1st Class

Frank Manley Warran, 64, of Portland, OR boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with
his Wife Anna.

Mr Warren helped his wife into boat #5 and then stepped back, he lost his life in the
disaster.

Read Mrs Warren's account of the Disaster as reported in the Portland Oregonian
27th April 1912.

Mrs Warren (Anna S. Atkinson)

Mrs Warren (Anna S. Atkinson), 60, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her
husband Frank Manley Warren, they were from Portland, OR.

Mrs Warren was helped into lifeboat 5 by her husband who then stepped back as the
boat was lowered.

Mrs. Warren lived the rest of her days in Portland, surrounded by her children. She
continued to be active in volunteer work for her church and the Young Women's
Christian Association. By 1923, her health failed, and she was confined to her home
until her death on July 16, 1925.

Mrs Warren published the following account of her experiences in the Portland
Oregonian, 27th April 1912.

PORTLAND WOMAN DESCRIBES WRECK

Mrs. Frank M. Warren Tells in Detail, "the
Story of the Titanic."

BOAT'S TERRIFIC SPEED

Experiences, Before and After Vessel Went
Down, Told in Interesting Manner -- Shock
Will Last For Life.

Mrs. Frank M. Warren, one of the survivors
of the wrecked steamship Titanic, has
arrived home and is now resting as
comfortably as could possibly be expected
after her frightful experience, but the
shock is one from which she can never
fully recover. Coming home with her
daughter from New York, her son remained
to watch for the recovery of the body of
his father and is now in Halifax, awaiting
the arrival of the McKay Bennet with the
bodies that have been found.

To her family Mrs. Warren made the
following statement of her experiences
previous to and following the disaster:

"We started from Cherbourg on the evening
of the 10th, proceeding to Queenstown, at
which port we arrived about noon of the
11th, and after a delay of about 45
minutes continued on our voyage. From the
time of leaving Queenstown until the time
of the accident, the trip was remarkably
smooth and it was very bright and sunny
except for about half an hour of fog on
one occasion.

"The vessel on the first day out from
Queenstown, that is from noon of the 11th
to noon of the 12th, made, it was reported
494 miles. On the second day, from noon of
the 12th to noon of the 13th, about 519
miles, and on the third day, from noon of
the 13th to noon of the 14th 546 miles.

Greater Speed Expected

"The general impression prevailing aboard
the vessel was that the speed on the
fourth day would be better than that shown
on any preceding day and that we would
arrive in New York sometime on Tuesday
afternoon. The impression also prevailed
among the passengers that the course of
the vessel was more southwest than due
west, the supposition being that this was
to avoid fog. On Sunday, the day of the
accident, the weather was particularly
beautiful; there were no clouds, the sea
was smooth and the temperature very
moderate throughout the day.

"After dinner in the evening and until
about 10 p.m. we were seated in the lounge
on the dining saloon deck listening to the
music. About the time stated we went to
one of the upper decks, where Mr. Warren
wanted to take a walk, as was his custom
before retiring. He did not, however, as
the temperature had fallen very
considerably and the air was almost
frosty, although the night was perfect,
clear and starlight.

We retired about 10.30, ship's time and we
went to sleep immediately. About 11.45,
ship's time, we were awakened by a
grinding noise and the stoppage of the
vessel. Our room was on the starboard side
of deck D, about 30 (?) feet above the
water and in line with the point of
impact.

Ice Held as Souvenir.

"I arose immediately, turned the lights on
and asked Mr. Warren what terrible thing
had happened. He said 'nothing at all,'
but just at that moment I heard a man
across the corridor say, 'we have
certainly struck an iceberg.'

"I then asked Mr. Warren to go and see
what was the matter. He first started out
partly dressed, but decided to dress fully
before going out; after doing which he
went to one of the corridors and returned
in a very few minutes with a piece of ice,
saying it had been handed him as a
souvenir.

"By that time I had dressed and had laid
out the lifebelts but Mr. Warren said
there was absolutely no danger and that
with her watertight compartments the
vessel could not possibly sink and that in
all probability the only effect of the
accident would be the delaying of our
arrival in new York three or four days.

"We felt, however, too restless to remain
in our room, so went out in the corridor
again and talked with both the employees
of the vessel and passengers. The general
opinion prevailing was, that there was no
danger except for the expression on the
part of one man who stated that the water
was coming in below forward.

