Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
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13 Shortly before 7 p.m. Passenger Marian Wright wrote in a letter that the ship arrived at Cherbourg at 7:00, and this conforms with several other passenger recollections.
14 “the master palace of the sea” and “actively ill” Brown, in OBT, p. 217. 26 “the tender [began] pounding” and “as it shook” Rosenbaum memoir, 1934, Charles Pellegrino website.
CHAPTER 3: THE PALM ROOM
1 “a very distinct start” Williams, “CQD.”
2 “All right” and following dialogue Rosenbaum memoir, 1934, Charles Pellegrino website.
3 “At the entrance” Ramon Artagaveytia letter, in OBT, p. 91.
4 “snapped like thread” O’Donnell, Last Days of the Titanic, p. 94.
5 “A voice beside me said” Ibid., p. 94.
6 “Instead of the radiant” and My heart sank Jessop, Titanic Survivor, p. 119.
7 “Of course there is” Williams, April 10, 1912, letter. in OBT, p. 87.
8 “It is a monster” Rosenbaum, letter to Shaw, April 11, 1912.
9 “As we sat down to dinner” Browne, in O’Donnell, Last Days of the Titanic, p. 95.
10 “had not learned its intonation” Ibid., p. 94
11 MAJOR BUTT’S SUIT A WONDER New York Times,March 3, 1912.
12 “I never reread or correct” Abbott, Taft and Roosevelt, vol. 2, p. 656.
13 “in case of accident of any kind” Ibid., p. 848.
14 “two old Southern” Abbott, Letters of Archie Butt, p. 109.
15 “endless tennis and swimming” Ibid., p. 69.
16 “everyone joined in the water fight” Ibid., p. 72.
17 “Phillips had worn his spurs in the water” Ibid., p. 73. William Phillips (1878–1968) would become undersecretary of state from 1922 to 1924 and again during the Franklin Roosevelt administration, 1933–1936.
18 “GEORGIA recognizes New England’s right” Ibid., p. 132.
19 “each day I seem to miss Mother the more” Ibid., p. 151.
20 “My hat is in the ring” Abbott, Taft and Roosevelt, vol. 2, p. 345.
21 “3,213,600 ear-splitting citizens” and “Do you wonder that our nerves” Ibid., p. 765; “saucy little brats” Ibid., p. 760.
22 “I hate to leave the Big White Chief” Ibid., p. 847.
23 “My devotion to the Colonel” Ibid., p. 812.
24 “Don’t forget that all my papers” and “as I always write you in this way” Ibid., p. 848.
25 “in a depressed” and “If I do not see it” Behe, “Archie,” vol. 3, p. 602.
26 “It was hard to realize” Dodge, Loss of the Titanic.
CHAPTER 4: “QUEER LOT OF PEOPLE”
1 “I have the best room” Millet in Sharpey-Schafer, Soldier of Fortune, pp. 130–31.
2 “the two men had a sympathy” Leigh Palmer, Washington Times, April 19, 1912.
3 “We looked at each other” Katz, Love Stories, p. 203.
4 “spoons” to “between us two” Ibid.
5 wanting to hug the marble Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet, p. 65.
6 “a great double bed” Katz, Love Stories, p. 206.
7 “Byronic mold,” “reading chatting, writing,” and “the realization of” Ibid., p. 207. The artist A. A. Anderson (1847–1940) studied art in Paris and became a successful portraitist. After marrying the wealthy heiress Elizabeth Milbank in 1887, he and his wife became major philanthropists. Anderson also bought a ranch in Wyoming and became a pioneering Western conservationist and aviator.
8 “Miss you? Bet your life” FDM to CWS.
9 UBI BOHEMIA FUIT? Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet, p. 67.
10 “Come Charlie, come!” FDM to CWS. 51 “spooning frightfully” FDM to CWS.
11 “our hero” Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet, p. 111.
