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CHAPTER X
ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA
AID FOR THE SUFFERING AND HYSTERICAL—BURYING THE DEAD—VOTE
OF THANKS TO CAPTAIN ROSTRON OF THE CARPATHIA—IDENTIFYING
THOSE SAVED—COMMUNICATING WITH LAND—THE
PASSAGE TO NEW YORK.
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WOMEN SEEKING NEWS
In the first cabin library women of wealth and refinement mingled their grief and asked eagerly for news of the possible arrival of a belated boat, or a message from other steamers telling of the safety of their husbands. Mrs. Henry B. Harris, wife of a New York theatrical manager, checked her tears long enough to beg that some message of hope be sent to her father-in-law. Mrs. G. Thorne, Miss Marie Young, Mrs Emil Taussig and her daughter, Ruth, Mrs. Martin Rothschild, Mrs. William Augustus Spencer, Mrs. J. Stewart White and Mrs. Walter M. Clark were a few of those who lay back, exhausted, on the leather cushions and told in shuddering sentences of their experiences.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor and the Countess of Rothes had been taken to staterooms soon after their arrival on shipboard.
Before noon, at the captain's request, the first cabin passengers of the Titanic gathered in the saloon and the passengers of other classes in corresponding places on the rescue ship. Then the collecting of names was begun by the purser and the stewards. A second table was served in both cabins for the new guests, and the Carpathia's second cabin, being better filled than its first, the second class arrivals had be to sent to the steerage.
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CHAPTER X
ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA
AID FOR THE SUFFERING AND HYSTERICAL—BURYING THE DEAD—VOTE
OF THANKS TO CAPTAIN ROSTRON OF THE CARPATHIA—IDENTIFYING
THOSE SAVED—COMMUNICATING WITH LAND—THE
PASSAGE TO NEW YORK.
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