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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. XEW YORK. FRIDAY. iJPRIL 19, 1912. MDC fflDXTCT 0 WD lbU 10 thelr In the excitement 01 I IjUn inlll LlArri dcck the-" separated and wer THE EAGLE'S WIRELESS OPERATOR AT WORK.

1 rescued Individually There was no panic, Mrs. Cornell told I Mr. Kobbe, but the officers and stewards WITH TWO SISTERS had considerable difficulty In calming some of the passengers In all three cab-Ins. The stewards were mustered immediately and the lifeboats and rafts rapidly filled with people, some of whom had to he almost thrown Into the boats. The manning of the boats, said Mr.

Kobbe, was faulty and inadequate and the boat in which Mrs. Cornell was saved had no officer in charge. In the haste and excite Name of City Magistrate's Wife Left Off List of Survivors in Confusion. ment some of the boats were not lowered safely and both women saw one lifeboat filled with people sink fust after being THREE RESCUED SEPARATELY. lowered, drowning all of its precious burden.

1 4 Mrs. Cornell Transferred From TJn- Mrs. Cornell. Mrs. Applcton and Mrs.

Brown Tell of Heroism of Colonel Astor and Others. As a hush has fallen upon the ordinary affairs of life in this great city, we find it merely necessary to announce that we will meet our responsibility in merchandising as the public need may demand. LONDON MEMORIAL SERVICES. PATHETIC SCENES ATCDNARDDOCK CARPATHIAN RUSH TO DISASTER SCENE Hearts of the Most Stolid Touched as Survivors Came Ashore. FEW HAD ANYTHING TO SAY, But There Were Many Touching In cidents Witnessed Some Inspiring Evidences of Kindness Seen.

For those on the outside of the Cu-narder dock last night as the Carpathia 3teamed up there was little disappointingly little to see. But few of the first and second-class passengers who came put; at the principal gate, walked to take cars. There was an unoroaen una 01 taxles and limousines drawn up at the gate. One could only see policemen pushing back tho crowd, tbe swoop of eager newspaper men, and the figures, with bent heads or faces veiled, stepping quickly Into the vehicles. As they circled out under the electrlo lights one could catch now and then a passing glimpse, a thin, middle-aged woman walking with nervous gesticulations.

tears streaming down her cheeks, a man clasping a little girl tightly In his arms, an old man sunk down In a corner of the machine. That was all, but some of those little bits told a terrible or a beautiful story, Tho few people who came out through the green-lighted barrier, hurrying to v.iOD.ori hv mrerllne mTB- utreiie, was under tne same the street cars were besieged by eager m.trnii. nrt rvne. seaworthy Collapsible Boat. Mrs.

Cornell had been put Into one of the collapsible lifeboats whlcji was not very seaworthy, and had to be transferred to another boat In midocean before the Carpathia arrived. She was certain not all of those who got Into the lifeboats had been saved. Mr. Kobbe said Mrs. Cornell and her listers had not seen the captain on deck while the boats were beine lowered, but that many of the other officers and pas-solera were real heroes.

Colonel Astor was one of these, said Mr. Kobbe, for he assisted In getting the women into the boats, and when ho had helped his wife Into one of them stepped back to help others, and remained himself on board la the face of certain death. Mrs. Smith, a relative of Mrs. Cornell, said that the survivors told of singing hymns and pray ing while waiting for their turn to be saved.

Many of the details of the great accident escaped their eyes, as everyone on board Beemed to be in a dazed condition. Mrs. Cornell and her two sisters had taken the trip to England to attend the funeral of a relative, Lady Drummond, and they were returning when the disaster occurred. PROTECTION ON FERRYBOATS. Engineers Discuss Inadequate Provision in Case of Danger.

During a discussion last night between several marine, mechanical and naval engineers, at the second annual ex hibit of the Brooklyn Euglneers Club, during which the Titanic disaster was the pnucipul topic, the statement was made that "ninety per cent, of the passenger and ferryboats in and about New York Harbor do not carry sufficient lifeboat equipment, and these passenger ana ferryboats do not carry sufficient crews to man the lifeboat equipment, thai is. carried." In speaking of the Brooklyn ferryboats is ttell-kuowii naval engineer stated that the lifeboat equipment consisted of two lifeboats each on the port and starboard sides of the hurricane deck, also two life-rafta, and one small boat was carried on the main deck. The crew ot the ferryboat consists of the captain, a mate, a quartermaster and two deckhands. There are, quartered In the hold, seven men. engineers, firemen and stokers.

