The Evening Star du lundi 15 avril 1912

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PASSENGERS OF TITANIC IN CRASH WITH ICEBERG SAFE ON OTHER VESSELS World's Greatest Liner, Badly Damaged, Now in Tow of the Virginian. --------------------- FIVE STEAMSHIPS ANSWER S. 0. S. CALL FOR ASSISTANCE --------------------- Many Notable Persons, Including Washingtonians, Among the 2,200 Aboard at Time of Accident. --------------------- Wireless dispatches up to 2 o'clock this afternoon showed that the passengers of the monster White Star liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast last night, were being transferred aboard the steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder which left New York April 13 for Naples. Already twenty boatloads of the Titanic's passengers have been transferred aboard the Carpathia, and, allowing forty to sixty people as the capacity of each lifeboat, some 800 to 1,200 people already have been transferred from the damaged liner. PARISIAN ALSO ASSISTING. Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan Company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, already is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and the Olympic are near at hand. The wireless information concerning the transfer comes from Capt. Haddock of the Olympic. The latest reports indicate that the transference of passengers is being carried on successfully and safely. The sea is smooth and the weather calm. It is probable that all of the passengers of the Titanic are safe. MAKING WAY TO HALIFAX. While badly damaged, the Titanic still is afloat and is reported in tow of the Virginian. She will go to Halifax. The accident occurred at 10:25 o'clock last night at a point about 400 miles south of Cape Race, N. F., and about 1.100 miles east of New York. Among the passengers aboard were Col. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Maj. Archibald Butt, military aid to President Taft : F. D. Millet, the artist; Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, J. G. Widener of Philadelphia, President Hays of the Grand Trunk railway, J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star line; W. T. Stead, Col. Archibald Gracie, and others. The liner carried 1.400 passengers and a crew of 800. ---------------------- In Tow of Virginian. MONTREAL, April 15.--The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: "All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by the Virginian." The officials of the Allan line said later tat they were without information, and did not expect to hear from the Virginian until she got near Halifax. They added that now her wireless apparatus is out of touch with land. Will Land at Halifax. NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 15.--The operating officers of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company have been notified that the passengers of the Titanic will be landed at Halifax. There will be about 600 passengers reqiring transportation to New York by sleeping cars and some 800 by ordinary coaches. Safety Is Confirmed. NEW YORK, April 15.—Vice President P. A. S. Franklin of the international mercantile marine, the highest official of the White Star line, gave out at 1 o'clock this afternoon the following message, which he had received from the Boston office of the company. "The Allan line, Montreal, confirms the report that the Virginian, Parsian and Carpathia are in attendance, standing by the Titanic." While this message adds nothing new to the situation. Mr. Franklin gave it out to refute an unconfirmed report that the Titanic had sunk. "I do not believe that is possible." he said. Although the Titanic's accident occurred at 10:25 o'clock last night, New York did not hear of it for some time afterward. Two hours after the crash the ship's wireless apparatus, which had been working so badly as to permit of only intermittent and fragmentary messages. failed completely. The last words sent by the operator told that the vessel was apparently doomed. "sinking by the head." and that the woman passengers were being rushed into the lifeboats. A reassuring feature was that the weather was calm and clear and help only a few hours away. The Titanic's first S. 0. S. message was received by the Allan liner Virginian, which, according to the position given by the Titanic's operator, was not more than 170 miles away. The captain of the Virginian at once started his boat at full steam for the scene of the disaster, announcing to his brother officer on the bridge of the Titanic that the Virginian should reach him by 10 o'clock this morning. Point of Accident. The Titanic's accident was in latitude 41.46 north, longitude 50.14 west. This point is about 1.150 miles due east of New York city and 400 miles south of Cape Pace, Newfoundland, wireless station. All the messages from the ship were relayed to the Cape Race wireless station by the Virginian and forwarded by the Marconi Company to New York city. The Titanic's twin ship, Olympic, which left New York last week, was also in direct communication with the sinking boat from a point about 300 miles away and started at once for the scene. The Titanic, witch, on her mablen trip, is in charge of Capt. Smith who was on the bridge of the big Olympic when that boat collided with the British cruiser Hawke last September. The Titanic carried over 1,400 passengers. 