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CONCORD, N. C, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 17.1912.
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A DISPATCH SATS THAT 8,000
ABE LOST.
Kentwed Apprehension. rH hiI
Msssaf RestYd From tks
Carpatlii. BUp is Expacted ti
Ktw-Tork Tanrsday KJ!.
Chartered to Look for Bodies.
Eu Cargo of Coffins and Ico. Ma
jor Butt Had Premonition of Hii
Death. AH on Board Oarpathia
Woli Apprehension That Number
Bared ii Not aa Large as Tint
Sported.3'- -
New York, April 17. Rettewed ap
prehension that the number saved is
not as large as the White Star offi
cials insisted came today as a result
of a dispatch to Marconi Compauy
that two thousand are lost. As the.
day wore on it seemed almost cer
tain that some one has been main
taining a censorship over the wire
less. Captain Rostron, of the Carpa
thia, sent a wireles to the owners
here as soon as he reached the scene
and found the Titanic sunk. The mes
sage was suppressed nearly twenty
four honvs. Suggestions of powerful
influences preventing tbe news from
reaching the world while the stock
market was open Monday, are being
made in several places today. It is
even intimated that misleading wire
less messanges were- sent out to give
the impression that the Titanic was
safe would be upheld during hours
the European and American markets
were open.
New York, April 17. The Cunard
Line officials announced today that
they had received a wireless message
from Carpathia at 11 o'clock last
night. She is 596 miles east of Am
brose channel light, and will be off
Sandy Hook about nine o'clock
Thursday night. She will probably
anchor down the bay and come to
dock Friday morning. The message
said all on board were well.
New York, April 17. The peculiar
secretive tatics of the White Star
Line adopted since the accident, has
continued today, when after issuing
supplementary list of rescued, the
company denied that it had been so
received.
The general passenger agent said
the list was compiled by cheeking up
data received yesterday, which had
been relayed to land by tbe Olympic.
This followed a demand that inform
ation be made public regarding the
condition of survivors ' aboard the
Carpathia, all of whom are known to
have suffered greatly from exposure
after rescue. "We are not in com
munication with Carpathia and have
not been since yesterday," said the
officials to Henry W. Taft, brother
of the President, who called at the
White Star line offices at 10 o'clock
this morning, and said that the Pres
ident commissioned him to find out
whether Major Butt went down with
the Titanic and aaid that the Pres
ident was also anxious to learn the
fate of Francis Millett and H. K.
Behr. The officials said there was
no further information. It was un
officially stated at tbe Cunard line
offices today that the fate of the Ti
tanic was known here Monday morn
ing. It was aaid that on Monday
morning a prominent New Yorker
appeared at the Cunard offices and
declared that a "person in authori
ty" had received a message tell of
the disaster. He was urged to make
the news public, but declares it
"must be suppressed," the story
said,
Copyrighted by United Press, by
Roy W. Howard, general news man
ager, United Press, aboard Olympic,
wireless to Cape Race, land lines to
New York. The bodies of at least
some of the Titanic victims will be
brought probably to Boston aboard
Leyland liner, California. Wireless
advices reaching us from the scene
of disaster say that some of the bod
ies have- been " recovered. Olympic
is proceeding eastward. She could do
nothing. The disaster shocked every
ne. Ship's orebestra is hushed. Af
ter remaining almost stationary most
of Tuesday and relaying by wireless
from the Carpathia, a list of the
survivors. CaDt. flallock was ordered
to proceed on his voyage. Not until
then was the use of the wireless for
any other purposes -permitted.
Newport, R. I., April 17.-The
Scout cruiser Salem, aaid by wireless
today that she is proceeding toward
Carpathia, at the rate of 15 knots an
hour.
Halifax, April 17. Commercial
eabto company! ship Maekay Ben
nett, baa been 'chartered by the White
Star Company to explore the scent
of the Titanic disaster, and search for
bodies. It left this afternoon carry
ing 80 men and a cargo of coffins,
and ice, for embalming purposes. It
is denied here that Vincent Astor has
chartered sailing Ship Seal to search
for hm father s body. It is known
that a half dozen fishing ships are
within 200 miles of the wreck and it
is believed here that some of these
may have later passed tbe scene. Any
ono of these may arrive to-day with
news.