"It is perfectly obvious," said the speaker, "how little chance a crew of five men would have to launch more than one lifeboat In time of Are or serious panic on board. Furthermore, when these boats are heavily loaded with teams and from 1. 000 to 4,000 passengers, as Is fre quently the case, the seven men below decks are absolutely unable to come up; cannot even hear the flre-alurm gongs; they would De caugnt line rats trap. It was stated that report after report had been forwarded to the Dock Department to have four fire gongs placed where the men below decks could hear hem; thi3 deficiency had been called also 0 the attention ot the United States In spection service, but no attention had been paid to it as yet. Another recom mendation that has so far, apparently, been Ignored Is the request of the engineers to construct an exit from the inglne rooms direct to the main deck.

SAYS CAPTAIN DIED A HERO. Philadelphlan Battled With Ice Cakes for Five Hours in Naked Condition. Among the first of the survivors to leave the Carpathia was Robert W. Daulul of Philadelphia. He said: "Captain Smith was the greatest hero ever saw.

He was on the bridge and made every possible effort to restore order and bis crew obeyed him as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Five minutes after the crash everyone on board seemed to have gone Insane. Men and women fought, bit and scratched to get In line for the lifeboats. See the black eye I received, and I also sustained a cut on my chin. "I saw men praying as I struggled to get to the rail.

Curses and prayers filled the air and women clad In the evening; gowns which they had worn during the concert which had Just closed, raced with women clad only In flimsy night attire rushing to get to the lifeboats. "When I last saw Captain Smith he was on the bridge shouting and rushing the women to the boats. Ab the passengers got into the lifeboats women If they did not move fast enough were thrown lu an officer Jumped to command and It was swung 10 the sea from the davits. "After waiting for what seemed an interminable time with the collapsible boat in my hands, I felt the Titanic waa sinking under my feet. I could feel Iter going under at the bows.

The storage batteries failed and again there was darkness. I tried to wait, but suddenly following an Irresistible Impulse, I felt myself leaping from the rail, away up in the air, and It felt an eternity before hit the water. When I came up, I felt was being drawn In by the suction, and when 1 felt a cake of ice near I clung to It. I was naked. For five hours I battled with ice cakes and when I saw other boats near I almost gave up." Mr.

Daniel was asked what was the condition of the survivors when picked up from the lifeboats. "Horrible, horrible," was his reply. He sairl: "Every one of the persons rescued was on the open sea for hours. We had not bite to eat. The wind coming over the sea of ice and the great bergs chilled us to the marrow of our bones.

One or two of the persons in the boats were frozen think to death. "1 know two or three lifeboats were drawn under the wrecked steamer were lost. Each was filled with passengers. WENT TO MEET CARPATHIA. Kracke, in Official Capacity; Woodruff, to Offer Assistance.

Naval Officer FTederiek J. H. Kracke went to meet the Cunard liner Carpathia last night in his official capacity, as an official of the customs service. He was accompanied by Dr. F.

A. O'Hagan and spent some time at the pier. It was with great reluctance that he went on board the Carpathia, and, his duties soon over, as all the formalities were waived, he returned to the pier and left the vicinity the dor ks. Timothy L. Woodruff, who had many friends on hoard the Titanic, went over to meet the Carpathia on learning of the ship's arrival last night.

He stated that had not intended to meet any particular one of the published list of survivors, but was there to offer aid to acy of his friends who might be on board. LEAGUE TEAMS TO PLAY FOR TITANIC SURVIVORS, President John T. Brush of the New York National League Baseball Club, announced today that the Giants would play exhibition game with the New York American League Club next Sunday afternoon, April 21, at the Polo Grounds, the benefit of the destitute survivors the Titanic. Tbe game will be called 3 0 clock. to at to so of of of 1 Three of the fortunate survivors of the Tltanl? disaster whose arrival last night brought joy and relief to at least one person In Greater New York were Mrs.

Hohert C. Cornell, wife of Magistrate Cornell of this city, and her two sisters. Mrs. E. D.

Appleton of Bay Side, L. and Mr9. J. Broun of Hoston. Mass.

Owin? to an erroneous of names at first seDt from the Carpathia It was thought that the magistrate's wife had perished with hundreds of othr per sons after the crash with the Iceberg and the subsequent failure correct th error In the wirelss dispatch caused th collapse of Magistrate Cornell, whos lis Mrs. E. C. Cornell, Wife of City Magistrate. Who Waa Savd.

Though Nam. Was Not on J. 1st. only consolation was the fact that the name of a R. O'Conneil.

thought to be Mrs. Cornell, and not listed lu the original passenger list of the Titanic, had been sent in to the White Star Line offices. Mrs. Cornell and her two sisters were met last night at the pier by Magistrate Cornell and several friends, and were hurried in taxis to his residence at 91)1 Lexington avenue, Manhattan. The party arrived at the home shortly after 10 o'clock and were besieged at the entrance by a number of reporters anxious to get some details of the disaster from the lips of the survivors themselves.

Neither of the party would say anything about the sinking of the Titanic and tho rescue except that they were very glad to arrive borne safe and sound. Magistrate Cornell was visibly overjoyed, and the change in hli appearance was remarkable. He hurried his wife and sister up to their apartments and refused to be disturbed by telephone calls, which remained unanswered by all except the maid. Mrs. Appleton did not accompany Mrs.

Cornell and Mrs. Brown to the Lexington avenue address, but was met by friends from her Bay Side home and hastened immediately away with them to Bay Side. Too Exhausted to Discuss Catastrophe With Reporters. Magistrate Cornell would say nothing about the affair and neither would Mrs. Cornell or Mrs.

Brown to any of the re-porters except that they were well and glad to be on land again. The former could scarcely express his Joy and relief. There would be no story given out, he said, until this morning, as all of the members of the party were In a nervous elate and quite exhausted after the terrible experience. Several attempts to get either of the survivors to talk about the disaster over the telephone were also fruitless. Mrs.

Cornell and her sister were the recipients of many telegrams and telephone calls of congratulation during the evening and many friends called In person to express their sentiments. Roosevelt Kobbe, and Mrs. Kobbe, old friends of the Cornells, accompanied the magistrate to the pier and stayed at the Cornell apartment during a good part of the night. Or. Turtle, -the family psyeician, also called during the evening.

When seen after his visit lie said the condition of Mrs. Cornell and Mrs. Brown was very gratifying. Except for a little exbaus- Mrs. J.

Murray Brown, of Mrs. Vium t'ornell, Who Was tho JII-Fated Hon and nervousness the two women are in fine physii in 1 condition. They seem not to have suffered in the least from their trying experience. Mr. Kobbe Relates Thrilling Experiences of the Three Women.

Mr. and Mrs. Kobbe had evidently talked at considerable length with the two survivors about Iho Titunlc sinking. When asked fur dome deUjlg. they too said Mrs.

Cornell and Airs. Brown were well but would not tnlk 10 thn newspaper men last night. Air. Kobbe, who has been with Magistrate Cornell almost constantly since the llrst news of the wreck came to him, said the three women. Airs.

Brown, Airs. Appleton and Mrs. Cornell had been reamer separately and that neither knew the other was saved until the picked theni out of the Ife boats. Airs. Cornell was one of the last to be saved.

For some reason or other she had to wait on the Titanic: until almost tile lrrsf life tutfi wita hnit.irl launched. When the crash rame all three women were In their stateroom, but rushed on sk as eoou -as they were able to ecraui- ft V. 4PM til I I I a of he an for of at EAGLE'S WIRELESS CAUGHT THE NEWS First Flashes From Carpathia to Shore Heard in Newspaper Office. DETAILS WERE HELD BACK. Franklin's Appeal Unanswered While Dicker Was Made for Operators' Stories.

