“Another thing that I must not forget to mention, it is but additional proof of my charge that the Titanic was poorly equipped. The lamp on our boat was nearly devoid of oil.
“‘For God’s sake, keep that wick turned down low, or you will be in complete darkness,’ we were told on leaving. It wasn’t long before these words proved true, and before daylight we were dependent on a cane one of the women had brought along, which contained a tiny electric lamp.
FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS.
“With this little glow worm we fought our way through the darkness. I rowed for an hour straight ahead. Then I rested and some one else took my place. Then I grasped the oars again. I have had lots of experience in this form of exercise, and at my place in the Adirondacks am at it continually, so, contrary to stories that have been written, I did not blister my hands.
“I want to say right here that I did not manage the boat. I helped row it and that’s all.
“We had rowed about ten miles when looking over Countess Rothe’s oar I spied a faint light to the rear.
“‘What’s that light?’ I almost screamed.
“One of the sailors looked where I indicated and said: ‘It’s a ship—I can tell by the lights on her masthead.’
“As we passed over the spot where the Titanic had gone down we saw nothing but a sheet of yellow scum and a solitary log. There was not a body, not a thing to indicate that there had been a wreck. The sun was shining brightly then, and we were near to the Carpathia.”
Mrs. K. T. Andrews, of Hudson, N. Y., a first class passenger on the Titanic, said: