Saturday, November 3, 2018

The brave musicians of Titanic



Picture I

In the above picture (Picture I) is the memorial for the brave musicians, who played until the ship was lost below the waves. This is a very well-known story, what tells the brave attitude. The hymn, what those musicians played was "Nearer, my god to thee". And this story has been told many times, and I don't write any more about this ship in this text

But there is one remarkable thing, what you don't probably have not noticed. Below this chapter is one picture (Picture II), where is one of the most famous comedians in history, the Marx brothers. One member of that group Groucho Marx seems like one member of the Titanic orchestra P.C Taylor, the man in the middle of the portrait, who played piano, is looking like Groucho, but this might be the coincidence. But this coincidence is the reason, why I put these two pictures in this text.


Picture II

And the thing, why I was interested in this orchestra, was the story, where is told, that the family members must pay the uniforms, what they used in that fatal journey. This thing was very interesting detail, and it is claimed to be the most heartless thing in history of peacetime sailing. And I think, that there was something strange in this story because that was not good marketing and those brave men were the mark for courage and willing sacrifice for other people.

But why those uniforms must be paid? The uniforms, what those people used were normally owned by the shipping company, and the reason for that was, that nobody could slip in the ships by using uniform of the shipping company. That's why the uniforms were owned by shipping companies and the buttons, what was marked with the logos of the company, and those buttons, what were calculated hung to the uniforms, when they were delivered to the men, who used them. The payment, what crew members must pay, was the bill for clothes, that they must return those clothes if they changed the workplace.

Sources:
The article in Vintage News

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/06/21/families-of-titanics-musicians-were-billed-the-cost-of-uniforms-after-the-ships-sinking/

Picture I
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ae/c7/42/aec7422f18ae53458ba4f4b37175f474--titanic-history-real-titanic.jpg

Picture II
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Marx_Brothers_1931.jpg/200px-Marx_Brothers_1931.jpg

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