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MOUNT AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1000
NO. SO
?0. XXIX
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DESTRUCTION OF
A GREAT SHIP
The following, taken from the
columns of the Christian Advo
cate, was written by the editor
of that Journal after reading
closely over one hundred columns
of reports and interviewing one
of the most intelligent passen
gers. It is a clear account of one
of the most remarkable disasters
and equally remarkable deliver
ances recorded since men have
sailed the seas.
"The Republic was 15,000 tons
displacement She was a single
funnel ship, 570 ft long. 68 ft
wide, and 21 ft deep. She had
twelve water-tight compartments
and a double skin. The Florida
is new ship, 381 ft in length. 48
ft. in breadth, and 26 ft. m depth
The Republic, with 238 first
class passengers and 211 seerage
passengers as well as supplies for
United States battleship fleet in
the Mediterranean left New York
Harbor at three o'clock on Friday
afternoon Jan. 22nd.
The objective point was Alex
dria. Etrypt About 5:30 o'clock
on Saturday morning, when the
Republic was 175 miles east of
the Ambrose Lightship, which is
at the entrance of New York
Harbor, at a point twenty-six
miles southeast of the Nantucket
LicrhtshiD. which guards the Nan
tucket shoals, she was struck a
series of glancing blows by the
steamship Florida, of Lloydsltal
W 'mllno 'Smd f It V CO PW
half the size of the Republic. The
officers on the Republic's bridge
say the other vessel, looming in
the mist ahead, bore down upon
them, and the next moment they
were struck amidships on the star
board side. The Republic's side
plates were torn asunder by the
sharp prow of the Florida; iron
and wood were rent apart and
the steel-clad bow bored its way
into the Republic's engine room.
Immediately it backed out again
and staggered off out of sight
into the fog. Instantly many
thousand gallons of water plung
ed through the hole, extinguish
ing the fires. The engine-room
force, driven out, hurried up the
ladders to the decks. In three
minutes the electric lights were
out the screw stopped, and the
fog whistle-which had been
blowing all night was silenced
Instantly, from the bridge, the
crew were called to quarters and
tne collision bulkheads closed
The Nantucket Lightship prev
iously mentioned is fifty miles
from shore, so that the vessel
was then more than seventy miles
from the nearest land, and there
was already water enough in the
hold to sink the steamer unless
the bulkheads held. The only
hoce of securing aid in that con
dition was by means of wireless
teleirraphy. The operator was en
traced in sending a messsage
when the collision occurred, and
soon from the masthead of the
ReDublic a message went out tel
ling every electric ear within 200
miles, as "concentric circles of
little waves spread from a spot
in the water" in which a stone
i$ dropped, that the Republic
needed aid.
When the crash came the pas
sencers hurried on deck. The
caDtain told them to prepare for
the boats if necessary, but at the
game assured them of hiB belief
that the watertight compartments
would hold and prevent the Re
public from sinking. Fi ve steam
ships and various craft took up
the messages, and it was not many
hours before it was known that
the Baltic of the White Star Line
which had reached Montauk
Point, at the eastern end of Long
Island, on her voyage from Liver
pool to this city, had turned about
and was making for the Repub
lie at full speed. And the Lor
raine, of the French line, saventy
five mile3 away from Ambrose
Channel, which was going at full
speed through the fog, also turn
ed about
The Lucania, of the Cunard
Line answered that she would
come to the aid of the Republic.
