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TWO TITANIC DISASTER PROBE IS TRANSFERREDTOJEDERAL SOIL "I Don’t Know,” Answers the Lost Ship’s Third Officer on the Witness Stand, and Immediately Investigation at New York Is Closed. NEAREST SHIP WAS NOT URGED TO AID STAGGERING SEA MONSTER Young Wireless Operator Tells His Tragic Story. New York, April 20.—With dramatic suddenness the Senate investigation of the Titanic disaster came to an end to-day so far as the New York hear ing is concerned. It will be resumed, however, in Washington on Monday, when J. Bruce Ismay and P. A. S. Franklin, the chief officer of the White Star Line, and more than a score of officers and crew of the sunken vessel will appear before the committee. Incident to the sudden close of the hearing here was the story of Harold S. Bride, the second and only surviv ing wireless operator of the Titanic. His tale was one of suffering and of death. He told of the final plunge of the vessel to its ocean burial. Its captain's end was also revealed. He leaped from the bridge when the wa ters were closing over his ship. In connection with the transfer of the hearing to Washington it was in timated that the power of the Senate on federal territory would be undisput ed in getting at the real facts and no question of state rights could arise to Interfere. Bride’s Story Dramatic. Throughout the hearing, also, offi cials of the White Star Line had por trayed the dangers of sailors’ board ing houses in New York as a reason why those detained by the committee should be allowed to sail on the Lap land, which left to-day. Throughout the hearing this morn ing Wireless Operator Bride, crippled as a-result of his experiences and seat in an invalid's chair, told his story of the last moments of the Titanic. His narrative, drawn from him piece meal by Senator Smith of Michigan, chairman of the committee, held en thralled the cojriniittee and the audi- I enec. Whep’mis ordeal ended he was I almost on the verge of collapse. f the hearing was resumed in ■ the afternoon, announcement of the I change of base was made. Herbert ' J. Pittman, the third officer of the Ti tanic, had been called to the witness chair. Senator Smith directed one question to him, relating to the where abouts of the ship's log. Here * List of Witnesses. The witness said he did not know. Promptly Mr Smith announced the comm.ttee s decision to resume the in quiry 'n Washington on Monday. Later he Issued a statement, giving in detail his reasons for the sudden change in plans "After a conference with my col leagues on the committee,” said Sen ator Smith, "we have concluded to subpoena J. Bruce Ismay, P. A. S. Franklin, Harold Bride, the operator of the Titanic; H. T. Cottam, operator of the Carpathia; C. H. Lightoiler, sec ond officer of the Titanic; H. J, Pitt man, third officer; J. G. Boxhall, fourth officer, and H. G. Lowe, fifth officer of the Titanic. "We have also subpoenaed Mr. Per kins, E. Archer, W. H. Taylor, W. Bryce, E. Bully, S. Henning, F. O. Evans, T. Jones. Frederick Ray, G. Crow, C. Andrews, J. Wiggerv, H. Etcherm, G. W. Rowe, John Collins, A. J. Bright. G. Simmons, Frank Osman, G. Moore, A. Cunningham. A. Oliver, F. Fleet, G. A. Heag, A. Crawford, W. Burke, E. W. Helton, F. Clench, J. Hardy and Albert Haines, of the Ti tanic’s crew.” Bride Merely a Boy. J. Bruce Ismay declined to accede to a request to allow his men to re late to the press their stories of the last dramatic moments before the Ti tanic sank, on the ground that they had not yet given their evidence. The committee devoted its entire day to an investigation of the connection of the wireless with the disaster. H. T. Cottam, the operator on the Car pathia, was the first witness. Senator Smith sought to establish certain testimony he had given on the stand yesterday, and this soon was ended. Then earner the "star” witness of the day. Seated in an invalid's chair, Bride was wheeled to the end of the table. He was hollow cheeked and wan and had just come from a physician care. His hands were never quiet and he locked and interlocked his fin gers incessantly. Like Cottam. who is 23 years old. Bride is merely a boy. Neither had any telegraphic experience previous to taking up wireless telegraphy and both told tales of long hours at low wages and days and nights spent without sleep. Told Him He War a Fool. This inexperience and the mental condition of the