MR. W. T. STEAD'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1445, 21 May 1912, Page 4

MR. W. T. STEAD'S DEATH.

4 AN UNFULFILLED PROPHECY. The late Mr. W. T. Stead, founder of the "Ik-view of lieviews," at the time of his death in the loss of the Titanic, was on his way to New York in response to an invitation to deliver an address on the "World's Peace" at the Carnegie Hall on April 21. Before he left London he had arranged to write nn article on the Titanic and her first trip, and to publish it in tho next issue of the "Keviow of Reviews."

I lie London correspondent of the Svdnov "Telegraph," in a dispatch telegraphed from Krcmantlc, states that when the news that the Titanic, had struck an iceberg was (lashed io New York and London, enterprising editors who knew that Mr. Stead was on board sent him wireless messages offering Inrge sums if he would write for them the story of (he disaster. It was (lien believed (hat all the passengers had been saved. When it became known that over 1000 people had perished, mid that Mr. Stead was amongst the number, most of the London newspapers published lengthy biographical notices. Mr. Plead, as is well known, devoted much tinie in his latter years to spiritualism, with the oliject of opening un communication with flip spirits ef the dead. Tie was enthusiastic in everything he took up, hut ill no direction was his "enthusiasm more marked than in his reverent desire to pierce the mystery of death. ITe brought nn cnnicst mind to bi-nr on flip snbiecj, but also brought a degree of erediilitv whirb maile him a doubtful guide. The "Daily Mm'!" recti!* (he fact I hat Mr. Stead, when in Constantinople la-t OcloIwr. made the following prnnlipey regardin it his own death:—"T know perfcrtlv well how 1 .dull die. U h„? been revealed Io me. I shall go to prison twice more before i die, and 1 ".hall end bv being kicked to death in, I lie streets of London. TV- makes my mind finite easy when T travel, anil 1 never injure myself against risks o) any kind."