he goes to a luncheon with his father at the chicago athletic association. it is one of the ritziest restaurants in town. he and his dad sit and have a nice lunch while mayhem is unfolding that was his doing. the menu for the chicago athletic club has things like oysters, devil crab, filet ladyfingers, and they had a nice lunch. they mapped out how to defend themselves legally and how they would get out of this mess. since erickson, the chief engineer, who risked his neck to save as many people as he could. after erickson nearly drowned and snaked his way through a porthole -- he was a diminutive man. they nicknamed him, "slim." he got rope and saved five children who were drowning and hanging onto things. honorable, admirable guy in trying circumstances. not so with walter steele. he has this nice lunch with his dad and begins to map out a legal defense, hiring the best lawyers in chicago and defends the captain, but not erickson. erickson is left to fend for himself. he knew that erickson had told the authorities that steele had postponed the work. he is li