The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 04, 1909, Image 4
SAFE IN PORT '
Steams Into New York Almost
in Sinking Condition.
BALTIC COMiS FIRST
llringiiig tin* Rescued Passengers.
Passengers of Wrcfkcxl Republic
( raphically Describes Tragedy.
Tho Ki'Clixled ( lioors of Thousands,
(antlicred at Walor Front.
Now York, Jan. 2r?.?Loss than
seventy-two hours aftor the crash betwoen
the ocean liners Republic and
Florida, off the Nantucket Shoals,
which eventually sent one to the
bottom and reduced the other to a
state of staggering helplessness, the
survivors of this thrilling deep ?ea
tragedy have found a haven at last.
At nightfall l.GfiO passengers from j
the two vessels were safe in this
port, brought here by the Baltic,
while Hearing it were the rescued
officers and crew of the Republic
safe on board the derelict destroyer
Seneca, to which they were transferred
from the revenue cutter (liesham,
after staying up to the last moment
by their sinking vessel.
At her dock in Brooklyn was the
battered Florida, about which her
crew had remained throughout her
trying experiences.
Only the ill-fated. Republic was
wailing to complete the list. She
lies beneath 2 8 fathoms of water,
fifteen miles south of Nantucket
South Shoals light ship.
Frenzied cheers from the thousands
at the pier when she docked
greeted the arrival of the Baltic,
tears of thankfulness were shed, affect,.
>tnate greetings were exchanged
and only here and there did a note
of sadness appear upon the scene.
Following the Baltic up the harbor
was the liner Florida, battered
almost to the sinking point herself
by the force of the blow she dealt
the Republic, and bearing the bodies
of her own three dead and the injured
members of her crew.
The Republic's passengers told
graphic details of the crash, of the
(>vci I nnwill I Mil li I- -
vv/tfivnv v/H i/viui u, ui tin* dth very
of the officers, the good behavior of
the crew and the efficient work of
rescue.
Prom some, who had been on
hOArd the Florida, and were brought
into port by the Baltic it was learned
that something went wrong with the
j'lorida's steering wheel when the
co Mission was imminent. One story
had it that a quartermaster had the
wheel when the commander yelled
for it to he jammed to starboard.
He put it to port instead, and the
liners crashed into each other.
Another version of the story is
that the man dropped his wheel in
.i panic when danger impended.
Iloth versions agree in saying that
the commander felled the quartermaster
with an iron spike following
what he must have considered the
seaman's recreancy. An injured
quartermaster from the Florida was
brought to port on the Raltic today,
lie stoutly asserted that he was not
at the wheel when the accident occurrod
Capt. Scalby. of the Republic, true
to the best tradition of the sea,
kept his ship beneath him as long
as there was enough of her afloat
to afford him a foothold. And practically
all accounts agree that, aside
from the starting of an incident panic
among the steerage passengers on
the Florida, both ships' forces and
passengers kept their heads well in
the midst of most trying conditions
When the Florida, in from hei
fateful experience, passed l,P the
harbor today she looked every bit
the pv-.c of the ocean battering ram
she had played. Flying the signal
"Not under control," she was guided
up the hay by two tugs. Her bo w>
were cnitnpled up from the impact
with the Republic, the plates and
beams being buckled and twisted foi
a distance of fully thirty feet.
Caught on the jagged iron braces
and angle irons was a canvas covering
to keep out as much water at
possible from lu?r forward compart
merits, with her forcpeak full of water,
her burdened bow dipped low
while the stern showed high above
the surface. When the Florida
reached her dock it was learned thai
it was three, and not four, of her
crew who had been killed when the
steamers collided.
They were sleping in their forecastle
quarters and met instant
death, two of them being badly
mangled and so tangled in the
wreckage that it was not until after
the -.steamer got Iter berth tonight
that their bodies could be extricated.
The men killed were I'uquafc l^ava!lo,
Caterogo Martuscelli and Salvatoro
IVAbioo. Three others were severely
injured.
Capt. Rosplni stated that he had
hoard the Republic's whistle at intervals
for some time on the morning
of the disaster, but they seemed
quite far away. Suddenly the big
liner loomed up out of the fog and
the vessels came together with a
crash. The Florida veered off and
the Republic was swallowed up again
In the mist. A cautious search for
WANT TO HELP TAFT \
ltl?M)RIJCAl*U ANXlOUtt TO CX)N- I
HIMi OKUM'* NOMINATION.
Mrswrs llliett Mid Waring of Chariot*- 1
(on SmniMiintMl to Washington b;
Nonator Tillninn. !
