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Pike, James S. Article: Dickens, Carlyle & Tennyson This is not a book but an article, ad or vintage paper item
Atlantic Monthly Magazine 1939 Magazine Very Good with no dust jacket
very good condition SCARCE ORIGINAL VINTAGE ARTICLE; SCARCE ORIGINAL VINTAGE ARTICLE; NOVI006418; pages 6x9-1/2; 10 pages; One positive support for the "Navy Payroll" theory is that it can be traced to speculation that existed at the time of the sinking. Mr. James B.Connolly, a passenger aboard the REPUBLIC, wrote in his book Sea-Borne, Thirty Years Avoyaging (Doubleday, N.Y.,1944, page 168.): The White Star steamer BALTIC was given the right of way. She came almost alongside of us,and we thought she would be taking us off [the FLORIDA. At this point in the narration the REPUBLIC's passengers had undergone a first transfer to the FLORIDA.]; but not so. She hailed to say she would be back, then left us, and stood down to the REPUBLIC, which lay about half a mile from us and was still as high out of the water as in the early morning. Passengers murmured: 'Why didn't she take us off?' I could guess why. In those days our navy crews in foreign ports were paid off in gold. The REPUBLIC was reported to have taken on a quarter of a million dollars in gold for delivery to our fleet at Gibraltar. That gold was to be first taken care of.
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