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There
are
few
alterative
agents
so
powerful
and
sure
in
their
working
as
latitude
and
longitude
;
and
as
we
slide
across
new
degrees
,
habit
,
association
,
custom
,
and
ideas
slip
one
by
one
imperceptibly
away
from
us
;
we
come
really
into
a
new
world
,
and
if
we
had
no
hearts
and
no
memories
we
should
soon
become
different
people
.
But
the
heart
lives
its
own
life
,
spinning
gossamer
threads
that
float
away
astern
across
time
and
space
,
joining
us
invisibly
to
that
which
made
and
fashioned
us
,
and
to
which
we
hope
to
return
.
Wonderful
,
even
for
experienced
travellers
,
is
that
first
waking
to
a
day
on
which
there
shall
be
no
sight
of
the
shore
,
and
the
first
of
several
days
of
isolation
in
the
world
of
a
ship
.
There
is
a
quality
in
the
morning
sunshine
at
sea
as
it
streams
into
the
ship
and
is
reflected
in
the
white
paint
and
sparkling
water
of
the
bath-rooms
,
and
in
the
breeze
that
blows
cool
and
pure
along
the
corridors
,
that
is
like
nothing
else
.
The
company
on
the
Titanic
woke
up
on
Friday
morning
to
begin
in
earnest
their
four
days
of
isolated
life
.
Our
traveller
,
who
has
found
out
so
many
things
about
the
ship
,
has
not
found
out
everything
yet
;
and
he
continues
his
explorations
,
with
the
advantage
,
perhaps
,
of
a
special
permit
from
the
Captain
or
Chief
Engineer
to
explore
other
quarters
of
the
floating
city
besides
that
in
which
he
lives
.
Let
us
,
with
him
,
try
to
form
some
general
conception
of
the
internal
arrangements
of
the
ship
.
The
great
superstructure
of
decks
amidships
which
catches
the
eye
so
prominently
in
a
picture
or
photograph
,
was
but
,
in
reality
,
a
small
part
,
although
the
most
luxurious
part
,
of
the
vessel
.
Speaking
roughly
,
one
might
describe
it
as
consisting
of
three
decks
,
five
hundred
feet
long
,
devoted
almost
exclusively
to
the
accommodation
of
first-class
passengers
,
with
the
exception
of
the
officers
'
quarters
(
situated
immediately
aft
of
the
bridge
on
the
top
deck
of
all
)
,
and
the
second-class
smoking-room
and
library
,
at
the
after
end
of
the
superstructure
on
the
third
and
fourth
decks
.
With
these
exceptions
,
in
this
great
four-storied
building
were
situated
all
the
most
magnificent
and
palatial
accommodations
of
the
ship
.
Immediately
beneath
it
,
amidships
,
in
the
steadiest
part
of
the
vessel
where
any
movement
would
be
least
felt
,
was
the
first-class
dining
saloon
,
with
the
pantries
and
kitchens
immediately
aft
of
it
.
Two
decks
below
it
were
the
third-class
dining
saloons
and
kitchens
;
below
them
again
,
separated
by
a
heavy
steel
deck
,
were
the
boiler-rooms
and
coal
bunkers
,
resting
on
the
cellular
double
bottom
of
the
ship
.
Immediately
aft
of
the
boiler-rooms
came
the
two
engine-rooms
;
the
forward
and
larger
one
of
the
two
contained
the
reciprocating
engines
which
drove
the
twin
screws
,
and
the
after
one
the
turbine
engine
for
driving
the
large
centre
propeller
.
Forward
and
aft
of
this
centre
part
of
the
ship
,
which
in
reality
occupied
about
two-thirds
of
her
whole
length
,
were
two
smaller
sections
,
divided
(
again
one
speaks
roughly
)
between
second-class
accommodation
,
stores
and
cargo
in
the
stern
section
,
and
third-class
berths
,
crew
's
quarters
and
cargo
in
the
bow
section
.
But
although
the
first-class
accommodation
was
all
amidships
,
and
the
second-class
all
aft
,
that
of
the
third-class
was
scattered
about
in
such
blank
spaces
as
could
be
found
for
it
.
Thus
most
of
the
berths
were
forward
,
immediately
behind
the
fo
'
c
's
tle
,
some
were
right
aft
;
the
dining-room
was
amidships
,
and
the
smoke-room
in
the
extreme
stern
,
over
the
rudder
;
and
to
enjoy
a
smoke
or
game
of
cards
a
third-class
passenger
who
was
berthed
forward
would
have
to
walk
the
whole
length
of
the
ship
and
back
again
,
a
walk
not
far
short
of
half
a
mile
.