The revenue cutter service had
recently madfe Woods .Hole, not
far away, a cutter station and al
most immediately the cutter
Acushnet got out and steamed a
way in the fog. The revenue
cutter Mohawk, which was off
the coast on a derelict search,
caught the messags and hasten
ed to the soot. Besides those
mentioned, the Cushing. a tor
pedo boat, received the message
at NewDort and started for the
scene, as did the Gresham reven
ue cutter, in Proincetown har
bor. the farthest away. But be
fore the other help arrived, the
Florida, which had drawn off to
discover the extent of her injur
ies. reaDDeared. with her bow-
dates terribly smashed in, and
announced herself able and will
ing to take the Republic's pass
engers, and the transfer wa3 be
gun. The tf" was pbeid, the
and i n two hours ' 800 Italian
emigrants and 40 cabin passen
irprs. were added more than 400
Bwaw, - '
from the Republic
At 7 o'clock Saturday evening
the Baltic came groping her way
through the fog to the relief of
the limping and overburdened
emigrant ship-a joyful sight to
her two thousand souls. Altera
onnfprpnpoaf the cantains it was
decided that the norma couia
not be trusted reach New York
with a cargo hi auman beings so
far beyond its" normal capacity;
whereas the Baltic, lifvOoad
ed. was competent ." calf, be
sides its own, , passengers or
both th' 'vrf A and the Repub-
lie
The fog which had prevailed
through the previous night heiu
throughout Saturday, and in that
dei.se mist the transfer of pass
engers from the Ho: Ida was
made. The work becran at 11
o'clock on Saturday nijrht with
ten boats, each capable of carry
ing ten passengers in addition to
the crews doing the work. The
vessels lay 400 yards apart, and
over the intervening water the
searchlights of the Baltic made
the scene still more weird. There
wa3 a sea running at the time
and the boats tossed and pitched
until their gunwales were almost
under, but they went back for
more passengers with the light
ness of feathers. The work was
keDt ud all niarht and until ten
t a w
o'clock Sunday morning.
In the excitement the Repub
lic had been lost to sight, and
was at the mercy of the winds
and waves, drifting hither and
thither in the fpg which render
oA hnats invisible when only a
few yards away. The Baltic,
however, soon found the Repub
lic, but could not have done so
had not the foz suddenly lifted.
This revealed the fact that a fleet
of salvage tugs had arrived, and
that the New York had taken a
position near the Florida, while
the Furnessia was lying by tool
fer assistance. The Lorraine,
which had started for the Retub-
lic when two hundred miles away,
did not'succeed in locating it.but
received messages to follow the
Florida, which it attempted to do.
The sinking of the Republic
was as follows: It was in the
hands of the Gresham and the
Furnessia. The revenue cutter
had made lines fast to the bow
of the vessel, and the Furnessia
had hawsers stretched from her
own bow to the stern of the Re
public. The Gresham hauled and
the Furnessia steered the wreck
ahead by bending her weight
upon the hawsers. They could
move only a knot or two an hour.
It was finally agreed by the offi
cers of Uhe Gresham and Fur
nessia and Captain Sealby of the
ReDublic. that the latter could
not keep afloat much longer, and
the question was whether she
could find Tshoal water and a
soft resting-place so that she
might be salvaged and something
saved from the wreckage. In
deep water the Republic would
be lost if she should sink. The
derelict-destroyer Seneca came
un and joined in the work of tow
incr. But the Republic had 'her
death wound. Early Sunday eve
ning the floating palace, whose
bow had been slowly pointing up
ward, went down in forty fath
oms of water, leaving the two
heroic officers adrift among the
wreckage from which the cutter's
boats sooniescued them. All the
crew except Captain Sealby and
his chief officer had left the
doomed vessel, and had found
refuse on the Gresham.
That nteht there was ' a dark
ness that cqold be felt and those
a sound of any kind from the Re
public. It was only when the
Gresham reported the Republic
sunk and searchlights were flash
ed around that one could believe
she had disappeard. v
The heartrending task of Cap
tain Sealby wa3 performed in this
dispatch sent to New York:
"Republic sunk. All hands
saved. Making Gay Head on the
Gresham."
Bar Jap Pram tohool.
Sacramento. Cal., Feb. 4.
Grove L. Johnson's bill compell
ing Japanese to attend separate
public schools parsed the assem
bly to-day by a vote of 48 to ib.
Mr. Johnson's other bills pro
hibiting aliens from being mem
bers of boards of directors and
restricting them in residence dis
tricts at the option of boards of
supervisors, were defeated, the
former by a vote of 54 to 15. lhe
atter measure failed of passage
because of a tie vote, the friends
of the bill being unable to mus
ter the required 41 votes. Roll
call finallv stood 37 to 37, after a
call of the House and several
changes from aye to no, and vice
versa.
