But it was one particular iceberg that fell in the summer of 1909 that would drift toward infamy. Ice weakens as it nears the coast, because every day, particularly in the summer, enormous walls of ice flake off the glacier and fall into the ocean. Snow that started as flakes was transformed to dense glacial ice as it moved quickly, about four miles per year, toward the west coast of Greenland. With time, the fresh flakes descended into the ice, hidden from daylight, and compressed by pressure to a third of their original size.įitting with geology, thousands of years passed and little happened. The landmass was already covered in ice two miles thick. It was probably this form of fern‐like snow that fell one day, fifteen thousand years ago, on the frozen ice sheets of Greenland. Extra‐cold weather is when you find the classic shape of a six‐sided prism, or the fern‐like crystal with six radiating branches. Cold temperatures produce flakes that look like bullets or needles. They start as spheres and form tendrils to diffuse heat. And even though every snowflake is different, they’re not as unique as we’ve been told. Snow tends to fall in places where other snow has already fallen. But as soon as one extra crystal crosses the tipping point, the structure will succumb to gravity and fall. As long as the growing snowflake remains lighter than air, it will float. A piece of dust forms a crystal, and the appearance of that crystal attracts more crystals until they form long dendrites around the speck of dust like ants around a piece of chocolate. He died in the sinking.When snow falls, the properties of water perform a delicate dance. William Anderson Walker, of East Orange.Elmer and his wife Juliet resettled in East Orange in 1914. Died in Atlantic City on April 23, 1927, aged 64. Survived. Juliet and Elmer resettled in East Orange. Elmer Zebley Taylor (Juliet Cummings Wright).Frederick Sutton lived in Haddonfield.Annie May Stengel, née Morris, wife of Charles Emil Henry Stengel.Charles Emil Henry Stengel was born Nov.His father Charles, a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Trenton, later had the west wall of the cathedral rebuilt as a memorial to his son. Washington Augustus Roebling II was born in Trenton on March 25, 1881.Peter Henry Renouf and his wife Lillian Elizabeth Jefferys appeared on the 1910 census living in Elizabeth.Leonard Charles Stanley Moore of Hoboken.He died in Elizabeth in 1975 and is buried in Jersey City. Thomas Joseph McCormack lived in Bayonne in 1920.Elizabeth Dowdell, born in West Hoboken.Alexander Taylor Compton, who lived in Lakewood.William Hull Botsford, who lived in Orange.Stephen Weart Blackwell, who, according to the 18 censuses, lived in Trenton.John Ashby, who was living in West Hoboken with his wife Emma in 1912.
In addition to Blank, O'Keefe and Gwinn, New Jersey residents on the Titanic included: Some of the information was compiled with Encyclopedia Titanica, NJ victims, survivors "I speak of the splendid courage and fortitude of those who are gone the manhood and womanhood of those who met such a death so splendidly," Stevenson invited all members of the community to a Memorial Service for the Dead at the church. Vicars Stevenson of Grace Episcopal Church in Plainfield, in a letter to the editor that appeared in the Courier-News on April 19, 1912.
"The unequaled (sic) and tragic circumstances of the Titanic disaster which has stunned the world, and hangs like a pall upon the hearts of all men everywhere, holds at least one mitigating circumstance which amidst universal pain and distress casts forth an unspeakable hope and tempers our grief with a sense of pride for the race of man," wrote the Rev. Passenger William Logan Gwinn was living with family in Asbury Park by early 1912. The city of Rahway went into mourning, and flags on government buildings were lowered to half-mast. Rescued, Blank died from pneumonia on March 17, 1949.Īrthur O'Keefe, who was born in Rahway and a well-known figure in the city, was aboard the Titanic as well, and perished. Blank, who had been born in Providence, Rhode Island, moved to Newark as teenager. While not well-known, there were some Garden State connections on board the Titanic, such as Henry Blank. Harris, a report in the Courier-News said. Archie Butt Benjamin Guggenheim, Jacques Futrelle, William T. John Jacob Astor President Taft's side and companion Maj. The American hostages were freed from IranĪmong the well-known passengers who were not reported among the saved were Col.
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