New Yoric," April 17. ilarooni wire-
lew offices here to-day aaid they had
received a wireless from Cunard
Liner Franconia saying she had com
municated with the Carpathia and
later a vessel reported as follows:
"Have about 700 saved, from Titanic
more than 2,000 lost." This report
is at variance with other stories re
ceived and telegraph officials are in
clined to believe that figures have
been misread.
Washington April 17. Six weeks
ago, when Major Butt determined on
a European trip to regain his health,
his premonition that he might not re
turn alive caused him to make his
will, it was learned here today.
New York, April 17. Positive de
nial that J. P. Morgan, Jr., knew of
the Titanic sinking early Monday,
and that Morgan personally demand
ed a force suppression of the news
until after the stock market had clos
ed, was made by Vice President
Franklin, of the White Star Line to
day. Morgan is director of the com
pany. Franklin claimed that neither
he nor Morgan knew that the Titanic
bad sunk until 6:30 Monday night.
Franklin denied that the line purpose
ly withheld news of the disaster. It
was declared that the line is doing
everything it could to recover the
bodies and had sent steamer our for
that purpose. Franklin said he had
heard Wall street rumor that J. J.
Astor is saved, but had nothing con
firming it.
New York, April 17. The Nation
al Electric Signaling Co.'s station,
south of Brooklyn, picked up a mes
sage from Scout cruiser Salem at
noon, reporting the position of the
Carpathia then as just south of Cape
Sable, making 13 knots an hour.
Washington, April 17. At the
White House it was announced today
that no revenue cutters v ill act as
convoy for Carpathia. Scout sruis
ers Chester and Salem will perform
that duty. Secretary MacVeagh told
President Taft that the officials of
the Cunard line opposed sending rev e
nue cutters with newspaper men
aboard, as survivors desired to be un
disturbed.
Only a faint hope remains that any.
of the 1,302 passengers and crew who
have been missing since the giant
Titanic sank have been picked up by
trans-Atlantic liners. The 868 sur
vivors rescued from life boats by the
Cunarder Carpathia, now on her way
to New York, are the only known
saved.
The brief meagre wireless messages
that came to hand today practically
extinguished hope that some of the
ill-fated passengers have been picked
up at sea by the steamships Virginian
and Parisian of the Allan line. Both
of these steamers sent word that tbey
have some of the Titanic 's survivors
on board.
The Titanic was 15 stories high.
The floors were named the bottom,
double bottom, bed plates, lower or
lop, lower, middle, main, saloon, up
per, promenade, upper promenade,
boat and sun decks and extra com-
is platform. She had four for
wards and the height was 175 feet.
The Titanic left Southampton last
Wednesday on her maiden voyage for
New York. She bad then 1,300 pas
sengers, 318 of them in the first
cabin.
She had trouble at the start be
cause of her great suction. As she
was leaving her pier there was a
sound as if of a mountain battery be
ing discharged, and a rush of passen
gers to the port rail followed,
to the port rail followed.
As the big 45,000-ton steamship
passed out into the stream she had
sucked the water between herself and
the quay to such an extent that seven
huge hawsers with which the Ameri
can liner New York was drifting
helplessly, stern first, toward the Ti
tanic. The biggest vessel afloat reversed
her engines and in a few minutes her
head-way was stopped and tugs that
had rushed to the New York Drevent-
ed a bad smash between the liners.
' Nothing could show more plainly
the heroism of the crew and the men
passengers who stood by the doomed
ship, facing r practically inevitable
death, and sent the women and chil
dren a way in 'the lifeboats. Some
would have to be left;, that was a
certainty, Hundreds in , fact were
left. But to all appearance the men
who were left stayed behind deliber-
ately. calmly, stepping aside to let
tbe weaker ones get in tbe boats with
safety.
"Sinking by the head. Have clear
ed boats and filled them with women
and children."
This was the final message these
brave men sent the world, for it was
directly afterward that their wireless
signals sputtered snd then stopped
sltogether.
