The Titanic Trail in Manhattan-- Part 2

**** JANE HOTEL: At 113 Jane Street where around 100 members of the Titanic's crew received clothing, food and lodging. Then it was the American Seaman's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute. The exterior looks as it did then, but the interior has been altered. But two items exist from back then. The ornate marble fountain and a metal plaque too worn to be read. // What is now the bar and banquet hall was the assembly hall. Surviving crew memebers gathered there to pray for those who lost their lives. // One crew member remembers hearing as many as twenty shots as the Titanic went down, leading many to believe suicides were committed. (Only 1/3 of the First-Class men survived as they gave up their spots on the lifeboats to women and children.) //// MISSION OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY: At 7 State Street in Lower Manhattan. Today it is the Parish of Our Lady at the Rosary. The women steerage survivors were taken here. //// More to Come. --DaCoot