The Foxes should be watching their mail each day for the arrival of their 'prize', which will be marked ' You may have won $1,000,000' and will be sent from the Publishers Clearing House or some other illustrious organization. Yes, you are correct in your statement concerning Violet Jessop. I thought someone other than myself would have picked up on that bit of information, but it seemed like a good querry at the time.

Re: Mark reference to ... ourworld.compuserve.com ... here is a sampling of the text that you can find there, ...
The talk was concerning the accident in which the British warship Hawke rammed the Olympic.

"The commander of the Hawke was entirely to blame," commented a young officer who was in the group. "He was 'showing off' his war ship before a throng of passengers and made a miscalculation."

Captain Smith smiled enigmatically at the theory advanced by his subordinate, but made no comment as to this view of the mishap.

"Anyhow," declared Captain Smith, "the Olympic is unsinkable, and Titanic will be the same when she is put in commission.

"Why," he continued, "either of these vessels could be cut in halves and each half would remain afloat almost indefinitely. The non-sinkable vessel has been reached in these two wonderful craft.

"I venture to add," concluded Captain Smith, "that even if the engines and boilers of these vessels were to fall through their bottoms, the vessels would remain afloat."

Thus it would seem that even the wiley old veteran was taken in by the hype as well. It should seem obvious though that such a liner, cut in half, could not possible continue to float, but maybe that's hindsight and perhaps the people of 1912 were of a different mindset concerning steel in water.
Will