Voyagers of the Titanic (41 page)

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.

63. 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.