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The Spectacle On Board The Carpathia On The Return Trip
To New York At Times Was Heartrending, While At Other Times
Those On Board Were Quite Cheerful.
Chapter 11 Pg 86Preparations On Land To Receive The Sufferers
Police Arrangements--Donations Of Money And Supplies
--Hospitals And Ambulances Made Ready--Private
Chapter 11 Pg 87Houses Thrown Open--Waiting For The Carpathia To
Arrive--The Ship Sighted!
New York City, Touched To The Heart By The Great
Ocean Calamity And Desiring To Do What It Could
To Lighten The Woes And Relieve The Sufferings Of
The Pitiful Little Band Of Men And Women Rescued From The
Titanic, Opened Both Its Heart And Its Purse.
The Most Careful And Systematic Plans Were Made For The
Reception And Transfer To Homes, Hotels Or Institutions Of The
Titanic's Survivors. Mayor Gaynor, With Police Commissioner
Waldo, Arranged To Go Down The Bay On The Police Boat
Patrol, To Come Up With The Carpathia And Take Charge Of
The Police Arrangements At The Pier.
In Anticipation Of The Enormous Number That Would, For
A Variety Of Reasons, Creditable Or Otherwise, Surge About The
Cunard Pier At The Coming Of The Carpathia, Mayor Gaynor
And The Police Commissioner Had Seen To It That The Streets
Should Be Rigidly Sentineled By Continuous Lines Of Policemen
Under Inspector George Mcclusky, The Man Of Most Experience,
Perhaps, In Handling Large Crowds, There Were 200 Men,
Including Twelve Mounted Men And A Number In Citizens'
Clothes. For Two Blocks To The North, South And East Of The
Docks Lines Were Established Through Which None Save Those
Bearing Passes From The Government And The Cunard Line
Could Penetrate.
With All Arrangements Made That Experience Or Information
Could Suggest, The Authorities Settled Down To Await The Docking
Of The Carpathia. No Word Had Come To Either The White
Star Line Or The Cunard Line, They Said, That Any Of The Titanic's
People Had Died On That Ship Or That Bodies Had Been
Recovered From The Sea, But In The Afternoon Mayor Gaynor
Sent Word To The Board Of Coroners That It Might Be Well For
Some Of That Body To Meet The Incoming Ship. Coroners
Feinberg And Holtzhauser With Coroner's Physician Weston
Arranged To Go Down The Bay On The Patrol, While Coroner
Hellenstein Waited At The Pier. An Undertaker Was Notified
To Be Ready If Needed. Fortunately There Was No Such Need.
Every Possible Measure Thought Of
Every Possible Measure Of Relief For The Survivors That
Could Be Thought Of By Officials Of The City, Of The Federal
Government, By The Heads Of Hospitals And The Red Cross
And Relief Societies Was Arranged For. The Municipal Lodging
House, Which Has Accommodations For 700 Persons, Agreed
To Throw Open Its Doors And Furnish Lodging And Food To Any
Chapter 11 Pg 88Of The Survivors As Long As They Should Need It. Commis-
Sioner Of Charities Drummond Did Not Know, Of Course,
Just How Great The Call Would Be For The Services Of His
Department. He Went To The Cunard Pier To Direct His Part
Of The Work In Person. Meanwhile He Had Twenty Ambulances
Ready For Instant Movement On The City's Pier At The
Foot Of East Twenty-Sixth Street. They Were Ready To Take
Patients To The Reception Hospital Connected With Bellevue
Or The Metropolitan Hospital On Blackwell's Island.
Ambulances From The Kings County Hospital In Brooklyn Were
Also There To Do Their Share. All The Other Hospitals In The
City Stood Ready To Take The Titanic's People And Those That
Had Ambulances Promised To Send Them. The Charities
Ferryboat, Thomas S. Brennan, Equipped As A Hospital Craft,
Lay Off The Department Pier With Nurses And Physicians Ready
To Be Called To The Cunard Pier On The Other Side Of The City.
St. Vincent's Hospital Had 120 Beds Ready, New York Hospital
Twelve, Bellevue And The Reception Hospital 120 And Flower
Hospital Twelve.
The House Of Shelter Maintained By The Hebrew Sheltering
And Immigrant Aid Society Announced That It Was Able To
Care For At Least Fifty Persons As Long As Might Be Necessary.
The German Society Of New York, The Irish Immigrant
Society, The Italian Society, The Swedish Immigrant Society
And The Young Men's Christian Association Were Among The
Organizations That Also Offered To See That No Needy Survivor
Would Go Without Shelter.
