The Wreck of the Titan

clerks, and messengers. Fringing this apartment are doors and hallways leading to adjacent rooms and offices, and scattered through it are bulletin-boards, on

s the “Caller,” whose business it is to call out in a mighty sing-song voice the names of members wan

s at Edward Lloyd’s coffeehouse in the latter part of the seventeenth century, has, retaining his name for a title, developed into a corp

s for the inspection of prospective employers. Not a ship is cast away on any inhabitable coast of the world, during

l literature describing to the last detail the harbors, lights, rocks, shoals, and sailing directions of every coast-line shown on the charts; the tracks of latest storms; the change

d still another, the antithesis of the last, is the Intelligence office, where an

details of the arrival at New York of one boat-load of her people, this office had been crowded with weeping women and worrying men, who would ask, and remain to ask again, for more news. And when it came — a later cablegram, — giving the sto

he next. And when, on the tenth day of waiting and watching, he learned of another boat-load of sailors and children arrived at Gibraltar, he shook his h

Titan, one — the noisest of all, a corpulent, hook-nosed man with flashing black eyes — had broken away from the crowd and made h

be muttered; “th

to drink, some to c

, Meyer?”

d,” he answe

unkindly; “have more baskets fo

his business — excepting to occasionally visit the bulletins — he spent his time in the Captain’s room drinking heavily, and bemoaning his luck. On the

p among wreckage in Lat. 45-20, N. Lon. 5

howled, as he rushed t

to another. “He covered the whole of the Royal Age, and the bigge

a crowd of shouting underwriters, who rushed into the Captain’s room,

think of it?” With some difficulty he

n, on board Peerless, Bath, at Christiansand, Norway. Both dangerousl

it, Meyer — Royal Age

y ship not reported lately. Overdue two months. Was

thing said about it in the cap

e is a collision clause in der Titan’s policy; I merely bay the m

they shouted at him. “What’s his obj

it, berhaps

f stupid like a good Christian. I’ve got a thousand on the Titan, and if I’m to pay it I want to know why. You’ve got the heaviest risk and the b

b, took him to a Turki

d and clear-headed, and for a few weeks was a