Tbe picture that inevitably pre
sents itself, in view of what is known
is of men like John Jacob Astor, mas
ter of scores of millions', Benjamin
Guggenheim, of the famous family
of bankers; Isador Straus, a merch
ant prince; William T. Stead, veteran
journalist; Maj. Archibald Butt, sol
dier; Washington Roebling, noted en
gineer of any of all of these men
stepping aside and bravely, gallant
ly, remaining to die that the place
that he otherwise might have filled,
eould perhaps be taken by some sabot
shod, shawl-enshrouded illiterate arid
penniless peasant woman of Europe.
All hope that some of the Titanic 's
survivors might be on board either
the steamer Parisian or the Virginian
had to be abandoned late yesterday
when it was definitely learned that
neither steamer had picked up any
one from the big liner.
Search for bodies in the vicinity of
the disaster will be taken up by the
White Star line from Halifax, where
the cable steamer Makay-Bennett has
been chartered to proceed to the
scene and remain until further or
ders searching for bodies that may
come to the surface.
Icebergs so Near Sea Level That It
is Hard to See Them.
Mr. J. H. Welsford, a Liverpool
ship owner, who reached New York
yesterday said in regard to the ice
bergs:
"I have crossed the ocean nearly
a hundred times, but never before
have 1 seen ice so far south and in
such a great body.
"An interesting feature of the field
was the fact that the sea, although
presenting a surface like glass, was
mountainous. A thick fog necessitat
ed frequent stops, and when the fog
temporarily lifted bergs were discern
ible off both port and starboard. The
most impressive features were the
numerous 'growlers' large bergs
that had melted on top until almost
awash by the sea. In bad or failing
lights they were extremely difficult
to discern and very dangerous because
of the quantity of ice below the wa
ter line."
Lee Bests Rixey in Last of Series on
Carolina Soil.
Charlotte, April 16. North Caro
lina tightened her grip upon the col
legiate baseball championship of the
South this afternoon by defeating
Virginia 4 to 0. It was the third and
last game of the annual spring series
on Carolina soil and today's victory
put the sturdy Tar Heel lads in the
position where they have all to gain
and only a division of honors to lose
by the result of the final game to be
played in Charlottesville, Va., Fri
day. A victory there will give the
Chapel Hill nine three out of four
and bring one of the greatest athle
tic triumps the State University has
ever achieved over its strongest rival.
For Highway Across Continent.
Kansas City, Mo., April 17. Dele
gates appointed by the governors of
twelve States and by the mayors of
numerous cities responded to the roll
call at the opening of the National
Old Trails' convention in this city
today. The purpose of the conven
tion, which will continue in session
several days, is to formulate plans
for the construction of an improved
highway across the continent follow
ing as near as practicable the route
of the Cumberland Pike, the Boone's
Lick road, the Santa Fe trail and the
Sunset Route.
It Looks Somewhat Like It.
Greensboro News.
Says the Concord Tribune: "Gov
ernor Kit chin is a good governor; he
he has filled the position with dignity
and credit to the State, but if his
administration has been known to
stand out boldly for any particular
movement we have never heard of
it." Before the election it was going
to be known as the trust buster, if
you remember, but even with that
abandoned, don't you think it has
stood out boldly for William W,
Kitchin as a candidate for the Sen
ate t
Charlotte and Mooresville are en
deavoring to get the Southern Rail
way to make a change in the present
schedule of one of the two passenger
trains on the North Carolina Midland
Railroad. They want a train run from
Winston-Salem to Charlotte, leaving
the former eity early in the morning
and returning at night.
' "
Miss' Shirley Montgomery will re
turn tonight from a visit to Greens
boro and Winston-Salem.
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THE HUNGRY SEA.
"Man marks tbe earth with ruin, his control
Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknell'd,
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CITY ALDERMEN MEET.
Chief Boger Commended for Work
in Fnrr Case. Property to Be Ad
vertised for Taxes. Tax on Plum
bers Taken Off, Also T ax on Vehi
cles Meeting Trains. Better ser
vice Demanded From Street Car
Company.
