MANY NOTABLES IN FIRST CABIN OF GREAT LINER
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Col. John Jacob Astor, His Bride and Alfred G. Vanderbilt Among Them.
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RELATIVES ARE ANXIOUS.
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Crowd the Offices of the White Star Line Anxiously Awaiting News.
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The maiden trip of the great Titanic attracted a company of passengers which made her first cabin list a remarkable collection of names of men and women prominent in the public view in New York and the whole United States. Anxiety for their fate drew a great crowd to the offices of the White Star Line on Bowling Green Park.
Among those who were pacing up and down and now and then shouldering their way into the offices in the hope or a shred of new information were United States Senator William A. Clark. William H. Force and hie wife; W. A. Dobbin, general manager of the Astor estate, seeking news of Col. John Jacob Astor and his youthful bride, who was Miss Madeleine Force; Alvin W. Kreck of the Equitable Trust Company and any others.
J. P. Morgan jr. also visited the offices of the White Star line. When asked if the Mr. and Mrs. Morgan listed as passengers on the Titanic were relatives, he said they were not. Some of the other well known passengers of the Titanic are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Benjamin Guggenheim, W. T. Stead, a great London journalist; George D. Widener, Major Archibald Butt, President Taft's military aide; Robert Chisholm. Henry Sleeper Harper, Mrs. Ida Huppuch and Miss Jean Huppuch, Washington Dodge of San Francisco and his wife and son, Henry B. Harris and his wife, J. Clinch Smith, Isidor Straus and G. D. Widener.
MEMBER OF THE SMELTER FAMILY ABOARD.
Benjamin Guggenheim is the fifth of the .... sons of Meyer Guggenheim, the ...lters, bankers and miners. He was the member of the family who started its interest in the smelting business. He was born in Philadelphia in 1865, and is President of the international Pump Company. His wife is the daughter of James Seligman, the banker. Henry Sleeper Harper is a grandson of John Wesley Harper, one of the founders of the Harper Brothers publishing house. He had a desk in the offices of the company, but had very little to do with the management of its affairs. He has been active in urging legislation for the protection of the Adirondack forests. Mr. Harper spent nearly half of every year in foreign travel. His friends recalled to-day that ten years ago he had a close escape from death when a ship on which he was a passenger rammed an iceberg off the Grand Banks.
Washington Dodge, who was on the Titanic with his wife and son, was fot many years City Assessor of San Francisco and was President of the Continental Building and Loan Association at a time when that cuncern stirred up California politics in 1906 by setting a trap which involved many members of the Legislature in bribery charges.
AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE AMONG THOSE IN PERIL.
On the passenger list also are the names of Jacques Futrelle and his wife. The Futrelles are both frequent contributors to the magazines, and frequently collaborators. Their home is in the literary colony at Niantic, Mass. Mr. Futrelle was for many years a newspaper reporter in this city and in Boston.
Washington Roebling ld is the son of Charles G. Roebling and grandson of John A. Roebling, the bridge builder and founder of the great steel industry beating the family name. He is an inventor, and in 1908 designed and built a high-powered automobile which smashed all speed records.
William E. Carter has been a prominent exihibitor at the horse show in this city and frequently acts as judge of the harness classes. He owns a fine estate at Newport, Quatrefoil, and divides his time between Philadelphia, Newport and Europe. He is a constant transatlantic traveller.
Mrs. Carter, who was Miss Lucille Polk of Virginia, has created excitement in Philadelphia and Newport more than once by her daring costumes and her reckless fourr-in-hand driving.
Dr. Henry Frauenthal is surgeon in chief of the Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases in this city. He has performed some startling operations whicn have attracted the attention of surgeons all over the world. Last July he was successful in grafting into a woman's leg the shinbone of a man who had been killed in an accident only a few hours before. He worked out a treatment for infant paralysis which has resulted in an unusual percentage of cures.
Thomas Pears in an owner of steel and iron mills in Pittsburgh and is one of the big men in the industry. He is one of the leaders in the frequent secret conferences of steel men which have been held at the Waldorf here and in Pittsburgh since the Stanley Committee began investigating the United states Steel Corporation.
Gigantic bow of the Titanic Crumpled by Collision with Iceberg

THE TITANIC'S BOW
PICTORAL NEWS CO.
SHE CANNOT SINK, SAYS OFFICIAL OF WHITE STAR LINE
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"Absolutely No Fear Is Entertained for the Safety of the Passengers."
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P. A. P. Franklin, Vice-President of the international Mercantile Marine, declared this morning that the Titantic was unsinkable, and that, notwithstanding the alarming reports of her collision with an iceberg, absolutely no fear was entertained for the safety of the passengers.
"While we have had no direct wireless communication from the Titanic," said Mr. Franklin, "we are satisfied that the vessel is unsinkable. Our only reports thus far are from the Associated Press. The fact that the Titanic has sent us no wireless does not cause alarm. In the first place her failure to communicate with the line may be due to atmospheric conditions; and, in the second place, she may be too busy communicating with nearby ships. "No one need fear that the Titanic will go down. Even though all her former compartments and bulkheads were stove in by the iceberg she would still float indefinitely. She might go down a little at the bow, but she would float. I am free to say that no matter how bad the oollision with an iceberg, the Titanic would float. she is an unsinkable ship, "From the messages we have received we estimate that the Titanic is 1,080 miles from New York, In lattitude 41.46 and longitude 50.14 west. That would make her 600 miles southeast of Halifax.
"The steamship Virginian, out of Halifax, should reach the Titanic at 10 o'clock this morning. The Olympic, ..... east, should make to the rescue at 2 o'clock to-night, and the Baltic, which had passed the Titanic, has put about and should join the rescuing fleet at 4 o'clock.
"We feel certain that all of the passengers will be landed safely in Halifax. Their relatives and friends need entertain no fears. From our revised lists we find that there are 325 saloon passengers, 300 second cabin passengers and 800 steerage passengers." There are fifteen bulkheads in the Titanic. Two of these are what is known as collision bulkheads, and the other thirteen are water tight and of the kind commonn to modern steamers. One collision bulkhead is in the fore part of the hull, fifty feet from the bow. It is of steel, with no inlet into the hold, and it is entered front the main deck when an examination is necessary. The other collision bulkhead is at the stern and also must be entered from the main deck.
The other thirteen bulkheads divide the hull of the Titantic into separate compartments and doors into these divisions can be closed separately or all at one time. The closing mechanism is hydraulic. It is said by marine engineers that there is no case on record in which any collision or other accident to a modern steamer has put this hydraulic mechanism out of commission.
There is, however. an element of weakness in the strongest of the water-tignt bulkheads of even such a ship as the Titanic, whichh lies in the pressure-reslating power of the bulkheads. While it is claimed that two compartments of the Titanic could be flooded with water without the vessel either sinking or losing a slocrageway, it is admitted that, wore any of the compartments flooded with water, the pressure of water on those bulkheads might cause a leak which would admit water into the next compartment and so on from one bulkhead to the next, until the hull was water-logged.
BUILDERS OF TITANIC SAY SHE'D SURVIVE GREAT BLOW.
BELFAST, April 15.—A representative of Harland and Wolff, the constructors of the Titanic, interviewed to-day, said that if the Titanic were sinking the collision must have been of great force.
The plating of the vessel, he said, was of the heaviest calibre and even if it were pierced, any two of her compartments could be flooded without imperilling the safety of the ship.