THE TITANIC INQUIRY.

West Coast Times, 12 June 1912, Page 3

THE TITANIC INQUIRY.

THE BULKHEAD PROBLEM,

GRAVE ACCUSATION. Lrr.R CRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, Juno 3,0.

At tho Titanic enquiry the Rt. Hon. A. Carlisle, consultant and adviser to Messrs llarland and Wolff, the builders of tho Titanic, told the .Merchant Shipping Act Committee that the Titanic was insufficiently boated before sho sailed. She should have had foity-oight boats instead of sixteen. He also communicated this intelligence to tho owners.

Lieut. Blackett, naval architect, said that tho Titanic sunk owing to the bulkheads giving away. Tho problem of bulkheads was still unsolved.

DROWN TO THEIR OWN MUSIC.

FAMILIES’ COMPENSATION CLAIMS. LONDON, Jm-e 9. In a letter to the “Daily Mail,” Mr. Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Musicians’ Union, dealing with the question of compensation for the families of the Titanic bandsmen, points out that usually the bandsmen engaged on ocean liners sign the shin's articles.

Those on the Titanic, however, were booked as passengers, but, although their families had applied for compensation the claims had been repudiated on the ground that the players had not signed on. Mr. Williams quotes the statement of Mr. Marietta], the aviator, who described how, when tho Titanic warsinking, the musicians wore ordered to keep on playing- in order to avoid a panic. The bandsmen were placed between decks and none of them were supplied with lifebelts. GIFTS TO RESCUERS. The Cuuard Company refused any recompense for picking up tlio Titanic's survivors. 'llio White Star Company presented gifts ranging from a hundred guineas to the captain to a month’s pay to tho crew. The Don. J. Carlisle stated that lie shewed the White Star Company his plans providing for more boats for tho Titanic. It rested with the cornpany to deeido the number. Tic signed the report of the Advisory Committee to the Hoard of Trade recommending fewer boats than tho Titanic carried. Ilf admitted it was difficult to explain why lie signed, as lie did not approve of the number. Mr. Havelock Wilson also signed, though ha did not, approve of the report.