Isidor Straus Confederate Veteran of the American CW

[monica e. hall]

You're not trying to tell us, Inger, that you don't wear water-repellent clothing and self-destructing bootlaces when out boating?

 

[Bob Godfrey]

Isidor Straus. What a man! Commercial giant, inventive genius, founder of the Confederacy. Yet still he found time to write all those wonderfully catchy dance tunes.

 

[Scott Holiday]

Hhhm, guess I got old Izzy mixed up w/ someone else- ssee below:

It is true though that RH Macy was a sailor and the Macy's star logo was actually based on a star tattoo he's gotten while a sailor himself aboard a whaling ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's

(look under the "Founding & Early History" section

scotty

 

[Cam Houseman]

Straus, a master tailor

Again, what evidence do you have for saying Straus was a tailor?

designed and stitched the famous Confederate Flag, aka the "Stars & Bars."

Where does this information come from?

his lawyers got the patent transferred to the regular USA patent office in 1866.

The U.S. Copyright Office (not Patent Bureau) provided protection for the design of the Confederate flag? Really?

He used these lucrative royalties to found the Macy's chain of department stores

He didn't found Macy's; R. H. Macy did. The Straus family acquired the store after Macy died. And it wasn't a chain in 1912, just a single store at Herald Square.

where he personally designed the store's entire male clothing line

Where does this come from? Contemporary accounts describe him more as the "back office guy."

including the White Star Line's officers uniforms

Again, what's the source for this statement?

As such, his trip on the Titanic was free.

According to the available ticketing information he paid £221 15s 7d for himself, Mrs. Straus and Ms. Bird.

He even had some new sample uniforms with him

Source, please?

many more of them likely would've survived as they were/are water repellent.

They died from being cold, not wet.

wow Mark destroyed that post, no offense