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CHAPTER XI
PREPARATIONS ON LAND TO RECEIVE THE SUFFERERS
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS—DONATIONS OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES
—HOSPITALS AND AMBULANCES MADE READY—PRIVATE
HOUSES THROWN OPEN—WAITING FOR THE CARPATHIA TO
ARRIVE—THE SHIP SIGHTED!
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CROWDS AT THE DOCKS
Long before dark on Thursday night a few people passed the police lines and with a yellow card were allowed to go on the dock; but reports had been published that the Carpathia would not be in till midnight, and by 8 o'clock there were not more than two hundred people on the pier. In the next hour the crowd with passes trebled in number. By 9 o'clock the pier held half as many as it could comfortably contain.
On the whole it was a frantic, grief-crazed crowd. Laborers rubbed shoulders with millionaires.
The relatives of the rich had taxicabs waiting outside the docks. The relatives of the poor went there on foot in the rain, ready to take their loved ones.
A special train was awaiting Mrs. Charles M. Hays, widow of the president of the Grand Trunk Railroad. A private car also waited Mrs. George D. Widener.
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CHAPTER XI
PREPARATIONS ON LAND TO RECEIVE THE SUFFERERS
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS—DONATIONS OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES
—HOSPITALS AND AMBULANCES MADE READY—PRIVATE
HOUSES THROWN OPEN—WAITING FOR THE CARPATHIA TO
ARRIVE—THE SHIP SIGHTED!
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