tain the discipline
that until then had been well preserved.

THE SINKING VESSEL

Richard Norris Williams, Jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, saw
his father killed by being crushed by one of the tremendous funnels of
the sinking vessel.

"We stood on deck watching the life-boats of the Titanic being filled
and lowered into the water," said Mr. Williams. "The water was nearly
up to our waists and the ship was about at her last. Suddenly one of the
great funnels fell. I sprang aside, endeavoring to pull father with me.
A moment later the funnel was swept overboard and the body of father
went with it.

"I sprang overboard and swam through the ice to a life-raft, and
was pulled aboard. There were five men and one woman on the raft.
Occasionally we were swept off into the sea, but always managed to crawl
back.

"A sailor lighted a cigarette and flung the match carelessly among the
women. Several screamed, fearing they would be set on fire. The sailor
replied: 'We are going to hell anyway and we might as well be cremated
now as then.'"

A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding Emile Portaleppi, of Italy,
in his hairbreadth escape from death when the Titanic went down.
Portaleppi, a second class passenger, was awakened by the explosion of
one of the bulkheads of the ship. He hurried to the deck, strapped a
life-preserver around him and leaped into the sea. With the aid of the
preserver and by holding to a cake of ice he managed to keep afloat
until one of the life-boats picked him up. There were thirty-five other
people in the boat, he said, when he was hauled aboard.

THE COWARD

Somewhere in the shadow of the appalling Titanic disaster slinks--still
living by the inexplicable grace of God--a cur in human shape, to-day
the most despicable human being in all the world.

In that grim midnight hour, already great in history, he found himself
hemmed in by the band of heroes whose watchword and countersign rang out
across the deep--"Women and children first!"

What did he do? He scuttled to the stateroom deck, put on a woman's
skirt, a woman's hat and a woman's veil, and picking his crafty way back
among the brave and chivalric men who guarded the rail of the doomed
ship, he filched a seat in one of the life-boats and saved his skin.

His name is on that list of branded rescued men who were neither picked
up from the sea when the ship went down nor were in the boats under
orders to help get them safe away