Wednesday 30th

Memorial Day in the States but it doesn't seem much like it here. The Cherry sisters were ordered out of the hotel, refused to go and if it hadn't been for the women siding in with them they would have been put out. The crowd chipped in and bought Mr. Willsher, the manager of the hotel, a couple of vases to show our appreciation of the way he acted during the affair. We worked in the morning and in the afternoon came aboard the ship which came out of dry dock this A.M. They are coaling ship this afternoon and it certainly is an interesting sight. There are about 1500 Jap men and women and they stand on stairways rigged out from the side of the ship and pass the coal up in baskets. We counted 40 baskets go up on stairway in one minute; there are about 30 stairways in all and each basket holds about 20 or 25 pounds so it don't take long. We took on 2000 tons in less than ten hours. Sailed at 10 P.M. for Shanghai and everybody was glad to leave Nagasaki with its sand pillows and mattresses and bed bugs.