Called at the American Express
Co.  for mail, and there being
None – returned to the hotel.
After lunch left at 2 P.M.
by taxi for the bus station.
We are to go by bus 12 miles
to the Steamship Pier No. 22 –
Where the American Merchant
Steamship “American Trader”
is docked.
A ride through the worst
possible district of London.
Such filth and poverty is
almost ???irable
The huge bus seats 24 people
or more – and we were an hour
passing through the conges-
ted traffic – reaching the
dock at 4 P.M.
The steamship seems to be
filled to capacity. Many
Children on board and quite
excited over the prospect of