Boat's Designer Scared.

"Following this, we then went to our
rooms, put on all our heavy wraps and went
to the foot of the grand staircase on D
deck, again interviewing passengers and
crew as to the danger. While standing
there a Mr. Perry, I think his name was,
one of the designers of the vessel [sic],
rushed by, going up the stairs. He was
asked if there was any danger but made no
reply.

"But a passenger who was afterwards saved
told me that his face had on it a look of
terror. Immediately after this the report
became general that water was in the
squash courts, which were on the deck
below where we were standing, and that the
baggage had already been submerged. Just
at this point a steward passed, ordering
all to don lifebelts and warm clothing and
go to the boat deck at once, saying that
this move was simply a precautionary
measure.

"According to my impression, the time was
about 45 minutes after the accident. We
went back to our room for a third time,
seized the lifebelts and hastened to a
point two decks above, where an officer
assisted in adjusting our lifebelts.

"We saw in front of the purser's office
ship's papers and valuables laid out and I
asked if we could take anything with us,
but was told not.

Deck found in darkness.

"Continuing up to the boat deck we tried
to get out on the port side, but we were
unable to open the door. Noticing the
starboard door standing open we went out
that way. This boat deck was the top deck
of the vessel, uncovered and only a few
houses on it, such as contained the
gymnasium, a lounge etc.

"At the time we reached this deck there
were very few passengers there,
apparently, but it was dark and we could
not estimate the number. There was a
deafening roar of escaping steam, of which
we had not been conscious while inside.

"The only people we remembered seeing,
except a young woman by the name of Miss
Ostby, who had become separated from her
father and was with us, were Mr. Astor,
his wife and servants, who were standing
near one of the boats which was being
cleared preparatory to being lowered. The
Astor's did not get into this boat. They
all went back inside and I saw nothing of
them again until Mrs. Astor was taken onto
the Carpathia.

"We discovered that the boat next to the
one the Astor's [boat #5] had been near
had been lowered to the level of the deck,
so we went towards it and were told by the
officer to get in. I supposed Mr. Warren
had followed, but saw when I turned that
he was standing back assisting the women.

Wife Thinks Husband Safe.

"People came in so rapidly in the darkness
that it was impossible to distinguish
them, and while I did not see him again, I
thought that he also was in, as there
seemed to be still room for more when the
boat was lowered.

"There were according to my recollections,
either 35 or 36 people in the boat, and I
was not aware that Mr. Warren was not with
us until afloat and his name was called
with no response.

"The boat in which I rode was commanded by
Officer Pitman and manned by four of the
Titanic's men. The lowering of the craft
was accomplished with great difficulty.
First one end and then the other was
dropped at apparently dangerous angles,
and we feared that we would swamp as soon
as we struck the water.

"After the lifeboat was safely afloat
great difficulty was experienced in
finding a knife with which to cut the
lashings of the trigger to relieve the
boat from the falls. When we reached the
water the ship had settled so that my
impression was that I was looking through
the portholes into staterooms on deck D,
which we had formerly occupied, and as we
pulled away we could see that the Titanic
was settling by the head with a heavy list
to starboard.

Titanic Sinks Rapidly.

Mr. Pittman's [sic] orders were to pull
far enough away to avoid suction if the
ship sank. The sea was like glass, so
smooth that the stars were clearly
reflected. We were pulled quite a distance
away and then rested, watching the rockets
in terrible anxiety and realizing that the
vessel was rapidly sinking, bow first. She
went lower and lower, until the lower
lights were extinguished, and then
suddenly rose by the stern and slipped
from our sight about 2.10. We had no light
in our boat and were left in intense
darkness save for an occasional glimmer of
light from other lifeboats and one steady
green light on one of the ship's boats
which the officers on the Carpathia
afterwards said was of material assistance
in aiding them to come direct to the spot.
While drifting around, another boat came
alongside us and reported, as I remember,
24 or 25 passengers aboard and but one of
the Titanic's crew and no light.

"Later in the night we thought we saw
lights in the distance, indicating a
vessel, and these afterwards proved to be
the Carpathia, but at the time we had not
expected to be picked up until the arrival
of the Olympic, which we knew would be on
hand sometime in the afternoon and was the
only ship of which we had any knowledge.