Durlnn the late afternoon yesterday and while the steamship Carpathia was nearlng her dock, The Eagle wireless station was In constant communication wtlh her and stations along Long Island that talked to her. Although the shore wireless stations had been calling the Carpathia ail after noon, and occasionally were in communication with her, the Sea Gate station did not get any response from the Car pathia until 6:10 p.m. Then the opera tor at bea Gate had several messages for the rescue ship, but was unable to send them for some little time. As soon as the Carpathia and the Sea Gates station had established communl-catlqn the Carpathia sent messages In code to the Cunard and White Star lines. Howard T.

Cottam, the wireless operator on the Carpathia, was exhausted with long vigils, and Harold Bride, the second operator of the Titanic, who was saved, had relieved him. But two fresh wireless operators were sent from the Sagaponack wireless station on Long Island to meet the Carpathia, and theBe two operators were working the Carpathian wireless as she neared New York. At 7:10 o'clock Sea Gate sent the fol lowing message to the Carpathia for J. Bruce Ismay from P. A.

S. Franklin, vice president of the White Star Line: "Concise Marconlgram account of actual accident greatly needed for enlightenment publlo and ourselves. This Is most Important." "FRANKLIN." The Carpathia operator did not this message when it was first sent, and Sea Gate repeated It at 7:40. Then the Carpathia acknowledged the message at 8:10. While these messages were passing between Sea Gate and the Carpathia they were being copied In The Eagle office.

All this time, however, the Carpathia was giving none of the details of the Titanic disaster. The wireless operator aboard the ship sent not a word about how, or how many hundred, lives were lost when the Titanic went down. This was by order of the ship's captain, but at the same time the wireless men were arranging to sell their stories. At 8:27 this message flashed through the air to the Carpathia: "Marconi officers, Steamers Carpathia and Titanic, "Arranged for your exclusive story for dollars In four figures, Mr. Marconi agreeing.

Stpp, say nothing; until you see me." This message was repeated several times and wbb signed by a person known Bride and Cottam. Their story appeared In a morning paper today. Then this message was sent to the Carpathia wireless men at 9 o'clock: "Go to Strand Hotel, 602 West Fourteenth street, to meet Mr. Marconi." This message was not signed. At 7:45 the captain of the Carpathia had been Bent a message by the White Star line.

It said: "Is Frank D. Millet on board your steamer?" The reply came through Sea Gate at 9:25 and read: "Not on board." It was at 9:25 that The Eagle wireless operator picked up the first news of the actual arrival of the Carpathia at her dock In Manhattan. It read: "Carpathia arrived at 9 o'clock to night with 705 survivors of Titanic. Colonel John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Will iam T. Stead, Charles M.

Hays, Isldor Straus and many other notable men are not. on board." At 10:15 the Carpathia and Sea Gaie quit talking. The Carpathia was already her dock In Manhattan and her passengers and the Titanic survivors were going ashore. STEAD MEMORIAL SERVICES. Bryan to Pay Tribute at Men and Religion Meeting.

Hundreds of delegates to the Men and Religion Congress, who were to have listened to an address by William T. Stead, the English Journalist, lost in the Titanic disaster, today Joined In memorial services for Mr. Stead at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Stead's death came as a distinct shock to the leaders of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, who had urged him to attend the opening session of the congress.

William J. Bryan, who is to be the principal speaker tonight, will pay a tribute the distinguished Journalist, who was deeply interested in the success of the movement. Other speakers at tonight's session will be J. A. MacDonald, editor the Toronto Globe, and Carl Milliken Island Falls, Me.

LACK OF LIFEBOATS. Frankfort, Grrmany, April in The Frankfort Gazette today prints a table ten of the principal trans-Atlantic steairr-rs, contrasting their boat accommodations with the numbers of the passengers and crews, and showing the number of persons for whom no boat accommodation is provided. The list demonstrates that the number of persons un- provided fe; ranges from 1,475 to Distinguished Persons Present at St Paul's Long Vigil at Whit Star Office. London, April 19 Pitiable scenea were again witnessed at the White Star offices in London this morning. One woman who had kept vigil throughout the day and most of the night since the first news of the disaster came, found in the list posted at the offices the name sbe bad been waiting for and rushed Into the street shrieking, "He is saved!" Memorial services for the dead were held at noon In St.