318 in the first cabin and 262 in the second cabin. Steamship men here today characterized the disaster as "the most startling news which has come in from the sea since the advent of wireless telegraphy." First News of Accident. The first heard of the accident was about 1 o'clock this morning when butletin from Montreal stated that the Allan line offices there had received a wireless from Capt. Gambell of their steamer Virginian, stating that the Titanic was calling for assistance after a collision with an iceberg. The Virginian's captain added that he was heading his boat for the Titanic, whose position was said to be about 350 miles south of Cape Race. N. F. Immediate inquiry by the Associated Press in an urgent dispatch to the Marconi station at Cape Race was answered soon afterward in the following words: "At 10:25" o'clock last night the steamship Titanic called 'S. 0. S.' and reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required. Half an hour afterward another message came reporting that they were sinking by the head, and that women were being put off in the lifeboats. The weather was calm and clear, the Titanic's wireless operator reported, and he gave the position of the vessel as 41.46 north latitude and 50.14 west longitude. "The Olympic at midnight was in latitude 40.32 north and longitude 61.18 west. She was in direct communication with the Titanic. The last signals from the Titanic were heard by the Virginia at 12:27 a.m. The wireless operator on the Virginian says these signals were blurred and ended abruptly." Great Alarm Caused. Nothing could have caused much greater alarm than this meager report did in New York this morning. The newspaper offices were besieged early today by inquiry from hundreds of persons shocked by the fragmentary newspaper dispatches seen at the breakfast tables, but in the early morning hours there was nothing vital to add to the alarthing reports from Cape Race. Something further was expected every moment, but there was nothing at hand to relieve the anxiety shown in every quarter. Vice President P. A. S. Franklin of the international Mercantile Marine, the highest official of the White Star line here, was one of the first to be notified of the reported disaster, but it was only through the Associated Press that he learned of it, and for hours thereafter he could only express his astonishment that so large and thoroughly protected ship as the Titanic could be in danger at sea. Official Is Astonished. Upon hearing the first reports he spoke reassuringly, declaring that only eight or ten hours before the White Star offices had received a wireless giving the liner's position. He was sure that if it had met with any accident he would have heard from her promptly. "We are absolutely satisfied that even if she was in collision with an iceberg she is in no danger." he said. "With her numerous watertight compartments, she is absolutely unsinkable, and it makes (Continued on Second Page.)

GIANT STEAMSHIP TITANIC, WHERE SHE HIT ICEBERG, AND TYPICAL BERG NEAR NEWFOUNDLAND COAST --------------------- PASSENGERS OF TITANIC IN CRASH WITH ICEBERG: SAFE ON OTHER VESSELS --------------------- Continued from First Page --------------------- no difference what she hit. The report should not cause any serious anxiety." Good Chance of Rescue. There was an excellent reason for belief in the earlier hours that, even though the Titanic was in dire straits, there was a fair chance that no lives would be lost. The Cape Race dispatch reported the weather as calm and clear, and in a reasonably quiet sea there is little danger in transfer of the passengers to the lifeboats, in which they might await with reasonable tranquility the arrival of the Virginian this morning. It was difficult for even mariners to interpret the situation from the Marconi dispatches. They could not understand why it should be necessary to take off any passengers if the liner was sinking slightly at the bow, unless her captain felt that the water-tight compartments would give way. Many Icebergs in Ocean. The presence of an unusually large number of icebergs in the past of transatlantic liners was indicated by wireless last week. Twelve hours before the news of the Titanic's accident reached the world the serious menace of the icebergs was pointed out by the arrival here of the Cunard line steamer Carmania, which reported having dodged twenty-five big bergs, some of them more than 250 feet high. The Carmania reported that the French steamship Niagara had had a worse experience, having bumped into two small bergs which punched holes in her hull. The Niagara had this experience on Thursday, and unless she has greatly reduced speed she should reach port some time today. The Titanic undoubtedly ran into this same icebank. P. A. S. Franklin, vice president of the White Star line, sent the following wireless message to Capt. E. S. Smith, the Titanic's commander, this morning: "Anxiously awaiting information; full particulars; probable disposition of passengers." Has Confidence in Vessel. At 9 o'clock this morning Mr. Franklin gave out the following statement: "We place absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe the boat is absolutely unsinkable. and although she may have sunk at the head or bow we know that the boat would remain on the water. We Jo not attach any significance to the fact that there are no .Marconi messages being received from the boat. We think it denotes nothingbut the fact that the boat is in communication with other steamers, for she may have gotten off all the messages she wanted to send. We are not at all worried about tile loss of the ship, but