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I S J O Y A T P O R T B Y R O NStuart Collett It One of

the Survivor*.Siduey S. Wills, local agent of the

ld Hale, who was boundThe letter s taged that

as known. His name does notlis t of survivorsthe CarpatMa and the

heard concerning

The New York papers today men

At the Home on wa nt avenu e thee bad been employed at The

s work' thereon many occas ions . Aeorge

will be takenthe now accepted report of.

Rev. Sidney Clarence Stuart Ool- 1Firs t Baptis t church in Port

, and Violet , a ll l ire inThe girls are at pres One brother, Thomas Collett ,Col

Another brother is In OnCan., another brother, Fredwith the GeneralCompany in Shanghai,is in England, connected

Mr. and Mrs . Collett sett ledThe family have been experiencingmost harrowing extremes of

it will be surpris ingpermanent nervous shock reThe f irs t news came on Monan iceberg. Knowing

ir son, Rev. Sidne y C. S. Colvarious p laces near- the

Later came the news that the ves " w a s - reported to be s inking, and

on the Titanic. Ail taken off InHow dreadful. We are anx' The Syracuse member of the famcontinuou s ly to

Hastening back to Syracuse foroffice

were on board the Carpathia.

"I muet tell father and mother,*'

re of the family assembled at home

Collett was ordained to theand was com ing to th is

The rescued clergyman is common

ing places for themselves in educationa l and church, work.The Collects are l inked with thenobility of England. The family coatof arms bears the motto of hope andSir Richard Collett of Peaaan Hall,Suffold county, is an uncle of thePort Byron clergyman. In the reignof Edward VI. a Collett was twiceLord Mayor of London and the family name is prominent in history.Eight years ago Thomas Collett /now about 30, came to America. Forsome t ime, be had. been connectedwith St. Paul's chuteh in Syracuse.He is also taking a course in the College of Liberal Arts of Syracuse Univers ity .Sir Richard Collett, head of onebranch of the family, was one of thes ix engineers who des igned the GreatEaster n, in its day the largest vessel afloat. For his services in thisconnect ion he was knighted by theKing of Portugal.Stuart was bring ing w ith himthese family possession* which hadnot been previously brought to America by other members of the family.These cons is ted of a valuable l ibrary, family documents and a considerable sum of money. All of the valuables are believed to have gone tothe bottom of the ocean with the Titanic.Stuart 's trip on the Titanic wasnot his own choice. He arrangedfor passag e on the St. Lo uis, butthis boat's sailing was cancelled because of the coal s trike. His pass age was then arranged on the Philadelphia but this was cancelled forthe same reason and the young manwrote h is parents congratulat inghimself that he was coming over onthe giant Titanic at the rate askedon the other boats .in a letter written April 5, Stuarttold h is mother to remind Thomasof a promise the latter made to carry until Stuart reached America asmall pocket Bib le. Thomas s t i l l hasthe Bible although It is only a packetof worn covers and loose leaves .Stuart contemplates entering theminis try in th is country.