Mrs. W. A. Bastede, Whose Husband Is A Member Of The
Staff Of St. Luke's Hospital, Offered To The White Star Line
The Use Of The Newly Opened Ward At St. Luke's,
Which Will Accommodate From Thirty To Sixty Persons. She
Said The Hospital Would Send Four Ambulances With Nurses
And Doctors And That She Had Collected Clothing Enough For
Fifty Persons. The Line Accepted Her Offer And Said That The
Hospital Would Be Kept Informed As To What Was Needed.
A Trustee Of Bellevue Also Called At The White Star Offices To
Offer Ambulances. He Said That Five Or Six, With Two Or Three
Doctors And Nurses On Each, Would Be Sent To The Pier If Required.
Many Other Hospitals As Well As Individuals Called At The
Mayor's Office, Expressing Willingness To Take In Anybody
That Should Be Sent To Them. A Woman Living In Fiftieth
Street Just Off Fifth Avenue Wished To Put Her Home At
The Disposal Of The Survivors. D. H. Knott, Of 102 Waverley
Place, Told The Mayor That He Could Take Care Of 100 And Give
Them Both Food And Lodging At The Arlington, Holly And Earl
Hotels. Commissioner Drummond Visited The City Hall
And Arranged With The Mayor The Plans For The Relief To Be
Extended Directly By The City. Mr. Drummond Said That
Omnibuses Would Be Provided To Transfer Passengers From The
Ship To The Municipal Lodging House.
Chapter 11 Pg 89Mrs. Vanderbilt's Efforts
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Spent The Day Telephoning To
Her Friends, Asking Them To Let Their Automobiles Be Used To
Meet The Carpathia And Take Away Those Who Needed Surgical
Care. It Was Announced That As A Result Of Mrs.
Vanderbilt's Efforts 100 Limousine Automobiles And All The Fifth
Avenue And Riverside Drive Automobile Buses Would Be At
The Cunard Pier.
Immigration Commissioner Williams Said That He
Would Be At The Pier When The Carpathia Came In. There
Was To Be No Inspection Of Immigrants At Ellis Island. Instead,
The Commissioner Sent Seven Or Eight Inspectors To
The Pier To Do Their Work There And He Asked Them To Do It
With The Greatest Possible Speed And The Least Possible Bother
To The Shipwrecked Aliens. The Immigrants Who Had No
Friends To Meet Them Were To Be Provided For Until Their Cases
Could Be Disposed Of. Mr. Williams Thought That Some Of
Them Who Had Lost Everything Might Have To Be Sent Back
To Their Homes. Those Who Were To Be Admitted To The United
States Were To Be Cared For By The Women's Relief Committee.
Red Cross Relief
Robert W. De Forest, Chairman Of The Red Cross Relief
Committee Of The Charity Organization Society, After
Conferring With Mayor Gaynor, Said That In Addition To An
Arrangement That All Funds Received By The Mayor Should
Be Paid To Jacob H. Schiff, The New York Treasurer Of
The American Red Cross, The Committee Had Decided
That It Could Turn Over All The Immediate Relief Work To The
Women's Relief Committee.
The Red Cross Committee Announced That Careful Plans
Had Been Made To Provide For Every Possible Emergency.
The Emergency Committee Received A Telegram That Ernest
P. Bicknell, Director Of The American Red Cross, Was Coming
From Washington. The Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee
Was To Have Several Representatives At The Pier To Look
Out For The Passengers On The Carpathia. Mr. Persons And Dr.
Devine Were To Be There And It Was Planned To Have Others.
The Salvation Army Offered, Through The Mayor's Office,
Accommodation For Thirty Single Men At The Industrial Home,
Chapter 11 Pg 90533 West Forty-Eighth Street, And For Twenty Others At Its
Hotel, 18 Chatham Square. The Army's Training School At
124 West Fourteenth Street Was Ready To Take Twenty Or
Thirty Survivors. R. H. Farley, Head Of The White Star
Line's Third Class Department, Said That The Line Would Give All
The Steerage Passengers Railroad Tickets To Their Destination.
Mayor Gaynor Estimated That More Than 5000 Persons
Could Be Accommodated In Quarters Offered Through His Orders.
Most Of These Offers Of Course Would Have To Be Rejected.
The Mayor Also Said That Colonel Conley Of The Sixty-Ninth
Regiment Offered To Turn Out His Regiment To Police The Pier,
But It Was Thought That Such Service Would Be Unnecessary.
Crowds At The Docks
Long Before Dark On Thursday Night A Few People Passed
The Police Lines And With A Yellow Card Were Allowed To Go On
The Dock; But Reports Had Been Published That The Carpathia
Would Not Be In Till Midnight, And By 8 O'clock There Were
Not More Than Two Hundred People On The Pier. In The Next
Hour The Crowd With Passes Trebled In Number. By 9 O'clock
The Pier Held Half As Many As It Could Comfortably Contain.
The Early Crowd Did Not Contain Many Women Relatives Of The
Survivors. Few Nervous People Could Be Seen, But Here
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