SIMPLY A PASSENGER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 7

SIMPLY A PASSENGER.

DID NOT EXERCISE ANY PRIVILEGES UNAWARE OF AMERICAN ENQUIRY. (Received April 23, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 22nd April. Mr. Ismay emphatically declares that h« rras simply a passenger and was not consulted regarding the speed of the Titanic or her navigation. H6 had not made any suggestions and did not exercise any privileges. He saw £he captain only occasionally, and was never in hie loom nor on the bridge until after the accident. It was unqualifiedly false to say that he wished the steamer to make a record. The only information that ice was sighted was the .Baltic's message on Sunday, the captain informing him in the evening and posting it fofi-'ihe officers' information. Mr. Ismay .continued :— "The only reason I wished the crew to return home was for their own benefit. When I ordered them by wireless message to return, I was not aware that an enquiry in Now York was contemplated. Wlien I entered the boat with Mr. Carter, a passenger 1 , no women or other passengers remained on deck. The disaster has proved the futility of 'unsinkablo' vessels. The present legal requirements are inadequate and must be changed. Owners have placed too much reliance on watertight compartments and wueless telegraphy ; we must! have lifeboats and rafts for every soul, with men to handle them." (Received April 23, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 22nd April. Mr. William Carter, interviewed at Philadelphia, emphasises the injustice done to Mr. Ismay. The boat in which he and Mr. Ismay were contained two seamen and forty steerage women and children. "Mr. Ismay, and myself, and several officers," ho said, "walked up and down the deck fov several minutes shouting t 'Are there any more women here?' but there was no response. The officers then told Mr. Ismay that he could enter the boat if he, towed. This he did until the Carpathia was sighted."