With the effulgent rays of carnival
lights shining through the windows
upon them and the stirring strains of
a brass band coupled with the spell
ers' shouts and the hubbub and roar
of a carnival throng ringing with
deafening effect in their ears, the city
parents raised privilege taxes, lower
ed privilege taxes, discussed law en
forcement, rapped on vagrants, dis
cussed the street car service and con
sidered other matters at an adjourn
ed meeting in the court room of the
city hall last night.
Chief of Police Boger appeared be
fore the board and asked the city
to pay a reward of $25 that he offered
on his own responsibility for the cap
ture of Horace Furr. : Mr. Boger
stated that the had worked hard on
trying to work up the ease against
the storebreakers and that he had
also been subject to severe censure.
He said that he traced the man to
Georgia and in order to make sure
the otlicers there would keep a vigil
ant watch for him he offered this re
ward. After making a number of
remarks commending the chief for
his success in rounding up the men,
the board ordered the reward paid.
The board ordered all property that
had been advertised for sale on which
taxes had not been paid to be sold
May 1. I
The tax on fire works was raised
from $100 to $200.
The special tax of $10 on plumbers
was taken off by a vote of three to
one. A motion to this effect was made
by Alderman Propst, who contended
that it would give other plumbers an
opportunity to bid upon work on the
same basis as local clumbers. Messrs.
Propst, Barrier and Bruton voted
for the motion and Alderman Brown
against it.
At this point the question arose as
to closing a number of places at cer
tain hours of the night. Mayor Wag
oner and the board in discussing the
matter made some strong remarks
about vagrants. Mayor Wagoner
said there were men and white men
too loafing on the streets who ought
to be made to go to work and that
the vagrancy laws should be enforc
ed. The tax on carriages, omnibuses
and other vehicles that meet the
trains was taken off. The board took
this action in view of the fact that
the hacks and omnibuses did not
make much since the street car was
started and that they were of great
convenience at certain times.
At this point a motion was made
to the effect that the street car com
pany notify the livery stables and
hack drivers thirty minutes before
train time if the car was not going
to meet the train.
Mayor Wagoner said that the peo
ple here had a right to demand some
thing of the street car company. ' ' We
gave them a franchise and then ex
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tended the franchise upon their own
fequest and have done everything
they have asked us to do and in re-
Pturn they have made the street car
senvce ot this town a joke through
out the State," he said.
The question of oiling the streets
came up for consideration. No defi
nite action was taken but it was the
apparent sentiment of the board that
the city would pay the expense of
putting down the oil if the property
owners would furnish it.
Conference on the Negro.
Tuskegee, Ala., April 17. A score
of missionary societies and numerous
foreign countries are represented by
delegates at the International Con
ference on the Negro, which assem
bled at Tuskegee Institute today for
a three days' session. The general
purpose of the conference is to dis
cuss the work that is going on in
Africa and elsewhere for the educa
tion and upbuilding ' of Negro peo
ple. Booker T. Washington presided at
today's session of the conference and
among the speakers were F. Z. S.
I'eregrino, an editor of Cape Town;
Kev. Isaiah Goda Sishuba, president
of the Ethiopian church at Queens
town, South Africa; Rev. Mark C.
Hayford, of Gold Coast, Africa; Rev.
D. D. Martin, of Atlanta, represent
ing the Stewart Foundation for Afri
ca, and Dr. Cornelius H. Patton,
home secretary for the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions.
Illinois Woodmen Protest.
Elgin, 111., April 17. Delegates rep
resenting many of the Illinois local
camps ot tne Modern woodmen ol
America met m convention here to
day to make formal protest against
the action of the recent national con
vention in Chicago at which the insur
ance rates of the order were increas
ed. Use the Penny Column it pays.
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A thrilling baseball
romance by one
of the best known
writers on sports
In the country
IV. A. PHELOii
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SHIP THOUGHT UNSINXABLE
DUE TO MANY BULKHEADS.
Marin Architects Can't Conceive
How Head-on-blow Could Hare
Opened All Thirty Watertight
Compartments.
New York World.
