39. Lamar Cecil, Albert Bullin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany, 1888–1918 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967), 57.
40. Mark D. Warren, ed., Lusitania (Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1986), p. 12, reprinted from Engineering, 1907.
41. Cunard Agreement with British Admiralty, as quoted by Mark D. Warren, ed., The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania” (Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1987), p. 14.
42. Ibid., p. 13.
43. Warren, ed., The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania,” pp. 2–3.
3. MAURETANIA
1. Mark D. Warren, ed., “The Trials of the Mauretania,” in The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania” (Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1987), p. vii.
2. John Maxtone-Graham, The Only Way to Cross (New York: Macmillan, 1978), p. 39.
3. Warren, ed., The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania,” p. iii.
4. “Giant New Liner Gets Here in Fog,” New York Times, November 23, 1907.
5. Alva Johnson, “The Mysterious Mr. Gibbs, Part I,” Saturday Evening Post, January 20, 1945, p. 10.
6. Deutschland (1900), http://www.passagierdampfer.de/Schiffe/Liner/Deutschland_1900_/deutschland_1900_.htmla, accessed August 14, 2008.
7. Warren, ed., The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania,” p. vii.
8. Mark D. Warren, ed., The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Lusitania” (Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1987), p. 15.
9. Warren, ed., The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania,” pp. ii, 31.
10. Ibid., pp. 28–29.
11. Charles Dickens, American Notes (New York: Fawcett, 1961), pp. 15–47, as quoted in Stephen Fox, Transatlantic (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), p. 96.
12. “Giant New Liner Gets Here in Fog,” New York Times, November 23, 1907.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Winthrop Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 58.
16. “Giant New Liner Gets Here in Fog,” New York Times, November 23, 1907.
17. Ibid.
18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “The Queen with a Fighting Heart,” 1936, published in Sea Breezes, 1950, as quoted in Warren, ed., “The Trials of the Mauretania,” in The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Liner “Mauretania,” p. v.
19. “Giant New Liner Gets Here in Fog,” New York Times, November 23, 1907.
20. Transcript of William Francis Gibbs, Harvard University Archives, UAIII 15.75.12.
21. “18th Street Entrance to Gibbs Mansion Where Boy Was Killed,” Walnut Street, Volume III, Perkins Collection, compiled by Helen C. Perkins, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, from Stuart Wells, “The Residence at 1733 Walnut Street,” HSTVP 600 Documentation and Archival Research, Dr. Roger Moss, December 12, 1986, Collection of the Philadelphia Athenaeum, HR 86.4, p. 11.
22. “Gibbs Mansion May Go Under the Hammer,” February 19, 1911, publication unknown, Perkins Collection, Walnut Street, Walnut Street Volume III from West of Broad, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from Wells, “The Residence at 1733 Walnut Street.”
23. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 73.
24. Philadelphia Deed Book ELT 324, p. 28, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from Wells, “The Residence at 1733 Walnut Street,” p. 12.
25. “Mr. Gibbs’ Fountain: The Financier Startled by a Bill from the Water Bureau,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 3, 1900.
26. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 73.
27. Frank O. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them (New York: Gibbs & Cox, 1968), p. 197.
4. J. P. Morgan’S TITANIC
1. “Vincent Astor Dies In His Home at 67,” New York Times, February 4, 1959.
2. Ibid.
3. Jack Alexander, “Profiles: The Golden Spoon II,” New Yorker, March 12, 1938, p. 23.
4. Ibid., p. 26.
5. “Hamburg-American in Shipping Rate War,” New York Times, August 20, 1904.
6. As quoted in Wyn Craig Wade, Titanic: Death of a Dream (New York: Rawson, Wade, 1979), p. 32.
7. Ibid., pp. 103–4.
8. Ibid., p. 112.
9. John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy (New York: Norton, 1995), p. 206.
10. Wade, Titanic, p. 37.
11. Speech of Senator William Alden Smith, May 28, 1912, United States Inquiry into the Titanic Disaster, http://www.titanicinquiry.org/USInq/USReport/AmInqRepSmith01.php, accessed May 14, 2008.
12. “Titanic’s Engines Were At Full Speed,” New York Times, May 26, 1912.
13. Speech of Senator William Alden Smith, May 28, 1912.
14. Wade, Titanic, p. 293.
15. Ibid., pp. 304–5.
16. Saturday Review, as quoted in Wade, Titanic, p. 294.
17. Murken, Linienreederei-Verbande, p. 240, as quoted in Lamar Cecil, Albert Ballin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany 1888–1918 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 58.
18. “Colonel John Jacob Astor IV,” Encyclopedia Titanica, http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/john-jacob-astor.html, accessed July 1, 2008.
19. Jack Alexander, “Profiles: The Golden Spoon II,” New Yorker, March 12, 1938, p. 26.
5. PIPE DREAMERS AT WORK
1. Frank O. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them: The Life and Ships of William Francis Gibbs 1886–1967 (New York: Gibbs & Cox, 1968), pp. 10–11.
2. “W. W. Gibbs Seriously Ill but Improving,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 1911.
3. “Home of W. W. Gibbs Damaged by Fire,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 15, 1913.
4. Lamar Cecil, Albert Ballin: Business and Politics in Imperial Germany 1888–1918 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 51.
5. Interview with Vice Admiral Harry Manning (USMS), November 30, 1969, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 1 (New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1972), p. 184.
6. Ibid., pp. 85–86.
7. Sir Edward Grenfell to J. P. Morgan Jr., September 16, 1914, International Mercantile Marine Folder, J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
8. Report of the International Mercantile Marine Company for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1916, Proof No. 4 of July 16, 1917, 9104A-EB-1, International Mercantile Marine Folder, the J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.