ould have been
all-sufficient to send the Frankfurt to the immediate rescue.

ALL APPEALS RECEIVED

Under questioning by Senator Smith, Bride said that undoubtedly the
Frankfurt received all of the urgent appeals for help sent subsequently
to the Carpathia.

INVESTIGATION CARRIED TO WASHINGTON

The first witness when the investigation was resumed in Washington on
April 22d was P. A. S. Franklin, vice-president of the International
Mercantile Marine Company.

Franklin testified that he had had no communication with Captain Smith
during the Titanic's voyage, nor with Ismay, except one cable from
Southampton.

Senator Smith then showed Mr. Franklin the telegram received by
Congressman Hughes, of West Virginia, from the White Star Line, dated
New York, April 15th, and addressed to J. A. Hughes, Huntington, W. Va.,
as follows:

"Titanic proceeding to Halifax. Passengers probably land on Wednesday.
All safe.

(Signed) "THE WHITE STAR LINE. "

TELEGRAM A MYSTERY

"I ask you," continued the senator, "whether you know about the sending
of that telegram, by whom it was authorized and from whom it was sent?"

"I do not, sir," said Franklin. "Since it was mentioned at the Waldorf
Saturday we have had the entire passenger staff examined and we cannot
find out."

Asked when he first knew that the Titanic had sunk, Franklin said he
first knew it about 6.27 P.M., Monday.

Mr. Franklin then produced a thick package of telegrams which he had
received in relation to the disaster.

"About twenty minutes of two on Monday morning," said he, "I was
awakened by a telephone bell, and was called by a reporter for some
paper who informed me that the Titanic had met with an accident and was
sinking. I asked him where he got the information. He told me that
it had come by wireless from the steamship Virginian, which had been
appealed to by the Titanic for aid."

Mr. Franklin said he called up the White Star docks, but they had no
information, and he then appealed to the Associated Press, and there was
read to him a dispatch from Cape Race advising him of the accident.

"I asked the Associated Press," said Mr. Franklin, "not to send out
the dispatch until we had more detailed information, in order to avoid
causing unnecessary alarm. I was told, however, that the story already
had been sent."

The reassuring statements sent out by the line in the early hours of the
disaster next were made the sub