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.His friendship with President Cleveland, and how the latter had honored him, were among the topics of daily conversation that interested me most.On this Sunday, our last day aboard ship, he finished the reading of a book I had loaned him, in which he expressed intense interest.This book was ‘The Truth About Chickamauga,’ of which I am the author, and it was to gain a much-needed rest after several years of work thereon, and in order to get it off my mind, that I had taken this trip across the ocean and back.As a counter-irritant, my experience was a dose which was highly efficacious.I recall how Mr.and Mrs.Straus were particularly happy about noon time on this same day in anticipation of communicating by wireless telegraphy with their son and his wife on their way to Europe on board the passing ship Amerika.Some time before six o’clock, full of contentment, they told me of the message of greeting received in reply.This last good-bye to their loved ones must have been a consoling thought when the end came a few hours thereafter.That night after dinner, with my table companions, Messrs James Clinch Smith and Edward A.Kent, according to usual custom, we adjourned to the palm room, with many others, for the usual coffee at individual tables where we listened to the always delightful music of the Titanic’s band.On these occasions, full dress was always en règle; and it was a subject both of observation and admiration, that there were so many beautiful women – then especially in evidence – aboard the ship.I invariably circulated around during these delightful evenings, chatting with those I knew, and with those whose acquaintance I had made during the voyage.I might specify names and particularize subjects of conversation, but the details, while interesting to those concerned, might not be so to all my readers.The recollections of those with whom I was thus closely associated in this disaster, including those who suffered the death from which I escaped and those who survived with me, will be a treasured memory and bond of union until my dying day.From the palm room, the men of my coterie would always go to the smoking room, and almost every evening join in conversation with some of the well-known men whom we met there, including within my own recollections Major Archie Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, discussing politics; Clarence Moore, of Washington, D.C., relating his venturesome trip some years ago through the West Virginia woods and mountains, helping a newspaper reporter in obtaining an interview with the outlaw, Captain Anse Hatfield; Frank D.Millet, the well-known artist, planning a journey west; Arthur Ryerson and others.During these evenings I also conversed with Mr.John B.Thayer, Second Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and with Mr.George D.Widener, a son of the Philadelphia street-car magnate, Mr.P.A.B.Widener.My stay in the smoking-room on this particular evening for the first time was short, and I retired early with my cabin steward Cullen’s promise to awaken me betimes next morning to get ready for the engagements I had made before breakfast for the game of racquets, work in the gymnasium and the swim that was to follow.I cannot regard it as a mere coincidence that on this particular Sunday night I was thus prompted to retire early for nearly three hours of invigorating sleep, whereas an accident occurring at midnight of any of the four preceding days would have found me mentally and physically tired.That I was thus strengthened for the terrible ordeal, better even that had I been forewarned of it, I regard on the contrary as the first provision for my safety (answering the constant prayers of those at home), made by the guardian angel to whose care I was entrusted during the series of miraculous escapes presently to be recorded.CHAPTER TWOStruck By An Iceberg‘Watchman, what of the night?’ – Isaiah 21:11.My stateroom was an outside one on Deck C on the starboard quarter, somewhat abaft amidships.It was No.C, 51.I was enjoying a good night’s rest when I was aroused by a sudden shock and noise forward on the starboard side, which I at once concluded was caused by a collision, with some other ship perhaps [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]