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At 8 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
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SOPHIA OWNERS ARE
NOW TRYING TO EVADE
THE ESPONSIBiUTY
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putes, and the like. In the cases
of the Sophia victims there was
not even a funeral bill to pay, and
the administrators’ sole duties in
the casese of the 100 estates in
their hands were to attach their
signatures to four instruments filed
I in court and three others to com
I plete each estate. These were pre
pared in duplicate. The papers are
identical save in the name of each
victim. The clerical work in makng
up the whole batch of papers would
not exceed one hour for each estate.
That would represent the attorney’s
work. The actual work of the ad
ministrators in each state would
be about 15 minutes.
! “At the time of the tragedy the
people of Juneau volunteered to
care for the bodies and valuables
of the dead, cleaning, drying an.i
; listing their effects. While the
: truly disinterested citizens were
■doing ibis humane work the illegal
| and indecent haste of appointing
the administrators was overlooked
j I was told that in the case of each
; estate a fee of $25 was exacted
| by the court, making a total of
| $2,500 court fees up to the time I
[was there, with further accreations
■ as more bodies were recovered. The
judge who appointed the admini
' strators told me he had done so
[with the distinct understanding they
would charge reasonable fee.
“After a number of conferences,
J. R. Willis, one of the adminis
j trators, and Faulkner, attorney,
j wrote me a letter agreeing to re
' linquish control of my brother’s
i estate at the end of six months, if
not complicated, on receipt of $600
I fees for administrators and attor
ney. Post did not sign the letter;
under the guise of getting the letter
back to sign it, Faulkner tore the
letter up in my presence. Later
I was told fey persons who seemed
to have my interest at heart and
whose sincerity I could not doubt
| that if I did not want to get ar
'rested I’d better leave Juneau; that
! I was making myself obnoxious
| and undesirable and interfering
i with things that did not concern
i me. Haiold H. Post refused to sign
; the letter I have referred to on
'the ground that ‘he did not purpose
| to be dictated to.' In addition to
| being piobate judge. Burton is
i United States commissioner. Dis
trict Judge Jennings of the federal
■ district court, who had a hand in
appointing Burton, is well known bv
reputation at Washington, D. C.
j “In the matter of Lars Hanson's
1 estate the charge of $600 would
; cover: Advertising for creditors;
a wait of six months; a report of
|no creditors; a court order to turn
.assets over to heirs; the act of so
i doing, and the request for dis
! charge.”
Seattle Lawyer Talks
Mr. Johansen’s statement was
j submitted to one of the leading ad
i miralty lawyers in Seattle, who is
[largely interested in the disaster to
| the Sophia, having a number of
: suits under way for heirs of the vic
! tims- He verified Johansen’s state
ments as to the Alaska law as well
as all other points made by him in
the above recital. Johansen told of
• other heirs whose experience is on
• a parity with his own. That of
! George Green of Seattle, brother of
iCapt. Green of the Yukon river
j boat Yukon, is a case in point.
Green made a trip to Juneau and
was compelled to pay a cash fee
of $"98 to secure the release of his
brother’s effects worth $1,500; he
also paid $100 to secure the release
of another estate for about the
same amount. Green lives at 4235
Brooklyn street.
“The action of the Alaska admin
istrators is clearly beyond the law,”
said the Seattle lawyer. “In the
case of my clients I have encount
tered no such trouble; if I did I
would not stand for it. I should
not like to criticise the court’s ac
tion in making the appointment, I
am too far away, but the Washing
ton appointment of Mr. Johansen ,'s
the legal one and can be enforced.
If he were my client I would see
that it stood. As to the motives of
the Juneau administrators they may]
or may not be working with the1
Canadian Pacific .tailway; I can!
only surmise, and one guess is j
as good as another.
! “Under the law of Alaska a suit!
! for personal damage for loss of:
the life of every person dying on!
the Sophia lies against the Cana- ■
dian Pacific Railroad. In the States]
a suit will lie only in case there
are dependents. In Alaska, the ad
ministrator can sue, make recovery
and the remainder will revert to the
territory of Alaska. This is not
so under the Washington law I
note Mr. Johansen was not even
apprised of this fact by the admin
istrators. Their failure to do so
would undoubtedly be a great help
to the Canadian Pacific and the
officials of the company would ap
preciate such forgetfulness on the
part of the administrators whether
the lapse was studied or not. But
none but the administrators can
I say as to that. It is just possible j
that their lawyer might overlook
that feature—just possible.
“As to the course the Canadian
Pacific Railroad will pursue in its
defense of the hundrers of actions
that will eventually follow in th:s
and other states where the Sophia
victims lived I have already ha 1
an intimation. Under the federal
laws relating fo marine disasters
the owner of a ship may, under
certain conditions, practically come
into court and by surrendering the
freight and money and wreck itself,
whether recoverable or not. say to1
the heirs ‘here's all that is left, take
it and make the most of it.' In
other words, the court may under
certain conditions allow a company
owning a boat to limit its liability
to the boat, its freight and moneys,
without reaching out against other
assets of the company. Those con
ditions did not obtain with respect
to the Princess Sophia.
"The loss of the Sophia, as is
well known, was due to the written
and telegraphed orders of the Cana
dian Pacific officials, not to the in
dependent acts of the captain of
the Sophia in defiance of the orders
of his superiors. Had the loss fol
lowed the disobedience of such
orders the owners might hat.
ed themselves of the federal limita
tion named. But the loss followed
the captain’s uwilling obedience of
orders of his superiors, orders that
he knew imperiled his crew and
passengers, orders dictated by a
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cheese-paring' policy to save money
for the owners in the matter of
salvage by vessels standing by ready
to take passengers off before the
vessel slipped into the water, and
ample time and sufficient good
weather and enough boats to ac
complish the transfer. A few thous
and dollars paid for this service
would have saved all those lives.
Now the company is seeking to save
itself by throwing the blame on the
dead captain who followed his su
periors' orders and went to his
grave with the passengers because
his orders said so Now, watch; in
the course of a few days or a couple
of weeks at most, you will likely
see an application filed in the
United States district court at
Seattle seeking to limit liability to
the freight money of the Sophia
or to such freight, if any that may
be recovered from the vessel."
Mr Johansen has written a let
ter to James Wickersham, delegate
to congress from Alaska, embody
injr the above statement of fact in
detail, and to Attorney General
Gregory to the same effect. He asks
that the department of justice at
Washington investigate the Sophia
disaster and the acts of the Juneau
administrators. District Judge Jen
nings' acts with respect to Alaska
elections has been subject for con
gressional comment.
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