The principal debate was upon
the residential segregation bill
Many who voted against the land
and corporation measures an
nounced that they favored segre
gation of undesirable aliens be
cause that was effective anti-Jap
anese legislation.
Shortly after the disposal of
the Johnson bills.Mr. Drew mov
ed that the vote by which his land
bill was defeated yesterday be re
considered. He offered to amend
the measure by striking out a
section which, it had been de
clared, violated the treaty rights
of several nations. He declared
that as the school bill had just
been passed and that was the one
against which the President ob
jected most strenua jslv t w o
years ago, the Assembly should
go a step further and pass the
land bill also.
The motion was lost, the vote
boinff 36 aves and38 noes. This
th,i ( . jonenta of the bill.
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Tramp Tranalarm Bat Car Into A
Palaoe.
Atlanta Journal.
One week ago. Col. S. R. Jones,
chief quartermaster of the de
partment of the gulf, ordered his
household goods to be shipped
here from Vancouver Barracks,
which is in Washington state, to
wards the northwest end of the
continent. After the car had
been packed, but before it had
been locked, three tramps who
felt the jhd of the nip of the
north, peeped in through the
crack of the door, then crawled
in cautiously. When the car be
gan its long trip southward, they
were ensconsed snugly inside.
The first day on the road they
unpacked Colonel Jones' white
iron bed and set it up in one cor
ner, then they equipped it with
warm blanket, and a fringed
counterpane, and cne drove a
nale into the side of the car and
hung up a copy after Titian.
Next they hit upon a bundle of
Cuban cigars, and unpacked a
box containing the cream of Col
onel Jones' library. One seemed
to take a liking to a rare copy of
Omar Khayyam, another selected
Buton's "Anatomy of Melan
choly,.' ' and the third turned his
attention to Bernard Shaw.
Through the day they regaled
themselves On pure iiterature,
but towards evening, wh.n the
train stopped at a town in "the
northwest, one slipped from the
car with a few of the thickest and
more elaborately bound books
under his arm, andretuined with
a round bottle, rye bread and bo
logna sausage.
Then it was that they discov
touch of the aesthetic, for he un
packed all the pictures and care
fully hung each, then tore off the
wrappings of chairs and arrang
ed them about the car. The fin
al effect was that of a drawing
room or salon.
At New Orleans the last
of the books, with the excep
tion of the copy of the Omar
Khayyam" and "Bernard Shaw"
and Buton's "Melancholony of
of Anatomy," were smashed.
Then the three tramps slipped
quietly out and disappeared. It
was at some station between here
and New Orleans that they alight
ed. The car arrived in Atlanta and
wa3 switched to Fort McPherson,
and there Colonel Jones found it
as it had been left by its occu
pants across the continent The
three books lay on the floor; in a
little pile were the smashed claret
and champagne glasses, and on
the bed were the two nighties
and the two dress shirts. " About
the walls hung the pictures.
USED RAZOR TO CUT THROAT.
Bryan In Aula Wraok.
Tampa. Fla., Feb. 6. -While
returning from Sutherland Coll
ege, where he delivered his lec
ture "The Prince of Peace" this
afternoon, William J. Bryan came
near losing his life. A big ma
chine in which he was riding
threw a tire on a bridge near Tar
pon Springs and plunged into the
trestle work throwing the pecu
pants out.
Mr. Bryan was on the side next
to that which struck the wood
work and was jammed against a
rail and suffered considerable in
jury. At first it was thought
that his leg had been broken, but
when he arrived at Tampa an ex
amination revoaled that the leg
was only badly bruised.
Mr. Bryan is scheduled to ap
pear at St. Loui3 soon and at
Springfield, O., on February 12th
Lincoln's birthday, where he
makes the principal address and
it may be that he will have to
cancel these dates. He is in his
rooms at the Tampa Bay Hotel
and is suffering much pain.
Natle T Odd Fallaw.
There will be a meeting of the
14th Dist N. C. Odd Fellows held
at Winston-Salem commencing
Feb. 17th 1909 at 7:30 o'clock P.
M.
Lodges are requested to send
full delegations as a large atten
dance is desired by Order.
J. S. Turner, Pres.
John R. Woltz, Sec.
