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Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From

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by Richard Davenport-Hines


  76. Frank Goldsmith, Echoes in the Night (Titanic Historical Society, 1991), 49–50.

  77. Woolner, Senate inquiry.

  78. Derek Wilson, The Astors (1993), 207.

  79. Emily Ryerson, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 16.

  80. Lightoller, Titanic, 244.

  81. Lucas, Mersey inquiry, Q 1817.

  82. Ibid., QQ 1785–87.

  83. Hardy, Senate inquiry.

  84. Woolner, Senate inquiry.

  85. Lightoller, Titanic, 245.

  86. Michael Davie, The “Titanic”: The Full Story of a Tragedy (1986), 55.

  87. Lightoller, Titanic, 246.

  88. Beesley, Titanic, 64–65.

  89. Duff Gordon, Discretions, 156.

  90. Abelseth, Senate inquiry.

  91. Lightoller, Titanic, 247–48.

  92. “Sticks to Titanic Till Last Minute, Continued,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 26, 1912, 3.

  93. Gracie, Truth About Titanic, 67.

  94. “Frenchmen’s Account,” Times (London); “Heard Death Chorus,” New York Times.

  95. “Wreck of the Titanic,” St. Ives Times, 4.

  96. “Titanic Disaster—Hayle Man’s Narrative,” St. Ives Times, May 3, 1912.

  97. John B. Thayer, The Sinking of the SS Titanic (1940), 348–49.

  98. Lowe, Senate inquiry.

  99. Pitman, Senate inquiry.

  100. Thomas Jones, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 7.

  101. “Countess Rothes Brave,” New York Times, April 20, 1912.

  102. “Mrs. E. W. Bucknell,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 2.

  103. George Hogg, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 7.

  104. White, Senate inquiry.

  105. Butler, Unsinkable, 147–48.

  106. Kristen Iversen, Molly Brown (1999), 25, 27.

  107. Gracie, Truth About Titanic, 132–34.

  108. Abelseth, Senate inquiry.

  109. Sir James Bisset, Tramps and Ladies, 229.

  110. Woolner, Senate inquiry.

  111. Scarrott, Mersey inquiry, Q 361.

  112. Sir Arthur Rostron, Home from the Sea, 67–69, 74.

  Chapter 11: The Meaning Shows in the

  Defeated Thing

  1. Theodore Dreiser, Traveler at Forty, 519–23; Jerome Loving, The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser (2005), 215–16.

  2. C. W. Bennett, consular dispatch 17, April 19, 1912, NA FO 369/522.

  3. Philip Franklin, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 3.

  4. “Officer Concedes Big Loss of Life,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 16, 1912, 5.

  5. “Titanic Sinking” and “A Floating Palace,” Globe (London), April 15, 1912, 5.

  6. “Sleeping Passengers,” Globe (London), April 16, 1912, 4.

  7. “The Lost Titanic,” Globe (London), April 16, 1912, 6.

  8. Stephanie Barczewski, Titanic: A Night Remembered (2004), 221.

  9. Shan F. Bullock, Thomas Andrews (1912), 44.

  10. Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (1999), 643.

  11. “Un Désastre,” Le Matin, April 16, 1912, 3.

  12. “Consternation in Paris,” Leicester Daily Post, April 17, 1912, 5; “Titanic Disaster,” Daily Telegraph, April 18, 1912, 17.

  13. “Three Italians Shot,” Cornishman, April 25, 1912, 3.

  14. John B. Thayer, The Sinking of the SS Titanic (1940), 356.

  15. “Rayner Puts Blame on Bruce Ismay,” New York Times, April 20, 1912.

  16. “President Taft Stunned,” New York Times, April 16, 1912.

  17. “Newspaper Men All Mourn Maj. ‘Archie’ Butt,” Washington Herald, April 19, 1912.

  18. Henry Adams, The Letters of Henry Adams, ed. J. C. Levenson and others, 6:535, 536, 538.

  19. “Titanic’s Sinking Comes as Shock to Philadelphia,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 1912, 3.

