Traveling in Luxury

April 11,1912

Once the Titanic had left Queenstown (Cobh) Ireland, all 2224 passengers were aboard. All that was left was its last planned stop: New York City. Though truly the titanic had one stop before that that would prevent it from ever reaching New York, or any other place in the earth.

For first class passengers the Titanic's voyage would be quite enjoyable. There was a gymnasium in which you could ride a mechanical camel and a rowing machine and many other things. There was also a swiming pool as well as turkish baths. The Titanic was one of the first ships to have a salt water swiming pool on board. There were three smoking rooms for men only as well as a Parisan cafe and a reading and writing room that mostly women used.There were 5 children in first class.

Though they could not use all the luxuries of first class, second class could have a very enjoyable yoyage as well. They could read books from the second class library or play cards. There was also chess and dominoes. They could also go for walks. (Going for walks on the available decks was of course available in all classes.) There were 22 children in second class.

The third class passengers didn't have many activities to enjoy but they could make their own fun. There were 2 rooms available for their use: the smoke room and the general room. Though they could play cards and of course smoke in the smoke room. Some passengers brought their own instruments and played them in the general room. There were 72 third class children.

Though there were only about 99 children on the Titanic you can just see how much bigger the families were in third class. One family (the Sage family) had 9 children, whereas the families in other classes would have one or two children.

First class passengers would dine either in one of the Titanic's restaurants or in the grand dining saloon. Each class had its own place to eat. In third class, the dining saloon could only hold about 400 people, which was defenitly not enough for the Titanic's large amount of third class pasengers. They were each given a ticket that said what round they would be eating in. If you missed your round you would go hungry.

In its own day, the Titanic was simply a large cruiseship. But now the Titanic represents something more that an 882 foot long ship at the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean- looking back on the Titanic you can see the seperation between the classes. Back then the third class of people didn't matter. The story of the Titanic can teach people to treat others with less wealth as equals in our world.