Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
compartmnt and this was also our kitchen and dining room, " There's
a picture of the car we were on. "We cooked ow: own malg on top of a
heating stove and had lots of fun doing it.
"Sunday evening we reached Slyudyanka and knowing that we would have a
little tb, we went to the Amrican engineer quarters fop a drink of
boiled water. We had none on ow car. We were greeted by two rotund
Amrican men, Bmer and Healey, and were @ven raisin pi@ as well ag
water. The pie was mde by the elder engineer who was at the the eptertaining
two Russian boys. We certainly enjoyed them. This twentieth day
of Septerrber passing Iake Baikal on one side and the mst beautiful
ash and birch, the latter in pat abundance. ?"ne ash tqes were br Ye at ,
and deep red." It was fall, you know. "All the trees we= especially
small. There does not seem to be any lmge trees in Sibeqia, probably because
of the extreme cold. We rode two niats and one da$, arriving in
Irkutsk knday ~[wrming.~~ Oh, the distances were somethin$, you know.
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!'Sqjt&)er 222, 1919; 'I@ birthday. @ 35. Met Colonel Toysler and Dr.
lWiget, mdlcal. director, Siberian co~ssim. After spending considerable.
th in the office, met Colonel Toysler in Conference. :(wpe tmed off)
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"September 23, 1919; Went to the thieves market with Majar Allen and Miss
Harrington. Bowt a paisley shawl for five hundred rmblg~s--they were
seventy far a dollar so I paid only seven dollars--that I gave to Miss
Bertha Kmpp who was the director of nursing in the Weslet Hospital in Chicago.
ll She had @ven me ny carera to take with m .
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"Septder 24,,.1919; Another conference Showed him
rqy files. Went to hospital for lunch. Vfsited the Then went
to several markets with Miss Harrington
p~ss, failed to come in a.ltho~@ we were
10:OO p.m., then 12:OO p.m., then 3:00 or
one of our managerrent mn--addsed me to
would come tomrrow.
"September' 25, - 1919; Express expected at 10 : 00 a.m. ,
&ved at 3:00 p.m. With the assistance of MY. Gyley,
Major Allen, Captain Carroll and interpreters as well
oners, I was bundled into a tMrd class car alt
a first class
ticket. When it was discovered that I had two men,
companion in the one booth, it caused a great stir on
to get rm properly established. All the first class c were occupied
by men and I would be required to she the coupe with
correspondent for the Chicam Tribune, bk. F'rederic
Major Allen had not corn to the ~.escue. He had a
himself and allowed rw to be mved into it with rrq~
foot trunk, "two suitcases, large bedding mll, t
little Comna, "and a Japanese brief basket of p
a young Canadian, Captaln Rwes , to sleep in t
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