Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (49 page)

22
“it was the same old story”
Ibid., p. 151.

23
“I shall not mention her again”
Ibid., p. 248. The marriage of Mathilde Scott Townsend (1885–1949) to Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957) (whom Archie termed “an anemic millionaire”) did not last. In 1925, she married the patrician, but homosexual, Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892–1961), who succeeded William Phillips as FDR’s undersecretary of state in 1937. Welles resigned in 1943 to avoid revelations about his homosexuality being made public. Mathilde died of peritonitis in Switzerland six years later. The Townsend mansion in Washington is today the Cosmos Club.

24
“such fun doing the shops”
Abbott,
Taft and Roosevelt
, vol. II, p. 799.

25
a strenuous one-day, ninety-eight-mile gallop
This was dreamed up by the president to demonstrate that an order requiring army officers to ride ninety miles in three days was not unduly harsh.

26
dubbed “Oscar Wilde”
Bradley,
Imperial Cruise
, p. 50.

27
“he is such a good housekeeper”
Behe,
“Archie,”
vo1. 3, p. 229.

28
“on the older man” Washington Times
, April 19, 1912.

29
“between the years 1884 and 1888”
Eckley,
Maiden Tribute
, p. 104.

30
“love of a cabin”
and
“a splendid, monstrous, floating Babylon”
Estelle Stead,
My Father
, p. 341–42.

31
[
WE
]
DEMAND THAT INIQUITY
Eckley,
Maiden Tribute
, p. 63. 59
“had pleasure in giving my assent”
Ibid.

32
“There’s a man in the room!”
Ibid., p. 56.

33
“because in the streets”
Ibid., p. 86.

34
“a posing somdomite
[
sic
]” Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 412.

35
“if all persons guilty”
Stead,
Review of Reviews
11 (June 1895), pp. 491–92.

36
“I am glad to remember”
Eckley,
Maiden Tribute
, p. 226.

37
“I still don’t like this ship”
Hyslop, Forsyth, and Jemima,
Titanic Voices
, p. 118.

CHAPTER 5: QUEENSTOWN

  1
“sunny and big hearted”
and
“a wonderful, ringing laugh”
Bullock,
Titanic Hero
, p. 30.

  2
“There go my pals”
Ibid., p. 44.

  3
“Our esteem for him”
Jessop,
Titanic Survivor
, p. 117.

  4
“nothing but work all day long”
to
“without any”
Hyslop, Forsyth, and Jemima,
Titanic Voices
, p. 115.

  5
“I wish that God”
and
“Aren’t you going to”
Eckley,
Maiden Tribute
, p. 7.

  6
“She is a magnificent ship”
Spedden diary,
Titanic Commutator
, p. 47.

  7
“So you see it would be impossible”
Eaton and Haas,
Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 100.

  8
“the ruling lights”
and
“give his ears”
Lightoller, in ST, p. 275.

  9
“What fort is that?”
to
“call them a ‘Gang,’ Sir?”
O’Donnell,
Last Days of the Titanic
, p. 95.

10
“It’s a good place”
Minahan letter, in OBT, p. 55.

11
“live-wake” Connaught Telegraph
, May 25, 1912, ET.

12
“A Nation once again!”
in Molony, “A Tender Named America,” ET.

13
“nothing could have given”
Beesley in ST, p. 18.

14
“Goodbye, I will give you copies”
O’Donnell,
Last Days of the Titanic
, p. 95.

15
“Nothing is left to chance”
Ibid., p. 98.

16
“we gathered … to pray”
Ibid., p. 95.

17
“I’m going down”
Hyslop, Forsyth, and Jemima,
Titanic Voices
, p. 111.

18
“at least this lot”
Eaton and Haas,
Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 101.

CHAPTER 6: FELLOW TRAVELERS

  1
“all take their exercise”
Brown, in OBT, p. 217.

  2
“silver lake”
René Harris, “Her Husband Went Down with the Titanic,”
Liberty
, April 23, 1932.

  3
the Titanic
’s
kennels
The location of the kennels is thought to have been aft on the boat deck because the
Olympic
had one in this area after 1912. But they may have been located belowdecks, near the third-class galley, a convenient place for feeding the dogs kitchen scraps. Beveridge,
Titanic: Ship Magnificent
, p. 222.

  4
She [Kitty] wandered away
From the notes of Katherine Force and Dr. Reuel Kimball, April 22, 1912, Charles Pellegrino website.

  5
“the first time a member”
Behe,
“Archie,”
vol. 2, p. 159.

  6
“she thought [he] looked”
Ibid.

  7
“If I could live”
Kaplan,
When the Astors Owned
, p. 11.

  8
“swinging black Amazons” Chicago Tribune
, August 17, 1893, in Larson,
Devil in the White City
, p. 314.

  9
“the strangest gathering”
Ibid.

10
“that God-damned swamp”
Engstrom,
Francis Davis Millet
, p. 346.

11
“full dress was always
en règle” Gracie, in ST, p. 121

12
“was a subject”
Ibid., p. 122.

13
“Quite as important” Dress
, May 1912.

14
“almost spell-bound”
Marcus,
Maiden Voyage
, p. 72.

15
“My dear fellow”
Ibid.

16
“It was to gain a much needed rest”
Gracie, in ST, p. 121.

17
“invariably circulated”
Gracie, in ST, p. 122.

18
“wincing at [Grade’s] approach”
Lord,
Night Lives On
, p. 44.

19
“the men of my coterie”
Gracie, in ST, p. 122.

20
“If I am shipwrecked”
OBT, p. 543.

21
“certain persons”
Lord,
Night Lives On
, p. 39.

22
“If saved”
Jay Yates (J. H. Rogers) bio, ET.

CHAPTER 7: PRIVATE LIVES

  1
“quiet modesty” New York Times
, April 24, 1912.

  2
“Jim sails today”
Ibid.

  3
“Where’s your wife”
to
“buxom brunette”
From Smith testimony at Thaw trial, in Mooney,
Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White
, p. 223.

  4
“I did it because”
and
“He had it coming”
and
“Oh, Harry”
Uruburu,
American Eve
, p. 282.

  5
STANFORD WHITE, VOLUPTUARY AND PERVERT Baker,
Stanny
, p. 377.

  6
“the most exquisitely lovely”
Irvin S. Cobb, in Ibid., p. 386.

  7
“the revolting details”
Ibid., p. 388.

  8
“Stanny White was killed”
Ibid., p. 397.

  9
“There was surely”
Auchincloss,
Vanderbilt Era
, p. 183.

10
“would seduce Saint Anthony”
and
“semi-respectable spree”
Engstrom,
Francis Davis Millet
, p. 147.

11
“his compulsions”
Lessard,
Architect of Desire
, p. 212.

12
“practically the only”
Williams,
“CQD.”

13
An auction was held:
Two additional numbers were added to the auction pool called the high and low fields, for which everyone had to pay full price. The high field number won when the ship’s run exceeded the highest number in the pool and the low field was a winner when fewer miles were covered than the lowest number in the pool. Informal pools called decimal pools, where ten numbers were drawn from a hat, also took place.

14
“The ship is as firm”
Edith Harper,
Stead the Man
, p. 244, in Marcus,
Maiden Voyage
p. 72.

15
“powerful five-feet-five”
Candee, “Sealed Orders.”

16
“The Parisian café”
Henry Julian, in OBT, pp. 81–82.