Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (53 page)

  4
“came as a thunderbolt”
and
“no-one in”
Beesley letter, in Barratt,
Lost Voices
, p. 162.

  5
“I thought it was”
George Harder, in TDH, p. 447.

  6
“seamen or possibly steerage”
Smith, in OBT, p. 399.

  7
“suicide”
and
“thinned out”
Lowe, in TDH, p. 222.

  8
“You ought to be”
and
“Jump”
Minahan, in TDH, p. 496.

  9
“It is no use”
Peuchen, in TDH, pp. 199–200.

10
“What’s the use”
and
“the little blighter”
Charlotte Collyer, in OBT, p. 253.

11
The rescued man was actually Chinese
It is believed that his name was Fang Lang, and he was a thirty-two-year-old fireman from Hong Kong.

12
“short shrift”
and
“grated on”
Gracie, in ST, p. 160.

13
“Look out”
Lynch,
Titanic: An Illustrated History
, p. 145.

14
“Just fancy”
and dialogue down to
“At any rate”
Duff Gordon,
Discretions
, p. 175.

15
“Rebellion to tyrants”
Wojtczak, “Elsie Bowerman: Feminist and Barrister,” ET.

16
“Soy, don’t you know”
and
“I know who”
Brown, in OBT, p. 221. The “Cockney” accent Mrs. Brown identified may have simply been a working-class English accent.

17
“treasured above all”
Young, in OBT, p. 429.

18
“were just like little canaries”
Helen Bishop, in Geller,
Titanic: Women and Children
, p. 59.

19
“would have killed us”
and
“That icy air”
Cherry, in Bigham, “A Matter of Course,” ET.

20
“Should the worse”
Barratt,
Lost Voices
, p. 150.

21
“There is a steamer”
and
“All you men”
Gracie, in ST, p. 166.

22
“Come over”
Gracie, in ST, p. 167.

23
“We can see a ship”
and following dialogue Lynch,
Titanic: An Illustrated History
, p. 152.

24
“They were a party”
Harper, in OBT, p. 182.

25
“sank into the bottom”
Harris, in OBT, p. 322.

26
“That is a falling star”
Brown, in OBT, p. 221.

27
“No, she is not”
Gracie, in ST, p. 180.

28
“Where those lights”
Ibid.

29
looked like giant opals
Duff Gordon,
Discretions
, p. 177.

30
glistened like rock quartz
Futrelle, in OBT, p. 306.

31
“Oh Muddie, look”
and
“the tragedy of”
Spedden diary,
Titanic Commutator
.

32
“I have only”
and dialogue, down to
“Thank you, mister”
Lynch,
Titanic: An Illustrated History
, p. 150.

33
“clung to each other”
Duff Gordon,
Discretions
, p. 178.

34
“had been dreadful”
and
“we were all charmed”
Spedden letter, in OBT, p. 178.

35
“woman of substantial size”
and
“Look at that”
Harper, in OBT, p. 319.

36
“No. If you will leave me”
Lynch,
Titanic: An Illustrated History
, p. 156.

37
“a young man of six”
Harris, in OBT, p. 322.

38
“What difference”
Harris, “Her Husband Went Down.”

39
“our brave and heroic”
and
“did not tarry”
Brown, in OBT, p. 222.

40
“Could not another”
and
“Was it not”
Lightoller, in ST, p. 303.

41
“This is the last”
Futrelle, in OBT, p. 306.

CHAPTER 16: THE SHIP OF SORROW

  1
“Please don’t!”
Futrelle, in OBT, p. 307. 229
“the shock and finality of it”
Ibid.

  2
Reverend Father Roger Anderson
is described by
Carpathia
passenger Charles Hutchinson as being an Episcopal monk.

  3
“speechless, half-clad”
Brown, in OBT, p. 222.

  4
“Deeply regret advise you”
and
“Captain, do you think”
Lynch,
Titanic: An Illustrated History
, p. 159.

  5
“Minarets like cathedral”
Rostron,
Loss of the Titanic
.

  6
“nature’s implacable strength”
Candee, “Sealed Orders.”

  7
“half-frozen”
Spedden diary,
Titanic Commutator
.

  8
“The rats swim”
Engstrom,
Francis Davis Millet
, p. 6.

  9
“Frank D. Millet, whom I loved”
Ibid., p. 7.

10
“Have just heard fearful rumor”
Strouse,
Morgan
, p. 647.

11
“Unto Almighty God” Book of Common Prayer
Service for Burial at Sea. The four men buried at sea are believed to have been: W. F. Hoyt, first-class passenger; Abraham Harmer [David Livshin], third-class passenger; S. C. Siebert, steward; and P. Lyons [William Lyons], sailor.

12
“the inquisition”
Lightoller, in ST, p. 303.

13
“I can’t do”
and
“Please excuse”
Hyder, “Excuse Sending … Am Half Asleep,” ET.

14
“Titanic
foundered”
Franklin, US Senate Inquiry, in TIP.

15
“All that day”
Duff Gordon,
Discretions
, p. 181.

16
“the poor foreigners”
Iversen,
Molly Brown
, p. 35.

17
“Are you the one”
and
“all her models”
Rosenbaum,
Women’s Wear Daily
, April 19, 1912, p. 1.

18
“Canadian girlfriend”
Sloper,
Life and Times
, p. 405.

19
“the two young men”
Gracie, in ST, p. 144.

20
“I don’t think I could”
George Behe’s Titanic Tidbits website. 242
“helped in seeing”
Cherry, in Bigham, “A Matter of Course,” ET.

21
“The number of widows”
and
“We spend our time”
Spedden, April 18 letter, in OBT, pp. 178–79.

22
“Madam, we”
and
“unburdened their”
Brown, in OBT, p. 224. 243
“pathetic”
and
“as if it were a blot”
Ibid., p. 225.

23
“Do not grieve”
and
“he would run”
Harris, “Her Husband Went Down.”

24
“proved himself a brave man”
Lightoller, in OBT, p. 169.

25
“a subject of universal” Toronto Star
, April 17, 1912.

26
“ ‘Poor Butt’ ” Washington Times
, cited in Behe,
“Archie,”
vol. 3, p. 657.

27
“the employees of”
Ibid., p. 660.

28
“The scene in front”
Barratt,
Lost Voices
, p. 197.

29
“In the humbler homes” London Daily Mail
, April 18, 1912, cited in Eaton and Haas,
Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy
, p. 206.

30
“and you can imagine”
Barratt,
Lost Voices
, p. 197.

CHAPTER 17: TWO CONTINENTS STIRRED

  1
“Please take me”
to
“reporter was on the pier”
Mary Adelaide Snider, “Through the Needle’s Eye How Woman Writer Went,”
Toronto Evening Telegram
, April 1912, cited in Dupuis, “And Mind You’re a Nurse.”

  2
“shouting all sorts of”
Spedden diary,
Titanic Commutator
.

  3
“A deep sigh”
Marshall,
Sinking of the Titanic
, p. 126.

  4
“Archie was like”
Behe,
“Archie,”
vol. 3, p. 660.

  5
“the black-hulled ship”
Snider,
Toronto Evening Telegram
, April 1912, cited in Dupuis, “And Mind You’re a Nurse.”

  6
“I never saw a sadder face”
Dobbyn letter, in Barratt,
Lost Voices
, p. 153.

  7
“a colossal piece”
Lightoller, in ST, p. 303.