The _Californian_ had come up while the _Carpathia_ was taking the survivors on board, and it was arranged that she should remain and search the vicinity while the _Carpathia_ made all haste to New York. And the other ships that had answered the call for help either came up later in the morning and stayed for a little cruising about in the forlorn hope of finding more survivors, or else turned back and resumed their voyages when they heard the _Carpathia’s_ tidings. In the meantime the shore stations could get no news. Word reached New York and London in the course of the morning that the _Titanic_ had struck an iceberg and was badly damaged, but nothing more was known until a message, the origin of which could not be discovered, came to say that the _Titanic_ was being towed to Halifax by the _Virginian_, and that all her passengers were saved. With this news the London evening papers came out on that Monday, and even on Tuesday the early editions of the morning papers had the same story, and commented upon the narrow escape of the huge ship. Even the White Star officials had on Monday no definite news; and when their offices in New York were besieged by newspaper men and relatives of the passengers demanding information, the pathetic belief in the _Titanic’s_ strength was allowed to overshadow anxieties concerning the greater disaster. Mr. Franklin, the vice-president of the American Trust to which the White Star Company belongs, issued the following statement from New York on Monday: “We have nothing direct from the _Titanic_, but are perfectly satisfied that the vessel is unsinkable. The fact that the Marconi messages have ceased means nothing; it may be due to atmospheric conditions or the coming up of the ships, or something of that sort. “We are not worried over the possible loss of the ship, as she will not go down, but we are sorry for the inconvenience caused to the travelling public. We are absolutely certain that the _Titanic_ is able to withstand any damage. She may be down by the head, but would float indefinitely in that condition.” Still that same word, “unsinkable,” which had now indeed for the first time become a true one: for it is only when she lies at the bottom of the sea that any ship can be called unsinkable. On Tuesday morning when the dreadful news was first certainly known, those proud words had to be taken back. Again Mr. Franklin had to face the reporters, and this time he could only say: