South Western Hotel

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	SOUTH WESTERN HOTEL
New York Times	WILLS FOR PROBATE MANHATTAN *** WHITE, ELLA HOLMES (Jan. 31). Estate,more than $10,000. To C. Helene Berkeley, 509 W. 122d St., $10,000 and personalty; Ella B. Putnam, 10 Beekman Pl., $10,,000; Marie G. Young, Plaza Hotel, personal effects and life esta...	6th February 1942
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t...	1912
	NEWYORK 1908 (BACK) Hotel Knickerbocker. New York City, 1908. "We are having a fine time, and this is of the (?) hotel where we are stopping. Was motoring nearly all day yesterday. Bitter cold. Love, Uncle Henry and Lee."...
Belfast Telegraph	OFFICES WHERE TITANIC PLANS WERE DRAWN COULD BE A HOTEL Developers behind the controversial Titanic Quarter project are considering turning the historic drawing rooms - where the liner was designed - into a hotel, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal today....	5th March 2009
	NEWYORK 1909 (FRONT) Hotel Knickerbocker. New York City, 1909. An Astor family Hotel, the Knickerbocker, designed by Trowbridge and Livingston, opened in 1906. It stood at the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, and its theater district location made it popular with people in the entertainment industry; Enrico Caruso maintained a suite at the Knickerbocker, as did Lusitania victim Charles Frohman. In 1921, the Knickerbocker was converted to business use by Vincent Astor, son of its original owner. For 19 years, Newsweek magazine was headquartered in the former Knickerbocker. The old hotel outlived its other rivals on Times Square~ the Hotel Astor which was demolshed in 1968, and the Claridge which was removed in 1972. It came full circle when in the 1980s, under the stewardship of Leona Helmsley, it was restored and partially converted back to luxury apartments....
	GENERAL INFORMATION Rood, Mr. Hugh Roscoe. Missing. Ritz Hotel, London, W. Black Moore & Co., 5 East India House, London, E.C. Hotel Regina, Paris. Seattle. Travelling to USA. Vice president of The Pacific Creosoting Company. Cabin A32....
	POLYGON HOTEL WHICH TODAY IS FLATS Site of Polygon Hotel which today is flats, showing inlayed stones on corner...	2004
	MEMORIAL PLAQUE In September 1998 a plaque to the memory of Mr. Hodges was unveiled at the County Hotel (now the Highfield House Hotel), Highfield Lane, Portswood, Southampton. SO17 1AQ, which is the site of the large house that Mr. Hodges lived with his wife and ei...
Daily Home News	LOST HIS BROTHER ON TITANIC James Van Billings, of South Wales, Pa., and Two Children Lose Lives in Disaster---Brother Here Receives the Sad News ---------- Monroe Van Billings, of this city, this morning received the sad news that his brother, James, and his two ...	22nd April 1912
BBC News	TITANIC THEMED HOTEL SET FOR CITY A five-star Titanic themed hotel is to be created at the old headquarters of the Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built....	8th September 2009
Macclesfield Express	TOWN?S TITANIC LINK EXPECTED TO FETCH ?6K A POIGNANT postcard sent from the doomed ship Titanic to a Macclesfield hotel is going up for auction next weekend â€“ and is expected to fetch up to ?6,000.Second-class passenger, William Angle, sent a message from the liner to Miss Nelly Angle at the former Macclesfield Arms Hotel.He posted the card when the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Ireland, on its maiden voyage â€“ just days before the vessel crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean....	19th April 2006
New York Times	SHIPS SIGHT MORE ICEBERGS Italian Liner Finds One in Lat. 40:39, Extremely Far South --- Captains of incoming steamships are still bringing reports of ice. Capt. Domeniconi of the Principe di Piemonte, in yesterday from Naples, reported that on April...	27th April 1912
Mexidata.info	A FUN DAY TRIP TO MEXICO'S 'FOXPLORATION' THEME PARK One of the more interesting tour destinations in Baja California, located just an hour or less from San Diego, is Foxploration or Fox Studios Baja. This new movie theme park is three miles south of Rosarito Beach, and approximately 20 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border....	9th October 2007
Totnes Times & Devon News	UGBOROUGH MAN'S GRAPHIC STORY OF THE GREAT OCEAN TRAGEDY This item was almost word for word the same as that reported in the Western Morning News of 29 April 1912. However, in addition the article stated that his father was in the Metropolitan Police at Devonport. ...	4th May 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100 SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...	22nd January 1997
	BUILDING AT 319 SOUTH 12 ST., PHILADELPHIA (ADDRESS OF W.C. DULLES HOME) A building at 319 South 12 St., the address of William Crothers Dulles...
