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J A , SURVIVORS TELL STORY OF TITANIC DISASTER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2). , in the upright position some minutes and we watched at least 150 feet of the Titanic towering up above the level of the sea and looming black against the sky. Then, with a quiet, slanting dive, she disappeared beneath the water and our eyes had looked for the last time on the gigantic vessel. And there was left to us the gently heaving r 6ea, the boat filled to standing room, with men and women in every conceivable condition of dress and undress. "And then thereon fhe ear the most appalling noise that human being ever listened to?the cries of hundreds of our fellow beings struggling in the icy cold water, crying for help with a cry that we knew could not be answered. "We tried to sing to keep the women from hearing the cries and rowed hard to get away from the scene of the wreck, but I think those sounds will be one thing the rescued will find it difficult to efface from memory. "We kept a lookout for lights and about 3 a. m. saw faint lights showing in the sky, which turned out to be only the northern lights. "Presently low down on the horizon we saw a double light. They proved to be the masthead light and a deck light below of a rescuing steamer. We swung around and headed for her. The steersman shouted: "'Now, boys sing,' and for the first time, the boat broke into song with 'Row for the Shore, Boys/* and for the first time +^otc! nomo +/??the pvps of us all, as we VVtti O VU1X&V wv ^ w ? ? realized that safety was at hand. The song was sung, but it was a very poor - imitation of the real thing, for quiet evening voices make poor songs. A cheer was given next, and that was better." Widowed by Disaster 3Trs^ Astor is Saved. New York, April 18.?While utterly exhausted from her experiences, Mrs. John Jacob Astor was declared ' tonight by Nicholas Biddle, a trustee of the Astor estate, to be in no danger whatever. Her physicians, how ever, ,had given oraers mat mjiuiei Mrs. Astor nor her maid, who was saved, were to be permitted to talk about the disaster. On landing from the Carpathia the young bride, widowed by the Tita_iic's sinking, told members of her family what she could recall of the circumstances of the disaster. Of how Colonel Astor met his death she had no definite conceptions. As Mr. Biddle recounted her narrative, she had no yery clear recollections of the ha^. penings until boats were well clear of the sinking steamer. Her impression was that the boat in which she left had room for at least 15 more persons. The chief steerage steward of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia, says he saw Col. As tor standing by the life ladder as the passengers were being embarked. His wife was beside him, and the steward said the -colonel left her to go to the purser's nffiop for a moment and that was the last seen of him. He "Died Like a Soldier." Washington, April 18.?President Taft waited up until after midnight hoping that some of the Titanic's survivors might tell something of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aide, wbo undoubtedly was lost in the catastrophe. Col. Grade's story, which made no mention of Maj. Butt, blasted the last.hope and the president completely surrendered to his worst fears. Secretary Hilles remained at- the White House and took the bulletins to the president as they came fresh off tUc wires. When the last hope seemed to be no ttip r>rAc?r?pnt rpnpated what ht ? "X had said earlier in the day: "I know Archie died like a soldier." - President Taft told visitors late today that he had never expected 10 hear of the rescue of MajU Butt, his military aide, after the first shocking Views of the Titanic disaster re teheeland. "I never had any idea that Archie was saved at all," said the president "'As soon as I heard that 1,200 pet.ple went down, I knew he went do ,vn too. He was a soldier and was ol dock, where he belonged. "SOLDIER TO LAST;" WAS MA JOS BIT! Survivors Describe Heroism of Gallant Officer.?Wonderful Nerve In frisk. * U Washington, April 19?Mrs. Ilenry B. Harris, of Washington, in an interview in the Washington Star today, idescribed the heroism of Major Butt. She said: "Archie Butt was a major to the ^st. God never made a fmer nobleman than he. The sujht of that man, ! calm, gentle and yet as