Many Icebergs Seen.

"With daylight the wind increased and the
sea became choppy, and we saw icebergs in
every direction; some lying low in the
water and others tall, like ships and some
of us thought they were. Our boat was
picked up about 4.10 a.m. by the Carpathia
and too much cannot be said of the
courtesy, kindness and unceasing care of
the officers[,] crew and passengers of
this vessel, who worked from morning until
night and almost from night until morning
in the relief of the survivors.

"I was in the second boat picked up.
Others were adrift many hours longer and
consequently suffered more. The captain of
the Carpathia stayed until there were no
more boats to pick up and he felt he must
get out of the ice before sundown. We left
the scene of the disaster about noon with
the Californian still standing by, and as
we turned back, as far as I could see in
all directions, was a continuous floe of
ice, marked by detached icebergs. It was
well along towards night before we were
clear of the field.

"The feeling among the rescued passengers
was that the terrific speed of the Titanic
and the lack of reasonable precautions
were largely responsible for the accident.

No Boat Drills Held.

"I did not know, and to my knowledge it
was not known by the survivors until their
arrival in New York, that a warning had
been given Captain Smith of the presence
of bergs and that notwithstanding this the
speed was not lessened. Another thing
which caused me a great deal of anxiety
while on the Titanic was the absence of
drills. In my previous experience on the
sea it had been customary, at least on
Sunday, for the crew to be mustered to the
boats for fire or boat drills, but this
was not done on the Titanic.

"From the time of the accident until I
left the ship there was nothing which in
any was resembled a panic, and I believe
that a panic would have been impossible
owing to the immense size of the vessel,
but there seemed to be a sort of aimless
confusion and an utter lack of organized
effort.

"Mr. Lightoller, one of the officers of
the Titanic who went down with the vessel,
but afterwards was saved, told me that
Colonel Gracie assisted him in cutting
loose one of the life rafts and in pushing
it overboard. Both were carried down with
the vessel by the suction, but afterwards
found safety on the same raft which they
had previously cleared.

"I was also told by other survivors that
several of the rafts, the lashings of
which were never cut, were carried down
with the vessel.

"These and, of course, many other stories
and rumors were current among the
passengers as to the different facts and
happenings."

Colonel John Weir

Colonel John Weir, 60, was a native of Scotland who had made a fortune in western
mining before returning to Scotland, where his daughter and sister lived, and to
England. He had been president of the Nevada-Utah Mines & Smelters corporation.
During the Spanish-American War he was appointed quartermaster-general by
President McKinley and served in the Phillipines. Accordig to local papers he was well
thought of in Salt Lake City "The years had left him gray, but his heart was young
and his strong body retained without a hint of the years, it bore the strainght
lines of the typical soldier." Weir was known for his Christmas spirit, giving his
friends substantial gifts during the Christmas season. After he returned to Europe he
made frequent trips back to Utah, and often stayed at the Knuteford. He was a
member of the Alta club in Salt Lake City.

His friend, Morris P. Kirk of Salt Lake City, received a letter from Weir dated April
6th in which Weir stated that he was going to travel on the Philadelphia. He was
planning on traveling to Salt Lake City, Utah. Morris Kirk and Weir were to travel to
California to look over some mining areas in the Feather River area.

However, the sailing of Philadelphia was postponed by the coal strike and Weir
transfered to the Titanic . He boarded the ship in Southampton and was traveling in
first class. Weir died in the sinking.

Mrs J. Stuart White (Ella Holmes)

Mrs J. Stuart White (Ella Holmes), 55, from New York, NY and Briarcliff Manor NY
boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her maid Ms Amelia Bissetti. They were
rescued in lifeboat 8.

