Oxford Street, children hold memorial exercises for Rossmore. Abbott, drowned in big disaster. – mother tells how her boys died.
Pupils of the Oxford street Grammar School, assembled in the school hall this afternoon and participated in impressive memorial exercises for 16-year-old, Rossmore Abbott, a graduate of the school, who, with his 10 year old brother, Eugene Abbott, was a victim of the Titanic disaster a week ago, while their mother was saved.
The exercises were conducted by Martin S. Fanning, principal, and a touching feature of the memorial, was the singing of "Nearer, my God, to the," by the pupils, who stood with their heads, bowed in solemn memory of young Abbott, who was well known too many of them.
The Lord's prayer was read, and Mr Fanning spoke in eulogy of the lad, who is remembered by the teachers of the school, as an earnest student, of lovable qualities, and one who won distinction by his excellent scholarship, and by his winning of the Anthony medal at the school on his graduation day, Jan. 28, 1910.
Young Rossmore, with his mother, and his younger brother, sailed for England, last August, in the steamer Olympic, the sister ship of the ill-fated Titanic. He ever remembered his teachers and school days at the Oxford street institution, and in November, wrote to one of his former teachers, a "chatty" letter, stating that he was working in the littlest town in England. For answer the teacher sent him an Easter card as a reminder that his bright and cheerful personality will still in the minds of those who had taken pride in him as a pupil and as a lad.
Mother recovers.
Mrs Rosa, Abbott, wife of Stanton, Abbott, of this City, who was picked up by the Carpathia crew, after she had clung to a life, laughed for five hours, following the sinking of the Titanic, and her two boys, has so far recovered since being taken to a New York hospital that she is now able to tell the story of her rescue and the loss of her two sons.
When the Carpathia reached New York, she was immediately taken to a hospital where it was reported yesterday afternoon that she was resting comfortably.
According to her statement to the hospital officials, Mrs Abbott sank with the Titanic, because she would not leave the boat, preferring to remain and face death, rather than leave her sons. She went down with the steamship, her sons classed in her arms, but they were torn apart by the swirling, Waters, and Mrs Abbott came to the surface alone.
The whirlpool caused by the plunge of the liner into the ocean, caught her, and she went under a second time, but the second explosion on board, the doomed ship forced her to the surface, where she was fortunate in encountering a life raft, and to which she clung for five hours before the rescue ship picked her up.
Upon arrival at the hospital in New York, it was found that both her legs were frozen, the physicians at the hospital stating that her limbs looked as if they had been badly burned.
She is being treated in a private room at the hospital and is having the very best of care, her case being considered the most severe on the entire list of the rescued. While it will be a week or 10 days before she will be in condition to leave the hospital, it was reported last night that she was on the road to recovery.
Mrs Abbott, with her sons, had been visiting her mother at St Albans, Hurst, England. A short time ago, she decided to return to her home here and they embarked on the Titanic.
For several years, Mr and Mrs Abbott lived in East Providence. Stanton Abbott is a well-known instructor in athletics and boxing, and until recently had his office on custom Howse Street, this city. He is now located at 339 Washington Street. He could not be found last night, and it was the general belief that he had gone to New York.
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