Alone and Confused
But as it turns out, there wasn’t much time to linger on that. The boy remembered, “I thought it was extremely incorrect to be in a burlap bag!” Only an innocent toddler would have such a reaction just hours after surviving the tragic sinking of the Titanic.
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When the boys arrived in New York, there weren’t any family members waiting for them. Since they only spoke French, it was assumed that their relatives were overseas. A French-speaking first-class passenger, Margaret Hays, volunteered to take care of the brothers temporarily.