Years ago, one of my co-workers who serviced western Nebraska, died of cancer, and I covered his territory for one week, staying at a hotel in North Platte, Nebraska, USA. I woke up one morning to a blizzard, snowing sideways, and white-out conditions. Travel was not recommended, but I ventured out about noon for some lunch downtown, then spent a couple hours in an antique mall there looking through boxes of old postcards. I found the card scanned below, now a prize possession in my postal history collection.
The boring picture side shows a dull view of Yue Yuen botanical gardens in Hong Kong. The interesting part of this card is in the message. Without using Google, see if you can guess what the writer is talking about. I typed out the message for ease of reading, as part of it was written upside down:
April 19th 1912.
"What a terrible disaster! I fail to understand why so few only, escaped. Surely, with 47 water tight compartments they should have been able keep her afloat for some time, long enough to get passengers off, at least. Well I hope I'll get the real facts before we go to sea - which will be Tuesday - as I am just wild to know how such an (accident?) could happen. Oh, you great big beautiful ship."
Fond regards,
M.
I welcome your comments as to what the sender was talking about.
Regards,
Linus
Posted 04/15/2020 10:34 am