Srn as a Yock, will never leave me. T'n American army is honored by hlu: ana thb way he showed some of the other mer how | to behave when women and children were suffering that awful mcmtal tear that came when we hal to be huddled in those boats. Major Butt was near : me, and I know very nearly everything he did. Cool in Great Crisis. "When the order came to take to the boats he became as one ia supreme command. You would have thought he was at a White Hou:>e reception, so cool and calm was he. j When the time came he was a man to I be feared. In one of the earlier boats fifty women, it seemed, were about to be lowered when a man, suddenly panic-stricken, ran to the stern of it. Ma jor Butt shot one arm out, caught him by the neck and jerked him backward like a pillow. His head cracked against the rail and he was stunned. " 'Sorry,' said Major Batt, "women will be attended to first or I'll break every damned bone in your body.' ' Thank God For Archie Butt." "The boats were lowered away, one by one, and as I stood by my husband, he said to me: "Tbank (ioa tor Arcnie Butt' Perhaps Major Butt heard it, ! for he turned his face toward us for a second. Just at that time a young man was arguing to get into a lifeboat and Major Butt had hold of the lad by the arm like a big brother and appeared to be telling him to keep his head. "How inspiring he was. I stayed until almost the last and know what ? a "duff Ttmc* HPViov nnt tyid \ a ma.a iiituic uuct ttoo* iuu; jl/u?. j in a collapsible boat. I was one of I three women from the first cabin in I it. The rest were steerage people, j Major Butt helped those poor frightened steerage people so wonderfully tenderly and yet with such cool and manly firmness. He was a soldier to the last. He gave up his life to save others." The story of the heroism of Major Butt on the Titanic was told today in an interview given to the Washington , star's correspondent m .\ w ions uy Miss Marie Young. Miss Young is 1 believed to have been the last woman to leave the Titanic and the last of the survivors to have talked with the president's miltary aide. She and Major Butt had long been friends, Miss Young having been a i special music instructor to the children of former President Roosevelt, Miss Young said*: . Smiling in Face of Death. "The last person to whom I spoke on board the Titanic was Archie Butt, and his good, brave face, smiling at me from the deck, was the last I could distinguish as the boat was pulled away from the steamer's side. "Archie himself put me into the boat, wrapped blankets around me | and tucked me in as carefully as if we j were starting on a motor ride. He j himself enterd the boat with me, performing the little courtesies as calmly : anrl with Ac smilinp- a fare. a<s if dpath were far away instead of being but a few moments removed from him. "When he had carefully wrapped me | up, he stepped upon the gunwale of | the boat and, lifting his hat, smiled i down at me. "Good-bye/* " 'Good-bye, Miss Young,' he said, bravely and smilingly. 'Luck is with you. Will you kindly remember me to | all the folks back home?' "Then he stepped to the deck of the steamer and the boat I was in was , i lnworoil +/-i tho water Tt woo +V10 loct IiV ?l V/4 VU VV t"V If JL I UO AUWV boat to leave the ship; of this J am perfectly certain. And I know that I | am the last of those who were saved to whom Archie Butt spoke. i! "As our boat was lowered and left :! the side of the steamer, Archie was I still standing at the rail, looking dowQ : at me. His hat was raised and the : same old genial, brave smile was on 1 his face. " MILLIONAIRE ALSO A HERO. ) j ; CoL Astor Left Lifeboat. Giving Seat to Woman. New York, April 19.?Miss Margaret . Hays, of this city, a survivor of the Titanic, gave still another version of ; the manner in which Col. Astor met , his death. i "Pnl Asfnr with hi<? wifp ramp nnt , ? ~ | on deck as I was being assisted into a lifeboat," said Miss Hays, "and both Igot into another boat. Col. Astor had 1 his arms around his wife and assisted | her into the boat. I "At the time there were no women j waiting to get into the boats and the I ship's officer at that point invited Col. I Astor to get into the boat with his ? wife. The colonel, after looking around j and seeing no women, got into the , | boat and his wife threw her arms i about him. "The boat in which Col. Astor and : his wife were sitting was about to be lowered when a woman came running out of the companionway. Raising his i, hand, Col. Astor stopped the perparations of lowering his boat, and stepping out, assisted the woman into the seat he had occupied. "Mrs. Astor cried out and wanted to get out of the boat with her husband, but the colonel patted her on the back and said something in a low tone. j "As the boat was being lowered I jheard him say: The ladies will have ! to go first.' " I ? I WIRELESS OPERATOR DIED OX LIFEBOAT Stuck to His Post to the Last Jumping From the Sinking Ship. New York. April 19.?H. Haven, of Indianapolis, said that the Titanic was going at high speed when it struck. "A large section of plates on the starboard side ripped off. The water poured in. There was a great rush for life boats when it became known that there was danger. So precipitate was the rush that many leaped overboard. The lights continued burning though the ship sank lower and lower. When we were some distance from the sinking ship and saw figures of hundreds people on deck at railings several explosions occur I ? ? red in the ship. The Titanic buckled amidship. We saw people sliding ofi into the water both fore and aft Then the boat settled by the bow and the light went out. That was the last we saw of the Titanic. "But for the heroism and self sacrifice of Captain Smith and tbe Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the ship sank. 'Be British,' shouted the captain. Every man, it is said, obeyec the command and faced death calmly CAPTAIN SATED BABY; SWAM BACK FOR SHII Heroic Was Death of Steamer's Master, According to Los Angeles Athlete. New York, April 19.?George Broden of Los Angeles, an athlete, whc I was rescued: "I was beside Henry B Harris, the theatrical manager, wher he bade his wife good-bye. Bott started toward the side of the boal where a lifeboat was being lowered Mr. Harris was told it was the rule for women to leave the boat first. "'Yes, I know. I will stay,' Harris said. "Shortly after the lifeboats left a man jumped overboard. Other mer followed. It was like sheep following a leader. Smith was washed from the bridge into the ocean. He swam tc where a baby was drowning and carried it in his arms while he swam tc a lifeboat. He surrendered the babj to them and swam back to the steamer. "About the time Capt. Smith gol back t^iere was an explosion. The entire ship trembled. I had obtained a life preserver and jumped overboard t stvum ahont. fiO vards from the steamer when there was a series oi explosions. I looked back and saw j the Titanic go down bow first. "Hundreds of persons wer in th* water at the time. When the greal steamer went down they shrieked hysterically. "When I jumped from the steamei the band was still playing. I was ir the water four hours clinging to 2 piece of wreckage when I was pickec up by a lifeboat. At every stroKe iw oars bit a body. "I saw one of the stewards of th< ship shoot a foreigner who tried tc press past a number of women anc enter a lifeboat." NOTICE. A meeting of the stockholders of th< Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Company is hereby called to be held at th< company's office at Whitmire, S. C., a 10 o'clock in the forenoon on the 17tl day of May, 1912, to consider and ac j upon the following resolutions of th< | directors of said company, viz: Whereas, it is deemed desirable tha j the capital stock of the Glenn-Lowr: Manufacturing Company be increase( by the issue of twenty-five hundre< 'shares of preferred stock of the pa: i value of one hundred dollars a share ' with the same preferences, liabilitie: and conditions now attaching to th< outstanding preferred stock of th< company, except as modified in the fol i lowing resolutions; said modification! jto also apply to the outstanding pre ! ferred stock of the company; an* whereas it is further deemed desirabh that the capital stock of said Glenn' Lowry Manufacturing Company be alj so increased by the issue of five thou' i sand shares of preferred stock to b< known and designated as Guaranteec First Preferred Stock of the par valu< of one hundred dollars a share, witl the preferences, liabilities and conditions hereinafter set out in the following resolution therefore 1. Be it resolved by the .directors o the Glenn'-Lowfy Manufacturing Coin\ -panv, That the capital stock of the f, | par value of one hundred dollars a | share; said capital stock to consist of j | three classes, viz: Five thousand! ;shares to be known as Common Stock; j ! ten thousand shares to be known as i ^Preferred Stock; and five thousand shares to be known as Guarantee*.' First Preferred Stock. 