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For some reason, Hennings attention went to one person: a tall, portly man with a whitish-gray beard of monumental proportions. He felt his mind gravitating toward him, like water circling around a drain.
The picture he was seeing began to fade. He was starting to think More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd his thoughts, to see the others
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the table through his eyes. It came to Henning that somehow he was being absorbed, that he was becoming someone else. The last thing he saw before losing his identity altogether was the seal on one of the dinner More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd plates. It was an embossed red flag, with a white star in its royce gracie
Underneath were the words: R.M.S. TITANIC William Thomas Stead, eminent journalist, lecturer, student of the occult, and devout disciple of spiritualism, couldnt have been happier. On this, the third night of the Titanics maiden voyage, he More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd had been invited to dine at the captains table. A great honor, he well knew, for unlike most groton road race
liner masters, Captain Edward J. Smith did not hold court over a huge table populated by rich, influential passengers and attractive women. E.J. never invited more than five More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd guests to his coveted table, located near the center of the first-class dining saloon. His very presence was a reassuring sight to any passenger fanboys
had sailed with him before. Smith would dine in public only when the weather was clear and all was well with More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd his ship. The six-place table reflected the captains love of good dinner conversation, far easier and more intimate than would have been possible with a larger number of guests. Stead, an mass lottery
man whose own thick white beard gave him a fleeting resemblance to E.J. himself, was More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd curious to know what other guests the captain had chosen-and gratified when he arrived at the table and recognized his dinner companions instantly. First, there was none other than J. Bruce Ismay, the tall, handsome White Star royce gracie
chairman whose stiff, ramrod carriage always reminded Stead of More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd a Buckingham Palace guard. Next to Ismay sat Benjamin Guggenheim, the enormously wealthy American who had made his fortune in the smelting industry. Stead didnt know him well but already had formed a favorable impression. Guggenheim was a pleasant-faced, square-jawed man with salmons bulls
manners softened by More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd a dry sense of humor. The other American at the table was John Jacob Astor, probably the wealthiest person aboard the Titanic, with a personal fortune estimated at $150 million. In the eyes of many, it was a tainted fortune; it was not only totally inherited, More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd but much of Astors cutco knives
income was derived from vast real estate holdings in New York that included some of the citys worst slums. Stead had recently read an article that described him as the worlds greatest monument to unearned increment.
Unlike Guggenheim, who lived well (he More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd had his own manservant with him) but tended to avoid cutco knives
Astor seemed to flaunt his wealth. He owned eighteen automobiles and a private railroad car. At state functions, he wore a colonels uniform that would have made a South American general envious with its splendor-never More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Scucisd mind that Astors military service had been as a noncombatant inspector general during the Spanish-American war, cutco knives
commission he was said to have literally purchased just so he could wear a fancy uniform. Yet Stead fe.