young operators were the two points on which Senator Smith bora persistently. He had put Cot tam through a gruelling examination In which the youth testified he had not slept more than eight or ten hours between Sunday night when the Ti tanic called for help and Thursday night when the vessel docked here. Bride’s story was one that bore out virtually all that Cottam’s had es tablished. except that his was one of nervous, strained worry and high keyed suspense. Bride was >closNy questioned as to the first call for «id sent out by the Titanic. He said the first vessel to answer was the Frankfurt of the North German-Lloyd line. The oper ator on the Frankfurt, according to the witness, apparently considered the call more or less trivial, for half an hour after receiving the imperative appeal of the sen, he called the Ti tanic to inquire specifically just what was wrong. "Mr. Phillips said he was a fool,” Bride testified, referring to the chief operator on the Titanic who lost his life, "and told him to keep out.” Frankfurt Much Nearer. No effort was made to re-establish communication with the Frankfurt, al though Phillips felt certain that the vessel was much nearer than the Car pathia, with which communication hail been established. This, Bride said, Phillips judged by reason of the great er power of the Hertsian waves. Senator Smith expressed astonish ment at the statement. He repeatedly pressed the witness to answer why the aid of a vessel many miles nearer 1 a sinking ship was not invoked. Bride evaded a direct answer by saying he did not know, that probably the Frank furt operator could not understand and that Phillips, his superior, had used his own judgment. Another phase of the laxity of the wireless, so far as man is concerned, was developed by the chairman. He drew from the witness an acknowl edgement that on Sunday evening Bride was sitting with the telephonic apparatus strapped to his ears, adjust ing his accounts, while the steamship Californian, seeking to warn the Ti tanic that icebergs were invading the lanes of ocean travel, called incessant ly. Bride said he heard the call but did not answer because he was "busy.” It was not until a half hour later that the Californian, striving to reach the steamship Baltic, reached also the Ti tanic, whereupon the warning that three huge icebergs had been sighted was noted by Bride and verbally com municated to the liner’s captain. Bride’s Story of Disaster. Senator Smith established by Gug lielmo Marconi, inventor of the wire less system bearing his name, that both the Titanic and the Frankfurt operator had virtually .the same typo of Instruments. In the opinion of the inventor there existed no reason why communication between the two ves sels should not have been perfect, pro vided weather conditions were favor able. The night, it previously had been established, was clear and there was no fog or other atmospheric dis turbance. Under insistent questioning Bride began to show signs of collapse, so Senator Smith ended the wireless in quisition and questioned him about the final scenes aboard jhe Titanic. Bride and his superior, Phillips, were among the last to leave and were witnesses of the closing scenes on the boat deck, the topmost parade deck of the lost ship. Bride's story \vas frag mentary because it was drawn from a memory that had not ceased to see the actual living horrof of it. Without Senator Smith's interrogations, it ran about as follows: "We did not feel the shock when the ship struck. In fact, I was asleep at the time and was not even awakened by the impact. When the engines stopped, Mr. Phillips called me and I put on the telephone apparatus while he went out to see what was the trou ble. A little later he came back. He said things looked ’queer.’ By 'queer' I suppose he meant that everything was not as it should be. First Call for Help. “At this time, however, neither of us worried about it. When he heard the confusion on deck, I went out to investigate and when I returned I found Mr. Phillips sending out a ’C. Q. D.’ call, giving our position. We raised the Frankfurt first and then the Carpathia and the Baltic, and as I have said we did not try for the Frankfurt for any length of time, but concentrated our messages on the Car pathia, which had answered that she was rushing to our aid. "The captain came into the cabin from the deck when the Carpathia advised us of her position and figured out the time when that vessel would probably arrive. He left when that was disposed of and proceeded to the bridge. We then began unofficially to keep in communication with the Car pathia. "From time to time either Mr. Phil lips or I would go on deck to observe the situation. The last time I went on deck I found the passengers running around in confusion and there was al most a panic. They were seeking life belts. All the large life boats were gone, but there was one life-raft re maining. It had been lashed on the top of the quarters on the boat deck. A number of men were striving to launch it. Every Man for Himself. "I went back to the wireless cabin then. Mr. Phillips was trying to send out a final ‘C. Q. D.’ call. The power was so low that we eould not tell ex actly whether it was being carried or not, as we were in a closed cabin and we could not hear the crackle of the wireless at the mast. Phillips kept on sending, however, while I buckled on his life belt and put on my own. Then we both cared for a woman who had fainted and who had been brought into our cabin. Then, about ten min utes before the ship sank, Capt. Smith gave word for every ons to look to his own safety. I sprang to aid the men struggling to launch the life raft and we had succeeded in getting it to the edge of the boat when a giant wave carried it away. I Lent with It and found myself underneath. Strug gling through an eternity, I finally emerged and was swimming 150 feet from the Titanic when she went down. I felt no suction as the vessel plunged. "I did not see Mr. Ismay at all. Capt. Smith stuck to the bridge and, turning. I saw him jump just as the vessel glided into the depths. ” He had not donned a life belt, so far as I could see, and went down with the ship.” The witness showed so plainly the mental and physical strain under which he was laboring that both Sen ators Newlands and Reed urged Sena tor Smith to excuse him. After a few more interrogations Senator Smith did so. Neither Senator Smith nor Senator Newlands would comment on the line of cross-examination followed. It was evident, however, that the testimony sought was intended to form the basis for a sweeping and thorough reform in the laws governing the use of wire less on steamships. Whether this would be accomplished through restric tions placed on vessels of foreign re nter entering American ports or be the subject of diplomatic negotiations and an understanding with other na tions neither would say. They de clined to discuss the question in any way. The story of the American survivors THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912. NO WONDER TITANIC OFFICER IS SUICIDE SAID CROW’S NEST MEN Declared They Reported “Ice bergs Ahead” in Vain. New York, April 20.—Three warnings that an iceberg Was ahead were trans mitted from the crow’s nest of the Ti tanic to the officer on the doomed steamship bridge fifteen minutes before she struck, according to Thomas Whitely, a first saloon steward, who now lies in St. Vincent’s Hospital with frozen and lacerated feet. , Whitely, who was whipped overboard from the ship by a rope, while helping to lower a life boat, finally reached the Carpathia aboard one of the boats that contained, he said, both the crow's nest lookouts. He heard a conversation be tween them, he asserted, in which they discussed the warnings given to the Titanic's bridge officer of the presence of the iceberg. Whitely did not know either of the lookout men’s names and believes they have returned to England with the ma jority of the surviving members of the crew. "I heard one of them say that at 11:15 o’clock, fifteen minutes before the Titanic struck, he had reported to First Officer Murdock on the bridge that he fancied he saw an iceberg,” said Whitely. “Twice after that the lookout said he warned Mr. Murdock that a berg was ahead. I can’t remember their ex act words, but they were very indig nant that no attention was paid to their warnings. One of them said: “ ‘No wonder that Mr. Murdock shot himself.’ ” CHARLESTON SWEPT BY VIOLENT GALE YACHT GEISHA DESTROYED Other Shipping Damaged by 66-Mile Wind. Charleston, S. C., April 20.