2. Be it further resolved, that, sub- j * 1 ? ?J A- i ^ /vl 1 jecL 10 me prior riguis ui mc uumcio of the Guarantee! First Preferred i Stock herinafter set out, the Preferred Stock shall have a preference over Common Stock, both as to assets in case of final liquidation and as to cumulative dividends, out of the net earnings to the extent of seven per : cent, per* annum, payable semi-annual1 ly; the Common Stock to be entitled to a like dividend' payable semi-an! nually, but not cumulative, out of the net earnings after the payment of dividends on the Guaranteed First Preferred Stock and Preferred Stock? the dates for the payment of dividends j to be the first day of January and the ^ first day of July of each year. 3. Be it further resolved, That, subject to the prior rights of the holders of Guaranteed First Preferred ' Stock, the two thousand shares of Preferred Stock first issued shall be | redeemable at the option of the Com pany at any time by lot after the first ' day of January, 1910; that the one ^ thousand shares 'Of Preferred Stock ' next issued shall be redeemable in I like manner at any time after the first day of January, 1915; that the forty five hundred shares of Preferred Stock ! next issued shall be redeemable in like 5 manner at any time after the first day ' of January, 1920; and. that the twentyl five hundred shares of Preferred Stock to be issued under these resolutions shall be redeemable in like manner at I any time after the first day of Janu' ary, 1925. All surplus profits, after paying dividends, shall be appropriat' ed as follows: On and after the first day of January, 1910, sixty per cent, thereof to the purchase of Preferred Stock selected by lot, and the remain ing forty per cent to go to the surplus ) fund; the Preferred Stock so purchas ed to be held by the Treasurer of the L Company until all of the said Prefer 1 red Stock has been purcnasea ana men 1 issued to the holders of Common Stock as Common Stock pro rata; provided, 5 i however, that the two thousand shares j of Preferred Stock first issued shall be ; | first redeemed and reissued as Common Stock to the holders of Common L Stock next issued shall be redeemed 1 the one thousand shares of Preferred > Stock next issued shall be redemed and reissued as Common Stock -to the 5 holders of Common Stock pro rata, be' fore the Preferred Stock issued later is so redeemed and reissued; provid-j 1 ed, further, that the forty-five hundred j shares of Preferred Stock next issued ' j shall be redeemed and reissued as j Common Stock to the holders of Com* j mon Stock pro rata, before the twenty" J five hundred shares of Preferred Stock 1 to be issued under these resolutions ' are redeemed and reissued as afore| said. 'r 4. Be it further resolved that the holders of the Guaranteed First Preferred t! Stock shall have a preference over the ' Preferred Stock and the Common Stock ^ j both as to assets in case of final liquidation and as to cumulative dividends, rm+ nf tho riPt earnings to the extent t of six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. No dividends shall be j paid on the Common Stock until there 4 shall have been set apart from the earnings a reserve for depreciation s equal to at least two and one-half per j cent, per annum, of the par value of j the outstanding Guaranteed First Prej ferred and the Preferred Stocks for j each year after the first day of April, j - - - - - - - il i. "U ?, ? I 1913, provided, nowever, mat sucu ic3 serve may in any year be decreased by { the amount charged off for deprecia- j 3 tion of property owned by the Comt pany. The action of the directors in j i j good faith shall be final as -to the j 11 amount of the said reserve to be set i ?! apart and the deductions therefrom, j Beginning July 1, 1918, there shall j t j be set aside annually in cash from the | 7 | earnings of the preceding year or ! 