we are extremely sorry for the annoyance and inconvenience to our passengers and the traveling public. "You can make our views as forceful as you like regarding the capabilities of the ship to withstand any exterior damage. We figure the Virginian of the Allan line will he along side the Titanic by 10 o'clock. and we figure the Olympic of the White Star line will be with the Titanic at 3 p.m., and the Baltic an hour later." Mr. Franklin said he had received a brief wireless dispatch from the Olympic saying she had talked by wireless with the Titanic at 4:24 o'clock this morning. The message gave no further informa-tion, Mr. Franklin said. An hour later Mr. Franklin authorized the following statement: "No alarm for Titanic's passengers." The officers of the Titanic are as fol-lows: Captain, E. J. Smith, commander; surgeon, W. F. N. O'Loughlin; assistant surgeon, J. E. Simpson; purser, H. W. McElroy: second purser. W. L. Brocker; chief steward, A. Latimer. --------------------- LARGEST SHIP BUILT --------------------- Titanic 882 1-2 Feet Long and Carries 45,000 Tons. --------------------- COST ABOUT $10,000,000 --------------------- Accommodates 2,500 Passengers and Has Crew of 890. --------------------- DWARFS EVEN DREADNOUGHTS --------------------- Liner Is More Than Twice the Size of the New Delaware. Has Eleven Steel Decks. --------------------- The Titanic is the largest vessel ever built, this statement including warships and vessels of every description. Built in the shipyards of Harland & Wolf, Belfast, Ireland, where all the White Star line steamers have been constructed, the Titanic is 882 feet 6 inches over

all, or about 331 feet longer than the height of the Washington Monument. Taking the average city block as 300 feet in length, the Titanic would extend over about three blocks. The estimated cost of building the ship was $10,000,000, and this is probably considerably within the actual cost of the vessel fully fitted up and equipped. The registered tonnage of the Titanic is 45,000, and the ship's displacement is 66,000 tons, which means that it displaces that many tons of water when afloat. The vessel accommodates 2.500 passengers and carries a crew of 800 officers and men. In its construction more than three million rivets were used, their aggregate weight being 1,200 tons. Has Eleven Steel Decks. The Titanic is 94 feet wide over the boat deck and 175 feet high from the tops of the funnels to the keel. It has eleven steel decks, and the body of the ship is divided by fifteen water-tight bulkheads. It carries 2,200 sidelights. Each of its anchors weighs fifteen and a half tons and the chain anchor cables are made up of links weighing 175 pounds each. The wing propellers weigh thirty-eight tons each, while the center propeller weighs twenty-two tons. The rudder weighs 100 tons. The vessel has sports decks, wide and extensive promenade decks, squash and racquet court, Turkish and electric bath parlors, salt water swimming pools, glass inclosed sun parlors, a la carte restaurants and veranda cafes, besides the grand dining saloons. Both the first and second class cabins are reached by electric elevators. Engines of Latest Design. The driving power for the monster steamship is furnished by combination turbine and reciprocating engines of the latest type and highest efficiency. The engine rooms also contain the engines that furnish power for generating the electricity for lighting the ship, operating the elevators and supplying the current for the wireless apparatus. Ice-making machinery is also included in the equipment of the Titanic, which has a complete cold storage plant. A somewhat rare feature of the ship's equipment is a completely equipped hospital and operating ward, in charge of a corps of surgeons and nurses, where even the most delicate surgical operations may be performed as safely as if the patient were in a hospital ashore. Few vessels, even of the largest type, it iS said, have added this feature to their equipment. Like all the White Star line steamers, the Titanic is a four-funnel vessel. Her average speed is rated at twenty-one knots per hour, and this can be exceeded under forced draft if necessary. Dwarfs Even Dreadnoughts. Compared with other vessels afloat he Titanic's mammoth proportions become apparent. She is more than twice the size of the dreadnought Delaware, and her tonnage is more than 6.000 tons in excess of that of the largest battleships. The vessel left the ways at the Belfast yards last May, and her maiden trip has been heralded throughout the world. In the ship's construction the greatest care was exercised, and the Titanic was supposed to be the final word in shipbuilding as regards stanchness, safety, carrying capacity and sustained speed. ----------------- VALUE OF "S. 0. S." ----------------- Futile Unless Ship's Position Is Communicated. ----------------- LOCATION ALWAYS KNOWN ----------------- Exact Whereabouts of Vessel Constantly a Matter of Record. ----------------- SUN AND STARS ARE GUIDE ----------------- Observations With Delicate Instruments Taken Every Day at Noon by Liner's Officers. ----------------- "How did the Titanic know at night its exact position on the trackless and trailless ocean?" That question is asked by many persons today, as it is every time a wireless message comes out of the air from a vessel calling for help. The "S. 0. S." gives the signal that tells of lives endangered; but how futile would be that call if there was not attached to its statement of the exact spot