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What the Islander struck was not certain. There was no ice, no fog. No less uncertain was the amount of gold that went down with the ship. According to one survivor the purser handed out to frantic passengers all but two $10,000 bags which no one claimed. According to another, many a victim went to the bottom hugging $40,000 bags of nuggets and dust...
Pierre, a purser on a big French liner, had to be much away from home. The first parting was a frightful wrench for both. Lucienne memorized his cabin and the parts of the ship where he would be. By making a careful itinerary she knew at every moment the ship's probable position. Her love preoccupied her so that she found she was able to "be" where Pierre was, to see him walking the deck, sitting in his cabin, finally even to make him "see" that she was there. At this point their dangerous experimenting stopped. They never talked...
Scores of Passengers (after fuming aboard the Rex at Gibraltar for three days): "Why isn't the purser in his office? . . . Why can't anybody find the Captain? . . . They said yesterday afternoon that we should positively sail during the night...
Bishop John Mark Gannon of Erie, Pa. (transferring with 30 other passengers from the Rex to the Vulcania, also of the Italian Lines): "I leave the Rex reluctantly. The only reason for my leaving is that I was unable to see the captain, the purser or any person who could give me reliable information about her departure. I had to have some definite idea of the date I am to arrive home...
Like a balky horse which breaks into a run when headed toward the stable, the laggard giant DO-X flew briskly homeward to Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance...