The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY MAY 22nd. 1912 THE TITANIC.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY MAY 22nd. 1912 THE TITANIC.

Jn its issue of April 11th. the “Manchester Guardian” refers to the sailing of the Titatiieion r th'e previous day.

and remarks that the great liner surpassed in size ahd luxury-, but especially in luxury, anything’ else’ afloat, if hot. also the,. Waldorf-Astoria and the Royal Automobile Club. Lightly, commenting, the article proceeds:-

“The informatibn that she is feet long, 10-1 feet deep (or high) from keel to bridge, and displaces about 60,000 tons of water probably means no more to most of us than the astronomers assurance that the sun is 90,000,000 miles away, and ninth less probably than the statement that her rudder

is as tall as a six dr seven storey building, weighs more than a hundred tons, and swings on pintles nearly a foot thick. But the appointments of

the ship make one realise how remote

the sea ami its associations are from the up-to-date Atlantic passenger. Squash racquets courts, Turkish baths, gymnasium, swimming hath, electric

passenger lifts, reception-rooms, RitzCarlton restaurants, concert-halls, Parisian cafes in French trelliswork

with ivy creepers, parlour suites with private promenade decks—-could anything he ranch more foreign to oldfashioned people’s ideas of a sea voyage? Still, to do them justice, the de-

gners of the Titanic

preoccupied

though they were with the tastes of cosmopolitan millionaires, have made a.t least one small concession to those cf ns who regard the sea as something better than a dreary slum surrounding a Grand Babylon Hotel. Wo learn from one enthusiastic description that

in the upper promenade deck one can look through the windows, and, safely heltered from contact with the outer nr ,obtain a full view of the sea, so much appreciated by the passengers.

Let us be grateful for that kindly pi invision.” In view of the fearful tragedy which happened a few days after the above was written, it makes rather sad reading, but at the same time it enables one to at least realise that it was easily possible for many on board to have hardly noticed the shock of the collision or to have recognised in any way that they were in danger.