—A sixty six mile southeast gale which struck Charleston this afternoon played havoc with the fleet of the Carolina Yacht Club, completely destroying the 65- foot gasoline yacht Geisha and badly damaging five other pleasure craft. The three-masted schooner Scotia was driven aground in the harbor, but is not thought to be damaged. The three-master Ruth Cobb broke from her moorings and drifted a consider able distance. One boatman who was washed overboard from the yacht club pier was resuscitated with great dif ficulty. Damage in the city is small. Damage at Fernandina. Fernandina, Fla., April 20.—With a wind blowing at 90 miles an hour at 2 o’clock this afternoon, which came up very suddenly from the southwest, shipping In the Amelia river was bad ly tangled up and a great amount of damage was done. The British bark entine Malwa was careened until her side dipped In the water. The schoon er William H. Clifford, in tow, collid ed broadside with the Norwegian steamer Molina and again collided with the schooner Jacob S. Winslow, driv ing herself under the pier. Several small boats were capsized and many piers were badly damaged. SING d’eATH-HYMN OF TITANIC’S BAND Five Thousand Voices Heard in Open Air Meeting. New York, April 20.—With heads un covered nearly 5,000 persons assembled in Union Square sang through all the verses of "Nearer, My God, to Thee,” to-day after leaders of the open air meeting had spoken of the hymn as that with which the victims of the Ti tanic disaster went to their death. The gathering was one of the day’s features of the Christian Conservation Congress under the auspices of the Men and Religion Forward Movement. William J. Bryan, John Mitchell, the labor leader; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Bishop Hendrick of Kansas City ami others stood on the platform together facing a large assembly. Mr. Bryan was the principal speaker, his subject being "The Claims of the Christian Religion on the Men of North Ameri ca." Mr. Bryan touched on the theory of evolution and brought out an out burst of applause when he said he wanted no man to bring him on his death bed Darwin's "Descent of Man,” but desired to have the Twenty-third Psalm read to him. KENTUCKY TO CHOOSE DELEGATES MAY 29 Louisville, Ky„ April 20.—Kentucky’s twenty-six delegates to the national Democratic convention at Baltimore will be chosen in Louisville on May 29, according to the call issued to-day by the state Democratic Executive Committee. Cyclone Kills Woman. Eufaula. Ala., April 17.—A cyclone which visited Barbour county, Alabama and Quitman county. Georgia, result ed in one death and injuries to sev eral to-day. A negress living near Eufaula was killed in the wreck of her home. Three other houses on the same farm were destroyed. The same cyclone did considerable damage in the northern part of Henry county. Re ports so far tell of nine houses be ing destroyed and one person, a ne gress. being injured. Every house on the McDaniel farm was destroyed. Clark Man Hot Against Wilson Omaha, April 17.—George Fred Wil liams of Massachusetts, speaking In behalf of Champ Clark's presidential candidacy, declared at Lincoln to day that he was absolutely opposed to Gov. Wilson of New Jersey and said that if Wilson were nominated and William J. Bryan supported Wilson that he, Williams, would part company with Bryan, though he had supported the Nebraskan for fifteen years of the Titanic will be told at the Washington hearings of tjie commit tee. The delay in the opening of the morning session of the hearing, it de veloped later in the day, was due to a diplomatic contest between Senator Smith's committee and the White Star Line. The steamship company was anxious to have its men return to England on, the Lapland, sailing to day. However, in line with Senator Smith’s determination to let none who had a story to tell depart without testifying, about twenty seamen were kept under guard by committee de tectives. . ASTOR’S SON GIVES - SIO,OOO TO NEEDY OF TITANIC SURVIVORS The Total Relief Fund Has Reached $87,400. New York, April 20.—Vincent Astor, son of Col. John Jacob Astor, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, sent to Mayor Gaynor to-day a contribu tion of 310,000 for the destitute surviv ors of the ill-fated ship. The check was accompanied by this note: "Dear Mayor. Will you kindljj. ac cept the enclosed check as a contri bution from me to the fund for the needy survivors of the Titanic disas ter. Yours very truly. ‘‘Vincent Astor.” Contributions received from various sources to-day brought the grand total to be administered by the emergency relief committee of the American Red Cross to $67,409. In addition to this the women's relief compilttee an nounced to-day that it had received contributions aggregating $20,000 and that no further funds are required by them. John D. Rockefeller has sent his check for $2,J00. DOZEN AMERICANS LOST REPRESENT $162,000,000 Mrs. Widener Has Pearls In sured for $750,000. New York. April 18.