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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t he had won,that parliament would be forced to pass a law that wouldwipe out the white slavery. And parliament did. Twenty years after visitors who went to the officeof William T. Stead found him wearing a prison garb,numbered as it had been in the days when he suffered forthe cause that he knew to be right. They were sur-prised. William T. Stead informed them that it wasmerely his anniversary, his means of celebrating avictory of the past. 132 WRECK OF THE TITANIC It was in 1893 and 1894 that William T. Stead madehimself best known to Chicagoans. For it was then thathe came here, and, being impressed with Chicago andits inner workings, began the writing of a book thatmade him more famous than ever all over the world.That book was called If Christ Came to Chicago.When it was published it swept the country. Wm. T. Stead was, beyond doubt, the personalfriend of more living and dead monarchs than anyprivate citizen on earth. He interviewed more celebritiesthan any one writer in history.
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—H. Norherg in Kansas Oity Star The Spirit of Grief CHAPTER XVIII MANY MEMORIALS FOR TITANICTRAGEDY Churches All Over Country Unite in HoldingServices Devoted to the Disaster—Nevt YorkMass Meeting Expressions of tender, heartfelt sympathy for thosewho were in great grief; sorrow for those who died;glowing words of tribute for the heroism which hadthrilled the world and then strong words urging legisla-tion and regulation to prevent a recurrence of theTitanic catastrophe marked the memorial meeting atthe Broadway Theater Sunday afternoon, April 21,1912. Solemn as the occasion was, the great audiencewhich jammed the auditorium from orchestra to top-most balcony could not forbear testifying its approvalof that which was said at times or in joining in heartyapproval of the resolutions which crystallized the sen-timent. The meeting was presided over by Frederick Town-send Martin and the principal speaker was WilliamJennings Bryan. Mr. Martin made a brief introductory address. The 133 1

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