Roeaavalt Enlar Prte.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 4.
Governor Gillett this afternoon
received the following telegram
from President Roosevelt:
"Washington, Feb. 4th. 1909.
'J. N. Gilktt, Governor of Cali
fornia:
"Your kind letter just receiv
ed. What is the rumor that the
California Legislature has passed
a bill excluding the Japanese chil
dren from the public schools.'
This is the most offensive bill of
all, and in my judgement is clear
ly unconstitutional and we should
at once have to test it in the
courts. Can it be stopped in the
Legislature or by veto?
"THEODORE POOSEVELT. "
The Governor at once sent a
reolv, the nature of which hedc
c'ines at this time to make pub
lie, and he requested from the
the President an immediate an
swer.
The bill passed places the Jap
anese in the same classification
with other Asiatics and inserts
the "Japanese" in the present
State statute providing for the
segregation in separate echools
of "Mongolian" children.
By this action the lower house
of the California Legislature has
taken the step which the board
of education of San Francisco in
tended to take two years ago,
which was abandoned after the
board and former Mayor Eugene
E. Schmitz were called to Wash
ington and had several confer
ences with President Roosevelt
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chairtpaigne g..t unw aiea
had stored away. While the train
flew southward, they ate and
drank and as each glass was emp-
ied, carefully smashed it
The tramp who had selected
the copy of Omar Khayyam,
marked this quotation:
Drink ! for you know not whence
vnn fame nnr whv:
Drink! for you know not why you
go nor where."
Then thev aDoroDriated the
onlv two nighties the car boasted,
and. since there was not a third,
a dress shirt Was donned a3 sub
stitute, and the three snuggled
into the white iron bed. Thev
woke with sharp appetite and
found that the train had stopped
again. More books were sold,
more food was got, and the joy
ous life of the day before was
continued. One by one the clar
et and champagne glasses were
smashed, and steadily the books
dwindled away. For at each stop
more books were sold, and at
each draught a glass was smash
ed. The philosophy of this seem
ed that use of the same glass
twice took the flavor off the li
quor.
The second night there appears
to have been some dissension over
one of the nighties, for it was
torn from neck to Jicm; then an
other dress shirt was pressed into
service.
The train veered southward to
ward New Orleans, and the care
free life of the three men in the
boxcar continued. They sold more
books, bought more to eat and
drink, and lived like true epicu
reans. One must have had a
Told Wlla Waa Going to Shave.
Asheville, Feb. 7. Telling his
wife that he was going down
stairs to shave, James M. Hyatt,
a prominent business man this
morning shortly after 8 o'clock
picked up his razor and other
ohnvintr material, went down
's ulirs locked all the doors and
slashed his throat with the razor,
dying son after the act was dis
covered b. Mrs. Hyatt. Wo cause
other than ihealth can be as-
signed ior tne
years ago from the countrysly'
engaged in the mercantile busi- I
r.Aoa anA of tho time nf his Riii- I
cide was a member of the local
glJLC., irm of Hyatt & Felmet.
He had made money by close at
tention to business and was well-to-do.
A year or more ago his
health failed and since that time
he had been unable to give per
sonal attention to his business.
When he picked up his razor
for a shave this morning, he gave
no intimation that he purposed
self destruction. After he had
been gone several minutes, Mrs.
Hyatt had occasion to go down
stairs and, trying the door, found
it locked. She tried another door
to the room and found it also lock
ed. She called to Hyatt, but re
ceived no response, and becom
ing alarmed called her neighbors.
The door was forced and Hyatt
was found in a pool of blood,
with his throat cut from ear to
ear. He died before the arrival
of a physician.
'Poaeum Dog Ala Hia Hoee.
Pittsboro, Feb. 6. In a free-for-all
fight at a negro festival
two mile out from Pittsboro last
night. John Moore, a negro dude,
had his nose cut entirely off in
the general mix-up, and before
any of the crowd was struck with
the idea of looking for the miss
ing part it is said a 'possum dog
ate it. The wounded part was
skillfully dressed by by Dr. Chap
in, who thinks that if he had had
the missing part he could have
sewed it on and saved the negro
his nose.
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Greensboro, N. C.
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