U F O R S M I T HMan Who Has Sailed the Waters Dis cusse s the Disaster.' .*'Captain A. B. Scott , ofth is c ity ,whose experience on Ihe GrandBank s and in the* Atlantic travel hasbeen wide, p leaded today for a sus - l T T r i i [ ipens ion of judg ment in"the conduct | wl ,1 Ji*'ni, r B ?;of Captain Smith of the Titanic during the n ight of the d isas ter. Captain Scott g ives an interes t ing descript ion of condit ions that confrontthe mariner, and h is s tatements arecorroborated in many s ta ll s by thecom men ts of exmert* in New York.Captain Scott said:"The deplorable fatality In the lossof the $10,000,000 ocean liner T1-.tanlc of the White Star l ine and thedrowning of over 1 ,600 persons inthe cold waters of the Atlantic bringsvery forcib ly to my memory my ownexperiences among the Icebergs ofNew Foundland and, fearing thatcrit icism by those utterly ignorant ofnavigat ion and the dangers of Iceand fog, as encountered by Atlanticnavigators, may~be~T6Veted at Captain Smith of the i l l- fated vessel, andundeserved reproach vented on h im,for the benef it of those- interes ted ins u c h m a t t e r s S s t h o a b o v e ~t ~~wiirbrief ly s tate the dangers encounteredby Atlantic sk ippers when East orWest two degrees of the New Found-land fishing banks."As the l iner approaches the Banksa careful record is kept of .watertemperature which is taken everyfourth hour. Gradually the temperature falls from 45 degrees to 50 degrees down to 15 degrees , which isthe normal temperature of the Atlantic at that point . Here* are encountered the great fogs of the'baftkV which are of such a densityas to obscure the seeing of anotherperson l ess "than six feet al ong th eship's deck. It very often happensthat the skipper for SO hours or sohas been running his ship by deadreckoning, the - Bun" being obscured.He has been unable to get solar observat ions and most l ikely he getsno lunar observations either. Hehas to depend entirely on the accuracy of his tafrail log;the readingsof h is barometer and temperaturesas given by h is thermomter, in conjunct ion with h is own experience,ability* and knowl edge of t he coast.Cape Race, where the fatality is reported to have occurred and which isat all times dreaded by Atlanticsk ippers as the one point where alltheir sk ill as seamen must be broughtto bear against the odds they alwaysexpect to meet-ace. fog and galeCape Race l ies in about 40.16 degreesnorth lat itude and 48.14 west longitude. H ere are encountered thegrea t fields of ice-floes and bergs. Ihave seen these f loes extending unbroken across the sea for five or sixmiles, and they are often much longer . The shell ice as navigators termthose fields, that are jus t visibleabove the water and not to be fearedlike -the giant bergs towering veryoften 75 to 100 feetfields can be broken by dynamiterockets which all l iners carry forthat purpose, and which usually candiverge the course of the 'pack' soas to open a passageway for the l in er but with the icebergs it is different . *

"We are not told and perhapsnever sh all be tdld whether fog wasthe cause of the coll is ion or not , butif fog was Uhe cause, then as a navigator I unhes itat ingly say that Captain Smith can not be held accountsable for the fatality if he is alive.Let us cons ider for a moment h iscourse of act ion . Assuming that fogwas encountered the sh ip would be_down. Wha t proof have 'weo the contrary. The- lookout wouldbe doubled and the thermomete r bedropped every few minutes. It isn igbt . The fog is dense. Suddenlythere is a l if t for a moment. Thegiant iceberg is seen in near proximity dead ahead. Captain Smith wouldrealise by the Immens ity of the bergthat'-Jit iL ^rocke ts would be ofno avail even should he have t ime totram them and so (he telegraphs h isengineer the command, "fu ll speedastern ." Perhaps that was h is on lyway of escape. Who shall tell? Perhaps he saw in /tha t ' brief - lt fTef thefog that he had encountered a wholef ield ' of h igh bergs ."which may'ha vebM i iftlrenHr across the bow of the

S , VTitanic, g iving htm no alternativeOf chang ing his course .to port orstarboard and so allowing tbe bergto pass by on one side or the other,but \be must either go ahead andmeet the monster, or try to avoid itby running twi\ astern until he badgained sufficient distance to changethe course of his vessel. This I thinkis what Captain Smith would havedone if the situation were such a s I(have stated. If in the blackness ofthe night, intensified by deep fog hedid not see the berg, even If he sawit at all, then the accident was unavoidable and deplorable as the fatality is. censure should rest nowhereuntil competent and authentic Information comes to the press as to justhow uhe accident occurred.''P R E S B Y T E R Y D O N E .

Rev. F. W. Palmor and Rev. W J.Hinke Delegates to General AssemblyThe Cayuga Presbytery closed itsannual spring meeting yesterday aft-r the elect ion of commiss ioners tothe General Assembly to be held thisyear in Ix>uisville, Ky. The ministers chosen to represent the Presbytery are Rev. Frederick W. PalmerD . D.. and Rev. William J. Hinke ofthe seminary faculty . The elderschosen are J. Charles Dayton of thiscity and F. R. Wheeler of Dryd*.The alternates are: Ministers 'W. B.Jorris of Moravia and Albert R.Crawford of Ithaca; elders, Frank A.Barney of this city and L. R. KJumpof Weedsport .The Presbytery adjourned to meetat Ludlowville April 29. at 2:30,for the purpose of installing Rev.Evan R. Evan s, Ph. D., paetor of theLudlowville Presbyterian church .Rev. V. N. Yergin is chairman of thecommittee on arrangements , yW A S W E L L K N O W N V E T E R A t t