  20. “Reading Inquirer’s Bulletins of Titanic’s Sinking,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 17, 1912, 5.

  21. “6 Philadelphians Unaccounted For,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 17, 1912, 3.

  22. “Stop Press—The Titanic Sunk,” Liverpool Daily Post, April 16, 1912, 14.

  23. “A Shock to Liverpool,” Liverpool Daily Post, April 17, 1912, 7.

  24. “Titanic Collides with Iceberg in Mid-Ocean,” Southern Daily Echo, April 15, 1912, 2.

  25. “Reception of the News at Southampton,” Southern Daily Echo, April 16, 1912, 2.

  26. “Stricken Southampton,” Southern Daily Echo, April 17, 1912, 2; “Southampton Mourning,” Daily Telegraph, April 17, 1912, 14.

  27. Untitled editorial, Western Morning News, April 18, 1912.

  28. “Homes of Despair,” Daily Mail, April 19, 1912, 8.

  29. Walter Lord, The Night Lives On (1986), 13.

  30. “1,500 Perish When Titanic Goes to Bottom,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 16, 1912, 1.

  31. “Amazing Scenes in New York,” Southern Daily Echo, April 16, 1912, 3.

  32. “Overcome by Good News,” New York Times, April 17, 1912, 1, 3.

  33. “Hope Vanishes for Safety of Titanic’s Missing Passengers,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 17, 1912, 1.

  34. Sid Blake, “The Titanic Disaster: How Brave Cornishmen Died,” Cornishman, May 2, 1912, 4; Sid Blake, “The Titanic Disaster: Cornishmen Who Died Like Heroes,” Hayle Mail, May 2, 1912, 5.

  35. “Painful Scenes in New York,” Daily Telegraph, April 17, 1912, 11.

  36. “Haggard Throngs Battle for News,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 18, 1912, 3.

  37. Leila Salloum Elias, “The Impact of the Sinking of the Titanic on the New York Syrian Community of 1912,” Arab Studies Quarterly (Winter–Spring 2005).

  38. “Grief Stricken Crowd Storm the Office and Beg for News,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 19, 1912, 9.

  39. “The Titanic Catastrophe,” Leicester Daily Post, April 17, 1912, 5.

  40. Courtenay Bennett, telegram, April 16, 1912, NA FO 369/522.

  41. “Waiting for News,” Daily Telegraph, April 17, 1912, 12.

  42. Diary of Earl Winterton, April 16, 1912, Winterton Papers 11, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

  43. Arnold Bennett, The Journals of Arnold Bennett 1911–1921 (1932), 48.

  44. “At the London Office a Weary Vigil,” Daily Telegraph, April 18, 1912, 14.

  45. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries 1888–1914 (1920), 2:800.

  46. Susan Lowndes, Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes 1911–1947 (1971), 31.

  47. “The Monster Ship,” Economist, April 20, 1912, 836.

  48. Senator Porter McCumber, Congressional Record, April 19, 1912, 5306–8.

  49. “Chinese Would Save Men Before Women,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 17, 1912, 5.

  50. “Earl Beauchamp on Heroism,” Worcester Daily Times, April 20, 1912.

  51. Sir Martin Gilbert, ed., Winston S. Churchill, Companion Volume 2, part 3 (1969), 1542.

  52. “Vessel of Mercy Arrives with Titanic Survivors,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 19, 1912, 7.

  53. Wyn Craig Wade, The Titanic: End of a Dream (1980), 50.

  54. Henry Arthur Jones, “Arrival Scenes on New York Pier,” Daily Telegraph, April 20, 1912, 15.

  55. Homer J. Wheaton, “Gazette Man on Carpathia’s Pier,” Worcester Evening Gazette, April 19, 1912.

  56. “Joy and Sadness Come with News,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 20, 1912, 1–2.

  57. “Remains in Hope Husband Is Saved,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 20, 1912, 2.

