Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (48 page)

  6
“Inertia is not one of Millet’s faults”
Torrey, “Frank D. Millet, N.A.,”
Art Interchange
32, no. 6 (June 1894): 167, cited by Simpson,
Reconstructing the Golden Age
, pp. 414–15.

  7
“this perfection of a village”
Henry James, “Our Artists in Europe.”

  8
“I want a gem”
Morgan Library website.

  9
“Pierpont Morgan … is carrying loads” The Letters of Henry Adams
, vol. V, p. 377, in Strouse,
Morgan
, p. 457.

10
“pre-eminent example”
and quotes to follow,
Belfast Telegraph
, June 1, 1911, in Foster,
The Titanic Reader
, pp. 254–55.

11
“I hope that here will eventually be” New York Times
, April 7, 1912.

12
“Pierpont will buy”
in Auchincloss,
Vanderderbilt Era
, p. 199.

13
“If this sort of thing goes on”
Millet in Sharpey-Schafer,
Soldier of Fortune
, pp. 130–31.

14
“had the entrée to every house” New York Times
, March 31, 1912.

CHAPTER 2: A
NOMADIC
HIATUS

  1
departure at 5:30
This time was noted in the diary of Daisy Spedden.

  2
“Riding the waves”
Williams,
“CQD.”
It’s most likely that the tender did not actually go into the outer harbor until after the
Titanic
was sighted, but remained behind the breakwater, as recalled by Margaret Brown and Edith Rosenbaum.

  3
“pawing every girl in sight”
Kaveler,
The Astors
, p. 148. The author was told this by women from Astor’s set.

  4
“It is very questionable” Town Topics
, in Kaplan,
When the Astors Owned
, p. 56. It should be noted that the Astors often received harsh coverage in
Town Topics
, since they did not pay off the publisher, Colonel Mann, to be kept out of its pages.

  5
“pneumatic road improver”
Kaplan,
When the Astors Owned
, p. 62.

  6
“a walking chandelier,” Ibid., p. 31.

  7
“the poor old lady”
“After Holbein,” in
New York Stories of Edith Wharton
, Robinson, ed., p. 360.

  8
“Mother Force has let no grass” Town Topics
, in Kaplan,
When the Astors Owned
, p. 157.

  9
“continued rumors” New York Times
, August 2, 1911.

10
“best gol-durn”
and
“built me a home”
in Iversen,
Molly Brown
, p. 55.

11
“cold, gray atmosphere”
and
“evil forebodings”
Brown,
Newport Herald
, May 28–29, in OBT, p. 217.

12
“just a sideline”
and
“I never”
Russell [Rosenbaum], “By the Grace of God.”

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.