Mrs White later testified before the American Inquiry:

Senator Smith: Did you see anything after the accident
bearing on the discipline of the officers and crew, or their
conduct which you desire to speak of?
Mrs. White: Before we cut loose from the ship these stewards
took out cigarettes and lighted them. On an occasion like
that! That is one thing I saw.All of these men escaped under
the pretence of being oarsmen. The man who rowed near me
took his oar and rowed all over the boat in every direction.
I said to him: "Why don't you put the oar in the oarlock?"
He said: "Do you put it in that hole?" I said: "Certainly."
He said: "I never had an oar in my hand before." I soke to
the other man and he said: "I never had an oar in my hand
before but I think I can row."These were the men we were put
to sea with, that night—with all those magnificent fellows
left on board who would have been such a protection to
us—those were the kind of men with whom we were put to sea
that night! There were twenty-two women and four men in my
boat. None of the men seemed to understand the management of a boat except one who was at the end of our boat and gave
the orders. The officer who put us in the boat gave strict
orders to make for the light opposite, land passengers and
then get back just as soon as possible. That was the light
everybody saw in the distance. I saw it distinctly. It was
ten miles away, but we rowed, and rowed, and rowed, and then
we all decided that it was impossible for us to get to it,
and the thing to do was to go back and see what we could do
for the others. We had only twenty-two in our boat. We
turned and went back and lingered around for a long time. We
could not locate the other boats except by hearing them. The
only way to look was by my electric light. I had an electric
cane with an electric light in it. The lamp in the boat was
worth absolutely nothing. There was no excitement whatever
on the ship. Nobody seemed frightened. Nobody was
panic-stricken. There was a lot of pathos when husbans and
wives kissed each other goodbye.
We were the second boat (No.8) that got away from the ship
and we saw nothing that happened after that. We were not
near enough. We heard the yells of the passengers as they
went down, but we saw none of the harrowing part of it. The
women in our boat all rowed—every one of them. Miss Young
rowed every minute. The men (the stewards) did not know the
first thing about it and could not row. Mrs Swift rowed all
the way to the Carpathia. Countess Rothes stood at the
tiller. Where would we have been if it had not been for the
women, with such men as were put in charge of the boat? Our
head seaman was giving orders and these men knew nothing
about a boat. They would say: "If you don't stop talking
through that hole in your face there will bew one less in
the boat." We were in the hands of men of that kind. I
settled two or three fights between them and quieted them
down. Imagine getting right out there and taking out a pie
and smoking it, which was most dangerous. We had woolen rugs
all around us. There was another thing which I thought a
disgraceful point. The men were asked when they got in if
they could row. Imagine asking men who are supposed to be at
the head of lifeboats if they can row!
Senator Smith : There were no male passengers in your boat?
Mrs. White: Not one. I never saw a finer body of men in my
life than the men passengers on this ship—athletes and men
of sense—and if they had been permitted to enter these
lifeboats with their families, the boats would have been
properly manned and many more lives saved, instead of
allowing stewards to get in the boats and save their lives
under the pretense that they could row when they knew
nothing about it.

American Inquiry, p.1008

Miss Mary Natalie Wick

Miss Mary Natalie Wick, 31, from Youngstown, OH boarded the Titanic at
Southampton with her father George Dennick Wick and stepmother Mary Wick. She
shared cabin C-7 with Caroline Bonnell.

Miss Wick, her mother and Miss Bonnell were rescued in lifeboat 8.

Mr George Dennick Wick

Mr George Dennick Wick (57) was born in 1855 in Ohio, the son of Paul Wick and
Susan Bull Wick.

George Wick was originally married to Mary Chamberlain and a daughter Mary
Natalie Wick was born on 2 Aug. 1880. George's wife Mary died in March 1893 and
in 1896 he married Mary Hitchcock, their son George D. Wick, Jr. was born in 1897.

George boarded the Titanic in Southampton with his wife, daughter Natalie, his
cousin's daughter Caroline Bonnell, and Elizabeth Bonnell.

Mr and Mrs Wick were in their cabin at the time of the collision. Natalie Wick and
Caroline Bonnell came to the cabin to tell them that a crew member had advised them
to put their life jackets on.

Mr Wick did not believe that anything could be wrong. "Why, that's nonsense, girls,"
he said, "This boat is all right. She's going along finely. She just got a glancing
blow, I guess." The young women left and soon the Wicks were told to go to A deck.
They went up and the two young women found them. After Caroline Bonnell brought
her aunt Elizabeth Bonnell up, the group went up to Boat Deck.

The Wick and Bonnell women got into lifeboat 8. George Wick was last seen waving
at them from the railing. He died in the sinking.

A memorial service was held in his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio on April 24,
1912. A family member travelled to Halifax, hoping to identify his body but it was
never recovered.

