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the New York Times."
Benjamin Guggenheim
"I believe the Meyers were
Jewish," said Lord. "I believe
they were connected with a
family from the New York
Times."
Benjamin Guggenheim
refused a steward's offer of a
life vest and instead went to
his cabin and changed into
his evening clothes in order to
enter Davey Jones' locker like
a gentleman. He handed a
message for his wife to a
young lady who was entering
one of the lifeboats. It read,
"If anything happens to me,
tell my wife I've done my best
to do my duty."
An ignoble footnote:
whether he actually had done
his best in every respect is a
good question. According to
Stephen Birmingham in Our
Crowd, a survivor of the
Titanic was a young blond
woman traveling as "Mrs.
Benjamin Guggenheim."
Lord said he was familiar
with a story told by Peggy
Guggenheim that her mother
went to meet the survivors of
the Titanic, hoping to meet
her husband, who was not yet
known to have drowned, and
instead watched Gug-
genheim's mistress descend
the gangplank of the rescue
ship Carpathia.
In all fairness to Benjamin
Guggenheim's reputation,
however, as the family has
repeatedly pointed out, there
was no "Mrs. Benjamin Gug-
genheim" on the passenger
list.
In another footnote, it is
possible that the only luggage
saved from the Titanic
belonged to Samuel
Goldenberg. Most of the
Titanic survivors carried
some items with them onto
the lifeboats; and, after
Goldenbeit had left the Car-
pathia, customs officials
found on board a small brown
canvas carryall which they
said bdlonged to him.
Goldenberg later denied the
piece came from the Titanic.
He explained that he bought
the case and a few other ac-
cessories on board the
Carpathia.
Another Jewish notable on
board was Edith Rosenbaum,
a New York fashion designer
who had gone to Paris to
sketch the latest French
fashions with the intention of
using them to conquer the
fashion world of New York.
Her sketches were lost in the
disaster, said Lord, "and she
had to go back to the drawing
board." Rosenbaum later
changed her name to Russell.
Among the most helpful of
Titanic survivors was Gus
Cohen, a young British Jew
on his way to visit family in
New York in 1912. It was
Cohen, a third-class
passenger, who gave Lord the
most information about the
passengers in steerage.
Cohen, who Lord said "was
no less brave than anyone
else," reported passing the
third-class dining salon about
an hour after the Titanic col-
lided with the iceberg. He saw
quite a number of French and
Italian crew members
gathered there, many with
rosaries in their hands.
Lord wrote, "With the lost
world of the Titanic went
some of its prejudices —
especially a firm and loudly-
voiced opinion of the
superiority of Anglo-Saxon
courage." Because of this at-
titude, he explained in his
book, attempts to "rush" the
lifeboats were falsely at-
tributed to Latins and other
non Anglo-Saxons aboard the
ship.
"It was a very prejudiced
period," Lord said, "and of
course there was discrimina-
tion against Jews. But Jews
like the Strauses and the
Guggenheims were attrac-
tive, wealthy, philanthropic
people who were considered
New York society. Anglo-
Saxon courage was probably
considered to include them as
American Jews. Indeed, after
the disaker people leaned
over backwards to give credit
to the Strauses for their
bravery. They may have been
trying to prove their tolerance
of Jews by acknowledging
what the Strauses had done."
As the Titanic sank, faint
radio signals of the news were
being beamed home by the
S.S. Olympic, which was rac-
ing to the scene. In New York,
the distress signals were pick-
ed up by future radio mogul
David Sarnoff as he sat wear-
ing his headphones and pun-
ching radio keys and buttons
at Wanamaker's. Sarnoff
radioed the other ships in the
area and also telephoned the
newspapers.
As the news became known,
Wanamaker's kept its doors
open late and friends and
relatives of the passengers
crowded in, anxious to be kept
abreast of the latest news.
Police had to erect a barricade
to protect young Sarnoff from
the crowd and give him the
quiet he needed to transcribe
the signals.
President Taft ordered all
other radio stations in the
United States shut down so
that nothing would interfere
with the signals Sarnoff was
receiving. For another three
days Sarnoff continued to
listen as the names of known
survivors came in.
Sarnoff found himself an in-
ternational hero who had