Something to do with the Titanic conspiracy?
About the Vanderbilts, from
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''