Funeral in Fleming of George Wheel*{ " er. Who Died in Washington .Brief funeral services for GeorgeWheeler, of Washington . D . C, aformer res ident of Fleming, wereheld at the borne of h is brother, Ru-den E. Wheeler In Fleming, yes terday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Mr.Wright of the Fleming Baptis tchurch officiated at the house and atthe burial in Union cemetery. Thebearers were Reed La Rows , J . H.Nickerson , C . Edward Brown and

Mr. Wheeler's ances tors wereamong the f irs t sett lers of Cayugacounty, be being a d irect descendantof Capt. Ediward Wheeler ~ and agrandson of Lorana Irish , who wasa daughter of*Baptis t Elder Irish .He was a veteran of the Civil warhaving been a naember of CompanyH, Eighth New York Cavalry, whichwas one of Colongb Fox' s fightingregiments , and during Sheridan'sShenandoah campaign was in hheSecond Brigade ft General Custer'sfamous Third Division of Cavalry. He was taken prisoner at LacySprings in December, 1864, and after a two months 'captivity in Richmond was exchanged, thus escapingthe horrors of Andersonville.For the past 21 years he has beenan employe of the Government Printing office at Washington, D. C.Funeral ~ services were held InWashington in the Pres ident's su itsin the Union s tat ion . Monday after-noon. Rev. Dr. Holmes , Departmentchaplain of the G. A. R.. officiated.During' the services Past Commander- in-chief Ross of Washingtonwho eang at the funeral of Pres identMcKinley sang Nearer My God toThee and a song composed by h imself ent it 'ed The Pass ing of a Sold ier.Bes ide h ie brother Ruden E. Wheeler, the deceased is survived by onedaughter, Mrs. William Dunham ofNew Haven, Conn., and three sons ,Clarence Wheeler of Rochester, Bertram Wheeler of Washington , D . C,and Harry Wheeler of Boston , M

navigatedboyhood.-Always it had been

and two s is ters Miss laura M. Wheeler and Mrs . WUlet E. Post .-both of ibes t describe'my experiences of nearwhom live in Rochester.THAT MORAVIA CASE.

Uncertain Yet Whether I t Will BeTried at May Term.It has not been definitely decidedas yet whether the indictment charging the Board of Education of Moravia with violat ion of the Healthlaw in permitt ing sewage from . theHigh school to empty into the watersof Mill creek , one of the feeders ofOwasco lake, will be tried at theMay term of Supreme court. DistrictAttorney Albert H. Clark stated today that he will know in a few daysif the case will be tried in May.Appeal I s Dismissed .Just ice Rich granted an order today declaring the plaintiff's right tomake case and serve case and exceptions' on appea l to the Appe llate Division abandoned in the action ofJane LaOrange against Hatt ie La-

Grange and others. Th,e action wasbrought to recover a share in realThe"~smalier property in Moravia and on trial last' year a verdict for the defendants wasgranted . ' d ismiss ing the complaint .The order of Just ice Rich allows thedefendants , represented by Hull-Greenfield, $10 costs. Arthur Helmeof Albany- represen ted the plaintiff inthe l it igat ion and was s low in f i l ingcase and exceptions on appeal, a lthough he was granted several adjournm ents by Mr. Grenefield to enable h im so to do.

In Struggle for the Money of An n De f f e r t

P A R T N E R S O U G H T L E T T E R SClaiming to Be a Creditor, butSurrogate Holds That He Has

No Right to Them.

