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Washington Times	BOOKS: 'TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN' According to reviewer Martin Rubin "The evidence Williams has marshaled in defense of Captain Lord is compelling, and so he has succeeded in his primary mission. But he has also provided an excellent and succinct tour d'horizon of the Titanic catastrophe in all its aspects, and so this book is doubly worthy of attention."...	20th February 2010
Washington Times	HAROLD COTTAM	26th April 1912
Washington Times	TWO WITNESSES IN TITANIC HEARING BEFORE COMMITTEE AT CAPITOL	25th April 1912
Washington Times	FREDERICK FLEET / MAJOR ARTHUR PEUCHEN	24th April 1912
Washington Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY	24th April 1912
Washington Times	HERBERT J. PITMAN Third Officer of the Titanic who Testified Before Senate Investigating Committee Today...	23rd April 1912
Washington Times	J. B. BOXHALL, FOURTH OFFICER OF TITANIC	23rd April 1912
Washington Times	MISS MARY GLYNN	23rd April 1912
Washington Times	DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	LIVED NOT IN VAIN, SAYS BUTT'S FRIEND American People Can Learn Lesson From Major’s Life, Is Captain’s Opinion --- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22---Major Archibald Butt did not give his life in vain in the Titanic disaster, if the American people will take the lesson of his l...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	SMITH VOUCHED FOR BRAVERY OF CREW Told Shipbuilder His Men Would Die Like Those on Birkenhead --- LONDON, April 22---Manager Director Kemster, of the shipbuilding firm which constructed the Titanic, while speaking to a meeting at Belfast today, said that just before the...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	SURVIVOR TELLS OF THE HEROISM OF CLARENCE MOORE Robert W. Daniels Says Banker Went to His Death Like a Man --- Stories of the heroism and resignation with which Clarence Moore, the well-known local banker and horseman of international repute, went to his death on the deck of the Tita...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	TAFT DENIES BUTT WENT ON MISSION TO THANK PONTIFF President Sends Letter to Tennessean Explaining Trip of Military Aide --- President Taft today denied Major Archibald Butt was returning from a mission to Rome when he went to his death on the luckless Tiatnic. ...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR IS EXPECTED HERE Wife of Former Washington Man Will Visit Relatives In Washington --- Mrs. William Beard Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., one of the survivors of the Titanic, comes to Washington tomorrow night and will, for several days, be the guest of her mo...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	WIRELESS OPERATOR H. T. COTTAM	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER'S HERO Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning --- Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to t...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	COL. ARCHIBALD GRACIE	19th April 1912
Washington Times	DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	FAMILIAR PHOTOGRAPHS OF MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT	19th April 1912
Washington Times	FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	LIKE AWFUL DREAM, DECLARES WOMAN Mrs. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, Tells of Her Experience In Wreck --- NEW YORK, April 19---Among the survivors were Mrs. J. R. Cardeza, her son Thomas, and maid, Annie Ward, all of Philadelphia. "We crashed into the iceberg...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK MISS CAROLINE BONNELL Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care To the Rescued---Four Buried At Sea --- BY MISS CAROLINE BONNELL (Copyrighted, ...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	PHILADELPHIAN RESCUED BY PARTY IN LIFEBOAT NEW YORK, April 19---Richard Williams, of Philadelphia, remained on the Titanic until she sank. He was standing at the extreme stern when the final plunge came. "After we hit the water the Titanic rebounded," he said, "and I was hurled...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	SOCIETY IS SHOCKED AT NEWS OF DEATH Washington society was shocked when news that the name of James C. Smith, of Chicago, was not included in the list of those saved from death when the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Mr. Smith was well known in Washington, where...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	TAFT FEELS LOSS OF AIDE AS IF HE HAD BEEN BROTHER President, In Statement, Praises Fidelity of Late Military Aide --- President Taft today issued another statement relative to the fate of Major Butt, in which he dwelt particularly on his incapability to indulge in “intrigue or insincer...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	WASHINGTON MAN TELLS HARROWING DETAILS OF WRECK Col. Gracie Describes Scenes on Titanic After the Accident --- Last of the survivors to leave the sinking Titanic, Col. Archibald Gracie, of Washington, tells a story of horrible hardship in the icy waters after he was swept, clinging t...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	CAPITAL RESIDENTS IN NEW YORK FOR CARPATHIA'S COMING Anxious for News From Friends Aboard the Titanic --- With barely one thread of hope that three of the Washingtonians who sailed from Southampton on the ill-fated Titanic a week ago yesterday are still alive, a party of Washingtonians to...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	COL. GRACIE TO BE MET IN NEW YORK BY HIS DAUGHTER Rescued Man Was Returning From Trip to Europe Taken In Search of Health --- Col. Archibald Gracie, whose rescue from the Titanic is indicated by all the lists of passengers saved, made the trip abroad on account of poor health, it is st...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MAJOR BUTT'S MEMORY HONORED BY MASONS The memory of Major Arcxhibald Butt, believed to be among those who went down with the Titanic, was honored last night at a meeting of Robert de Bruce Council, Kinights of Kadosh, No. 1 of Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite Masons. Cap...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MISS EDITH GRACIE	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. MOORE AWAITS WORD OF HUSBAND W. B. Hibbs, Who Went To New York, Not Yet Heard From --- No word from W. B. Hibbs was received at the residence of Clarence Moore this morning. Mr. Hibbs went to New York yesterday to obtain all possible information about Mr. Moore, w...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. GEORGE D. WIDENER	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. HENRY B. HARRIS SAVED FROM WRECK Little Hope Is Entertained For Recovery of Theatrical Promoter --- Two telegrams were received in Washington last night confirming previous reports that Mrs. Henry B. Harris, who was Miss Rene Wallack, [sic] was saved from the wreck of ...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. J. B. THAYER	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR	18th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. R. L. BECKWITH	18th April 1912
