Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Well, bhen at five o'clock thay all got off. They not onl# would bring
their own children, but they1 d bring the neighbor children, too. i, It :-was
very active up there, but it was nice. Then when they goti off, there was
nobody up there except the doctors. The doctors quarters at the end
of the boat back here. this wa~ where:I ta-t, up in he
the nwlsesl rest was up there.
Q. ?"ne top deck in the f'ront?
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A. Yes, and ny ward was on the other side of this. Here the nurses
office.& the superlntendentls office.
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Q. The middle deck.
A. Then, well, dawn here was the laver deck where the %c#ill was. (lams)
They jwt had to squeeze the apparatus, with a wire pinchep, and the thing
would open up.
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Q. To masd the formula each time?
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A. Yes.
Q. m, that ' s wonderful.
A. And then those fellows down there, they were either q c a l stud nts or
graduates, recent paduates, and they would sing. You kn*, they co b d do
a lot of things. And one of the songs they sang, was--we Wd a little woman
doctor on. and she was so proper. She carried her shoulders back like this,
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fdemnst&es) and her nam was Dr. Chapley and they sang I& song to her.
(narrator sings) "a, Sister Chapley, listen to me. The queen of rw kitchen,
surely you'll be. Som kind of steak, I'm sure you can &e. Oh, Lizzie
Chapley , cone do the cooking for IIE . l1 (lwter) They wad make that up.
But they could sing real good. We would go down on bwin~s and hear them
sln- while they worked. The parents weren't around. 1
Well, 1'11 tell you, we had it arranged so that a streetcar would met us,
would pick us up. We had a special streetcar that
the wharf in the morming, early, and then it would
near the pier--we had to get up to the street
car to get horn. Otherwise, we'd just have to
Q. You didn't live on shipboard then?
A. No, them wasnl t morn there. We lived in the art stu+nt clubhoqse.
They [the students] weren't there in the smr.
Q. The nurses and the doctom, or just the nurses?
A. Just the nurses, just the mes. And that was on--nm it was ri&t
along where the Art Institute @. There was som water bwk of it. I don't
know whether that was the Char$s River then or not, but it was near us.
But we'd have OW parties there. We dldnlt have m y part;$Les. We were
tired and we got home kind of late. We had our supper on the boat; in fact,
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