Paul's Cathedral, and these were attended by the members of the cabinet and of the diplomatic corps, among whom were Ambassador Wbltelaw Reld and Mrs. Reld and other dlstln gulBbed personages. The White Star Company end the International Mercantile Marina Company were also represented. A memorial service Is to be held In St. Patrick's Cathedra, Dublin, on Sunday.

The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of London were present at the service at St. Paul's. Thousands of the publlo were unable to gain admittance to the Cathedral. Tbe whole congregation stood while a military band played the "Dead March" from Saul. Hundreds of women and men broke down and sobs were audible throughout the edifice.

Alexander Carlisle, the designer of the Titanic, who was among the oongregatlon, was so affected that) he fainted and bad to be carried out. Southampton, England, April 19 The wives and relatives and friends of the crew of the Titanic gathered In tbe early hours of this morning at the White Star offices to wait for the list of those officers and men who had been saved. In some cases tho posting of the list brought relief, but the majority went away with their worst fears confirmed. SAVED IN HIS DRESS SUIT. Tltanlo Passenger Reckoned His Chances, Jumped and Swam.

Doctors Ryan and Coakley, who went with the automobile ambulance of the Holy Family Hospital to minister to the medical wants of the survivors of th Tltanlo disaster, heard some Interesting experiences from the Hps of the passen gers of the Ill-fated liner. The doctors said that only two of the passengers were seriously injured. They were suffering from fractures which they sustained when the Tltanlo struck the Iceberg. The majority of the cases which required medical attention, they said, were hysterical women. "One of the most ludicrous as well as pathetic Bights I saw on the pier was a survivor of the Titanic in a full dress suit," said Dr.

Coakley. "He said that It was Impossible for him to board one or the lifeboats, so he remained aboard the liner until she gradually began to settle. He said that he realized that if he stayed aboard he would be drawn down by the Buction when the ship sank. So he decided to take a chance. Three minutes before the Titanic went down, he Jumped.

He had taken part In a social function In the early part of tho evening and was still arrayed in his evening clothes. The water chilled hlra to the marrow, but he managed to strike out and swim out of the radius of the suction and was finally hauled into one of the UfeboatB. "They thawed him and his clothes out when the survivors were taken aboard the Carpathia. HIb evening Buit last night looked as if he nad been thoroughly immersed in salt water. Stains of the brine were visible on every part of the suit, but nevertheless he seemed to be the most cheerful individual In the world.

'At he said, philosophically, looking around the pier among his fellow passengers. 'I am the only one who is In correct evening "There was another man," said Dr. Ryan, "who said he was in a lifeboat which contained seventy-two people. They drifted about the Ice packs, he said, for eight hours before they were picked up by the Carpathia. The women and children, he declared, suffered terribly from exposure." MRS.

CARTER'S STORY. Baltimore Woman Tells of Leaving Ship, in Lifeboat. Among those saved from the Titnnlc who arrived In New York last evening were Mr. and Mrs. William E.

Carter of Baltimore and their two children, Lucile, aged 15, and William aged 11. The Carters were met at the pier and conducted to the home of William C. Dlckerman at 09 Madison avenue, where they spent the night. The experiences of the Carter family at the disaster were re lated by Mrs. Carter last evening at the Dickerman residence.

"We were all asleep In our cabin on Sunday evening," she said, "when the alarm that the ship was in danger came. We dressed as fast as we could, and when we came up on deck the men were waiting for the women and children to get Into the boats. Everything Beemed as orderly as if we had been going to dinner. The men stepped back for the women and children to pass. "The children and I bad to get Into a boat first, leaving Mr.

Carter on the deck. There was no time for much leave taking. Our boat was manned by members of the. crew, but one oar was vacant, so that I and four other women took turns at pulling the extra oar. Mrs.

George D. Wldener of Philadelphia and her maid were in our boat. "It was exactly fourteen minutes to twelve when the boat was struck, and It went down at twenty minutes past two. It seemed to me that we were about two city blocks away from the Titanic as she went down. We felt the suction, but by rowing hard we were able to get away.

