
exclaimed cept that the optical axis extends for­ special attention to the poet's life and
Great Tunnel to Start.
ward Instead of sidewise.
works. Longfellow was doubtless •
Seattle— May 1 the Chicago, M il­ compels me to see her and refuses to Alicia.
When a fish wishes to eat anything, great American poet, but he already
The Judge shook his head
waukee & Puget Sound railway will go till I've told her I haven't changed
either
at
the
bottom
of
the
pond
or
"That's nothing." he said. "There
has sufficient place In the schools by
start construction o f a three-mile tun­ my decision about taking her case."
"What Insolence!" exclaimed Alicia have been many instances of untrue at the surface of the water. It swims being represented In every reader put
nel through the Cascade mountains, it
directly
toward
the
object;
and
In
this
forth since he lived and wrought. And
is announced here.
Workmen are "1 should think that you would have confessions. A famous affair of the
kind was the Boorn case In Vermont. case the eyes are Instantly adjusted there Is already too much foolishness
building bunkhouses at Rockdale, and her put out of the office."
The lawyer was silent and toyed Two brother* confessed having killed In line with the body, so as to bring in the schools, and too little reading,
as fart as these are completed three
the image of the particle desired upon writing and arithmetic. Unless this
gangs o f 260 men each will be put to somewhat nervously with the paper their brother In law and described
the posterior portion of the retina. tendency toward holidays and special
work on the project, which will cost cutter, as If not quite decided as to how they destroyed the body, yet
In this case they lose their horlxontal days In schools comes to an end soon.
nearly (6,000,000.
The tunnel will what response to make. He coughed some time afterward tho murdered
position.
It will be necessary for teachers to
shorten the line seven miles, and will and fussed with the papers on the man turned up alive and well. The
If a fish wishes to turn to the right take a course In vaudeville to provide
desk.
object
of
the
confession,
of
course,
eliminate the grade at the summiL
"W'hy don't you have her put out of was to turn the verdict from murder or left In the water, the first move­ the needed variety, and about all the
the officer' she repeated.
to manslaughter, the circumstantial ment Is that of the eyes In unison In children will take Is a vacation.— At­
Man Stand in Icy Watar.
The judge looked up. There was evidence against them haring been the direction of the turning. This chison Globe.
New York — W. J. Hawksford, of
an expression In his face that might so strong. In the days of witchcraft would be entirely unnecessary If the
London, a first class passenger, said
W h in Th«y Grow.
have been Interpreted as one of an­ the unfortunate women accused of apparent axla was the axis of the most
one o f the collapsible rafts was placed
"What has become of our old Land­
noyance. as If he rather resented this being witches were often urged by distinct vision, as one of the eyes
in the water with 30 men on it, but
Intrusion Into his business affairs, relative» to confess as being the only would see all that was to be seen on lady?"
instead of rising to the aourface, as it
but Mrs. Jeffries, S r . was too Im­ way of escape open to them. Ann the side of the turning. After this
"She’s keeping a boarding house In
should have done, it began slowly to
portant a client to quarrel with, so Foster, at Salem, In 1892. confessed movement of the eyes, the body turns i California now."
sink, until the men on it were im­
be merely said:
"Wanted to get near the prune«,
that she was a witch. She said the enough to bring the eyes Into their
mersed in the ice-cold water up to
"Frankly. Mr* J< (Tries, If It were devil appeared to her In the shape of normal position, then there Is again a eh?”
their waiita.
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