Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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everywhere in great nunbers. We now have screens, but t
f
y don't seem
to answer the purpose. No fatalities in the ARC. The o ice was mved
to Barracks NLmS>er 7. he entire floor, fome~ly occupi by the hospital,
the ARC hospital, is nm the office on the first fl r. The boys from
the United States battleship Albany gave a vaudeville sh* at the Golden
Horn Theatre. Not too bad at all. The Albany has been hpre since March."
Why, I don't know. "And the jackies are deli@ted to mo* on."
Q. Wo are the jackies?
A. I don't know. Maybe well1 find out later. Well, th€$vfs somebody on
the boat they always call a jackie, I thfnk, Don't you tl@& so?
it's the beginners. "They lert at 5:00 p.m. Saturday, hly 27,
f"rom the allied forces and otbers fmrnthe mny hricam on
3Jst Infantry band played and the Czech soldiers sang a
I
was reported that the Albany was going to Shan@ai. The New
a boat-and the Max are Fn Vladivostok harbor at the pqent
borne very recently. I have begun to work organizing cl-es for Rqsian I
nmes aides and have appointed Ess Helen Bridge to do the instrucqion.
She will teach aides both Fn Vladivostok and Russian Islwd hospitals. These
are the young @rls, most of em taken from the pup of children who cam
fmrn European Russia. They were sixteen and seventeen y w old girls." Oh,
they were just deli&ted. 'The course will be four montb. A Russ$an doctor
will teach Mrst aid. A ward teacher will
work cOn the
hospital floor. Books have been cabled for as
certificates to be &;ranted at the completion
have anything. The textbook we were going to
nursing course, yet, it was adapted to the
Q. Could these Russian @rls speak EhgHsh? 1
A. Well, enom.
Q. The come was given in Ehglish?
A. We had an interpreter, too, you bow. Miss Bridge cc~dd-she
at learning words. She was very quick at it. Of course, a big
I've forgotten how many letters there were in the [Russian]
awful lot. [about 30 letters]
Now this is Sunday, July 27th. "Posted diary mst of thq day.
I took a walk with Misses Plnder and Florence Hoffhm, w
t
ch
a park and passed a bathing beach where men and wan, b s and girls, according
to the fashion in Siberia, were bathing in their are skins. We
passed a Russian horn, wulsually clean, and bought sow giants. Paid fifty
rubles for a good sized f'uschia. Over here rubles are nin@ty for a
dollar. Gne of the girls bowt a plant for a sick We went up to
the British hospital to give it to him. Found him
to him f'rom the window. The Russian lady sold Nlss Hof
so talked
towel, very long, with Imitted lace--1 had one like
the ends of Russian red and black. " That was a
!'Red and black crosswork desips, work which is only don4 by the people
from the interior. " 1