Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Water cam in thrOugh the porthole. Waves dashed over thi boat ."
Q. How many of you were there?
A. I think I had twenty nurses here.
Q. Wenty nurses and seventeen fellows?
A. There were eighteen men. I have all their names, too. !'Our boat- is, "
I'm writing on the boat now, "the boat is very small, only Mve thou8and
tons. There it is. 'This is its 83~d trip, and it has been on the Pacific
for twenty years. !here me many fiteresting passenglrs aboard, mng
them a Japanese, a Russian, a constmzction general, his 6fe and daughter,
Bessie Shaminoff, a Russian banker, Mr. George Jeffersky. Norwe@ans, Danes
and hricans were #on the boat, and one American who has Wen a judge in
the Philippines. The crew and the navigators are all Japq except the purser,
Mr. Chapman."
%aturday, May 31st ,I1 that s our first day out, really. '+The sea is seasick.
Gat up further on deck Late in the afternoon. Suqday, June lst, .
baths beautiful. All on board including n~~,elf improQng. With my
streamer letters today from k1Ue Rich, Miss Dalbey, and f'rom the mmbers
of the Thirteenth District. There were about five of the letters and the
senthnt on each was lovely. Able to go to dining room qt noon. At 5 : 00
p.m. the Red Cross unit held vesper services for fifieen Wwtes. Nr. Rodgers
presided. Dr. Woodbury read a lesson f"rom Romans 6, Fevised Edition.
Mrs. HaLsteadl not of the unit, sang. And Dr. Bower rended a beautiful
prayer. All sang the Star Spangled Barrier. The Red Crosq
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flag which was
comdeered fYmn the Pacific Division Office was han@;ingb the piano.
The purser was good enough to allow ms to hang it f'rorn th balcony of the
dining room and allow it to remajn.. Many of the other pa engers attended
owl semice .'I Jme ad, 1919, Monday. "I am feeling fin today. Enjoyed
conversation on the deck. Also first Russian lesson fYom iktle Bessie
Shawrinoff, age thirteen. Played five hundred in the af'tewoon with the
Misses Bridge, Last and MacIntire. " You get to know those people. (laughter)
"Had sitting up exercises in the mormhg. At night the bqt c ~ treated w
the passengers to moving pictures. These were reLtcs of tf-~ early nineties."
A. "And the tragedist were of the most hmmus
the womenls clothing were screms . La9,ge
short sleeves and tight waists. The news
Brockton Fair, Massa~husetts.~~ I guess
don ' t know how they got it. Oh, that was in the movie picme .
[it was] very antiquated, of cwse.
together party. It was quite
and state phed on. Pkrrbers
to work out name of the