titanic 5

The White Star Line... 

although we tend to think of them as the steamship line of luxury... 

they really catered to the third class, because they made more per head on the third class tickets than they did on a first-class. And if they could get word-of-mouth advertising where immigrants reached America and wrote home and said how wonderfully they were treated on the White Star Line’s ships, that was the best kind of advertising they could hope for.

On Olympic and Titanic, the largest cabins in third class accommodated six. In some cases, there were cabins for four and even two. The third class, in most cases, were accustomed to waiting on others. And here for the first time, they had stewards serving them. 

And there’s even a notice on the bottom of the menu, saying: ‘Any complaints regarding the lack of civility from a steward should be reported to the chief steward immediately.’

~bron~