  58. “Special Trains Wait,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 19, 1912, 7.

  59. “All Churches Pay Tribute to Dead of Lost Titanic,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 22, 1912, 2.

  60. “Mrs. Thayer Felled Sailor, Says Friend,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 1912, 2.

  61. Blake, “The Titanic Disaster.”

  62. Diary of Margot Asquith, April 20, 1912, Oxford and Asquith Papers, Bodleian Library, Eng d 3209, ff 136–37; Colin Clifford, The Asquiths (2002), 194.

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3. Lord Bonham-Carter and Mark Pottle, eds., Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904–1914 (1996), 312–13.

  64. Photographs of the Bournemouth sand models are in the National Archives, London, reference NA COPY/1/566/70.

  65. Clément Vautel, “Propos d’un Parisien,” Le Matin, April 20, 1912, 1.

  66. “All Due to Greed, Says Parkhurst,” New York Times, April 22, 1912, 4.

  67. “Southampton’s Great Sorrow,” Southern Daily Echo, April 23, 1912, 2.

  68. Alfred Mitchell-Innes, dispatch 128, May 1, 1912, NA FO 369/522.

  69. Imanita Shelley, testimony to Senate inquiry, day 18.

  70. “Mr. Wallace Hartley,” Colne and Nelson Times, May 24, 1912, 4.

  71. “Funeral of Mr. Wallace Hartley,” Colne and Nelson Times, May 24, 1912, 7.

  72. “Colonel Gracie Dies, Haunted by Titanic,” New York Times, December 5, 1912; Archibald Gracie, The Truth About the Titanic (1913), 250.

  73. “Oh! The Crime of It!,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1912, 8.

  Index

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  Abbott, Eugene, 168–69, 248

  Abbott, Rhoda, 168–69, 247–48, 249

  Abbott, Rossmore, 168–69, 248

  Abbott, Stanton, 168

  Abelseth, Karen, 165, 214

  Abelseth, Olaus “Ole,” 164–65, 213–14, 238, 249, 256, 295

  Abi Saab, Shawnee “Shawneene,” 165–66

  Abrahim/Abraham, Mary, 165

  Adamic, Louis, 161

  Adams, Henry, 267–68

  Adriatic (White Star Line), 38, 187, 188, 199, 301

  Aks, Frank Philip “Filly,” 180

  Aks, Leah, 179–80

  Algerine (White Star chartered ship): search for bodies by, 298

  Allan Steamship line, 261

  Allison, Lorraine, 290

  Allison, Trevor, 283

  American Ship Lines, 144

  Amerika (German liner), 52, 58, 108, 200, 201

  Anderson, Harry, 98

  Andersson, Erna, 159, 242

  Andrew, Frank, 153–54

  Andrews, Charles, 188

  Andrews, Thomas, 50–52, 55, 61, 196, 208, 209

  Appleton, Charlotte Lamson, 117, 242, 283

  Aquitania (Cunard ship), 33, 52, 53, 156

  Arabic (White Star Line), 38, 299

  Armenians: as passengers on Titanic, 24, 157, 170, 176–78. See also Eastern/Middle Europeans

  Ash, Timothy Garton, 7

  Ashburton, Lord, 277

  Asplund, Carl, 160–61, 231

  Asplund, Carl (son), 161, 231

  Asplund, Felix, 161, 231

  Asplund, Filip, 161, 231

  Asplund, Gustaf, 161, 231

  Asplund, Lillian, 156, 161, 231, 304, 305

  Asplund, Selma, 161, 304, 305

  Asquith, Elizabeth, 289

  Asquith, Herbert Henry, 289

  Asquith, Margot, 289

  Asquith, Violet, 289–90

  Assaf, Mariona, 172

  Astor, Ava Willing, 84

  Astor, Caroline, 272

  Astor, John Jacob IV “Jack”: and activities on Titanic, 110; appearance of, 17, 83–84; cars of, 28, 84; Cherbourg boarding of, 23; and claims against White Star Line, 300; contents of pockets of corpse of, 11–12; death of, 247, 265, 273, 278; dog of, 98, 241; heroism of, 270–71; lifestyle of, 84–85; loading of lifeboats and, 223–24, 240, 241, 245; marriages of, 84, 85–86; as New York City developer, 85; newspaper reports about, 265; personality of, 84; reactions to collision by, 212, 216–17; retinue of, 86; shipboard acquaintances of, 87; as slum landlord, 85; social class issues and, 83–84, 85–86, 243