New York Times	JOHN J. ASTOR 5TH, 79; SON OF BUILDER OF HOTEL John Jacob Astor 5th, a descendant of one of America's most fabled merchant princes, died yesterday at his home in Miami Beach. He was 79 years old. His death was reported by two of his cousins, R. Thornton Wilson, and Stephen Spencer,...	27th June 1992
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Our Gunnislake correspondent writes that William Ware, who was 22 years of age, returned from South Africa six weeks ago. His mother resides at King Street, Gunnislake; his father in South Africa. Frederick Pengelly is 21 years of age, his mother r...	18th April 1912
	HELEN'S LAST HOME ON ANGELL STREET, A RESIDENTIAL HOTEL, WAYLAND MANOR
New York Times	ORIGIN OF NAMES OF HOTELS HERE Named for Interested Families or After Well-Known European Hostelries --- ST. REGIS CALLED FOR LAKE --- Suggested to the Late John Jacob Astor by Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson --- So numerous are the hotels of New Yo...	9th March 1930
	CHARLES HAYS' PHOTO AND LETTERS AT THE CHATEAU LAURIER HOTEL, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma...	18th April 1912
Montreal Gazette	HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg....	3rd August 2006
New York Times	LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Plaza last night, said that Capt. Smith had been informed by the White Star Company that he was to ret...	16th April 1912
New York Times	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...	16th April 1912
Examiner.com	TITANIC THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION--REAL OBJECTS REAL STORIES TITANIC The Artifact Exhibition is now at Foxwoods Resort Casino complex in Western Connecticut. It offers the opportunity to experience some of the nearly century-old glamor associated the Titanic and to discover facts and legends surrounding one of deadliest peacetime disasters at sea....	19th June 2010
Greensburg Tribune-Review	SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SUCCUMBS Sophie Halaut Abraham, 82, of South Greensburg, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, died Saturday, Dec. 11. She was born on Feb. 10, 1894, in Shwahed, Syria, the daughter of the late John and Marian Abraham Easu. She was a member of ...	13th December 1976
Western Mail	SWANSEA VALLEY VICTIMS It now transpires that the Titanic has claimed another victim from the Swansea Valley. In addition to Mr. W. J. Rogers, whose name appeared in the list of passengers in the Western mail in the early part of the week, it seems that he was accompanied ...	20th April 1912
npr.org	'HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC,' AND SINK YOUR NAME J. Bruce Ismay probably shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as any of the true criminals of the 20th century, but for many years he may have been the most universally despised man in the Western world. Ismay, heir to the prominent British White Star Line shipping company, owned the Titanic, and he's the one who said it would be fine to put just 20 lifeboats on a ship that could hold 2,800 people. Why clutter the decks, he argued, when the ship itself is a lifeboat?...	15th October 2011
	NEWYORK 1908 (FRONT) Hotel Knickerbocker. New York City, 1908....
