George Washington Vanderbilt II Changed His Plans Last Minute
George Washington Vanderbilt II was Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson and heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. He was supposed to be on the Titanic, but his sister-in-law warned him about the risks of sailing on a ship on its maiden trip, so he changed his mind a few days before it sailed. He did, however, transport his luggage and one of his attendants onto the Titanic. The servant, a second-class guy (the group with the highest mortality rate on the ship), perished.
George Washington Vanderbilt II Changed His Plans Last Minute
Theodore Dreiser Nearly Met Disaster
Famous author Theodore Dreiser similarly modified his plans and did not board the ship, instead following his publisher’s advise to take a cheaper one. After the Titanic sank, he said, “To conceive of a ship as massive as the Titanic, new and gleaming, drowning in infinite fathoms of water. And the two thousand passengers were dragged like rats from their berths, only to float hopelessly in miles of sea, praying and screaming.”
Theodore Dreiser Nearly Met Disaster
