Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Hi gang, sorry I've been MIA the last couple of days, I've been in northern California with my boss for multiple meetings with a potential new big name client. We did get some work out of it, but, I am not sure if we've got a contract with them yet or not?

Anyhoo, I'm home for a few hours to pack and sleep and then my fiance and I are off for vacation. We're driving up the coast to San Francisco again to sightsee, visit with friends and hopefully escape this wretched heat and humidity. You would swear that this was Florida! I already feel like I've been gone so long and missed out on reading posts and such. I'll be back on wednesday the 9th of August and hopefully will have time to sit down and read through all the new posts. I'll miss you all.

I hope it's cool and delightful for you in San Fran!

Thanks for checking in Susan! Have fun!

Hi gang, I'm baaaaack! I'm totally relaxed and extremely tired and really not all that ready to go back to work in the morning, but, all good things must come to an end. We had such a good time and ate at some lovely restaurants and saw many wonderful things; including a traveling Titanic exhibet that just had me weeping at the end. I'll post more when I have some time and energy, for now I just need to get to bed. Ah, it is good to be home again!


Bob, I hope you had a lovely time at the Cape!

The bad thing about vacations are that they have to end! Glad you had a good time Susan. Welcome back.

Hi Kat! Ugh, my computer decided to bite the dust within a couple of days of being back. It had dumped everything and I needed reboot cds that I don't have and no one had for me to borrow. Luckily my twin came to the rescue by once again giving me his fairly new CPU as he is getting a new never used one from a friend of his. I can't tell you how thankful I am as I type this to have my own computer access again. Ah, it feels good to be back once again!

WHEW!

That's a lot to go thru all at the same time!
Yes my sister helps me very much when my computer goes wacky. I still have her old laptop here rarin' to go if anything happes to this one!

Isn't it great to have a helpful sibling like that?

For those of you interested, while in San Francisco, we visited the Titanic exhibit at the Metreon. Words just can't describe the feeling of seeing actual articles retrieved from the ocean floor; personal belongings of some of the passengers, bits and pieces of the ship, etc. They actually have bottles of champagne that still have champagne in them! The item that really brought it home for me was an section of the hull of the ship from B deck if I recall correctly. The portholes are left in the positions that they were found in, whether closed or partially open. It was incredibly difficult not to imagine yourself in a lifeboat going past these particular portholes on the ship amidst the chaos of that night, it still gives me chills! Oh, and they also handed out a passenger boarding pass to each patron of the exhibet that had the name of an actual passenger and which class they had sailed in. I got a first class passenger who was the heir to the Saks throne, I don't recall her first name, but her married name was Meyer. You get to check lists at the end of the exhibit to see if your passenger lived or persihed that night. Mine lived.

Here is a link to a site about the exhibit, unfortunately you must be a member to view the photos:

http://www.titanic-online.com/index.php4?page=506

I saw the exhibit when it was in St. Pete a few years ago. It was very sad, like you described. They didn't do the name/ticket thing with us. That would have sent me over the edge.

On a side note, I don't recommend the King Tut exhibit that is making the rounds. They use the large golden Tut mask to advertise the show and it is NOWHERE in it! It mostly consists of smaller found objects and items from other tombs. It is not the big Tut show that toured in the 70s. It was very expensive and very disappointing. Drove all the way to Ft. Lauderdale for it. If it wasn't such a beautiful day it would have been a total waste of time.

The person you're thinking of, Susan, was Mrs. Leila Meyer. Here's what they say about Mrs. Meyer at http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/biography/206/

Mrs Edgar Joseph Meyer (Leila Saks) was born on 28 September 1886.

Mrs Meyer was returning to her home city of New York with her husband Edgar Joseph Meyer to attend the funeral of her father, Andrew Saks, the well-known New York merchant. Mr Saks had died on 9 April and the cable reached the young couple in Europe. They made immediate reservations to return home on the Titanic, embarking in Cherbourg.

She was rescued in lifeboat 6. By the time the Carpathia arrived in New York, Mrs Meyer knew that she had lost both a father and a husband.

She was reunited with her family, and two-year-old daughter who did not accompany her parents abroad.

Leila Meyer later remarried to Louis Ranger, and continued to live in New York City for the rest of her life. She did not speak about the Titanic disaster, and died on 27 November 1957.

Thanks Doug, yes, she is the one. The odd thing is that they were not handing out the boarding passes in any order, my fiance didn't get Mr. Meyer.

Yes, Stefani, that is exactly what sent me over the edge at the end of the tour, it made it so much more personal. The thing that got me was that Leila's husband was only 28 and her account of that night:

"I tried and tried to get Edgar to come into the lifeboat with me, and pleaded to be allowed to stay behind and wait until he could leave, he not caring to leave before all the women had been saved. Mr. Meyer finally persuaded me to leave, reminding me of our one-year-old child at home. I entered the lifeboat and watched until the Titanic sank, but only for a short time did I see my husband standing beside the rail and assisting other women into boats in which he might have been saved."

I just started to cry after that, so much loss. And how men were raised to be gentlemen even to the point of their own demise, it just tore my heart out.

One thing I noticed in checking Mrs. Meyer's bio: She was put aboard Lifeboat #6, commanded by Titanic's quartermaster, Robert Hitchens. Among her fellow passengers in the lifeboat were: Helen Churchill Candee and Margaret Tobin Brown - Molly Brown, that is.

Good ole Molly Brown hey? Interesting!