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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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FREE RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
The Pennsylvania Railroad sent representatives to the pier, who said that the railroad had a special train of nine cars in which it would carry free any passenger who wanted to go immediately to Philadelphia or points west. The Pennsylvania also had eight taxicabs at the pier for conveyance of the rescued to the Pennsylvania Station, in Thirty-third Street.
Among those who later arrived at the pier before the Carpathia docked were P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia, two women relatives of J. B. Thayer, William Harris, Jr., the theatrical man, who was accompanied by Dr Dinkelspiel, and Henry Arthur Jones, the playwright.
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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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