"Now," repeated Senator Smith, "suppose the weather was clear and the sky unruffled, as it was at the time of the disaster, how many would the boat hold?" "Really, I don't know. It would depend largely upon the people who were to enter. If they did as they were told I believe each boat could accommodate sixty-five persons." Boxhall testified to the sobriety and good habits of his superior and brother officers. NO TRACE OF DAMAGE INSIDE Boxhall said he went down to the steerage, inspected all the decks in the vicinity of where the ship had struck, found no traces of any damage and went directly to the bridge and so reported. CARPENTER FOUND LEAKS "The captain ordered me to send a carpenter to sound the ship, but I found a carpenter coming up with the announcement that the ship was taking water. In the mail room I found mail sacks floating about while the clerks were at work. I went to the bridge and reported, and the captain ordered the life-boats to be made ready." Boxhall testified that at Captain Smith's orders he took word of the ship's position to the wireless operators. "What position was that?" "Forty-one forty-six north, fifty fourteen west." "Was that the last position taken?" "Yes, the Titanic stood not far from there when she sank." After that Boxhall went back to the life-boats, where there were many men and women. He said they had been provided with life-belts. {illust. caption = THE EFFECTS OF STRIKING AN ICEBERG (1) Shows normal....} DISTRESS ROCKETS FIRED "After that I was on the bridge most of the time sending out distress signals, trying to attract the attention of boats ahead," he said. "I sent up distress rockets until I left the ship, to try to attract the attention of a ship directly ahead. I had seen her lights. She seemed to be meeting us and was not far away. She got close enough, so she seemed to me, to read our Morse electric signals." "Suppose you had a powerful search light on the Titanic, could you not have thrown a beam on the vessel and have compelled her attention?" "We might." H. J. Pitman, the third officer of the ship, was the first witness on April 23d. By a series of searching questions Senator Fletcher brought out the fact that when the collision occurred the Titanic was going at the greatest speed attained during the trip, even though the ship was entering the Grand Banks and had been advised of the presence of ice. Frederick Fleet, a sailor and lookout man on the Titanic, followed Pitman on the stand. Fleet said he had had five or six years' experience at sea and was lookout on the Oceanic prior to going on the Titanic. He was in the crow's nest at the time of the collision. Fleet stated that he had kept a sharp lookout for ice, and testified to seeing the iceberg and signaling the bridge.