1 j years after the payment of all divi- j 1 dends on Guaranteed First Preferred j r and Preferred Stocks an amount equal; , to five per cent, of the par value of the j s Guaranteed First Preferred Stock out3 standing, to be known as "Redemption - j Fund," which shall be used for the j - retirement of Guaranteed First Pre- j 5 ferred Stock as herinafter provided -1 and until so used shall be invested as i the directors may determine, and kept i apart from the other assets of the - company as a fund solely for the re tirement of said Guaranteed First - Preferred Stock. J The Company shall on or before 1 June 1 of each year, beginning June J 1, 1917, invite bids, by mail, from each i holder of Guaranteed First Preferred - Stock, to be submitted not later than - the first day of July next following, for the sale to this Company of such stock f to the amount of the "Redemption - Fund" then available for the purchase / Have you seen disnlav of Mer ?~r?J ? I have by far thi China, Cut Glass, Sterlir hires in the city. If nf anything I would be call and see me before BUY BETTER GOODS AT Tl in irnni RftftlT A MA I hi m? THE HOUSE OF A THO ^nun I, at is a prosperous i&rmer. ne Telephones Enhance 111 A telephone on tl means convenience and iic^r huf ir aHHs value tc enable you to sell your h vantage. Telephone ser can be had at very low a Write for our free be Farmers Line Departmi CATTTUrDlW RPM. TFI.F & TELEGRAPH COS w 163 South Pryor St, Allan! of such stock and the offer or offers demj nrViiWi cflom rnnsf- favorable shall be good TT UXV/U dvvm . _ _ accepted by the directors, provided, othej that not more than $120.00 plus ac- with< crued dividends then remaining un- decn paid shall be paid for each share of i prov such stock. j cumi The Company shall have the right, tee(* * upon mailing notice to each holder of ?00(* Guaranteed First Preferred Stock, at t0 S1 least sixty days prior to any dividend an(* * - chnll date, to retire the whole issue of Guaranteed First Preferred Stock by rectc paying for each share an amount equal remc to $120.00 plus all accrued dividends new then remaining unpaid. Th Pre?< Upon any dividend on said Guaranvote teed First Preferred Stock remaining faujt unpaid for two years after the same ou s becomes due or upon the failure to ? , "Rprl set aside the "Redemption Fund," herein provided, for two years from the time required, the holders of the mort majority of the Guaranteed First Pre- or ferred Stock, at a meeting of the hold- the F ers of the Guaranteed First Preferred bave Stock, called for the purpose on thirty 6. days notice may elect directors, who foreg shall thereupon become directors of the ? this company, succeeding the directors Mani then in office and forthwith elect or- erea ficers of this Company; and such right meet: on the part of holders of the Guaran- here! teed First Preferred Stock to elect di- pany rectors shall continue until all accrued lina, dividends upon the Guaranteed First 1912, Preferred Stock shall have been paid, and until all deficiencies in the "Re nnnnBBm % my large chandise? e best stock of ig Silver and Picyou are in need glad to have you you buy. ' ^>.yf IE SAME PRICE AT SSTORE mm things I BBHCaBBnBBBBHHHaBBBBBKHBflBH ?S5?srfriifJld^^ss has a tekpboae.** / : 3 e Land le Farm not only . comfort for the > the land and will ind to a better advice on the Farm DSt. lokleL Address :phone if i1 ipany umbjq a, Ga. >tion Fund" shall have been made ; provided, however, that, if the * stockholders shall at any time, 3ut increasing the liabilities or jasing the assets of this Company, ide a fund sufficient to pay the acnulated dividends on the GuaranFirst Preferred Stock, and to make the "Redemption Fund," the right uch control shall at once cease i meeting of all other stockholders ' 1 L ? 1 1 ^ . tnereupon oe cancu w wv/t vn. >rs, who shall have the power to >ve the existing officers and elect ones. e holders of Guaranteed First irred Stock shall have no right to except when said two years deoccurs in payment of dividends aid stock or in setting aside the emption Fund." Rp it further resolved, That no gage shall be placed on the plant ants of the Company until all of 'referred Stock of all classes shall been retired and taken up. Be it further resolved, that the oing resolutions be submitted to stockholders of the Glenn-Lowry ifacturing company, to be considand acted upon by them at a ing of said stockholders which is >y called to be held at the Corn's office at Whitmire, South Caroon the seventeenth day of May, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Wm. Coleman, President *