Although reputed to have been the
most luxuriously fitted up and equip
ped with every conceivable comfort
and convenience, the feature of the
Titanic which absorbed the chief at
tention after the news of the col
lision came was the number and
strength- of her bulkheads. Were
these sufficiently numerous and stout
to bold hack the inrush of water and
afford sufficient flotation powerf was
a question which every one was ask
ing. The plans of the giantess credit her
with thirty watertight compartments,
and marine architects to whom they
were shown yesterday could not con
ceive how any head-on blow could
have crushed the bow back sufficient
ly to let in enough water to sink the
liner. The many compartments into
which the vessel was divided were fit
ted with steel doors, and from a cen
tral station operated from the bridge
tbe doors of all of them could be
closed almost instantly.
Lewis Nixon, the eminent naval
architect, who designed the battle
ship Oregon and her class, was seen
last night after the news of the sink
ing of the Titantic had been received.
When asked if he had any theory to
account for her foundering he said
the only one that occurred to him
was that the vessel must have been
travelling at half speed, or perhaps
more, and smashed into some tremen
dous berg, smothered by a fog.
Setback Party Last Night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Goodman enter
tained a number of friends at a set
back party last night at their home
on North Union street. Mr. and Mrs.
Goodman 's euests were : Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Braswell, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. G.
Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Bost,
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Patterson and
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Barnhardt. Af
ter the game delightful refreshments
were served.
Use the Peony Column it pays.
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Children's .'15 cent Japanese Parasols, white, light blue and
pink 19 cents
Children's Parasols, all colors 25 cents
75c Children's and Misses Parasols, solid colors and plaids,
worth up to $1, sale price 48 cents
Misses Silk Parasols in pretty combinations, worth upto $2,
sale price 75c, 98c and $1.25
Ladies Pongee Parasols in plain and combination colors,
underpriced $1.25, $1.48. Worth up to $2.00
The variety of colors, the most stylish shape and handles
are to be found in this lot of ladies parasols. No two alike.
Underpriced $1.98, $2.95, $3.48, $4.95 up
It is a pleasure for us to show you.
BUTTONS
We are showing a new and complete line of pearl and
crochet buttons. White and all colors. :
GORDON HOSE
Our Ladies No. 71? silk lisle hose, looks and wears like a
3 for $1 hose. Black, white, light blue and pink. ' Price
per pair . 25 cents
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Every pair guaranteed $1 to $5.
WE HAVE YOUR SIZE.
FOUND DEAD TJf BED.
Mr. W. B. Gibson, of Ho. ft, Died Boa
Time Darin the Xlgh of Heart
Disease.
Mr. N. B. Gibsdta was found dead in
bed this morning st his homo, on Mr.
W. W. Auten's farm in No, 9 town
ship, near Qeorgeville. Mr. Gibson's
death was discovered by his son-in-law,
Mr. T. W. Hesrn. Mr. Hearn
spent the night at tbe home of the
deceased, and when he went to bis
bed this morning he found that he
was dead. Mr. Gibson was appar
ently in good health yesterday. He
spent the day plowing and appeared
in good spirits last night. He had
been a sufferer from heart trouble
for some time and his death is at
tributed to this cause.
He was 55 years old and is survived
by a wife, two daughters and one son.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 4 o'clock and the in
terment will be made in Center Grove
cemetery.
WHAT ABOUT THE GAS PLANT?
Probable That Work Will Begin On
It in a Short Time.
Although nothing definite has been
heard for some time from Mr. Sid
ney Kenny, of Philadelphia, who was
granted a franchise about a year ago
for a gas plant here, it is known that
he is making plans for establishing
the plant. The Citizens Bank & Trust
Company has received . an inquiry
from Bachman & Co., bond dealers
of New York, asking them to act as
trustees under bond issue for tbe gas
bonds. The bond dealers also re
quested the bank to send full infor
mation concerning Concord.
This message indicates that Mr.
Kenny is arranging to establish the
ijas plant and it is very probable that
he will beinn work in a short time.
Hon. W. C. New land, of Lenoir, has
authorized the following: "A num
ber of friends have asked me to be
come a candidate for the office of Sec
retary of State, but inasmuch as I
had been in the race for governor np
to a few weeks ago and withdrew in
the interest of party harmony, it
would, in myopinion, be inconsistent
to be a candidate for the office of
Secretary of State.'"
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