on the unmarked waters of the boundless sea where the help is needed. A ship, however, especially one of the great ocean liners that carries a population sufficient to make a small village, keeps track of its exact position practically every minute and knows, within a short distance, exactly where it is at all times. By specially constructed instruments known to every navigator and scientist reckonings are taken every day a noon by the sun if that is possible. That enables the captain on the bridge to fix the exact latitude and longitude of the boat at that time. The ship's log is always registering, and the direction of the steamer since the last reckoning is known from the compass. On a chart in the pilothouse, lined so that minutes of latitude and longitude are accurately shown, the progress of the boat, determined by the log and the compass, is marked practically continually, beginning when the last sun reckoning was taken.

Use Sun as Guide. Chart Tells Ship's Position. So when an accident happens, the captain has only to glance at his chart and he knows exactly where the ship is. This record is, of course, checked up by reckonings on stars, in case there is no fog and no clouds. Every one who has crossed the oceans is familiar with the big chart that hangs in one of the saloons, upon which is indicated every day at noon the exact position of the steamer and the number of miles it has gone since the noon of the day before. The chart, however, is only a toy as compared with the chart which hangs in the pilot house, and upon which is shown, not the ship's position every twenty-four hours, but the ship's position practically every minute. FOUR RESIDE IN CITY ---------------- Capital Men Aboard Titanic Are All Prominent. ---------------- MAJ. BUTT HAD BEEN ILL ---------------- Taft's Military Aid Returning From Trip for His Health. ---------------- F. D. MILLET IS NOTED ARTIST ---------------- Col. Archibald Gracie and Clarence Moore Both Well Known Society and Club Men. ---------------- The four Washingtonians aboard the Titanic are as well known in this city as any of its residents. Maj. Archibald Butt, military aid to President Taft; Clarence Moore, Frank Millet, artist, and Col. Archibald Gracie are the four Washington men who sailed on the Titanic Wednesday. Maj Butt, military aid to President Taft and to President Roosevelt in the previous administration, went abroad six weeks ago for a rest. The constant attention to duty at the White House made it imperative that he should have a change of scene. While in Europe Maj. Butt visited several European capitals, and in every city he was treated with more than usual honor and distinction, on account of his close personal relations with the President of the United States. He was given a cordial reception at Berlin, and at Rome he presented personally a note from the President to the Pope. Formerly Newspaper Man. Maj. Butt is one of the most popular men in the city of Washington. He was a newspaper correspondent before entering the army at the outbreak of the Spanish war, and since serving the United States he has had a signally distinguished career. He saw three and a half years of service in the Philippines, was depot quartermaster in this city, later held the same position in Havana with the Army of the Pacification. He is a short story writer and has written a treatise on finances. Frank D. Millet is one of the President's fine arts commission, and renowned the world over as an artist. Probably his greatest work has been done in the painting of splendid pictures of ships, and a frieze in the Baltimore customs house showing the advance of shipping from the days of the galley to the modern ocean liner, such as he was on last night when it rammed an iceberg, is said to be the finest and most accurate work of its kind anywhere. Was Soldier of Fortune. Mr. Millet's Washington studio is at 1356 Wisconsin avenue northwest. He has been a soldier of fortune and a world citizen and a war correspondent in the days when that position meant more adventure than it does today. He was a contract surgeon in the war between the states, and then, after hostilities ceased, he took up the peaceful palette and brush, and within a few years he had made enough of a name to be connected with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Antwerp. Since that time he has been a leading spirit in great movements for the betterment of art, and the beautification of cities all over the world. It is a significant fact, however, that whenever the war cloud hovered Frank Millet was sure to be somewhere in the neighborhood, and he dropped his paint brush for the field glass and pencil of a war correspondent in the Russo-Turkish war in 1877. He was at Manila for the London Times when Dewey sailed into the harbor. The list of decorations conferred upon him in every country is a long one. In addition to being an artist of foremost rank, he is a story writer. Prominent in Society. Col. Archibald Gracie of 1527 16th street has been in Europe only a short time, and was traveling for recreation. Col. Gracie has been a resident of Washington for several years and is prominent in society. His wife and daughter, Miss Edith Gracie, are very active socially. Clarence Moore is a Washingtonian, especially interested in horses. His stables contain some of the finest animals in the city. He is well known as a club man, and belongs to the most exclusive organizations in this city and elsewhere. He has been abroad only a few weeks.

