Chapter 8

In the engine-room were another group of heroes, men of a far higher type, with fine intelligences, trained in all the subtleties and craft of modern ships, men with education and imagination who could see in their mind's eye all the variations of horror that might await them. These men also continued at their routine tasks in the engine room, knowing perfectly well that no power on earth could save them, choosing to stay there while there was work to be done for the common good, their best hope being presently to be drowned instead of being boiled or scalded to death. All through the ship, though in less awful circumstances, the same spirit was being observed; men who had duties to do went on doing them because they were the kind of men to whom in such an hour it came more easily to perform than to shirk their duties. The three ship's boys spent the whole of that hour carrying provisions from the store-room to the deck; the post-office employés worked in the flooded mail-room below to save the mail-bags and carry them up to where they might be taken off if there should be a chance; the purser and his men brought up the ship's books and money, against all possibility of its being any use to do so, but because it was their duty at such a time to do so; the stewards were busy to the end with their domestic, and the officers with their executive, duties. In all this we have an example of spontaneous discipline--for they had never been drilled in doing these things, they only knew that they had to do them--such as no barrack-room discipline in the world could match. In such moments all artificial bonds are useless. It is what men are in themselves that determines their conduct; and discipline and conduct like this are proofs, not of the superiority of one race over another, but that in the core of human nature itself there is an abiding sweetness and soundness that fear cannot embitter nor death corrupt.

* * * * *

The twin gray horses are still at their work in Belfast Lough, and on any summer morning you may see their white manes shining like gold as they escort you in from the sunrise and the open sea to where the smoke rises and the din resounds.

For the iron forest has branched again, and its dreadful groves are echoing anew to the clamour of the hammers and the drills. Another ship, greater and stronger even than the lost one, is rising within the cathedral scaffoldings; and the men who build her, companions of those whom the _Titanic_ spilled into the sea, speak among themselves and say, "this time we shall prevail."

_May 1912._

A TABLE

SHOWING THE LOSS OF LIFE ON THE _TITANIC_

FIRST CLASS Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved.

Men 173 58 115 34 Women 144 139 5 97 Children 5 5 0 100 --- --- --- --- Total 322 202 120 63

SECOND CLASS Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved.

Men 160 13 147 8 Women 93 78 15 84 Children 24 24 0 100 --- --- --- --- Total 277 115 162 42

THIRD CLASS Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved.

Men 454 55 399 12 Women 179 98 81 55 Children 76 23 53 30 --- --- --- --- Total 709 176 533 25

TOTAL PASSENGERS Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved.

Men 787 126 661 16 Women 416 315 101 76 Children 105 52 53 49 ---- --- --- --- Total 1308 493 815 38

CREW

Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved.

Men 875 189 686 22 Women 23 21 2 91 --- --- --- --- Total 898 210 688 23

TOTAL PASSENGERS AND CREW Per cent. Carried. Saved. Lost. saved.

Men 1662 315 1347 19 Women 439 336 103 77 Children 105 52 53 49 ---- --- ---- --- Total 2206 703 1503 32

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