Unsinkable page 11

Unsinkable page 11 by ric Gustafson


Others on the Boat Train included Isidor Straus. Straus was a former congressman, advisor to the President and part owner of Macy's. He was returning with his wife from a holiday on the French Riviera. George Widener and his son Harry were on the train. He was the son of P.A.B. Widener. The elder Widener was a tramway magnate from Philadelphia. Also on the train was John B Thayer. He was President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and was traveling with his wife and son Jack. Also on the train was steel magnate Arthur Ryerson who was traveling with his wife Emily and three youngest children.
On the boat train was Colonel Washington Augustus Roebling who was the director of an engineering and steel firm. On board was producer Henry B Harris who owned a half dozen theatres in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Also on board that boat train was Major Archibald Butt  who was a military aide to President William Howard Taft. With Butt was a friend Frank Millet. Also on board was Archibald Gracie who had just written a novel about the Civil War.


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