Mrs George Dennick Wick (Mary Hitchcock)

Mrs George Dennick Wick (Mary Hitchcock), 45, was born in 1866/1867 in Ohio,
the daughter of W. Hitchcock. The Hitchcocks owned iron works in Youngstown,
Ohio.

Mary, known to her friends as Mollie, was the second wife (married 1896) of George
Dennick Wick. George had a daughter Mary Natalie Wick from his previous marriage
and in 1897 Mollie gave birth to a son George Dennick Wick, Jr. In 1900, George Jr.
son was living with his grandmother at her home on Wick Avenue in Youngstown,
Mahoning County, Ohio.

Mollie boarded the Titanic in Southampton and travelled in first class with her
husband, daughter Natalie Wick, her husband's cousin's daughter Caroline Bonnell,
and Elizabeth Bonnell.

When the collision occurred, Mrs Wick thought that a boiler had exploded. They were
in their stateroom when her daughter and Caroline Bonnell came to tell them that the
Titanic had struck an ice berg. Mr Wick declared that nothing could be wrong. Later,
a crewmember must have told them to put on their life preservers and go up on deck.
There, they were met by Natalie and Caroline. Caroline went below to bring her aunt
Elizabeth up on deck. Then the Wicks and Bonnells waited. The women were placed
into lifeboat 8. Mollie Wick looked up and watched her husband stand at the rail and
wave goodbye. They drifted about for five hours in the cold before being rescued by
the Carpathia.

Mrs Wick's name was not on the initial lists of survivors and the Ohio newspapers
speculated that she had died. George Jr. did not find out his mother had survived until
several days after the sinking. He and William F. Bonnell were among the family
members that travelled to New York City to meet the Carpathia. When they applied
for tickets to enter the restricted area, they found that dozens of reporters had already
claimed tickets as family members.

Mrs Wick refused to believe that her husband George was lost and remained in New
York for several days with her family awaiting news.

Mollie Wick died in 1920.

Mr George Dunton Widener

Mr George Dunton Widener, 50, from Elkins Park, PA, was the son of P.A.B.
Widener, a member of the board of the Fidelity Trust Company of Philadelphia, the
bank that controlled IMM, the owners of the White Star Line. He was heir to probably
the largest fortune in Philadelphia. However, George Widener was a wealthy man in his
own right running a successful street-car firm in Philadelphia.

Mr Widener and family had been staying at the Paris Ritz Hotel and he, his wife
Eleanor Widener, son Harry Elkins Widener and their two servants Edwin Keeping
and Emily Geiger boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg.

On the afternoon of April 14th, Widener and his wife were standing on the promenade
deck talking to J. Bruce Ismay when Captain Smith passed them on his way aft.
Without comment he handed Ismay one of the ice warnings from the White Star liner
Baltic, Ismay simply put the message in his pocket and headed below.

Later that day the Captain joined a dinner party given in his honour by the Wideners in
the ship's à la carte restaurant. The guests included, John B. Thayer and Mrs Thayer,
Major Archibald Butt, Clarence Moore and William Carter and his wife Lucile Carter.
A little before 9pm the Captain excused himself and headed for the bridge. After the
ladies had retired the men sat in the smoking room talking. They were still there when
the iceberg was struck.

Later, George and Harry escorted Eleanor to boat #4. While the boats continued
loading Colonel Archibald Gracie observed George Widener leaning against a railing in
deep discussion with John B. Thayer, Mrs Thayer had also boarded boat #4. As the
ship sank deeper The Wideners and Mr Thayer were joined by Charles Duane
Williams. All four men died in the disaster.

Mr Harry Elkins Widener

Mr Harry Elkins Widener, 27, was born on January 3, 1885 the son of George and
Eleanor Widener he lived in Elkins Park, PA. Harry studied at Hill School, a private
establishment in Pottstown, PA; graduating in 1903 he left to study at Harvard
(graduated 1907).

Harry was a noted collector of rare books, included in his collection was a
Shakespeare Folio and a Gutenberg Bible. Harry developed his bibliophilic interests
while in college, when he did research among early books with coloured plates
illustrating costumes for a Hasty Pudding Theatrical. In the spring of 1912, he went to
England to buy books (including the second edition of Bacon's Essais, 1598) and it
was while returning from this visit that he lost his life along with many of the books
purchased.

Harry boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with his father and mother, George Widener's
valet Edwin Keeping and Mrs Widener's maid Emily Geiger.

