Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Anna Tittman
understand. Afterwards a nwnber of us went for a ride ab~ut Ts-, the
park is a desolate place. Trees, but no grass. The shop& here are just
as Interesting as in Tokyo and Yokoham. One is constantw under temptation
to buy and buy proftbely. There were wonderful thhp on Bentcmdory
Street in Yokohama, silks, vases, china, carved wood, so fo&h and So
forth. There is a large comlrcial s&ml in Tsumga calked the Maring
School. Only Ehglfsh is taught there, and a University of Chicago is
ln chaylge. The school boys met every passener boat so 8s to have an
opportunity to use their Fnglish. The harrbor of Tsuruga Ils the mst beautiful
I have ever seen. It is much smller, but the entwce is quite
sImLlar to the Golden Gate. The Standard Oil Company of New York has a
warehouse here. Great barrels of dried fish, herring, aye prepared here by
the women for exportbg. For a long the I watched womn, inmy of em exceedingly
young, mloading coal fmn the barges and camy$ng straw $hacks
on their backs--they were woven like baskets--for a djstapce of twoihundred
to three hundred feet. They emptied it in a boxcar. The coal was being
rermved fYom a larger boat to the smll barges, and a single man us$g a
fish-like paddle ran the large barge ashore at snail's pace. Those pour
womn seemed to be .just beasts of burden. Men also were carrying the coal
in large baskets at-either end of a long pole. At 9:00 p.m. I saw Venus.-
now this is somthing--As bri&t as a lighthouse.--I was on the boat--The
reflection in the water was perfectly beautifid, almost a6 wide a trail as
the mm makes. About 10:00 p.m. the reflection was no lpnger vfsible and
Venus took on a red hue appearing not unlike a Japanese Wtem in the distmce.
She sank rapidly in the west and gradually .pew npre dim. Finally,
she seemd to be struggling for life, giving one flash ar@ then was gone
below the horizon. "
'me Penza is smaller even than the Nippon Pkitw."
now; the boat to Russia.
Q. You didn't describe getting on it for me.
A. We didn't, did we?
Q. No, do you remmber anything about that to fill in?
See, ME were on the Penza
A. No, only I was so busy watching the coal m n and so forth. Oh, I
felt so somy for them.
l!Rx beds were very comfortable. linen sheets and royal. purple
blankets. How I wish I owned one, however, the bath and toilet
are very much below par. Retjred early. Slept the sleeg of the j
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rhmsday, June 26; Arrived at Vladivootok, Russian
at 8:00 a.m. Alter going through prelirr;fulaY,1,es of havb4
we went ashore with Red Cross officials who rnet us.
Pinder, a nurse, and Captain Brandhall, the dfrectm
sonnel." That is locally, for our Red Cross. 'We were ttaken in autos to
Amrican Red Cross Basracks Nvmber 17, where all of the hrican Red Cross
Personnel in Vladivostok 250 of them are stationed. "