<P> Passengers gathered in the third class common room where they could play chess or cards, or walk along the poop deck . Third class children played in the common room or explored the ship--nine - year - old Frank Goldsmith recalled peering into the engine room and climbing up the baggage cranes on the poop deck . </P> <P> Ship's regulations were designed to keep third class passengers confined to their area of the ship . The Titanic was fitted with grilles to prevent the classes from mingling and these gates were normally kept closed, although the stewards could open them in the event of an emergency . In the rush following the collision, the stewards, occupied with waking up sleeping passengers and leading groups of women and children to the boat deck, did not have time to open all the gates, leaving many of the confused third class passengers stuck below decks . </P> <P> Numerous notable and prominent people of the era, who held tickets for the westbound passage or were guests of those who held tickets, did not sail . Others were waiting in New York to board for the passage back to Plymouth, England, on the second leg of Titanic's maiden voyage . Many unused tickets that survived, whether they were for the westbound passage or the return eastbound passage, have become quite valuable as Titanic - related artifacts . Among those who held tickets for a passage, but did not actually sail, include: Theodore Dreiser, Henry Clay Frick, Milton S. Hershey, Guglielmo Marconi, John Pierpont Morgan, Edgar Selwyn, and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (who died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania). </P> <P> Several passengers on the Titanic had Levantine origins . At the time, many carried identification from the Ottoman Empire that stated they were from Greater Syria, which included what is today Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria . Passengers from Lebanon, for instance, had hometown villages today located in Lebanon . </P>

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