------------------ "SEA KELPIE" ACTIVE ------------------ Has Pursued Capt. Smith of Titanic With Bad Luck. ------------------ SEEMS VICTIM OF HOODOO ------------------ Capt. E. J. Smith, in command of the Titanic, is a victim of one of those strange fatalities of the sea which make the superstitious seaman shun an ill-fated ship or a captain, and which furnishes food for thought for even the most frivolous passenger on the promenade deck. When the plates of the maritime giant Titanic were ripped apart, and as the big ship groaned and shuddered when it tried conclusions with a floating island of ice to-day, the "sea kelpie" which has been spreading bad luck in Capt. Smith's ocean path for six months counted five accidents to the captain since September last. Capt. Smith is about as well known a figure in the lanes of ocean travel as any man who ever stayed on a bridge all night during a heavy Newfoundland fog. As a navigator he stands high up in the estimation of the traveling public and the officials of the White Star line. "Sea Kelpie" Gets Busy Appreciation of his merit is seen in the fact that Capt. Smith commanded the great Olympic, the White Star liner which had its day as the largest ship afloat, and was transferred from that ship to the present ill-omened Titanic. The "sea kelpie" began to spread bad sea luck for Capt. Smith last September. On the twentieth of that month the protected cruiser Hawke, one of the swift ships of King George's navy, was moving along in the waters off the north coast of the isle of Wight. There was plenty of room for both ships, but, strange to say, they crashed together. The sharp ram of the cruiser ripped the Olympic and came near to sinking her. Capt. Smith managed to get his ship to a port, and the White Star line officials argued in the British admiralty court that the naval officers were to blame. The court saw the thing differently and blamed the Olympic. The damage to the ship was more than a hundred thousand dollars. Strikes Floating Derelict. That would be enough bad luck for most sea captains, but Capt. Smith had more to follow. The big ship patched up her sides and made even better the interior luxuries which had been injured by the Hawke, and made several passages of the sea with thousands of happy, care-free people, who little suspected the luck which was puraling the brown-faced man who spent so much of his time squinting into the night from the bridge. Then, February 2, the "sea kelpie" got hungry again. The voyage east from New York had been uneventful, from an adventurous standpoint, but there hapened to be a sunken wreck in the ocean in the neighborhood of the Olympic. With all the room in the world in which to maneuver, this sunken wreck had to choose to be exactly in the path followed by Capt. E. J. Smith. Propeller Is Smashed. The Olympic's prow turned the wreck over and it rolled under the great ship's keel, tumbling heavily in its waterlogged fashion, and then, coming up under the stern, smashed a propeller. The wireless operator sent out a hurried bulletin, which told the world that the Olympic, on her way to Southampton, had to turn into Belfast, Ireland, for repairs. The Olympic was put into drydock and the damage of the sunken wreck repaired. Meantime the Titanic was about to make her maiden trip and Capt. Smith was feeling the elation of a man who has charge of the biggest thing of its kind in the world. The "sea kelpie" was hungry for bad luck again, and when the Olympic was let down into the water again In Belfast harbor, and started to nose her way out into the Atlantic, she banged against the bottom rocks on the shores of West Twin Island. She had to go straight back into dry dock, for her plates were badly broken underneath. Nearly Causes Jam. That was the last recorded accident to Capt. Smith as long as he commanded the Olympic. Last Wednesday, with him in command, the Titanic started on its first voyage from Southampton. As she pulled out of her berth, the suction of her three great propellers pulled the steamer New York, lying near at hand, from its moorings and the steamer Oceanic, also at hand, nearly was Jammed. The Titanic had to stop until the New York was towed to a place of safety. Old seamen who believe in signs and ghosts and other superstitions of the sea said that was a terrifically bad start for a new ship, and a lot of them felt in their bones that the voyage was Ill-fated. Perhaps they knew what they, were talking about, for early this morning Capt. Smith's "sea kelpie" put an iceberg in his way.

