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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 5

meals a day:  they also serve a cup of bouillon in the middle of the forenoon, tea around four o'clock, and a little supper of sandwiches before bedtime.  The sea air gives one a fine appetite but it hardly makes him equal to the entire programme of victuals.
     The crowd aboard is something else again.  In peace times the Baltic could easily carry 1500 to 2,000 I should guess.  We have on this voyage some 50 in second class, not that many in first, and hardly a dozen in steerage.  And the stewards say business is picking up.  On the last voyage the second-class list numbered 29.  The people whom it is my lot to be thrown in with are not at all like the interesting lot on the Lafayette.  There we had a big crowd, of course, and there were many people interesting to watch and interesting to get acquainted with.  These people appear quite ordinary in their way.  Each one has an interesting little story to tell, I suppose.  Most persons crossing the ocean nowadays have.  But nevertheless they are not the kind one is wild to make friends.  The best one I have found so far is an Englishman, fifty years old, who lived in England only in his youth and came to America twenty-seven years ago.  He has made money and lived a rather

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meals a day: they also serve a cup of bouillon in the middle of the forenoon, tea around four o'clock, and a little supper of sandwiches before bedtime. The sea air gives one a fine appetite but it hardly makes him equal to the entire programme of victuals. The crowd aboard is something else again. In peace times the Baltic could easily carry 1500 to 2,000 I should guess. We have on this voyage some 50 in second class, not that many in first, and hardly a dozen in steerage. And the stewards say business is picking up. On the last voyage the second-class list numbered 29. The people whom it is my lot to be thrown in with are not at all like the interesting lot on the Lafayette. There we had a big crowd, of course, and there were many people interesting to watch and interesting to get acquainted with. These people appear quite ordinary in their way. Each one has an interesting little story to tell, I suppose. Most persons crossing the ocean nowadays have. But nevertheless they are not the kind one is wild to make friends. The best one I have found so far is an Englishman, fifty years old, who lived in England only in his youth and came to America twenty-seven years ago. He has made money and lived a rather