12 “smoking rooms” Sharpey-Schafer, Soldier of Fortune, pp. 130–31.
13 “a Nancy boy” Hustak, Titanic: The Canadian Story, p. 58.
14 “an old dragoman” Harper, The Outlook, in OBT, p. 316.
15 “We are changing ships” Hustak, Titanic: The Canadian Story, p. 26.
16 “almost inseparable” Ibid., p. 24.
17 “black velvet with passementerie” Abbott, Letters of Archie Butt, vol. 1., p. 161.
18 “pulchritude of the male” Abbott, Taft and Roosevelt, vol. II, p. 589.
19 “as handsome as a young Greek athlete,” Ibid., p. 653.
20 “has been camping,” “cat of a mother,” and “never really cared” Behe, “Archie,” vol. 3, p. 12.
21 “a terrific blow to me” Behe, “Archie,” vol. 2, p. 248.
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
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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.
17 “of all the brothers” Unger and Unger, The Guggenheims, p. 64.
18 “Papa, you must have” Ibid., p. 228.
19 “one of the handsomest” New York Times, October 25, 1894. 102 “the Googs” Davis, The Guggenheims, p. 218.
20 “well-known in Brussels” Belgian newspaper Nieuws, cited in Hustak, Titanic: The Canadian Story, p. 39.
21 “crossed [a] thick ice-field” and “another ice-field” “Marconigrams Sent and Received by Captain Smith,” ET.
22 “They are out of our way” Boxhall testimony, U.S. inquiry, TIP.
CHAPTER 8: SHIPBOARD COTERIES
1 “I took a Turkish bath this morning” Spedden diary, Titanic Commutator, p. 48.
2 “something of the grandeur” Foster, Titanic Reader, p. 33.
3 “blade douche” Beveridge, Titanic: Ship Magnificent, p. 421.
4 “We will beat the Olympic” Elizabeth Lines, Limitation of Liability Hearings, October 27, 1913, TIP.
5 “There will be no attempt” New York Times, June 23, 1911, in Chirnside and Halpern, “Olympic and Titanic: Maiden Voyage Mysteries,” ET.
6 “one of those groups” Lord, Night Lives On, p. 41.
7 “with a leaning” Luhan, in Kowsky, Buffalo Architecture, p. 136.
8 “ ‘Let us wander’ ” Candee, “Sealed Orders.”
9 “As her bow” Candee, in Bigham, “Life’s Décor,” ET.
10 “a member of the city’s most exclusive smart set” Ibid.
11 “dressing like the matron” Ibid.
12 “one for myself and the other” Lord, Night Lives On, p. 41.
13 “We are here to amuse you” Ibid.
14 “two famous men passed” Young, in OBT, p. 428.
15 “the fancy French poultry,” “the cooks before,” and “It is such good luck” Ibid.
16 “The Titanic was a good boat” Toronto Telegram, April 19, 1912.
17 “to be unseizable” Woods, Molson Saga, p. 211.
18 “a very pretty girl,” “vivacious good-looking niece,” and “two attractive sisters” Sloper, Life and Times, p. 394.
19 “You are in danger” Ibid., pp. 396–97.
20 “When are you going” and “You have forgotten” Ibid., p. 396.
21 “How little did I know” Gracie, ST, p. 125.
22 “the speed of the boat” Williams, “CQD.”
CHAPTER 9: DESIGNING WOMAN
1 “One morning” Etherington-Smith and Pilcher, The “It” Girls, p. 39.
2 “crotchety, cranky invalid” Ibid., p. 11.
3 “white-corded silk dress” Ibid., p. 18.
4 “the two pretty red-headed girls” Ibid., p. 18.
5 “It was in black velvet” Ibid., p. 24.
6 “I decided that there was” Ibid., p. 25.
7 “In those days” and “I loosed upon” Ibid., p. 73.
8 “Half the women flocked to see them” Ibid., p. 56.
