Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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to see rn at the barmcks and it seered awf'ully good to &t back, like
getting back home. Spent mst of the day in conference with MLSS Pinder,
rpr assistant. Things have been going all right. Went sarllpanning," 'that's
a boat, it has one oar and 1 t s at the end, at the stern. It ' s a qboat
and it goes like a fishtail, and that's the way you get dong.
I had a private conference to mke, we went out on a sampan. That's "d I-the
only place you could get strict privacy. So now I'm getttng amst thm@.
'Went sampannjng with Lieutenant Winningstad." Now I seem to x-emrfber that
he was a young man that was very, very fine, very nice, ad was alwap
ready to do a good deed. "Birthday party for Ethel FTndep in Miss Bethel's
room. Went over to Vladivostok Hospital. Many improvemnts .
"ktober 10, 1919; At office bri@t and emly. l1 That is all I have. Now
I think I didn't begh-we left there in February, and I Fon't--I think I
was working on that thing I showed you where I had the little tags I.@ and
descriptions of everything. But I dldnlt keep rrly--becam
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the next thing
that I can find at this time is "on to Chha.ll And that as in Feb-y
exrly in Febrmary. So you see, we did pretty normally-b t thine here
getting bad and we weml t accomplishing as much as we shpuld. 'l"nir@ were,
well, we (chuckles)--the admiral's aides, the Russian aiqs that we trained
and a lot of the woEn were working in sewing room and @in@ like that,
making some money, you know, and making their clothes and, 911. They were--
well, they were inclined to think they were going to go dong with us, they
were going to go, corn to hrica. Now as it turned out, they didn't go
wlth us, but f'mm tim to tim, see, the rnen stayed; the Womn all were sent
horn, and they stayed to do the cleanup and get all the . . .
Q. You1 re speaking of the American Red Cross now?
A. Yes, this is Amrican Red Cross. And in tim the boa@ were coming in
from the Wted States and they were able to get home. &It I was given pep
mission to go down to China for a tbnz and I was put in the hands of the
Red Cross in Shan@ai, and that s where I landed. And I had an acquaintance
there, and through her 1 was introduced to the YWCA wornen and one o$ them
was ill with diarrhea. And I can't for the life of m repnber the first
narre of that type of diarrhea, but that was prevalent m g hricans because,
well, they had to be careful. If you weulen I t c about what you
ate-we were not allowed to drink anything, no soda or hing, or eat away
fkmn the barracks. Food had to be cooked right there.
Mrs. Campbell--the wife of the rran who was selling Sin@ sewing mehines
in Vladivostok-they were there and they had two children, a little girl
and a little boy. Ihe boy was very young, about three, &~d the @rl was
about six, but they hew Russian lFke everything. Chilwn can learn languass
so easily. Mrs. Cmpbell had charge of the first place we want when
we first arrived in ~adlvostak. It was off Svet1anskaya.1 where the Americans
when they cam, had a ma1 or smthing. Then they were muted to their
headquarters. And that's what happend to us. She was iyt charge there. She
had a good sense of hwr and we kept in touch with her, som of us, for a
lung time &er we got back.
She would~tell about this Chinese when she'd go into the kitchen. This
srmller place on-I can't remrrber the nam of the stree'o, and I don't seem