—Twelve of the men missing from the Titanic repre sented wealth estimated at $162,000,000. John Jacob Astor heads list with an estimated fortune of $125,000,000 Benjamin Guggenheim, fifth of Guggenheim smelter kings .... 10,000,000 Isidor Straus, merchant and philanthropist 5,000,000 George D. Widener, Phila- delphia traction promoter.. 5,000,000 Arthur Ryerson, Philadel- phia . 5,000,000 Charles M. Hays, president Grand Trunk Railroad 3,000,000 William C. Dulles, Philadel- phia 2,500,000 Harry Elkins Widener, son of George D 2,000,000 C. Duane Williams, Philadel- phia 2,000,000 George D. Wick, Youngs- town, Ohio 1,000,000 Henry B. Harris, theater owner and manager 1,000,000 Frederick Sutton, Philadel- phia 500,000 Mrs. George D. Widener, who was saved, carried with her three ropes of pearls, insured for $750,000. Part of her insurance contract was that she should wear them throughout the voyage and not entrust them to her baggage. DESIGNING DECK TO BE SLIPPED FROM BIG LINERS London, April 19.—Naval architects are already busying themselves with the problem of designing a deck which can be slipped from a sinking liner. “The problem is chiefly that of the expense of the apparatus, which would be used only once In fifty years," says John Biles, Vice president of the In stitution of Naval Architects. “An un sinkable ship’ is a Action of the trans atlantic tlcltdt sellers.’’ Revivalist’s Lively Work in Thomasville. Thomasville, Ga., April 17.—The re vival meetings in the big tent on the Mitchell House park lot continue to attract large crowds and will be kept up through the week or longer. The Rev. Mr. Dunaway has been touching up almost everything that he thought needed It. Bridge playing, dancing. "42,” liquor drinking, blind tigers, cig arette smoking, locker clubs, the Elks and various other organizations come under his ban. Many have professed conversion and some have professed receiving the "Second Blessing." Mr. Dunaway belonging to that branch of the Methodist Church. Breed* Rat* to Show Coutin* Should Not Wed. From the Philadelphia Record. Nine medical men of wide depute, representing seven of the principal uni versities and colleges of this country and Canada, gathered in the Bellevue- Stratford last night to attend the first session of the annual meeting of the advisory board of the Wister Institute of Anatomy of the University of Penn sylvania. The meeting will be de voted to a discussion of the experi mentation of the institute during the last year and the outlining of plans for the ensuing year Dr. Minot presided at the session last night which was devoted to a consid eration of the general scientific colicy of the Institute and the hearing of the report of Director Greenman covering the operations of the institute during the last year. Several of the members announced that they will read papers bearing on the researches of the insti tute at the sessions to-day. The report of Dr. Greenman covers experiments in metabolism conducted for many months with 5.000 West Phil adelphia rats. Dr. Greenman discov ered that inbreeding causes degeneracy of the brain and nervous system of animals. In the ninth generation of rats thus treated it was found that the brain decreased 20 per cent., while there was a corresponding increase in body weight. Dr. Greenman declared that if the same results are obtained in experimentations with humans it will prove a startling revelation to mankind, demonstrating the bad policy of the intermarrying of cousins. King Edward’* Politene**. From Tit-Bits. The Irreproachable politeness of the late King Edward was not only indi vidual and relative to persons, it was human and general as well. Once at Marienbad his majesty and a few friends were having tea in a restaur ant in the pine woods near the town. At a table close by sat another party the host of which was a well known German prince. The work of attending to Hie guests at both tables devolved upon a young German waitress and the King did not fall to notice the rude, blustering man ner of the royal German, who threat ened to report the terrified girl every time she had occasion to answer his summons. Annoyed by this most un justifiable behavior, the King said to Sir Stanley Clarke: “You are to convey my thanks to the proprietor here for the prompt and admirable manner in which my party has been served at this restaurant." The command was instantly obeyed much to the disgust of the adjoining table—a disgust which was intensified when the King gave the timid young waitress a gold piece. —"What a brave little woman she is ” “That so?” “Yes. she’ll even go to the front door alone when the bell rings after 3 o'clock at night.”