------------------- NIAGARA ICE VICTIM ------------------- French Liner Also Damaged by Floes at Sea. ------------------- REFUSES CARMANIA'S AID ------------------- Latter Reports Learning by Wireless of Ship's Predicament. ------------------- NEW YORK. April 15.--Pushing into the fog at this port yesterday morning, having passed through a sea of ice, the Cunarder Carmania delivered a wireless message from the French line steamship Niagara that two holes had been punched in the latter ship"s hull by ice. The holes are below the water line, it is understood, but Capt. Juham has the situation under control, and the Niagara is making her way unaided. The French liner left Havre April 4 for New York with about 100 second-class and 800 to 900 steerage passengers. Capt. Dow of the Carmania put about in response to the wireless call for help from the Niagara, but received a second wireless from Capt. Juham informing him that the Niagara could take care of herself. Being a mail ship, the Cunarder resumed her course for New York. Urged to Bay Nothing. Capt. Dow would not discuss the state of the Niagara yesterday. It was understood Capt. Juham had begged him by wireless not to say anything in New York to worry the friends of Niagara passengers. At 7:40 am. Saturday the Niagara was reported by wireless as 760 miles east of Sandy Hook, with the prophecy that she would be at her pier at West 15th street at about 8 o'clock this morning. The Carmania's experience in an ice field was one that seldom comes to even the oldest seafarers in the cross-Atlantic lanes. Thursday the passengers on deck found themselves in amazing surroundings. To the horizon on the north, for leagues to the southward and far ahead to the west, stretched fields of crystal. The cakes, every one larger than a lifeboat, ground and rasped against one another. A great swell smote the liner's sides. Niagara Formerly the Corse. While fearsome persons still were staring at this spectacle came the wireless message from the Niagara, leagues astern, saying that she had been injured in the ice. The Niagara is a twin screw steamship of 8,590 tons gross, built in 1908. She was formerly the Corse. The advance guard of the ice field was a cluster of bergs far to the north. The main body of the field ice appeared from the same direction in the forenoon. it was a ragged surface with no wide crevices perceptible between the huge cakes and he chunks, which undulated upon the swells in a mad tumult of clanking and grating. Capt. Dow made out a berg to the northward which he guessed was in the 40,000,000-ton class, he said yesterday. Remarkable Picture Snapped. As the Carmania was dodging her way along a picture of the biggest iceberg was snapped. The sun shone brilliantly. Passengers said they never had beheld anything so beautiful. Almost simultaneously with the distress call from the Niagara Capt. Dow decided to work his way out of the ice a-rear. He did it only by steering to the northeast and going back upon his course. An hour aftertward he was able to reshape his course for New York. At 3:10 p.m. that day the weather cleared and full speed ahead was ordered. Within three hours the Carmania had passed twenty-five icebergs. At 4 p.m. she was in dense fog again. She stopped and then proceeded, passing bergs and field ice. In the smoothness with which the cakes rose and fell gently they seemed to be resting upon a sea of oil. Delayed by a Fog. At 4:23 p.m. the weather cleared again, and once more the bridge telegraph recorded "Full speed ahead." But the ship was still "surrounded by a large quantity of bergs," as the log put it. Early yesterday the Carmania ran into an off-shore fog, and it was not until early afternoon she reached her pier. The German tank Excelsior, which arrived here yesterday from Hamburg, ran into a field of ice fifteen miles long and passed the bark Eugene Pergeline, stuck in the ice April 10, when 1,000 miles east of Sandy Hook. The Leyland liner Armenian, arriving from Liverpool in Boston yesterday, steamed through seventy miles of ice April 7. ------------------- RAN INTO ICE FLOES. ------------------- Empress of Britain Encountered Field Hundred Miles in Extent. LIVERPOOL, England, April 15.--The Canadian Pacific steamship company's liner Empress of Britain, which left St. John, N. B., April 5, arrived here today and reported having encountered an ice field od a hundred miles in extent when three days out from Halifax.