Washington Times	NOTHING YET HEARD FROM MRS. CANDEE Daughter Willl Meet Her On Her Arrival On the Carpathia --- Friends of Mrs. Helen C. Candee, who lived at 1718 Rhode Island avenue until her departure for Europe, nearly a year ago, and who is reported saved from the Titanic, had heard ...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	WOMAN FAINTS WHEN TOLD BUTT IS AMONG MISSING NEW YORK, April 18---A woman claiming to be the second cousin of Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft, from Plymouth, Mass., called at the White Star line office this morning to inquire whether anything had been heard of her missing ...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	ACTOR IS WORRIED OVER FATE OF MAN ON UNFORTUNATE SHIP "Rene is safe; am uncertain about Harry; will wire you definite information as soon as received." This is the only comforting word received by Frank McIntyre, now appearing at the National Theater in “Snobs” and his company, which is a...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	HEARTFELT SYMPATHY OF FRIENDS HERE GOES TO MRS. L. P. SMITH Of the many soul-wringing sad pathetic partings that took place as the Titanic, with its precious burden, awaited the inrush of the waters that were to lower it to a grave two miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic, that between Mrs. Lucien P. Smi...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	MISS GRACIE GOES TO NEW YORK TO GET INFORMATION Worn to a point of desperation by the suspense she has undergone since receiving news that her father, Col. Archibald Gracie, was among those saved from the sea tragedy, Miss Edith Gracie, of 1527 Sixteenth street northwest, gave way to her anxiety t...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	MOORE'S PARTNERS GIVE UP HOPE OF HEARING FROM HIM H. W. Hibbs, of Hibbs & Co., the brokerage firm with which Clarence Moore was connected, definitely gave up hope this morning that his partner had been saved from the Titanic. Moore’s friends are said to have generally come to the same conclusion....	17th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS HENRY B. HARRIS, FORMERLY MISS IRENE WALLACH, OF WASHINGTON	17th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. LUCIEN P. SMITH, DAUGHTER OF CONGRESSMAN JAMES A. HUGHES	17th April 1912
Washington Times	SENATOR GUGGENHEIM GOES TO NEW YORK TO MEET CARPATHIA Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, all but despairing of getting any news from his brother Benjamin, who is believed lost with the Titanic, departed for New York this morning to await the arrival of the Carpathia. He has only the faintest hope tha...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC MAIL CLERK'S WIFE ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR NEWS ABOUT HIM Mrs. Lelia Woody, wife of O. S. Woody, United States mail clerk aboard the Titanic, is in Clifton, Va., today, anxiously awaiting news of the disaster, and hoping against hope he did not go down with the wrecked steamer. Woody is well ...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	TITANIC'S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	W. B. SILVEY'S DAUGHTER TRIES TO ENCOURAGE HER GRIEVING GRANDMOTHER "Daddy may be safe aboard some ship." This little ray of hope, coming in a letter from Miss Melville Silvey, the seventeen-year-old daughter of William B. Silvey, who is believed lost in the Titanic disaster, was extended today to Mrs. William Beard...	17th April 1912
Washington Times	ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	CONGRESSMAN HUGHES' DAUGHTER WAS AMONG THOSE ON THE VESSEL UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 16---James Smith, of Uniontown, Pa., and Morgantown, W. Va., today is on his way to New York following word that his brother, Lucien Smith, and the latter’s bride of two months, perished in the wreck of the Titanic. ...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	HENRY B. HARRIS, MAJ. ARCHIBALD BUTT, WILLIAM B. SILVEY	16th April 1912
Washington Times	LIST OF WASHINGTONIANS ON FATED STEAMER GROWS As the list of passengers sailing from Southampton on the Titanic last Wednesday is made more complete, the list of Washingtonians known to have been on board grows larger. The list now contains the names of five Washingtonians who make this city the...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. DESHLER HEARS HER SISTER-IN-LAW IS SAFE; NO WORD FROM BROTHER "God grant that my brother, too, is safe," said Mrs. Frances Silvey Deshler of the Wilmington apartments Wyoming avenue northwest, when told today by a Times' reporter that her sister-in-law, Mrs. William B. Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., was among the pa...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. LUCILLE CARTER AND HER FAMILY ARE SAVED FROM DEEP SEA Mrs. Stilson Hutchins, of this city, has received word that her cousin, Mrs. Lucille Carter, of Philadelphia, has been rescued. Mr. Carter and their two children also are among the saved. "I have just received a long distance phone fro...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP "The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	PRESIDENT'S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	COL. ARCHIBALD GRACIE	15th April 1912
Washington Times	MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT	15th April 1912
Washington Times	MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR	15th April 1912
Washington Times	FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic...	16th March 1912