The Titanic's last lunch menu, saved by a first-class passenger who climbed aboard a lifeboat whose crew was said to have been bribed1 to row away instead of rescue more people, sold at auction2 for $88,000 on Wednesday.
泰坦尼克号“最后的午餐”菜单上周三以8.8万美元的价格被拍卖。这份菜单是一位登上救生艇的头等舱乘客保留下来的，据说该救生艇的船员收受贿赂，被要求驶离沉船，而不再救更多人。
The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs offered the menu and two other
previously3 unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1.
Abraham Lincoln Salomon was among a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat,
dubbed4 the Money Boat or Millionaire's Boat by the press because of unfounded
rumors5 one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ocean liner.
The menu, which lists corned beef, dumplings and other
savory6 items, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat. It's believed the two men lunched together that fateful day in 1912.
Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic's opulent Turkish baths, which recorded a person's weight when seated in a
specially7 designed upholstered lounge chair. The ticket bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1. One of four weighing chair tickets known to exist, it sold for $11,000.
A letter written by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York's
Plaza8 Hotel
stationery9 six months after the disaster fetched $7,500. Francatelli had climbed into Lifeboat 1 with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband, Lord Cosmo Duff-Gordon, who was
rumored10 to have bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat, which had a capacity of 40.
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