Theodore Dreiser Nearly Met Disaster
Famous author Theodore Dreiser also changed plans and did not board the ship, heeding advice from his publisher to take a less expensive one. After the sinking of Titanic, he wrote, “To think of a ship as immense as the Titanic, new and bright, sinking in endless fathoms of water. And the two thousand passengers routed like rats from their berths only to float helplessly in miles of water, praying and crying!”