  Astor, Madeleine Force, 85–86, 87, 110, 216, 217, 239, 240, 258, 265, 283

  Astor, Nancy, 278

  Astor, Vincent, 272–73, 283

  Atlantic Daily Bulletin (Titanic magazine), 198

  Atlantic Transport Company, 46, 47

  Aubart, Léontine, 90, 232

  Backström, Maria, 242

  Baclini, Eugenie, 301

  Baclini, Latifa, 166

  Bacon, Robert, 75

  Bailey, Percy, 149–51, 288

  Baker, George, 113, 114

  Balkic, Kerim, 157

  Ball, Ada, 141

  Ballin, Albert, 46, 52

  Baltic (White Star liner), 114, 186, 200, 201, 282

  Banfield, Frederick, 152

  bankers: public perceptions of, 32, 42

  Barkworth, Algernon, 29, 250, 303

  Barnes, Bertha, 111–12

  Bateman, Robert, 141

  Baumann, John, 81

  Baxter, “Diamond Jim,” 78–79, 94

  Baxter, Hélène, 78–79, 94, 227, 255, 295

  Baxter, Quigg, 79, 227, 295

  Bazzani, Albina, 110, 216

  Beattie, Thomson, 300–301

  Beauchamp, George, 208

  Becker, Charles, 282

  Becker, Luther, 142

  Becker, Nellie, 142, 284

  Becker, Richard, 142

  Becker, Ruth, 284

  Beckwith, Richard, 225–26

  Beckwith, Sallie, 225–26

  Beesley, Lawrence, 21, 24, 31, 135–36, 137, 138, 211, 236, 247, 303

  Behr, Karl, 226

  Belknap, Troy, 95–96, 97

  Bell, Gertrude, 171

  Belmont, Oliver, 84–85

  Bennett, Arnold, 122–23, 167, 189, 278

  Bennett, Sir Courtenay, 277

  Bentham, Lillian, 147

  Berenson, Bernard, 16, 76–77, 94–95

  Berlin (Norddeutscher-Lloyd ship), 99

  Berriman, William, 151

  Berriman’s Hotel (Southampton, England), 148

  Bertram, John, 177

  Bidois, Rosalie, 86

  binoculars, lack of, 184

  Bird, Ellen, 91, 232

  Birnbaum, Jakob, 81, 92

  Bishop, Dickinson, 29, 86, 212, 224–25, 293

  Bishop, Helen, 86, 97–98, 225

  Bishop, Walter, 208, 275

  Bismarck (Hamburg-Amerika ship), 33

  Bisset, James, 65, 190, 256

  Björnström-Steffansson, Mauritz Håkan, 111, 112, 211, 243–45, 275, 300

  “black gang”: of Titanic, 18–19. See also specific person

  Black (Titanic crewman), 19

  Blair, David, 184

  Blake, John, 148

  Blake, Sid, 148, 274, 287–88

  Blank, Henry, 82, 210, 224

  Blue Anchor Line, 63

  Blue Riband, 13, 38, 53

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 279

  Board of Trade, British, 57, 58–59, 69, 182–83. See also Mersey, Lord

  bodies: search for, 297–99, 301

  Boldt, George, 274

  Borah, Hannah Assi. See Hannah, Borak

  Borghese, Scipione, 27

  Botsford, Hull, 123, 133

  Bourke, John, 174–75, 237

  Bourke, Kate McHugh, 174–75, 237–38

  Bourke, Mary, 174, 237–38

  Bournemouth beach (England): sand models on, 291–92

  Bowerman, Edith, 227

  Bowerman, Elsie, 107–8, 227

  Boxhall, Joseph (officer), 201, 208, 228, 302

  Bradley, “Boy”. See Brereton, George

  Brandeis, Emil, 23

