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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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EARLY ARRIVALS AT PIER
Among the first to arrive at the pier was a committee from the Stock Exchange, headed by R. H. Thomas, and composed of Charles Knoblauch, B. M. W. Baruch, Charles Holzderber and J. Carlisle. Mr. Thomas carried a long black box which contained $5000 in small bills, which was to be handed out to the needy steerage survivors of the Titanic as they disembarked.
With the early arrivals at the pier were the relatives of Frederick White, who was not reported among the survivors, though Mrs. White was; Harry Mock, who came to look for a brother and sister; and Vincent Astor, who arrived in a limousine with William A. Dobbyn, Colonel Astor's secretary, and two doctors. The limousine was kept waiting outside to take Mrs. Astor to the Astor home on Fifth Avenue.
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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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