Fuel truck accident on the highway outside Bologna airport in August 2018.
Why is this relevant today?
The Titanic Tragedy Almost Altered The Vanderbilt Legacy
http://www.southeastdiscovery.com/blog/2012/04/the-titanic-tragedy-almost-altered-the-vanderbilt-legacy/
However, plans for one trip were cancelled: They had booked passage in a first-class cabin on the Titanic – as well as a second-class cabin for their 24-year-old footman, Edwin Charles "Frederick" Wheeler, who had brought their baggage on board several days before the April 14, 1912, departure. However, a family member (no two accounts agree on which) strongly objected to the Vanderbilts’ plan, "because so many things can go wrong on a maiden voyage." So, the Vanderbilts re-booked their cruise on The Olympic. When Wheeler got word, there was no time to unload the luggage, so he stayed on board (he can be seen in an often-reproduced photograph walking on the deck of the Titanic with passengers Ada and Elsie Doling). His body was never recovered.
A third Vanderbilt also cancelled a booking on the Titanic: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt – George’s nephew and third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II – had sent a cablegram to his mother on the day the Titanic sank telling her he had not boarded, and was safe in London – contrary to a report in that day’s New York Times that he had "joined the Titanic in Cherbourg."
Where Morgan, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt Got Away From It All
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/02/archives/where-morgan-rockefeller-and-vanderbilt-got-away-from-it-all-where.html
Off the coast of Georgia lies Jekyll Island, nine miles long and barely two miles wide, its beaches uncrowded and unspoiled. These days it is open to the public, but once it was the boast of the Jekyll Island Club that no uninvited foot stepped ashore.” Who was the Jekyll Island Club? A group of friends: J. P. Morgan (“If y'have to ask how much it costs to operate a yacht, y'can't afford it.), Bill Rockefeller (brother to John D. and founder of an export firm that became Standard Oil of New Jersey), Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jo Pulitzer, et al. In 1886 they were looking for a perfect warm climate, good water, natural beauty and isolation not more than 24 hours from Wall Street—by private train, of course.
They chose Jekyll, constructed a few “cottages” (with about 15 bedrooms each), hired chef and staff from Delmonico's to whip up 10‐course dinners at their clubhouse every night. They built a golf course along the dunes, three outdoor tennis courts and two indoor courts, and they stocked the forest with pheasants, wild turkey and deer. Birds abounded. Great turtles came ashore to lay their eggs. The final touch to this Garden of Eden grew out of a poker game. It seemed a discussion of landscaping came up and betting dragged. So Old J. P. said: Now boys, let's each put in $5.000, buy a few bushes stop the small talk and get on with the game.” And they planted magnolia, rhododendron, azalea, dogwood.