  Brayton, George. See Brereton, George

  Brereton, George (aka “Boy” Bradley and George Brayton), 82, 306

  Brewe, Arthur Jackson, 111, 268

  Brewer (Titanic trimmer), 18–19

  Bricoux, Roger, 292

  Bride, Harold (Marconi operator), 199–200, 201, 209

  Bright, Arthur (quartermaster), 185, 242

  Britannic (White Star Line), 33, 38, 47, 53, 129

  British Shipbuilders, 36n

  Brown, Caroline Lamson, 117, 242, 283

  Brown, Edward, 246 />
  Brown, J. J., 87–88, 89

  Brown, Margaret, 15, 23, 87–89, 110–11, 216, 225, 227, 255, 300

  Büchel (Swiss agent), 180, 181, 237

  Buckley, Daniel, 218, 221, 237

  Bucknell, Emma, 110–11, 212, 215–16, 230, 253–54

  Bulgarians: as Titanic passengers, 175–76, 304. See also Eastern/Middle Europeans

  Burbidge, Catherine, 80

  Burns, Sir John, 40, 47

  Butt, Archie, 79, 99–102, 118, 210, 221, 243, 245, 266–67, 276

  Butt-Millet Fountain (Washington, D.C.), 99

  Byles, Thomas, 137–38, 142, 250

  Caldwell, Albert, 142–43, 236

  Caldwell, Alden Gates, 143

  Caldwell, Sylvia Harbaugh, 143, 212, 236

  Californian (Leyland ship), 201, 209, 213, 253, 256, 265, 295, 296

  Calik, Jovo, 181

  Calik, Peter, 181

  Cameron, James, 10

  Canada: Armenians in, 177; Berenson comment about, 94–95; Hays empire in, 92–94. See also Hays, Charles M.

  Canavan, Mary, 175

  Canavan, Pat, 174

  Candee, Helen Churchill, 111, 112, 221, 227, 243, 255–56

  Carbines, William, 151

  Cardeza, Charlotte Drake, 23, 24, 78, 228, 268, 300

  Cardeza, Thomas Drake, 78, 228, 268

  cards, playing, 82, 134–35, 154, 159, 210

  Carlisle, Alexander, 57, 289

  Carmania (Cunard ship), 58

  Carnegie, Andrew, 30, 37

  Caronia (Cunard ship), 124, 200

  Carpathia (Cunard ship): Carters on, 302; deaths of Titanic passengers on, 265; messages between Titanic and, 209, 257; New York arrival of, 265, 269, 281–86, 287, 289, 290, 293, 304; rescue of Titanic passengers by, 59, 256–58, 261; Rostron as captain of, 256; Shelley-Baxter conversation on, 295; survivors on, 273; Widener collection on, 97

  Carter, Ernest, 138–40, 263, 268

  Carter, Lillian Hughes, 138, 139, 263, 268, 275

  Carter, Lucile Polk, 75, 118, 239, 268, 275, 302

  Carter, William, 75–76, 79, 98, 118, 211, 239, 240–41, 245, 268, 300, 302, 304–5

  Cassel, Ernest, 91

  catering crew, 184, 191–92

  Cather, Willa, 159

  Cavell, George, 188–89, 208

  Cavendish, Julia, 255

  CDQ (international call for help), 209

  Chakarov, Petko, 304

  Chambers, Norman, 212

  Chambers, Sir Alfred, 58

  Chapman, John H., 288

  Chapman, Mrs., 288

  Chaudanson, Victorine, 116–17, 240

  Cherbourg, France: Titanic stop at, 22–26

  Chesterton, G. K., 10, 103

 

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