On the night of April 14th Harry and his parents threw a party in honour of Captain
Smith which was attended by some of the most wealthy passengers on board the
Titanic .

Later that night Harry helped his mother into boat 4 and then stood back to await his
fate, at one point he was joined by William Ernest Carter who advised him to try for a
boat but Harry "I'll think I'll stick to the big ship, Billy, and take a chance."

A story, never confirmed by Mrs Widener, romanticizes the death of her son. He was
about to step into a lifeboat that would have saved his life when he remembered his
newly acquired and unique copy Bacon's Essais and ran back to get it.

After his death the librarians turned to Mrs Widener for a donation in memory of her
bibliophile son. His mother gave $2,000,000 for the construction of the building that
would also house her son's collection and in 1915 the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial
Library was dedicated.

Horace Trumbauer (hon. A.M. 1915) of Philadelphia designed the library building.
Begun in 1912 in the New Yard, opposite Memorial Church, on the site of Gore Hall
(the previous college library, which was far too small), the library was completed in
1914. Over the center door are carver the printer's marks of Caxton, Rembolt, Fust
and Schoeffer, and Aldus, all famous early printers. Mrs. Widener refused additions to
the outside face of Widener. Because she stipulated that the new library could not be
remodeled ('not a brick, stone, or piece of mortar shall be changed'), in order to
build a breezeway between Widener and Houghton Library the architects had to run it
out the window to do it legally.

Today the Widener Library has a collection of 3.2 million volumes housed in ten floors
of stacks and well over five miles of bookshelves. It acquires about 60,000 volumes
each year. As the central library of the larger entity known as the Harvard College
Library, which is the library of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it houses the
collections of literature and history, folklore, linguistics, economics, sociology,
philosophy, and psychology. Special departments, including Judaica, Middle Eastern,
and Slavic, have responsibility for materials in non-Western languages.

Some rare books have been moved to the Houghton Library from the Widener stacks
but many continue to be found, sometimes by chance. In 1925, for instance, a Burmese
dignitary asked to see the collection of books from Burma and found in the stacks the
first book ever printed in the Burmese language.

In the center of the building, on the mezzanine between the first and second floors, is
the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room. Finished in English oak, carved in England
and brought over in panels, the room contains Mr. Widener's personal collection of
3,500 rare books. His collection demonstrates his already considerable achievements
as a collecter at the time of his death. Particularly well represented are
nineteenth-century English authors and nineteenth-century illustrated books.

On permanent display are copies of the first folio of Shakespeare and the Gutenberg
Bible. The latter, a gift of the Widener family in 1944, was printed in Mainz, Germany,
between 1450 and 1455. This beautiful book demonstrates the success of the new
technology of printing from movable type.

The conditions of Mrs Widnener's donation made it mandatory for all Harvard men to
be able to swim before graduating (thinking this might have saved her son). It is still a
requirement to pass the freshman swim test (100 yards of any stroke) in order to get a
diploma.

A similar swimming rule applies at the Hill School to which Mrs Widener (now Mrs
Rice) donated $300,000 on February 21, 1929 for the construction of the Science
building. Because of the depression, construction was cheap enough to build a second
building devoted to the arts of woodworking and such. Above the entrance to the
Science building are the words, "Enter to Learn." A plaque in the chapel reads:

Mrs George Dunton Widener (Eleanor Elkins)

Mrs George Dunton Widener (Eleanor Elkins), 50, from Elkins Park, PA, boarded the
Titanic at Cherbourg with her husband George Widener, son Harry Elkins Widener,
Mr Widener's manservant Edwin Keeping and her own maid Emily Geiger

Mrs Widener was helped into Lifeboat 4 after more than an hour's wait by her husband
and son. They then stood back to await their fate.

After their arrival in New York, Mrs Widener and Miss Geiger were met by a private
train which took them back to Philadelphia.

After losing her husband and son to the sea, Mrs Widener devoted herself to charitable
work. A lasting monument to her generosity stands as the Harry Elkins Widener
Memorial Library at Harvard for which she made a large donation. Her only
stipulations being that no stone be touched as long as the library stands and that each
graduate of Harvard pass a swimming test (she felt her son might have been saved had
he been able to swim). Both rules stand today although the library has been augmented
by new buildings in recent years.

