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169/ [[left margin in red]] Hurricane [[/left margin in red]] But this morning good breeze from S.W. At noon lat. = 32°48, [[strikethrough]] cloudy [[/strikethrough]] dark [[strikethrough]] dark [[/strikethrough]] clouds and wind freshening. Boat rocking much in heavy swell out of proportion to the wind velocity. Later learned we were in the [[red underlined]] neighborhood of a hurricane. [[/red underlined]] By night calmer sea and bright skies. At 9 P.M there was a [[red underlined]] ball masque [[/red underlined]] and amateur performance. [[red underlined]] Plenty of bare-legs and ditto backs of the performers. [[/red underlined]] [[underlined]] Sept. 9 Sunday.[[/underlined]] Bright and cooler, smooth and generally pleasant. [[left margin in red, underlined]] Fire danger [[/left margin in red, underlined]] Am told [[red underlined]] that a steamer of the Ward Line returning to New York from Havana, caught fire in the storm [[/red underlined]] and was finally [[red underlined]] beached [[/red underlined]] on the New Jersey shore with the loss of many lives. - [[red underlined]] When will passenger steamers stop building combustible wooden partitions, thus producing fire-traps.[[/red underlined]] A burning steamers cabins make fire extinction very difficult if not impossible. [[red underlined]] Bakelite steel partitions [[/red underlined]] could avoid this. Since [[red underlined]] women have become such [[/red underlined]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 170/ [[left margin]] Smoking women Fire danger [[/left margin]] [[red underlined]] inveterate smokers, and every one smokes in his or her cabin, [[/red underlined]] some of them [[red underlined]] smoking in bed [[/red underlined]] and falling asleep with a lighted cigarette, [[red underlined]] I am astonished that we [[/red underlined]] have no more steamer fires. I wonder also how many smoke-masks are available for fighting fire in [[strikethrough]] killin [[/strikethrough]] rooms filled with killing smoke? Later information = [[red underlined]] 159 passengers perished, [[/red underlined]] 360 saved. Boat [[red underlined]] "Marro Castle" [[/red underlined]] which has cost 5000000$ was beached at Ashbury park. Fire started at dawn, probably when most passengers were asleep. - The [[red underlined]] Ward Line [[/red underlined]] has had several calamities in its history. [[red underlined]] Textile strike in U.S. is spreading [[/red underlined]] and violence is threatened form the strikers whose number is said reaching towards 500000. Temp. in my room 80° at 11 AM. [[strikethrough]] Sin [[/strikethrough]] My right shoulder aches considerably. I do not know whether this is due to knocking against the ship-walls or furniture during the hard rolling of the ship yesterday