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...aggregate, set out from Los Angeles last week in the steamer Oaxaca,* for the use of which I am paying $50,000 monthly, to seek swordfish and other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...
...this ilk and their families arrived from Nanking at Shanghai, last week, haggard, troubled in spirit, some hatless, many in Chinese garments, some suffering from ptomaine poisoning contracted aboard their rescue ship, the U. S. gunboat...
Fear hag-rode the U. S. Army Transport Chateau Thierry into San Francisco last week. Mumps, influenza and Death were aboard, and at San Francisco were hospitals. The boat had left Brooklyn a fortnight before. On it were 125 first-class passengers, including 13 members of the U. S. House of Representatives. There were also 950 enlisted men under command of Brigadier General Henry G. Learnard who was to transship some of his detachment at Honolulu for service in China. The ship's crew numbered 147. Altogether there were some 1,200 people on board, and three Army doctors...
...famed C. C.* pills was set aside and the bottle of aspirin tablets put ready. Sick men went to bed until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...
Before dawn in Elsinore, Denmark, where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...