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ISIDOR STRAUS

Isidor Straus, whose wife elected to perish with him in the ship, was a brother of Nathan and Oscar Straus, a partner with Nathan Straus in R. H. Macy & Co. and L. Straus & Sons, a member of the firm of Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, and has been well known in politics and charitable work. He was a member of the Fifty-third Congress from 1893 to 1895, and as a friend of William L. Wilson was in constant consultation in the matter of the former Wilson tariff bill.

Mr. Straus was conspicuous for his works of charity and was an ardent supporter of every enterprise to improve the condition of the Hebrew immigrants. He was president of the Educational Alliance, vice-president of the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, on one of the visiting committees of Harvard University, and was besides a trustee of many financial and philanthropic institutions.

Mr. Straus never enjoyed a college education. He was, however, one of the best informed men of the day, his information having been derived from extensive reading. His library, said to be one of the finest and most extensive in New York, was his pride and his place of special recreation.

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ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ICEBERG THAT SUNK THE TITANIC
Lady Duff Gordon, a prominent English woman who was aboard the Titanic, on landing in New York told how she had seen the iceberg a few minutes before the Titanic ran into it. "We had watched for some time the field of ice," said Lady Gordon, "and noticed a number of large bergs. This was one which one of the officers pointed out to me. He said that it must be one hundred feet high and seemed to be a mile long. It was away off in the distance."

[Description: Photograph of a large iceberg, taken from a considerable distance. ]

HEART-BREAKING FAREWELLS
Both men and women were loaded into the first boats, but soon the cry of "Women first" was raised. Then came the real note of tragedy. Husbands and wives clung to each other in farewell; some refused to be separated.

[Description: Illustration depicting a chaotic scene on the deck of the Titanic. Amid the crowd, a couple parts as a crew member leads the woman off to the lifeboats, which are being lowered in the background. ]

	CHAPTER IV SOME OF THE NOTABLE PASSENGERS SKETCHES OF PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN ON BOARD, INCLUDING MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT, JOHN JACOB ASTOR, BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM, ISIDOR STRAWS, J. BRUCE ISMAY, GEORGE D. WIDENER, COLONEL WASHINGTON ROEBLING, 2D, CHARLES M. HAYS, W. T. STEAD AND OTHERS Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

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ISIDOR STRAUS

HEART-BREAKING FAREWELLS Both men and women were loaded into the first boats, but soon the cry of "Women first" was raised. Then came the real note of tragedy. Husbands and wives clung to each other in farewell; some refused to be separated.

HEART-BREAKING FAREWELLS
Both men and women were loaded into the first boats, but soon the cry of "Women first" was raised. Then came the real note of tragedy. Husbands and wives clung to each other in farewell; some refused to be separated.