"It was about efeht hours afterward when we were taken aboard the Carpathia." Mr. Carter, who Is a retired business man, got into a boat that left the ship later than the one that carried his family. He said that he saved his life by taking an oar of one of the lifeboats that was not manned. He did not see his wife and children until they met on the Carpathia. putting their own automobiles and others they had hired at the disposal of the immigrants and other third class passengers as they came out, bewildered, afraid, dinging to authority in the shape of a policeman and not knowing what was to become of thorn.

A young man and woman, who had for some reason to catch the midnight train, were quietly pushed into a walling taxi by one of these tall, efficient men and sent off to catch it Inside one could catch glimpses of tbem sb they came in little groups ot two and three down the long stair. Three self-reliant and rather pretty young Irish girls, as they bundled Into their taxi, answered briefly the reporter's queries. "Oh, I Just stepped from one boat to another," smiled one, with a delicious brogue. "Did I Jump? No, I was Just pigged In!" And tbey drove away. By 12 o'olock the street was emptying.

The first-class passengers had all gone! the sick had all been hurried away to hospitals; a few steerage passengers were Btill coming out. The crowd along the Inner barrier was melting away. The reporters were leaving in groups, comparing notes on tbe way. The police still kept their posts, weary, silent, but still patient. Along the streets leading to Tenth avenue, crowded against the ropes and stretching back along Fourteenth street as far as Seventh avenue, the curious, disappointed thousands were still waiting, hoping against hope that there would be something to see.

But It was all over. The few pitifully few survivors of the greatest maritime disaster this age can remember, had come home and were being cared for by tncir own people. SURVIVOR LAUDS HUSBAND. Mrs, May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short-story writer and novelist, went down' with the ship, was met here last night by her daughter, MisB Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York' from the onvent of Notre Dame in Baltimore. Miss Futrelle had been told that her father had been picked up by another steamer.

Mrs. Charles Copeland, of Boston, a sister of the writer, who also land, with a party of friends awaited at a hotel the arrival of Mrs. Futrelle from tbe dock. "I am so happy that father Is safe, too," declared Miss Futrelle. as her mother clasped her In her arms.

The girl and Mrs. Copeland, alone of the party, did not know that Mr. Futrelle was dead. It was some time before Mrs. Futrelle could compose herself.

"Where Is Jack?" Mrs. Copeland asked. Mrs. Futrelle was afraid to let her daughter know th9 truth. "Oh, he is on another ship," Mrs.

Futrelle replied. Mrs. Copeland then guessed at the truth and became hysterical. Miss Futrelle also broke down. "Jack died like a hero," Mrs.

Futrelle said, when the party became composed. "He was in the smoking room when the crash came the noise of the smash was terrific and I was going to bed. I was hurled from my feet by the impact. 1 hardly found myself when Jack came rushing Into the stateroom. "'The boat is going down; get dressed at he shouted.

When we reached the deck everything was In the wildest confusion. The screams of women and the shrill orders of the officers were drowned Intermittently by the tremendous vibrations of the Tltanic's deep bass fog horn. The behavior of the men wa magnificent. They stood back without murmuring and urged the women and children to get into the life boats. A few cowards tried to scramble Into the boats, but they were quickly thrown back by the others.

Let me say now that the only men who were saved were those who sneaked Into the life boats or were picked up after tho Titanic sunk. "I did not want to leave Jack, but he assured me that there were boats enough for all and that be would be rescued later. 'Hurry up, May; you're keeping the others were his last words as he lifted me Into a lifeboat and kissed me goodby. I was In one of the last life boats to leave the ship. We had not put out many minutes when the Titanic dis appeared.

I almost thought, as I saw her sink benenth the water that I could see Jack, standing where I had left him and waving at me." Mrs. Futrelle said that she saw the parting of Colonel John Jacob Astor and his young bride. Mrs. Astor was frantic. Her husband had to Jump Into the lifeboat four times and tell her that he would be rescued later.