This
gives
one
an
idea
of
how
much
more
the
ship
resembled
a
town
than
a
house
.
A
third-class
passenger
did
not
walk
from
his
bedroom
to
his
parlour
;
he
walked
from
the
house
where
he
lived
in
the
forward
part
of
the
ship
to
the
club
a
quarter
of
a
mile
away
where
he
was
to
meet
his
friends
.
If
,
thinking
of
the
Titanic
storming
along
westward
across
the
Atlantic
,
you
could
imagine
her
to
be
split
in
half
from
bow
to
stern
so
that
you
could
look
,
as
one
looks
at
the
section
of
a
hive
,
upon
all
her
manifold
life
thus
suddenly
laid
bare
,
you
would
find
in
her
a
microcosm
of
civilized
society
.
Up
on
the
top
are
the
rulers
,
surrounded
by
the
rich
and
the
luxurious
,
enjoying
the
best
of
everything
;
a
little
way
below
them
their
servants
and
parasites
,
ministering
not
so
much
to
their
necessities
as
to
their
luxuries
;
lower
down
still
,
at
the
very
base
and
foundation
of
all
,
the
fierce
and
terrible
labour
of
the
stokeholds
,
where
the
black
slaves
are
shovelling
and
shovelling
as
though
for
dear
life
,
endlessly
pouring
coal
into
furnaces
that
devoured
it
and
yet
ever
demanded
a
new
supply
horrible
labour
,
joyless
life
;
and
yet
the
labour
that
gives
life
and
movement
to
the
whole
ship
.
Up
above
are
all
the
beautiful
things
,
the
pleasant
things
;
down
below
are
the
terrible
and
necessary
things
.
Up
above
are
the
people
who
rest
and
enjoy
;
down
below
the
people
who
sweat
and
suffer
.
Consider
too
the
whirl
of
life
and
multitude
of
human
employments
that
you
would
have
found
had
you
peered
into
this
section
of
the
ship
that
we
are
supposing
to
have
been
laid
bare
.
Honour
and
Glory
,
let
us
say
,
have
just
crowned
ten
o'clock
in
the
morning
beneath
the
great
dome
of
glass
and
iron
that
covers
the
central
staircase
.
Someone
has
just
come
down
and
posted
a
notice
on
the
board
a
piece
of
wireless
news
of
something
that
happened
in
London
last
night
.
In
one
of
the
sunny
bed-rooms
(
for
our
section
lays
everything
bare
)
someone
is
turning
over
in
bed
again
and
telling
a
maid
to
shut
out
the
sun
.
Eighty
feet
below
her
the
black
slaves
are
working
in
a
fiery
pit
;
ten
feet
below
them
is
the
green
sea
.
A
business-like-looking
group
have
just
settled
down
to
bridge
in
the
first-class
smoking-room
.
The
sea
does
not
exist
for
them
,
nor
the
ship
;
the
roses
that
bloom
upon
the
trellis-work
by
the
verandah
interest
them
no
more
than
the
pageant
of
white
clouds
which
they
could
see
if
they
looked
out
of
the
wide
windows
.
Down
below
the
chief
steward
,
attended
by
his
satellites
,
is
visiting
the
stores
and
getting
from
the
store-keeper
the
necessaries
for
his
day
's
catering
.
He
has
plenty
to
draw
from
.
In
those
cold
chambers
behind
the
engine-room
are
gathered
provisions
which
seem
almost
inexhaustible
for
any
population
;
for
the
imagination
does
not
properly
take
in
the
meaning
of
such
items
as
a
hundred
thousand
pounds
of
beef
,
thirty
thousand
fresh
eggs
,
fifty
tons
of
potatoes
,
a
thousand
pounds
of
tea
,
twelve
hundred
quarts
of
cream
.
In
charge
of
the
chief
steward
also
,
to
be
checked
by
him
at
the
end
of
each
voyage
,
are
the
china
and
glass
,
the
cutlery
and
plate
of
the
ship
,
amounting
in
all
to
some
ninety
thousand
pieces
.
But
there
he
is
,
quietly
at
work
with
the
store-keeper
;
and
not
far
from
him
,
in
another
room
or
series
of
rooms
,
another
official
dealing
with
the
thousands
upon
thousands
of
pieces
of
linen
for
bed
and
table
with
which
the
town
is
supplied
.