—Detroit Free Press Children Tton’t care! A If they did care they would forget! ■HB Wrigley’s rommfr g|l| makes it easier for them |kH to care for their teeth |UK than not to care. MH If your children chew it every day, the friction and the mint leaf juice preserve their teeth indefinitely. |||£| iH|| While they chew it they HH |l|| also help digestion. ||H| lIIHI Most children don’t chew mH food properly don’t HH HUH create enough saliva. ||jg!|| Chewing this dainty helps |H|| digest the “gulpings.” |!||||i And all this applies to |||||| you—Mr. or Mrs. or Miss! w||lr Buy it by the Box of any dealer. It costs less. Pass it around after meals. Look for the spear The flavor lasts IA EFFECT OF WILSON FIGHT FOR GEORGIA UNDERWOOD IS LEADING New Jersey Governor Ousted from Front Pages. Atlanta, April 20.—The presidential primary has been temporarily effaced from the front pages of the newspapers by the appalling disaster to the Ti tanic; consequently Gov. Woodrow Wilson has necessarily lost a good deal of the effect his trip through Georgia might have had in so far as is concern ed the reaching of those who did not have opportunity to hear him speak. It is not apparent, however, aside and apart from front page publica tions, that Gov. Wilson stirred up any extensive amount of enthusiasm, and reports from a number of points are quite to the contrary. Among these are Americus and Albany, at both of which places he made speeches, it is stated, without any material effect. It Is an easy bet that Oscar Under wood of Alabama will carry both Sum ter and Dougherty counties and it Is almost equally certain that he will get several other counties in which Gov. Wilson spoke, and there is little If any doubt about Fulton. Spalding, Pike. Bibb, Houston, Monroe and others where the Governor stopped for short addresses from the rear platform of his train. It is an interesting fact that Gov. Wilson's managers selected some of the most hidebound Underwood counties for him to speak in rather than send ing him to the doubtful ones. Most of the counties chosen are such that Gov. Wilson or anyone else could not change them with a dozen speeches. It is true there were one or two doubtful counties on his itinerary, but the strong Underwood counties predomi nated. * Reports at Underwood headquarters here indicate that no inroads whatever have been made upon the Underwood strength in those counties in which Gov. Wilson spoke. On the contrary indications point to a growing Under wood sentiment and the letters com ing to headquarters are full of the most buoyant and confident expres sions. Gov. Wilson had a good meeting in Atlanta; any good speaker can get a good crowd here. But it is noteworthy that a large number of the audience left the hall following Senator Hoke Smith’s address and the general ver dict was that the New Jersey Gov ernor failed to make a strong impres sion. The work done in Fulton has been done chiefly through organisa tion. Practically everv voter In the county has been canvassed and both sides are claiming the county. It will be a pretty hot contest here with the odds somewhat in favor of Underwood. One of the chief criticisms made here of Gov. Wilson’s address was his rath er slighting allusion to the tariff as an issue. His "Why discuss the tar iff?” has been more discussed among voters than any other feature of his address, because of the general feeling among Democrats that the party must go Into the fight upon the tariff issue and chiefly as Oscar Underwood has made it. The Underwood campaign manage ment has made quite a hit here by se curing a stereopticon with which car tons, pictures and catchy expressions are thrown on a screen in the center of the city every evening. Large crowds gather around It and watch it for hours. Senator John H. Bankhead of Ala bama, who Is general in charge of Mr. Underwood’s campaign, spent a day here this week and brought encourag ing news from Florida, which he pre dicts is certain to give Its vote to the Alabama candidate. He says there was never any question about the atti tude of the Alabama delegation, that it has no second choice and that it will be for Underwood on every ballot un til there is a nomination. MRS. ASTOR'BAILED WATER FROM LIFEBOAT Tells of Leaving Husband on Titanic’s Deck. New York, April 20.