After the fourth time, MrB. Futrelle said, he Jumped back on the deck of the sinking ship and the life boat bearing his bride made off, BURIAL OF DEAD AT SEA. Services for the burial of the dead at sea were read over the body of four men on the Carpathia Monday afternoon by Father Roger Anderson of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross. The victims were three men and a cabin passenger found dead on a raft which carried thirty-one other persons, all living, by the Carpathia's lifeboats. During the services the Titanic survivors and passengers of the Carpathia thronged the deck.

Many turned away from the rail as the first of the weighted forms fell Into the water. Several other persons, benumbed by exposure, lay wrapped in blankets In the hospital and public rooms. Mrs. Rose Abbott, who was In the water for hours, was restored during the day. SALVATION AEMY HELPS.

The Salvation Army has placed the accommodation of its halls and Institutions at the service of the Mayor for the purpose of caring for survivors of the Titanic disaster. The Army has already made arrangements with Mrs. Henry's committee to entertain twenty women and children at its Institution at 316 EaBt Fifteenth street; it has also offered accommodation for thirty single men at its Industrial Home at 633 West Forty-eighth street, and for twenty others at Its hotel at 18 Chatham Square. Other accommodations will be offered as it becomes available. The Training College at 124 West Fourteenth street will also accom- modate from twenty to thirty, inore, Hot Coffee and Other Preparations to Receive Passengers While Cunarder Steamed to Rescue.

NO WOMEN IN FIRST BOAT. Many More Could Hava Been If They Had Not Refused to Leave Husbands or Belativeg. Everyone who could prove that he had any connection with the disaster was an object of absorbed attention, last night, and a steward from tbe Carpathia who found his way into one of (be waterfront saloons soon after the Cunarder came in with her cargo of survivors found glory enough to last him for a week. The Cunard officials had Issued an order that any man not on board all night would be discharged, but this particular steward ran the gantlet and showed up In West street with his story. He said: "It was between quarter after and half after one o'clock sbip'B time Monday morning," he said, "when all the stewards were mustered in tbe first-class saloon and Chief Steward Hughes told us that a wireless had just come in that th Tltanlo hit an Iceberg and probably would need help and be urged us to turn right in and get things ready for a ship's load of people.

"We did not suppose it was so bad aa turned out, but we got hot coffee ready and laid out blankets and made sandwiches and everything like that. It seemed as If every passenger on tbe boat knew about the trouble and turned out and no wonder, for the ship was shivering like it had a fit. Captain Rostron and let me say there is a grand man; a soldier as well as a sailor had shut oft the hot water all over the ship and turned every ounce of heat into steam, and the old boat was as excited as any of us. "After we got things ready we went out on deck and it was a glorious morning, no swell in tbe sea, but bitter cold. The ship's lights were on full blaze and we were there in the middle of a sea of the finest sight I ever saw.

About half after four we passed a great black Iceberg, bigger than the ship many times it seemed to me, and from what we heard after it was the one that sank tbe Titanic. 'About half after six while it was yet dark we saw way off the port bow a green light and we knew that we had tbe emergency leader In sight. About twenty minutes later, Just as it was about half and half day and dark we came up on the boat. There were eighteen men in it and It was in charge of an officer I don't know what one, but there were three officers saved altogether. "There were no women in the nrst boat and it was not more than one-third flll-od.

All of the men were able to come up the Jacob's ladder we threw over the port side and every one of them was given a hooker of brandy or hot black coffee, as he wanted. After they were all on board we pulled up the boat. "It was bright morning by now and all around the Carpathia, here and there about a quarter mile apart, were more boats and these were fuller than the first and there were women in all of them, I think, except the first. The women were hoisted up in bo'sun's chairs and the men who could swam around for mora boats. We circled round and round, though, and we saw all kinds of wreck age floating by but there was not a soul on a stick of it and we did not get sight of another soul.

"While we were pulling In the boatloads, the women we saved were quiet enough and not making any trouble at all until it seemed sure that we would not find any more and then Bedlam came. I hope I may never go through it again, but the way those women took on for the folks they lost was awful and we could not do anything to quiet them until they cried themselves out. "And they said that more women could be saved only they would not go without their husbands or the men who were with them. The officers pulled them apart the women from the men and shoved them Into the boats telling them that they wanted all the women together and all the men together and then they couldn't get the half of them to go. "They said, a woman told me this, that one beautiful old lady that everyone liked, was standing near the woman that told me this and they were shoving her toward the side but she hung her arms around the old husband's neck who was with ber and they couldn't get her arms loose, although the old man himself was trylnr to get ber away from him.

