Show CARD OARD GAME KEPT GOING TO QUIET PASSENGERS Band Played Popular Tunes and Men Played Cards for Three Hours After Titanic Struck Iceberg New York A A group of men passengers pas pas- Bangers on the Titanic kept a card game going for t three ee hours after the Bt steamer amer struck the iceberg to allay the fears tears of others ac according to George R. R Bradley one of the first I cabin passengers Bradley was playing bridge in a room far tar aft aCt on the ship and felt only a slight shock from the co collis collis- lis ion Henry B. B Harris was in another party in the same room Bradley said and left his game to go on deck with I Bradley to investigate Mr Harris Har Har- Harris ris Bradley said found 1 lis ls wife saw her to one of the boats and then came back to the room rOalD to which Bradley already had returned He told me there was danger Bradley said but for the sake of the women and children to make no sign I The orchestra struck up Alexanders Alexander Ragtime Band and we went on playing play ing lag cards There was not a manin man manin manin in the game ame who did not realize the stake he was playing for there ther was not a man who did not know what those musicians musician were wee playing for They played on played anything they had bad a mind to and finally str struck ck up Nearer My God to Thee Then we knew that the time had come and that it w was s no use to bluff any l longer People crowded around us and watched us play the game out feeling that there could be no danger W When en the old hymn sounded sounded sound sound- ed a different feeling possessed them They knew that it was timeto time timeto timeto to go if fr any anyone one of us us- hoped for tor a chance to get off oft the ship How any man was going to o save himself none of that bunch knew It took on only y a few minutes on deck tt to realize that we all were too late for forthe forthe forthe the lifeboats The last ones were being lowered Bradley said that he ran rall between decks and managed to get into a boat oat as it was being lowered The boat w was wis s not a bit crowded he said but it was not more than a hundred y yards from the Titanic when the steamer went down |