San Francisco Bulletin	TWO U.C. MEN LOST IN WRECK OF TITANIC BERKELEY, April 20. – Among those who went down with the Titanic is believed to be James E. McGuire [sic], a graduate of the University of California in 1893, and a famous ball player in his college days. McGuire was underground manager of the Simmer...	20th April 1912
Chicago Daily News	FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY Willaim Haines, a publisher, father of Mrs. Marion Smith, who was reported rescued from the doomed vessel, was prostrated with grief when ...	17th April 1912
New York Times	GUGGENHEIM HEIRESS LOST Twelve-Year-Old Hazel Found In Grounds of Deserted Mansion --- Special to The New York Times --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 23---After being lost for seven hours to-day, Miss Hazel Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Gu...	24th June 1915
Chicago Tribune	PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER _____________ Arthur Tree Brings Pictures of Giant Floes in Which Titanic Met Doom...	18th April 1912
Denver Post	LENA STOIBER ROOD SEEKS HUSBAND BY ADVERTISING He Was On Titanic - She Hopes He May Have Escaped Death. Hoping against hope that her husband, Hugh Rood may have by some chance escaped death in the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Lena Stoiber Rood is making every effort to locate him, if he ...	6th May 1912
New York Times	[WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd...	6th June 1907
	GENERAL INFORMATION Mr. Smart was the president of the American Cold Storage and Shipping Co., and lived at the Victoria Hotel in New York. When he travelled to England, he simply checked out of the hotel, and took all of his personal belongings with him. Some of those ...
	WW1 LETTER FROM THE FRONT - BY DANIEL BUCKLEY A letter to his mother from US infantryman Daniel Buckley, originally from Co. Cork, Ireland. Buckley was killed a month before the end of the war. He served with Company K of the 165th US Infantry, and wrote copious missive, some of ...
New York Times	2 GUGGENHEIM HEIRS WILL BE BURIED TODAY Mother of Grandsons of Titanic Victim Still Suffers From Shock of Children's Fall --- Funeral services for the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Waldman, Terence, 4, and Benjamin, fourteen months old, grandchildren of Benjamin Gugg...	21st October 1928
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract...	1908
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review	CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail....	15th May 2008
	THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards. The m...
Haddonfield News	HADDONFIELD HOMES: RESIDENCE OF FREDERICK SUTTON Frederick Sutton was born June 15, 1850, in County Suffolk, England, and educated in private schools of Cambridgeshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1870 and began business with White Bros. & Co., Coffee Importers, at No. 27 South Water Street. In 1877...	10th June 1893
Southern Daily Echo	DEATH NOTICE Russell, Boysie Richard. Dearly beloved Eldest Son of Richard and Emily Russell, of the Anchor Hotel, Redbridge, In His 16th Year. [Also Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912]...	29th April 1912
New York Times	CLASSIFIED AD [Classification:]Personal *** Mr. Gustave Lesueur, from Titanic, is requested to communicate with the French Consulate, 35 South William Street. ...	20th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune	SALAVAGE SHIP ACTIVE WHERE TITANIC SANK A British salvage vessel, the Help, was reported today using heavy explosives in the north Atlantic roughly over the spot where the Titanic sank in 1912. Nothing could be learned of the nature of the ship's activities, first reported ...	1st August 1953
marketwatch.com	SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM TO OPEN EXHIBITION COMMEMORATING 100TH ANNIVERSARY ... On April 10, 2012, the one hundredth anniversary of RMS Titanic's launch on her maiden - and only - voyage, the South Street Seaport Museum will open "Titanic," an exhibition that examines both the disaster and a century's worth of fascination with the ship's dramatic story. The exhibition will feature original historic objects and documents from Titanic and her passengers, as well as interactive elements and artifacts that show how the event has been remembered and interpreted in popular culture, including production items ranging from the 1953 film Titanic starring Barbara Stanwyck through to the most current interpretation, the upcoming four-part ABC miniseries, Titanic, written by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) scheduled to air April 14 and 15, 2012. The "Titanic" exhibition is designed by Cooper Joseph Studio. ...	20th March 2012
Titanic Research	A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....	9th July 2002
	KONSTANZ 1908 (BACK) Konstanz, 1908. "July 27/08. We are staying at this hotel. It is an old Kloster built in the 12th Century. it is very interesting (?) and situated on the Rhine River & Bodensee. (?) is very beautiful. love to your apretns and all. Uncle Henry and Lee."...

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