9 “the crème de la crème” Glyn, Romantic Adventure, in Fowler, The Way She Looks Tonight, p. 72.
10 “the oddest creature I had ever seen” Etherington-Smith and Pilcher, The “It” Girls, p. 39.
11 “masterpieces of” Ibid., p. 88.
12 “keeping the illusion,” “on this parade,” and “all hung with” Ibid., p. 76.
13 “I shall never forget” Duff Gordon, Discretions, p. 73.
14 “gallery of exquisite creations” Washington Times, May 22, 1904, in Bigham, Lucile, p. 38.
15 “There was never” Duff Gordon, Discretions, p. 73.
16 “If you are going to” Etherington-Smith and Pilcher, The “It” Girls, p. 85.
17 “most extraordinarily dull” and “deadly, deadly dull” Ibid., p. 86.
18 “I’m sure we can” Ibid., p. 112.
19 “The one thing that counts” Ibid., p. 127.
20 “Ours was a new playhouse” Avery Strakosch, ed., “Fashions for the Famous: Dressmaking Days with Lady Duff Gordon,” Bigham, Lucile, p. 76.
21 “The dramatic performance” Bigham, Lucile, p. 40.
22 “We are so accustomed” Bigham, Lucile, p. 61.
23 “As business called me over” Duff Gordon, Discretions, p. 161.
24 “The designer was” Bigham, “Saved from the Titanic,” ET.
25 “Everything aboard” and “pretty little cabin” Duff Gordon, Discretions, p. 164.
26 “One can only” Etherington-Smith and Pilcher, The “It” Girls, p. 86.
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��regularly surrounded by” Ibid., p. 164.
28 “a sexual ambiguity” Bigham, Lucile, p. 87.
29 “smart to the last degree” Ibid., p. 54.
30 “the hum of voices” and “disaster swift” Duff Gordon, Discretions, p. 162.
CHAPTER 10: A CALM SUNDAY
1 “Time like an ever rolling stream” From the sixth verse of “O God Our Help in Ages Past” by Isaac Watts, 1719.
2 “quite one-half” Brown, in OBT, p. 218.
3 “bergs, growlers” “Marconigrams Sent.…,” ET.
4 “At my funeral” Abbott, Letters of Archie Butt, p. 81.
5 “as if I were in a summer palace” Gracie, in ST, p. 119.
6 “the Greek steamer” “Marconigrams Sent …,” ET.
7 “thought he was a minister,” “my boy,” “one big party,” and “a spirit of” Harris, “Her Husband Went Down.”
8 “couldn’t do,” “Mr. Freshy,” “I knew I couldn’t,” and “childlike and lovable” Bigham and Jasper, “Broadway Dame.”
9 “Life was all play” Ibid.
10 “If anything happens” Geller, Titanic: Women and Children, p. 50.
11 “Harry lost $430,000” Bigham and Jasper, “Broadway Dame.”
12 “beat him with,” “toys in,” “flirting with,” “Man is,” “One of the women,” and “They have just” Candee, “Sealed Orders.”
13 “two large icebergs” “Marconigrams Sent.…,” ET.
14 “I hope you are comfortable” and dialogue, Emily Ryerson Limitation of Liability Hearings, TIP.
15 “a wide blood-red band” Rosenbaum 1934 memoir, Charles Pellegrino website.
16 “took a header” and following quotes Harris, “Her Husband Went Down.”
17 “how fondly” Futrelle, in OBT, p. 288.
18 “shining in pale” and “glittering frock” Candee, “Sealed Orders.”
19 “I want everything dark” Lynch, Titanic: An Illustrated History, p. 77. 147 “In the elegantly” Futrelle, in OBT, p. 287.
CHAPTER 11: THE LAST EVENING
1 sat down with the Futrelles May Futrelle describes dining with the Harrises on the last night in the “luxurious saloon after-deck,” which likely means the restaurant.