While the Snews is still obsessed with OceanGate shit, Titanic remains in the forefront.
Here's another Titanic story I've never readโฆ
MRS. MARTIN ROTHSCHILD
Was Decorated By Pope in 1941 โHusband Died On Titanic
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
EAST ORANGE, N.J., Oct. 29โ
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild, who in 1941 received the Papal Distinguished Merit Cross awarded
by Pope Pius XII, died here yesterday in her home, 75 Prospect Street. She had long been active in
philanthropic affairs of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and of New York.
Mrs. Rothschild was the widow of Martin Rothschild, New York clothing manufacturer, who died in
the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Rothschild was rescued.
Her closest survivors are three nephews, Charles S. Barrett, Jr., John J. Barret (sic), and Charles S.
Barret 2d, and a niece, Mrs. Daniel A. Leary.
Mr. Martin Rothschild
Martin Rothschild was born in Manhattan, New York on 12 December 1865.
He was the son of Sampson Jacob Rothschild (1818-1899), a merchant, and Mary Greissman (b. 1824),
both Prussian-born Jewish immigrants. His father had come to the USA around 1846, settling in
Monroe, Alabama and was married to his wife sometime after 1850.
Martin was the youngest of five known children, his siblings being: Jacob Henry (1851-1913), Simon
(1854-1908), Samuel (b. 1857) and Hannah (1860-1911, later Mrs William Henry Theobald). Through
his brother Jacob he was the uncle of the poet and satirist Dorothy Parker, nรฉe Rothschild (1893-1967).
The Rothschild family had moved to Manhattan, New York around 1858 and Martin first appears on the
1870 census living with his family, his father being described as the operator of a fancy goods store and
with his two elder sons in his employ. By the time of the 1880 census Martin was described as a stock
clerk; he later operated his own clothing manufacturing company and amassed his fortune.
He was married on 6 February 1895 to Elizabeth Jane Anne Barrett (b. 1858). The pair were an unlikely
couple; he was a wealthy Jewish man and she was his employee, a slightly older seamstress of devout
Irish Roman Catholic background.
The couple, who were childless, lived at 753 West End Avenue, New York but travelled extensively and
were away for up to six months at a time.
Rothschild's 1900 passport describes him as standing at 5' 8", bald with brown eyes, a high forehead, a
round face, small mouth, average nose and fair complexion.
Following a trip to Europe Mr and Mrs Rothschild boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as first class
passengers (ticket number PC 17603 which cost ยฃ59, 8s) and apparently occupied a cabin on C-deck.
After the collision steward Frederick Dent Ray saw Mr Rothschild coming out of his stateroom on C
deck. "I spoke to him and asked him where his wife was. He said she had gone off in a boat. I said, 'This
is rather serious.' He said, 'I don't think there's any occasion for it.'" Then the two men casually walked
up to A deck where Ray went to a lifeboat.
Martin Rothschild perished in the disaster and his body, if recovered, was never identified. His wife and
her pet dog were among the rescued.
Rothschild is commemorated in the Barrett family mausoleum in St Mary's Cemetery in Watkins Glen,
New York
Full article
https://www.stmarystben.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mrs-M-Rothschild.pdf