Charles W. Smith aSmith . The es tate conpersonal and $700 real will gives the life use to a son Myers C Smson a I estate is divided amSmith, George J. SmithGunn.In the estate of Timoley of Mie s a decree establishing heirship to perty.Testimony in the prwill of Sarah D. l.*wryard was taken and thheld open. The will April 14. 1876, and prolife ui=e of the e state toI^awrence and on her dter of the decedent. E. Decree was granted counts in the estate of J. Swartwout of Owaacoletters of adminis trat ion were is -i sued in Sur rogate "a court this morn-i ing to Elizabeth Blssi in the esta tej of Ann Deffert. known -aleo as Ann

Franks of Auburn The administratrix is the daughter of the decedent.Some time ago Frank Cipriano, aformer partner of the deceased inthe saloon at No. 113 Orchard street,endeavored to become adminis trator,claiming that be was a creditor in

S T A T U E I S U N VNation Pays Tribute toof John Paul J

Washington. April 1vieaged statue of Johnthe first gr eat commAmerican navy, mouldedof the sympathetic sculbim as he stood on th'Hon Homme Richard"the sum of~$9 8.77 . Objections were b> fight with the -Sefiled bv the daughter on the ground ! coast of Englaud morthat Cipriano had no interest" in the ye^L^ W M u n v i l # destate wha tever as a creditor or oth

CAPTAIN E. J. SMITHCommander of the Titanic, known as the "Grand Old Man of the Sea,"one OTlhe oldes t and most reliable mariners of ocean liners on ths Atlantic. It is probable that Captain Smith wen t down wtih his ship.

C A P T A I N S M I T H , " G R A N D O L D M A N O F S E A "Captain Edward John Smith-"thegrand old man of the sea" probably

has gone to h is death in the ocean}*WftT

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certain amount of wonderhe had navigated for 40 yearssince ne T * r ** me, especially as I ob-the veterancaptain 's proud boast that he had anuneventfu l l ife, and that is why theWhite Star Company promoted-fcimto the highest gift in Its offlce^-tothe command of the world 's greates ts teamship of the present day..Smith had- risen "from theranks ."- "In 1869 as a boyhe went onthe Senator Weber, an American clipper, serving as an apprentice. In1876 he shipped' with the squar erigger Lizzie Fennel as fourth officer,and in 1880 he had risen to the rankof fourth officer of the old Whi teStar Line ste ampship -Celtic thenominal ancestor of the present ves-jj? 00 beyond that ."sel of that name. In 1887 he wentto the Republic as captain and laterto the Balt ic.Thus he saw service and held command on the old vessels for whichthe .present giants of the White Starline are named. Later CaptainSmith took command of the freighterCufic and then the Runic. Then hewent to the old Adriatic, the Celtic,Britannic, Coptic, in the Australiantrade; the Germanic. Majes t ic Balt i c , and then to the Adriatic. In allthis time he served the line quietlyand his name was seldom heard. Hisrise In rank and importance was commensurate with the safe uneventfu l-ness of h is command.When,.4/:rHM^, he arrived in NewYork in command of the Adriatic onher maiden trip he said:When anyone asks me how i can

"The love of the ocean that took meto sea as .a boy has never left me. Inserve from the bridge a vesselplunging up and down in the troughof the seas , fighting her waythrough and over great waves . Aman nev*r outgrows that."Captain Smith maintained thatshipbuilding was such a perfect artnowadays that absolute d isas ter, in volving the passengers on a greatmodern liner, was quite unthinkable. Whatever happened, he contended, there would be t ime beforethe vessel sank to save the lives ofevery person on board."I will go a bit further," he said,"I will say that I cannot i magin eany condition which would cause aship to flounder. I canno t con ceiveof any vital disaster happening tothis vessel. Modern shipbuilding has

ly 40 year* at sea I merely say uneventfu l."Of course, there have been win-tergales and storms and fog and Hhelike, but in all my experience I havenever been in an accident of anysort worth speaking about I haveseen but one vessel in distress in allmy years at sea, a brig, the crew ofwhich was taken off in a small boatin charge of my third officer. I neversaw a wreck and have never beenwrecke d, nor was 1 ever in any predicam ent that threatened to end indisas ter. . -

The first misfortune came intoCaptain Smith 's l ife recently . Thatwas when the great Olympic, s is tership of the Titanic, was rammed bythe British cru iser Hawke off theIsle of Wight on September 20, 1911.A great hole was s tove into her s teelribs and she was forced to put backto Southampton. The Hawke, evenmore badly damages. put over toPortsmouth for repairs. The Hawkewas at first blamed for the accidentbut the British Court of Admiralty,after a long inves t igat ion , decidedthat her commander was b lamelessin the matter, inasmuch as h is sh iphad been drawn out of it course andtoward the .Olympic by the tremendous suct ion of the Olympic's enginesand the swish of water alongside heras she passed.