Washington, Jan. 29.?If the
qucsUon of the appointment, of a e
negro as collector of the port of j
Charleston is to be put up to Mr. ^
Taft at the opening of his administration,
it will have to be done by a '
herculean physical task by Senators
Tillman, Gary and what other Item- 1
ocrats they can get to assist them, '
for the Republican leaders of the '
senate are determined that ('rum
shall be confirmed at this session, 1
and the confirmation is on its way.
Mayor lthctt and Hon. Thos. K.
Waring of Charleston were lure toI
day, having come in response to a
telegram from Senator Tillman yesterday,
which stated that the senate
committee on commerce had reported
favorably the nomination of
(bum. Mesfrs. Ithett and Waring
had a conference with Senator Tillman
and left this afternoon for
Charleston to get. up data and put
forces to work to help Tillman, who
told them ho could not make bricks
without straw and it was up to them
to furnish tin? straw.
Hut it is the opinion of those who
know what is working in the minds
of certain Republican leaders friendlv
Mr T?f? II...I !t ..ill t-.l
.J v? ..... ...iv- null ii ?iii liir.i* HUM r
than straw to inako bricks hard
enough to hobl off tins confirmation.
Senator Frye, president pro
tern of tlie senate and one of the big
bosses, is in charge of the matter,
lie it was who had tin? confirmation
brought out of the committee.
The nomination had been referred
to Senator Simmons of North
Carolina, the leading Democrat in
the committee. lit* refused to report
it to the senate, even after
Senator Frye had secured a majority
of the committee to vote for a
favorable report. Frye declared that
he would report it himself, and he
did.
When Crum's nomination was first
made by President Roosevelt, Senator
Tillman was able to hold it up
for two years. Hut now things are
slightly different. Then there was
a good deal of sympathy for him and
senatorial courtesy prevailed. Now
there is not that sympathy for Tillman
nor any consideration for
Charleston on the part of Republican
leaders. Resides all, there is an
incoming president, the rising and
not the setting sun who wants ('rum
confirmed, and the senate leaders on
the Republican side are decidedly
friendly to Taft.
They will do anything to force
through this confirmation in order
to relieve Taft of embarrassment.
The only thing Tillman can do to
block it is simply to get the floor
and hold it day and night through
all executive sessions from now till
II! o'clock March 4. If he gets the
whole Democratic side to help him
and makes up his mind to go through
tlu* strain he might be able to do
it, but 1 lit* indications are that he
! is not going to get much help from
his old friend, senatorial courtesy.
ZACH Met! 1010. *
MONMY TO HUNT CRAFT.
Rockefeller, Carnegie and ScliRT
Contribute to the Fund.
Now York, Jan. 27.?It has jurt
1 i ecoine known that John 1). ltueke1
feller, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph I!.
1 Soli iff and several other well known
' financiers and philanthropists arc
backing the bureau of municipal re!
search, which was organized to in
vestigato the ctiy's finances and al1
leged graft. To carry on the work
tnese men with Mrs. ltusseil Sage
I and others have subscribed a fund
> of $100,000. Mr. Carnegie and Mr.
Rockefeller are said to have donated
1 : $20,000 each.
Many Cats for Japan.
Washington, Jan. 2 9. ? Five
thousand eats, whose sole mission in
life, or rather in nine lives, henceforth
is to serve as nit destroyers
in Fair Japan, have been shipped
from Chicago. The purpose of this
curious feline Invnulnn iu t e ol/l In
1 fighting the plague which is spread
, by the rodents. *
Voted It Down.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 20.?Tn the
; Senate this afternoon Judiciary Committee
No. 2 killed by a vote of 6
! to 1 the Senate bill providing for
the establishment of statutory prohibition
in Texas. This effectually
terminates that feature of the prohibition
fight in the Texas Legislature.
A good housewlfo novor opens vne
condensed milk can with her husband's
razor, nor will a loving husband
curry the horse with the nutmeg
grater.
I
her was begun and It was two hours,
the captain said, before the Florida
again located her partner In misfortune
and began the the work of
rescue which resulted so fortunately.
VANTS PAKCtL POST
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rilities Sltonld lx> (iiroa.
No Congressman takea more inter- }
st in the farmer than Mr. Lever.
Ie rightly wants them to have all 1
he benefits the government bestows
>n the people living in the cities ,
tnd towns. So when the fanners
inked that they be allowed the
privilege of a parcels post in jier?i?r
lance with the recommendation of I
Lho postmaster general, Mr. Lover
did all ho could to secure the passage
of the measure by Congress.
That the hill did not pass was no
fault of his, as ho did all any one
could" do to have it enacted into law.
In his report the postmaster general
said:
'"1 recommend the establishment
of a special parcels post system on
rural delivery route or at the distributing
postoillce for delivery by
rural carriers patrons thereof at a
rate of live cents for the first pound!
and two cents for each additional
pound up to eleven pounds; for two
ounces or less, one cent; over two
ounces and up to four ounces, two
cents; over four and up to eight
ounces, three cents; over eight and
up to twelve ounces, four cents over
twelve ounces and lip to one pound.
five cents."
