The Carpathia’s passengers pitched in gallantly—digging out extra toothbrushes, lending clothes, sewing smocks for the children out of steamer blankets brought along in the lifeboats. A Macy’s wine buyer bound for Portugal became a sort of guardian angel for the three rescued Gimbel’s buyers. Mrs. Louis Ogden took cups of coffee to two women in gay coats and scarfs sitting alone in a corner. “Go away,” they said, “we have just seen our husbands drown.”
