Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-07-03
e Morgan County Democrat 1924

Of the water or near the surface and
the jar of heavy seas striking the
side A ship at sea has plenty Of
motion in rough weather, and we
were having it rough this Friday
night. After we had retired, we
heard some of the stewards talking
about 1.-The port key" as the little
round windows along the side of the
boat have to be closed to keep the
waves from making the quarters un-
comfortably damp. A bit later,
about ten o'clock, our head steward
opened the door, unannounced,
hunting for spare blanket from one
of the unused berths The rail, or
broad board, on the front of Mrs.
James berth had been taken out and
stood in corner. AS it had once
fallen over, | put the bottom of 1t
two or three feet perhaps, from the
wall, but down it came again carry
ing some clothes off the hook. Later,
when the water had become more
turbulent, the trunk took a scoot
back under the berth and the type
writer became agile and started
across the cabin, but lost it's head
and tumbled over. A lot of people
were sick, and the night was not at
all pleasant. There was the screech-
ing of the ship like creaking old
wagon and down went something on
deck like a mast had fallen There
goes some pounding with ham
mer What was the matter we did
not know till next day when it was
observed that the single step from
our quarters to the outer deck was
gone; a stairway leading to the deck
above was down, portion of par
tition had been knocked down; one
of the ventilating tunnels was re-
moved and a portion of the outer
rail had been carried away. Another
ship lost her rudder and had to be
equipment seemed to be unimpaired
and we kept steadily onward. An
other night there was storm enough
to knock down some more of the
partition. In the first gale, some of
the life boats were bit disarranged
and the carpenter and some of the
stewards and | know not how many
others were up through the night
supplied with extra work by the
tempest. On third night-all our
roughest weather was at night,
there was rough sea, but my wife
and her husband stood it all very
well. However, when I heard or
seemed to hear, some one call out
one night: Get into your life
boats Cor life beIts") there was a
sickening sensation produced which
one doesn't wish to experience the
second time. We were two decks
down" and couldn't tell what the
ship might be doing.
On the Pacific, in 1920, we were
favored with first class accommo-
dations, but have ridden better in
second between Shanghai and Hong
Kong though the ample bill of fare
contained fewer items. After being
second class passengers on around
to France, we were now travelling in
third" or that was what we had
boughA tickets for, but owing to
strike the company mad not taen
able to prepare third class be~ths
and we were bunked in what had
ornerly been second class ana h.d
,ur meals in the second class din
NJ room. I once crossed this ocean
n third class for S13, Lut recently
re we're paying abo3t SIS a day
each for second cabin on the Medi-
terranean, and this voyage is costing
%Found $50 each in the third class
We save about 800 on the trip by
riding here instead Of in second
Our passenger list includes British,
Polish, Jews, and maybe some 9TH
ers, but there is some segregation in
the quarters and the first sitting at
The table is English people" which
includes us. The bill of fare is
probably very much shorter than the
AlSher class passengers have, but
our food is more than enough rather
than less, and so good that / find