—Mrs. John Jacob Astor was still in a« highly nervous condition to-day, suffering from the shock of her experience on the Titanic. Her physician, Dr. Reul Kimball, said that in spite of her nervousness it had been deemed best to let her talk freely with he» relatives and attendants re garding the disaster. It was believed that this would serve to relieve her feelings. Mrs. Astor's story of her experience, as repeated practically verbatim by the physician, is as follows; "We had already retired when the jar of the collision came. We thought little of it. but Mr. Astor was inter ested and said he would go on deck and see v. hat was the matter. I called my maid and put on a light dress, plan ning to follow him in a moment or two. Pretty soon Mr. Astor came back and said that he did not think it was any thing serious. The ship had grazed some drift ice, he said. We did not know theh it was a giant berg. He was very calm and so I was not alarmed. We put on ordinary light clothes and 'went on deck togethsr. “Everything was extremely quiet. No one was excited, least of all Mr. Astor and myself.' He walked around and people began to pour upon deck. The excitement began to grow, but the ship seemed all right. Then the or der was passed around to get into the boats, but nobody wanted to get into them and the first ones lowered were only partly filled. "The situation did not begin to get grave until most of the boats were gone and there were only two left. "Mr. Astor put me and my maid and a nurse into one of the boats and stood back as the boat was being sent away. tha b<>a.t was lowered he sent for some heavy wraps and furs for us. The boat pulled away from the Titanic and began almost Immediately to ship water until it was up to my knees. I occupied my time bailing. "Before the arrival of the Carpathia we picked up six men. two of whom died immediately after being pulled aboard.” ARE PORK ANDBEANS VEGETABLE OR MEAT? Railroad Charge as for Meat; Shippers Are Kicking. Atlanta, April 20.—Manufacturers of pork and beans in cans have appealed to the Railroad Commission for a rul ing to the effect that this product is a vegetable and not a meat. The railroads classify it as meat and charge a higher rate than would be charged for a vegetable. The manufacturers contend that ft is simply a canned vegetable and the commission is asked to order that classification. The matter is under consideration. TITANIC USED* OLD CODE IN WIRELESS AID FLASH “C. Q. D.,” Which Brought Succor to Fated Vessel. New York. April 20.—Recognised alike as signals of distress, wireless calls radiating over the ocean, wheth er they be the International "S. O. S.” or the Marconi “C. Q. D.." will turn toward the imperiled vessel the bow of every ship whose apparatus records the appeal. ‘‘C—come—Q- -quick—D—danger.” Although riot the International code, that appeal will bring help as rapidly as the shorter message: "S—some—O—one—S—succor.” Perhaps many a conjecture as to the origin of the wireless appeals has en tered the minds of those who have read of the faint far-away call for help from the accumulator set of the gal lant Phillips on the doomed Titanic. His wireless instruments failing when the dynamo room of the liner was flooded, he was forced to turn to the weaker apparatus. Scarcely carrying a hundred miles, the Carpathia, never theless. out of the air caught the fatal message. First to the ear in the con tinental code came the message: "Dash-dot-dash-dot, c. Dash-dash dot-dash. Q. Dash-dot-dot, D." The Titanic used the old Marconi code, supposed to have been extinct for over two years, ever since the Berlin convention adopted "S. O. S.” as the international signal for aid. —Miss Mabel Rice of Denver, is be lieved to be the only woman in the United States who drives a water wagon as a regular occupation. She has Just secured a position driving a sprinkler on the Denver streets and her pay is $4.50 a day. She owns the pair of mules ahe drUea,