- In February last, on her way overhere, the Olympic under CaptainSmith suffered another accident,when she lost a propeller blade atsea. She was able to complete herJourney tiere, nevertheless under herown s team.The fact that despite these secentmisadventu res the old captain wasnot only retained in the employ ofthe White Star Line, but even wasintrusted with the biggest and mostresponsible command in their poweras soon as their largest vessel, theTitanic.- was launched, sho wed theesteem and trust in wjhich he washeld by the line.

M I L K M A N m G I R L SClose Call* for the Misses Hurley.Form erly of Auburn. jThe following is from the Rochester Herald of this morning:"Fred Watson , a milk peddler,proved himself a hero yesterdaymorning by sa ving the lives, of tw og ir la W a t s on d i s c o ve r e d t h e b o us e L t o rn e j fo r t h e de f en d a nt in t h e M - | ^ '^r h s 7 in * a t t e 7 o f t ^ n s t r o f N a - ! R e p r e s en t a t iv e A le x a nat 69 Tremont street to be on fireand. being unable to awaken .the-occupants, he smssThed in the frontdoor. He found -Mary Hurley. 21years old and her sister. Kittle Hurley. 18 years old . fas t as leep . They-t o recover penalty for alleged il legalwere partly unconscious whelf aroused , and he was compelled to carrythem to a place of safety.j After he had saved the lives of the! girls, he turned In an alarm of fire.r- j Chief Smi th w ith a number of fireWant Any of TJiete? j companies responded and extinguieih*" Tbe~moiTth*y listvef- publications j f l ^ flames The origin of the fire^ ^ .u TT * J a-^ r ^. - t * unknown. The girls were s lone ini s s ue d b y t h e U ni t ed S t a t es D e j y y ^ O ^ j , * ^ t h e ir p a r en t s b e in g on ament of Agriculture at Washington j y ^ ^ t o Auburn."for the month of March has-been re- j Timothy Hurley, the father of theceivj&d by the Business Men's Asso-jtwo girls, is a former well knownelation and is on file for the inspec- Auburnian hav ing conducted a horse-tlon of any one who is interestedThe publicat ions themselves can beobtained d irect from Washingtotn .

Kicks from Sempronius .District Attorney Albert H. Clarkhas received several complaints regarding nuisances maintained alongstream s in the town 6T Sempronius.One complaint In particular was ofhaving a large number of h orsr and"cattle carcasses on one place to thediscomfort of res idents of the town.The d is trict attorney is g iving thematter b is attent ion .

shoeing es tablishment for a numberof years in Wate r street. Mr. andM r s . Hurley came to Auburn yesterday to . attend the Dunbar fureral.which took p lace th is dom ing . Theyleft this afternoon for their home,excited but thankful at the news ofthe safety of/*fheir daugblers ~ -A lit t le over a Tear ago death , byburning took away Nora, theiryoungest daughter as the resu lt ofoverturning of a lamp while the girlwas curling her hair.The Hurleys moved to Rochesterabout thru* years ago.

P A R K E R W A N T E D mruary 9. 1 8 S - . by the de-v,a- found, with j . M-elville -ii;d Charles E. King, promi-ir :'en f Locke, as witnesses.i l l - - .^ the ent ire es tate tod ( : n - ?.nd now the instrument.:;_ robatc-d according 10 law.of adminis trat ion were-4s -! ' ?. .?

The CuykeadallApplication was madrogate of Onondaga coufor the probate of the wlin B. CuykendaU-r who23 at the home of his dCharts* E. Hamilton in

Homer.and the trial of Ryan comes up at theMay term. Attorney Dillon contended That Mr. Par ke^ houl d look to h isher Nothin g catching f ire from tbel elien tt for h is pay^md ths court evldsnly took thst view, for the orderof substitution was made withoutany sUpulat lon-forMr: Parker beingrecompensed ror-%$r servic es.

counts of James L.