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He traveled with his manservant, Ronald Denyer. His close friend Charles Williamson, who helped hush up Vanderbilt's girlfriend's suicide a few years previously, was aboard with his girlfriend Amelia Baker. Vanderbilt, in no account from 1915, was mentioned in any romantic context aboard ship.
Vanderbilt, like the Strauses, popped up in a large number of improbable accounts immediately after the disaster. The most believable is that given, under oath, by actress Rita Jolivet who said that a man who MAY have been Vanderbilt stood near her, Frohman, Vernon, Alec Scott, near the port side A deck entrance towards the end. She could not positively say it was him.
The elevator death story. As Ioannis has already said, the lift boys had a 100% survival rate. The first class staircase wrapped around the lifts. Dozens of first person accounts from May 8-14th, written by people who evacuated the dining room, exist. Many of these go into 7,8,15, extensively detailed pages. No one described the doubtlessly horrible sight and sounds of people trapped in a cage that they saw from four angles as the ascended. People ran DOWN the empty steps until very close to the end. They, too, never mentioned trapped people in the lifts. And on an otherwise empty staircase they'd have noticed.
Several people who were on the port boat deck wrote, independently of one another, about a mother with an infant who came hurrying down the deck and fell hard, as an example of the horrible things they saw. From that, we can safely say that an unidentified mother fell with enough force to disturb witnesses. That not a soul on the first class staircase described the infinitely worse sight of trapped, caged, people is a strong indication that it did not happen.
