I am satisfied that the explanation of the excessive proportion of third-class passengers lost is not to be found in the suggestion that the third-class passengers were in any way unfairly treated. They were not unfairly treated. MEANS TAKEN TO PROCURE ASSISTANCE. As soon as the dangerous condition of the ship was realized, messages were sent by the master's orders to all steamers within reach. At 12.15 a. m. the distress signal CQD was sent. This was heard by several steamships and by Cape Race. By 12.25 Mr. Boxall, the fourth officer, had worked out the correct position of the _Titanic_, and then another message was sent: "Come at once, we have struck a berg." This was heard by the Cunard steamer _Carpathia_, which was at this time bound from New York to Liverpool and 58 miles away. The _Carpathia_ answered, saying that she was coming to the assistance of the _Titanic_. This was reported to Capt. Smith on the boat deck. At 12.26 a message was sent out, "Sinking; can not hear for noise of steam." Many other messages were also sent, but as they were only heard by steamers which were too far away to render help, it is not necessary to refer to them. At 1.45 a message was heard by the _Carpathia_, "Engine-room full up to boilers." The last message sent out was "CQ" which was faintly heard by the steamer _Virginian_. This message was sent at 2.17. It thus appears that the Marconi apparatus was at work until within a few minutes of the foundering of the _Titanic_. Meanwhile Mr. Boxall was sending up distress signals from the deck. These signals (rockets) were sent off at intervals from a socket by No. 1 emergency boat on the boat deck. They were the ordinary distress signals, exploding in the air and throwing off white stars. The firing of these signals began about the time that No. 7 boat was lowered (12.45 a. m.), and it continued until Mr. Boxall left the ship at about 1.45. Mr. Boxall was also using a Morse light from the bridge in the direction of a ship whose lights he saw about half a point on the port bow of the _Titanic_ at a distance, as he thought, of about 5 or 6 miles. He got no answer. In all, Mr. Boxall fired about eight rockets. There appears to be no doubt that the vessel whose lights he saw was the _Californian_. The evidence from the _Californian_ speaks of eight rockets having been seen between 12.30 and 1.40. The _Californian_ heard none of the _Titanic's_ messages; she had only one Marconi operator on board and he was asleep. THE RESCUE BY THE STEAMSHIP "CARPATHIA." On the 15th of April the steamship _Carpathia_, 13,600 tons gross, of the Cunard Line, Mr. Arthur Henry Rostron, master, was on her passage to Liverpool from New York. She carried some 740 passengers and 325 crew.