AN OBJECT OF PITYING SIGHS.
The child of the Montreal Allisons, bereft of both parents and carried by a nurse, was an object of pitying sighs in the saloon. In the second cabin, two French children engaged pitying attention. The two boys, four and two years old, who had lost their mother a year before and their father the night before, were children of beauty and intelligence, but were too abashed to answer any questions, even those put in their native tongue. Their surname is believed to be Hoffman. They are now in the care of Miss Margaret Hays, of 304 West Eighty-third street, New York.
Reminiscences of two bridge whist games of Sunday night in the smoking-room and the lounge room were exchanged by passengers who believed that the protracted games, a violation of the strict Sabbath rules of English vessels, saved their lives. Alfred Drachenstadt was leader in the smoking-room game, Miss Dorothy Gibson in the other.
Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, wife of the novelist, herself a writer of note, sat dry-eyed in the saloon, telling her friends that she had given up hope for her husband. She joined with the rest in inquiries as to the chances of rescue by another ship, and no one told her what soon came to be the fixed opinion of the men—that all those saved were on the Carpathia.
PHOTO. BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y.
CAPTAIN SMITH, OF THE “TITANIC” WHO HEROICALLY DID ALL HE COULD DO TO SAVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND THEN LIKE THE TRUE HERO HE WAS WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP.
COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
GRANDSON OF THE FOUNDER OF THE ASTOR FAMILY IN AMERICA, AFTER PUTTING HIS YOUNG BRIDE IN A LIFE BOAT HE REMAINED ON THE SHIP AND DIED AS A HERO.
PHOTO BY PAUL THOMPSON, N. Y.
CUNARD LINE STEAMSHIP “CARPATHIA,” WHICH HEARD THE WIRELESS CALL OF DISTRESS AND WAS FIRST TO REACH THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER AND TAKE ON BOARD THE SURVIVORS WHO WERE FOUND IN THE LIFEBOATS
RESCUED PASSENGERS IN ONE OF THE “TITANIC’S” COLLAPSEABLE LIFE-BOATS WAITING TO BE TAKEN ABOARD THE CARPATHIA.
SCENE ON THE UPPER DECK OF THE “TITANIC,” SHOWING LIFE BOATS AS THEY ARE CARRIED BY ALL STEAMSHIPS. ALL THE PASSENGERS COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED IF THIS SHIP HAD CARRIED THREE TIMES AS MANY LIFEBOATS.
WIRELESS OPERATOR SENDING MESSAGES. BUT FOR THE WIRELESS, THE “TITANIC’S” PASSENGERS WOULD SURELY HAVE ALL BEEN LOST, AS THEY COULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED IN SMALL BOATS WITH ICE ALL AROUND THEM
MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
BRIDE OF COLONEL ASTOR WHO WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC.
HARRIS & EWING
WASHINGTON, D.C.
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT, THE FAMOUS MILITARY AIDE OF TWO PRESIDENTS—ROOSEVELT AND TAFT. HE BATTLED FOR THE RESCUE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN UNTIL THE LAST LIFE BOAT HAD LEFT THE SHIP AND THEN WENT DOWN WITH THE “TITANIC” LIKE A TRUE HERO.
ONE OF THE DE LUXE ROOMS ON THE “TITANIC,” SUCH WERE OCCUPIED BY JOHN JACOB ASTOR AND HIS BRIDE AND MANY OTHER MULTI-MILLIONAIRES WHO WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP
PHOTO. BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y.
VIEW OF THE PROMENADE DECK OF THE ILL-FATED WHITE STAR LINER “TITANIC.” THIS DECK EXTENDS NEARLY THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE SHIP, AND IS USED AS A PROMENADE FOR PASSENGERS.
PART OF THE MAGNIFICENT CONCERT ROOM OF THE STEAMSHIP “TITANIC,” WHERE WOMEN PASSENGERS SPENT MUCH OF THEIR TIME IN READING AND LISTENING TO THE MUSIC.
LUXURIOUSLY FURNISHED SMOKING ROOM OF THE “TITANIC,” WHERE MEN SPENT MANY SOCIAL HOURS BEFORE GOING TO THEIR WATERY GRAVES
PHOTO BY PAUL THOMPSON, N. Y.
CAPTAIN SMITH OF THE “TITANIC,” WHO SAVED MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND THEN, LIKE A TRUE HERO, WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP. THIS PICTURE ALSO SHOWS TWO OF HIS OFFICERS
PHOTO. BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y.
INTERIOR OF CUNARD LINE PIER, ALL CLEARED OUT READY TO RECEIVE THE SURVIVORS OF THE “TITANIC,” ON ARRIVAL OF THE “CARPATHIA,” WHERE THEY WERE MET BY RELATIVES, PHYSICIANS, NURSES AND OTHERS.
PHOTO. BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y.
A MOST REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH, TAKEN BY A PASSENGER ON THE “CARPATHIA,” SHOWING MR. AND MRS. HARDER, A YOUNG HONEYMOON COUPLE. WHEN THE CRY CAME TO GET IN THE LIFEBOATS, THEY, AS A LARK, THINKING THERE WAS NO DANGER, JUMPED IN THE FIRST BOAT LOWERED.
J. BRUCE ISMAY, WHITE STAR LINE MANAGER.
MR. ISMAY WAS ON THE “TITANIC” AND HAS BEEN SEVERELY CRITICISED FOR HIS ACTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS GREAT CALAMITY.
“I feel better,” Mrs. Futrelle said hours afterward, “for I can cry now.”
Among the men, conversation centred on the accident and the responsibility for it. Many expressed the belief that the Titanic, in common with other vessels, had had warning of the ice packs, but that in the effort to establish a record on the maiden run sufficient heed had not been paid to the warnings. The failure of the safety compartments, said to have been closed from the bridge directly after the accident, was the occasion of amazement, and one theory offered was that the doors had, for some reason, not closed in the usual manner. Others contended that these devices are, at best, but time-savers, and said that without them the Titanic would have gone under before three boats could have been lowered.