Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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cleaned, and then anybody that I have helping me, they 're slot allowed to.
Mr. Pbhan cores and he does for me. It's only this one. Before I carre I
had them promise that they would clean the wfndows on the outside, and they
did-it for a couple of years and then they dldntt any mm. Tney used to
have a nice woman fmm Ashland corn and do things like th$, , she'd caid
up a ladder and . . .
Q. You had a nice view in Vladivostok didn't you?
A. Yes, ri@t on the lake across k.om the islands and th+ Russian igland
was dm this way a bit. The cam would go in the winteflm, the c
just went ri&t over the ice. Then I could see the flshepman cut ho es
in the ice, and drop their bait down Fn and caw up with 01 fish. WhrI
first care there, that was June so it wasn't f'rozen, but it became &Zen
pretty quickly. It was winter by Septen'ber. But we had lot of flies
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too.
Q. Flies?
A. Yes, they bit like everything. We controlled it in ow building pretty
much. Well, I was interested In the Russian personnel too. We had a Russian
teacher, oh it ' s hard to learn, especially when you have work eo do
and can't spend mch tbr~ on it. It's a gurgling kind of language. You
have Russian friends don't you? Do they still gurgle or What?
Q. (lawter) I guess they do have accents, yes.
A. But there are thirty-six Letters in the alphabet as 2 remrrber. Well,
now about this agreemnt .
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Q. We're looking at a picture of the Boston Floating Ho~@flfal and Miss
Tittman is ping to point out to rw where the various quarters were on
the boat. Now what was on the top deck in the fhnt of the boat?
A. That was set aside for the nurses, all of whom were
nurses. It was for their hour off during the day, in wh
study, and that was appreciated very much.
Q. What sort of facilities did you have in there for yc
A. Good chairs, TV chairs, and couches. There would be
we wanted to write.
Q. Nm directly under that . . .
A. I t hW we ought to go back the whole deck. (chuckl@s)
raduate registered
ch to rest or to
r use?
a table OP two if
Q.. Okay. We'll stay on the top deck then here. Now that portion $hat
was enclosed, what was that?