.

The two baby boys, two and four years old, respectively, were in charge
of Miss Margaret Hays, who is a fluent speaker of French, and she had
tried vainly to get from the lisping lips of the two little ones some
information that would lead to the finding of their relatives.

Miss Hays, also a survivor of the Titanic, took charge of the almost
naked waifs on the Carpathia. She became warmly attached to the two
boys, who unconcernedly played about, not understanding the great
tragedy that had come into their lives.

The two little curly-heads did not understand it all. Had not their
pretty nineteen-year-old foster mother provided them with pretty suits
and little white shoes and playthings a-plenty? Then, too, Miss Hays had
a Pom dog that she brought with her from Paris and which she carried
in her arms when she left the Titanic and held to her bosom through the
long night in the life-boat, and to which the children became warmly
attached. All three became aliens on an alien shore.

Miss Hays, unable to learn the names of the little fellows, had dubbed
the older Louis and the younger "Lump." "Lump" was all that his name
implies, for he weighed almost as much as his brother. They were
dark-eyed and brown curly-haired children, who knew how to smile as only
French children can.

On the fateful night of the Titanic disaster and just as the last boats
were pulling away with their human freight, a man rushed to the rail
holding the babes under his arms. He cried to the passengers in one
of the boats and held the children aloft. Three or four sailors and
passengers held up their arms. The father dropped the older boy. He was
safely caught. Then he dropped the little fellow and saw him folded in
the arms of a sailor. Then the boat pulled away.

The last seen of the father, whose last living act was to save his
babes, he was waving his hand in a final parting. Then the Titanic
plunged to the ocean's bed.

BABY TRAVERS

Still more pitiable in one way was the lot of the baby survivor,
eleven-months-old Travers Allison, the only member of a family of
four to survive the wreck. His father, H. J. Allison, and mother and
Lorraine, a child of three, were victims of the catastrophe. Baby
Travers, in the excitement following the crash, was separated from the
rest of the family just before the Titanic went down. With the party
were two nurses and a maid.

Major Arthur Peuchen, of Montreal, one of the survivors, standing nea