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inside breakwater. Have a room all to myself very room on [[underline]] deck A. [[/underline]] All clean and [[underline]] fully similar [[/underline]] to [[underline]] S.S. President 'Taft', [[\underline]] and as next room is not occupied I am [[underline]] allowed to use its bathroom & W.C. [[/underline]] Nice clean running hot & cold water.  [[underline]] Stewards are all Germans, but they tell me they are either U.S. citizens [[/underline]] or have applied for first papers but officers and higher positions, purser etc [[underline]] are born Americans. [[/underline]] So is Chief [[underline]] Stewards.  Stewards excellent, [[/underline]] and cabin and table service ditto.  The [[underline]] Germans make better servants than masters. [[underline]] Orchestra by stewards of 
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Third Class Cabin. There is no second class. There are about [[underline]] 6 German passengers in front cabin [[/underline]] but they undoubdetly [[underline]] live in U.S. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] because [[/strikethrough]] judging from their way of dressing and their use of English. The [[underline]] Germans [[/underline]] keep together and [[underline]] talk German in a quiet voice. [[/underline]] What a difference to their boisterous and assertive [[underline]] behaviour before the war. [[/underline]] All other passengers are [[underline]] Americans. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] July 18. [[/underline]] Cold, cloudy & windy. Ship rolling. Several passengers seasick. About noon enter bay at [[underline]] Queenstown,[[/underline]] torturous channel but well buoyed. Drop anchor and tender takes [[underline]] Irishmen [[/underline]] off and brings new passengers mostly [[underline]] Irish for third class. [[/underline]]