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Isidore and Ida Straus
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RMS Titanic 泰坦尼克号轮船 沉没前
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On April 19, 1912, just four days after the
sinking of the RMS
Titanic, Alfred Crawford testified before the
United States Senate committee investigating the
disaster. Crawford had been a stateroom steward
on the doomed ship.
The man was asked if he knew Mrs. Isidor
Straus. He did.
Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, were returning home to New
York on the Titanic.
Straus was a co-owner with his brothers of R. H. Macy & Co. as
well as Abraham & Straus department store in
Brooklyn. The 67-year old was
also a director of several banks and Vice President of the Chamber
of Commerce. He was highly regarded for his
generosity. The New York
Times would call him “a
supporter of almost every philanthropic and charitable institution
in New York, regardless of creed.”
Chester testified that he was in a lifeboat and took Mrs.
Straus’ hand to help her in.
“She started to get in, but then changed her mind
and went back.”
Senator Smith asked “Started to get
in?”
“Yes, she had one foot on the gunwale and
then drew back,” said Chester.
Ida Straus looked back to her husband of 41 years standing on
the deck and let go of Chester’s
hand. “We have been together a
number of years,” she said to her
husband. “Where you will go I
will go.”
She then instructed her maid to take her place on the
lifeboat.
Later, as the aged couple sat quietly on deck chairs holding
hands, the grand RMS
Titanic slipped beneath the icy waters of the
Atlantic Ocean.
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Water lilies float serenely in the reflecting pool during the
dedication of the Straus Memorial in 1915 -- Library
of Congress
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An orchestra played for the many who assembled for the dedication
on April 12, 1915 --
Library of Congress
The couple was mourned nationwide, but nowhere so deeply as in
New York City. Four weeks later a memorial
service was held for them in Carnegie Hall and thousands crammed
into the auditorium. “The great
hall was filled to capacity, and hundreds who pleaded to get in
were turned away because there was no more room
inside. Every seat and every box was occupied,
while perhaps 300 men and women stood up in the rear of the
auditorium,” reported The
New York Times.
During the ceremony, Jacob H. Schiff mentioned
Ida’s fidelity to her husband.
“There is no doubt that in the awful hour when
the Titanic sank that
the noble woman broke not the oath that she had given at the altar,
‘Until death do us
part.’”
The cable
ship Mackay-Bennett recovered
Isidor Straus’s body which was buried in Woodlawn
Cemetery. Ida was never found, but the Straus
tomb included an empty spot next to her husband.
The Straus home stood at 27-47 Broadway, near
105th Street, within sight of a small,
triangular park called Bloomingdale Square. On
July 2, 1912 the Board of Aldermen adopted the resolution directing
that the park “is hereby named and shall
hereafter be known and designated as ‘Straus
Park.’”
A move to erect a memorial to the couple was immediate and
subscriptions poured in. $20,000 had been donated
by the Fall. A competition for
the memorial design was held and in November
the Magazine of
Art reported that “The
prize was awarded to Mr. Augustus Lukeman, the collaborating
architect being Mr. Evarts Tracy.”
The little, oddly shaped park made designing an appropriate
memorial difficult. “It was
finally concluded that anything mainly monumental would not be
desirable both because of the modesty of Mr. and Mrs. Straus and
because the site selected is a small triangular park with a
background of apartment houses which would not serve as a proper
frame for anything very high,” explained the
magazine.
Luckman’s design, one of 59 submissions,
included a serene lily pond fed by a two-tiered
fountain. Above the fountain was a reclining
bronze figure of a contemplative female upon a granite
ledge. Luckman called his memorial
“Memory.”
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Today the lily pond has been replaced by a not-so-lovely flower bed
-- photo museumplanet.com
Behind the sculpture a granite bench provided a place of rest
for those visiting the memorial. The Straus
Memorial, paid for entirely by public donations, was dedicated on
April 15, 1915, three years to the day after the sinking of
the RMS
Titanic. The
Times called it “one of the
most beautiful monuments of its kind in the
country.”
Inscribed on the rear of the monument was the biblical passage
from II Samuel 1:23:
Lovely and pleasant were they in their lives
And in their death they were not divided
The neighborhood around the Straus Memorial
declined as the 20th century wound down
and by 2007 the memorial had suffered some abuse.
That year the Parks’ Monuments Conservation
Program initiated a restoration, sponsored mostly by The History
Channel.
Regretfully, the lily pond—a crucial element
in Augustus Lukeman’s design--was filled in as a
flower bed in order to facilitate easier maintenance.
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Straus Park is a small landscaped park on
the Upper West
Side of Manhattan, New York, at the intersection
of Broadway, West End Avenue,
and 106th Street.
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结婚四十一年的夫妇
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The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 statue by American
artist Augustus Lukeman of
a nymph gazing over a calm expanse of water in memory
of Ida and Isidor Straus,
a United States congressman and co-owner
of Macy’s,
who perished on the RMS Titanic.The
model for the statue was Audrey Munson. On
the memorial is carved a passage
from Second Samuel 1:23,
"Lovely and pleasant were they in their lives and in their death
they were not parted." The passage refers to
Ida’s choice to stay with her beloved husband,
Isidor, rather than get safely into a lifeboat.
泰坦尼克号撞上冰山之际，施特劳斯夫人艾达在丈夫的劝说下
恋恋不舍地离开，一只脚已经在救生艇内，但她却突然转念，跨出救生艇，又回来和丈夫站在了一起，说道：
“这么多年我们一直生活在一起，此刻 你去哪儿
我去哪儿。”
施特劳斯夫人把自己在救生艇里的活命的位置让给了一位女佣。
这时有人向67岁的施特劳斯先生提出，“保证不会有人反对像您这样的老先生上小艇……”
伊西·施特劳斯坚定地回答，“我绝不会在别的男人之前上救生艇。”
然后，他挽着63岁的太太艾达的手臂，一对老夫妇蹒姗地走到甲板的藤椅上坐下，
相互依偎着，手挽手，泰然地等待着最后时刻的到来。
，，，，，，
几天后 艾希德的尸体找到了，但
艾达的却永无踪影。
人们为她塑像 纪念她对爱情的忠贞 生死相依 不离不弃
同生共死 令人下泪 令人崇敬！
艾希德·施特劳斯身为屈指可数的大富翁和美国国会众议院议员，他却没有去寻求特权，而是坦然地面对死亡，
把生的希望让给了别人，把死的定局留给了自己，真正的人，
真正的丈夫， 大丈夫！
如今在纽约市的上西城106街的拐角
离其当年居所尺步之遥，
矗立着人们当年自发捐资为艾达和艾希德夫妇建造的纪念碑和纪念公园。
曼哈顿 公立198 小学 也是以 施特劳斯夫妇名字命名的。
雕塑和纪念碑公园是在泰坦尼克号沉没 施特劳斯夫妇殉难3周年 来临之际落成的。1915-4-12。
雕像 安详的艾达几乎卧于波浪之上 雕塑家引领人们缅怀追逐着那金光闪亮的心灵
中文有说纪念碑上刻著这样的文字：“无论多少海水都不会淹没爱。”
（Many
waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown
it.）
其实 碑上根本没有这句话，此语乃 圣经诗歌 Song of Solomon 8
里的一言。
，，，，
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the LORD.
Many waters cannot quench
love,
neither can floods drown
it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
hec would be utterly
despised.
，，，，
纪念碑 也不在 布朗士 Bronx区，而是 曼哈顿上城西部。
（笔者 特此校正，英文原文 也就不全文翻译了）
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施特劳斯 墓地 The gravesite of Isidor Straus
inWoodlawn Cemetery
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