In his speech before Congress,
Mr. Lever said, "Tills recommendation
carries the idea of giving the
farmers of the country conveniences
additional to those now brought to
them by the rural delivery service.
One of the annoyances of country
life is the inconveniences involved
in obtaining for use many of the
small necessaries of life. Every
farmer here present knows of his
own experience how much time is
taken in extra trips to town and city
for those necessities of the home and
farm.
He knows that in the aggregate
the waste is inoalcuable, and 1 am
sure, If given an opportunity to have
a direct vote upon the proposition,
he would guard himself and all of
the farmers of the country against
its continuance. Let me illustrate:
"The farmer makes his usual trip
to the village on Saturday to provide
himself with supplies for the following
week.
"Likely as not lie has jotted down
a memorandum of the various things
ho is to purchase. It develops on
| Monday morning that his feood wife
had overlooked the fact that she was
in need of a package of soda or a
pound of coffee or a few yards of
clotli for the children. A plow must
be stopped in the busy season of the
year, it may lie at the sowing or bar
vest time, when every hours is valuable,
and some one must make the
trip to town, else the bread goes
without soda or the breakfast comes
without its usual cup of coffee.
"This is not only a serious inconvenience,
but, I repeat, in the aggregate
amount to a great drain upon
the time of the farmer, and it must
tie remembered that time is money
to the farmer as well as to every other
class.
"Under the system recommended
by the postmaster general, and
which I most earnestly advocate,
this inconvenience and waste of time
will be obviated. A post card to
his merchant setting out that a package
of soda or a pound of coffee or
a few yards of cloth or any other
article Of Hinnll u/r?lfrV?# Jo
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will have the desired article forthcoming
hy rural carrier tlie next
morning, and at a cost which
amounts practically to nothing.
"This plan is so simple, so pregnant
with benefits to so large a class
of our population, so justified by
good sense and the desire to legislate
in the interest of all the people.
that it must seem strange that
Congress has not already authorized
by law its establishment. The fact
is that practically no consideration
has been given it. It has been neglected,
cast aside, and to that extent
met unfavorable consideration."
Mr. Lever called attention to the
fact that wo now havo a general
percels post; but the system is such
that it is little used by the general
public, for the reason that the limit
of weight for each package is noly
four pounds, and the postage per
pound is sixteen cents. The system
proposed increases the weight of the
package to I 1 pounds and reduces
the OOStnPO r?n n ?? f
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founds to a little more than two
cents per average pound. Such a
system, In my judgment, as is sought
by those who agree with the recommendation
of the postmaster general
would And universal favor and In a
short time become as popular with
the people even as rural delivery,
and llkowiso as indispensable and as
fruitful of benefits.
In answer to a question, Mr. Lever
stated that the limited parcels post,
and as he favored, gave the merchants
of local towns from which
rural routes emlnatod the benefit of
a reduced rate over merchants and
companies of other cities and towns, j
In other words, the mail-order hous-1
eg would not bo able to compete with
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3lrl of Slx(??a Ahili by ou
Loaelf Rood.
Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 2?.?A murder |
pvhJeh, in ltn revolting details re -nlltt
the famoaa Dona Oilman ease
>f more than two year? ago, was
mcovered here a few days ago, when
he body of nixtoen-year-old Mary
Korschner waa found in a wagon
died in the outskirts of this city.
The girl had been strangled, as
were Dona Oilman, in November,
1006, and Bertha Markowitz, in AnFlint
IOH7 TI.?
. i uu iiiiuijisy snowed
that the reason for the killing; was
the same in all three cases.
The body was found by Robert
CJoppert, the girl's step-father, who
had been searching for her. The
girl had been terribly beaten, and
her face and neck were badly lacerated.
IJy following a plainly marked
trail it was found that she had been
attacked while walking along the
road and that her body had been
dragged over a stone wall into a
Held, across the Held, across another
road, and then placed in the shed.
Charles Snider, who lives in tin;
(Jeppert house, has been arrested on
suspicion, and a man named Samuel
Morris is held as a witness.
Mary Korschner worked in King's
tobacco warehouse. She was a pretty
girl and popular. Saturday night
her step-father gave her and
told her to deposit it with a downtown
loan association.
the local merchants upon the basis
of the postage rates recommended
by the postmaster general for a limited
rural parcels post. The wisdom
of discriminating in favor of
the local merchant must he apparent
to anyone who regards for a moment
the danger Involved in a system
which would inevitably centralize
the commerce of the country.
Unfortunately there is too much
of this at present, and every expedient
should ho adopted to chock its
growth. Rut I insist, Mr. Chairman,
that a great system should not be
throttled and kept from consideration
because, perchance, a few great
corporations think tlioy are to suffer
on account of it. We are here
to legislate in the interest 01 all the
people, and here Is a pian offered bv
whietl 1 g nun rtfU) Iinntiln .... I
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tiently enduring many inconveniences
may bo helped, and it is our duty
to afford the aid.
Mr. Chairman, I shall not attempt
a further discussion of this mosf
| important proposition in the short
time which has been allowed me, but
I want to say that the opportunity is
ours to authorize this experiment as
is recommended , an experiment
which will, in my humble opinion,
bring a "direct and vital benefit to
every man, woman and child within
reach of a rural route." We have
been generous to the rural delivery
system. It had its beginning in the
teeth of the most violent opposition;
it was begun as an experiment; it
is now a settled policy. Who would
destroy it?
It is the belief of those of us supporting
a limited parcels post that
ten years from the first experiment
with it it will prove as beneficial, as
far-reaching in its influence for
cno.l :i ? Unlnful i ? I.. ? -- '' "
in i a nil ill*'
happy and con ton tad as has the groat
system of rural delivery. And, Mr.
Chairman. I want to call the attention
of the House to the unfortunate
tondenev among our rural population
to drift away from the country
into the towns and cities, and
this is especially true of our young
men and women.
The reason is the desire for more
conveniences, better schools, better
roads, and a closer social contact
upon the part of the rural population.
Whenever tlie day comes that
our country people become dissatisfied
with the conditions which surround
them, and find it necessary to
move into towns and cities to find
the relief they seek and which they
should have, It will ho an evil day
for this Republic,
j Rural delivery has had much in
lluonce In cheeking this tendency;
the rapid inauguration of rural telephones
over the country is having
a large influence in the same direction;
and the establishment of a system
of delivering small packages
at a mere nominal cost at the gates
of the rural population will, in my
judgment, he a most, vital agency to
the same end. In fact, I doubt not
that, these three influences acting
together, resulting in better roads,
improved school facilities, easy communication,
and greater convenienc/ic
fr\n OAiinf vtr 11 ?**?? ? * ^ '
?" ^VIUILI j iiici WIII iiiiu till?
tide, and the drift in the future will
ho from the city to the country; and
this is a consummation devoutly to
be wished. *
Young Woman Missing.
Now York, Jan. 2!).?Samuel Feldman,
a restaurant keeper, has renorted
to the police that his seventeen-year-old
daughter Hattie has
disappeared and that in his opinion
she was kidnapped by sailors and
token to sea. *
Tillman and Burrows.
Washington, Jan. 27.?Senators
Tillman and Harrows were designated
today by the Senate as members
! of the Naval Academy Hoard of Visitors.
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minute and heavy policemen to horns, buff Orphingtons and Beadash
along the street at a rate never Kle hounds. Poultry, $1 and up,
attained by a living specimen, ellh- according to quality. John L. Joler
on or off duty. b'. Anderson, S. C., Route No. 3.
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Aunt Hepsy could not stand it ln the wor|tj
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Norfolk Shocked. .
Norfolk, Va? Jan. 26?A section Wn (:,,w r????Advise
of .he city was thrown Into excite- "s lho ?umb?r of buHhels yo" h,lvs
ment yesterday afternoon l,y the for ail'? an<1 son" 1,8 Bamnle9!
I sprinting through the streets of R. ^,m*ke ,yo" our, b*8t?pr,C"
I 1). Armington, In nude condition, fol- 'l^vored Clmrleston l. M. Pearllowed
by men and boys, white and ,hons' 20,;2?3 Ettat "ft)'
I,lack. Finally ho was taken to ?o- 3t" Charleston, S. C.
lice headquarters, where he had to 3
be put in a straight-jacket. He pro- OMENTAL lU'G COKVNY,
claimed he was the re-incarnation not Cathedral St., Raltinioro, Md.
of the original Adam, and command- Wemake you handsome and dared
by God not to wear clothes. aWo RuB8 froIll your 0ld, wornout
carpet, any size to fit. a room or hall.
.lilown b rom Ills Porch. Let ns send you a price list; just
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 29. ? Robert write for one
AlacCormack, the oldest member of . ?
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the lv?-foot high porch of his home of bargains, it's free. E. Dowda &
and probably fatally hurt in the Co.. Mail-order r>?
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I sourl reported severe storms of wind
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St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 29.?An old- mini
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day. Telegraph c^m^
schools closed. * The Mtlestlc Coal Chute protects tho Riding
' ' alwivo tno opening where most of tho dnrongo
. nrni i omhm, 1'reseiiis a nrnt nppearnnce, Is burg*
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