In 1915 Mrs Widener married the geographer and explorer Dr Alexander Hamilton
Rice of New York, NY and in the coming years followed him on several expeditions in
South America. They also travelled extensively in Europe and India.

Eleanor died in 1937.

Mr Charles Duane Williams

Mr Charles Duane Williams (51) from Geneva, Switzerland, boarded the Titanic at
Cherbourg with his son William Norris Williams II. Their eventual destination was to
have been Radnor, PA.

At around midnight on April 14th 1912 Richard and his father went to the bar and
found it was closed. They asked a steward if he could open up but the steward said it
was against regulations. Charles handed the empty flask to Richard. Richard's
grandson Quincy II has since inherited this flask.

Charles Williams was killed when the first funnel collapsed. That same funnel washed
Richard towards Collapsible A and he was hauled aboard.

Charles Williams' body was rever recovered.

Mr Richard Norris Williams II

Mr Richard Norris Williams II was born in Geneva, Switzerland on January 29,1891
the son of Charles Duane Williams. He was travelling with his father from Geneva to
Radnor, PA. Williams - an acomplished tennis player - had planned to take part in
tournaments in America before going on to study at Harvard University. The men
boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg.

As they left their stateroom on C-Deck after the collision on April 14th they saw a
steward trying to open the door of a cabin behind which a panicking passenger was
trapped. Williams put his shoulder to the door and broke in. The steward threatened to
report him for damaging company property.

According to a family member, at around midnight the two men went to the bar and
found it was closed. They asked a steward if he could open up but the steward said it
was against regulations. Charles handed his empty flask to Richard which today is in
the possession of Richard's grandson Quincy II.

The two men wandered the decks as the ship sank under them, they went to A-deck
to look at the map where the ships run was posted daily, they returned to the boat
deck to see the lights of the lifeboats glinting in the distance. Feeling the intense cold
they retired to the gymnasium where they sat on the stationary bicycles while
gymnasium instructor McCawley chatted to others that had congregated there.

As the Titanic foundered Richard and Charles found themselves swimming for their
lives in the water, Richard was astonished to find himself face to face with first class
passenger Robert W. Daniels' prize bulldog Gamon de Pycombe doing likewise, one
of the other passengers had earlier ventured below to release the dogs from the
kennels.

Richard saw his father and many others crushed by the forward funnel as it collapsed,
he narrowly avoided being crushed himself, the resulting wave washed him toward
Collapsible A and after clinging to it's side for some time he was hauled aboard; He
and the other occupants were later transferred to lifeboat 14. He managed to forget the
cold for a while when he was distracted by the sight of a man wearing a derby hat with
a dent in it. He attempted in several languages to explain to the man how to push it out
but he didn't seem to understand. Eventually he reached out to do it himself but the man
resisted thinking Williams was tring to steal his hat.

The survivors in Collapsible A had suffered terribly from the cold since they were
waist-deep in freezing water. After his rescue the doctor on the Carpathia wanted to
amputate both of his legs but Richard refused, he excersied daily and eventually his legs
recovered..

A month later the collapsible 'A', which had been abandoned by the Carpathia was
recovered by the Oceanic, as this letter, from R.N.Williams to Colonel Archibald
Gracie shows, it's discovery led to a certain degree of confiusion regarding Williams
and his father:

Williams returned to Europe aboard the France in May 1912 but a few months later
returned to America to play tennis and to enter Harvard. Despite his traumatic ordeal
and the injury to his legs Richard won the 1912 United States mixed doubles (with Ms.
Mary Browne). In 1914 and 1916 he was United States singles champion, 1920
Wimbledon men's doubles champion (with Mr. C. S. Garland) and runner up in 1924
(with Mr. W. M. Washburn), 1924 Olympic gold medalist and between 1913 and
1926 was a member of the United States Davis Cup team.

Williams served with distinction in the U.S. Army in World War I and was awarded
the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre.

In later life Williams went on to become a successful investment banker in Philadelphia
and was for twenty two years the President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
He died of emphysema in June 2, 1968 aged 77 and was interred in St. David's
Churchyard, Devon, Pennsylvania.

Mr Hugh Woolner

Mr Hugh Woolner of London, England boarded the Titanic at Southampton.

He was rescued in Collapsible D.

1st Class - W

Frank Manley Warran