And neither one of them was Baved. "And I don't know but what the waiters who were talking to me were right about the boat not being likely to sink because after she bumped she did not settle for more than an hour, they said, until two explosions came right sharp together and then she sank In a few minutes." PRAISE FOR THE PRESS. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Committee of One Hundred of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, at headquarters, 189 Montague street, yesterday afternoon, the following resolution was passed: "The Committe of One Hundred of the Men and Religion Forward Movement of Brooklyn hereby expresses its cordial appreciation of the splendid co-operative work done by the public press of the city and especially In this borough. The public spirit manifested by the large amount of valuable space allotted to our work was worthy of the highest praise, and went a long way to contribute to tie splendid success of the campaign. questioners three deep, until policemen would appear and protect them until they could get away.

MoEt of them bad little to say. The first to come out through the barrier was an erect old man leaning lightly on the arm of a younger one. To the usual, "Were you on the he said curtly, "Yes," and walked on with great speed, looking neither to the right nor left. Nothing more was to be gotten from him. In such a time the usual American fear of displaying emotion is forgotten.

A man was seen walking slowly away with a woman, both arms clasped tightly about her as if he could not bear to let her go. Two girls, between two young men, being half carried along as a hurt player is led off the football field, their arms flung over their companions' shoulders, were also noticed. A young Jewish woman, from the second or third class, hatless, her hair half bound with a veil, between two companions, hardly able to walk yet pushing on faster than her companions thought wise, as if she wanted to get as far away from the dock as she could. And as she hurried sbe was talking quickly, bitterly, her eyes swimming with tears. Young Woman Appeared Half Crazed by Her Experience.

One of the most pathetic sights was another young girl, led by a grave-faced friend or brother. Behind her walked her mother and father, bent and old. The girl was staring straight ahead, her head upturned, not looking at her escort. And it seemed, as far as one could tell, she was murmuring, almost babbling, one thing over and over again. It ever a pevson looked as if her wits were gone it was that girl.

Below at Pier 64, was a closed door, outside which a few clustered. There was little to see, for all the tragedy that was there. Once in a while the doorB would swing open and an ambulance would Jolt slowly and carefully forth and hurry away, ringing its gong wildly. There were ambulances from nearly every hospital, and many were needed. MoBt of them were closed; one could catch the figure of the interne clinging to the strap, of a man, a relative doubtless of the sick one sitting with folded hands and lowered head, eyes seeking the loved face.

But one ambulance was open: It was really one 1 of the big motor trucks. In the bottom, on many blankets, thickly covered over with wraps, were some women and little girls, their hooded and shawled little faces peering out, pale and sad and curious on tne ousKy, rainy street, and the lights that flashed past them as they were sped away, where they could not know. Crowd in Cafe Hungry for News From Carpathia's Minor Officers. Within the cafe ot the Strand Hotel were two most Interesting groups. One, so surrounded by twenty people as to bn unapproachable, surrounded two inferior officers ot the Carpathia, In their blue coats and flat caps.

One could hardly hear what they said, but the room hung on their words and clung to what scraps they could get. At another little table were two young sters, cockneys, doio, hibu liuiii uic tw- pathia. Talking witn mem was a younK man and his younger wife, a dark girl with snapping eyes, who asked most intelligent questions. Tho two cockneys were telling how the women drifted in thA boats for hours with only a fur coat over their nightgowns: of the young man who was picked up half perished from his long Immersion In the water; of the Carpathia's passengers who lent all the clothing they could possiniy spare to those who had saved notning. At the lower end of the dock, where rho pteomre Dassengers emerged there was kindness and charity and helpfulness in Its best aspects.

Spirit of Helpfulness Manifest. Before the gate, through which the bright yellow light from the hall streamed, were several agents from various institutions, especially Jewish, Iting to care for tbelr own people. There were also several who, quite modestly and quietly and efflclentli were.