Wednesday, September 1, 1915

At 4:30 we turned out, but we had not yet reached the coaling dock so we had nothing to do but crawl into our coaling clothes and wait. I had only two left shoes, so one of them had to go on my right foot. We got to the warehouse dock at about 6; we moored alongside where I was in charge of the squad that tended the hawsers. After breakfast we turned to on the coal. It was fine coal and damp, so it was easy shoveling. It came in cars and was dumped in place, making our work easy - as shoveling coal can be easy. We marked until noon, stopping once for sandwiches and coffee. At one we turned to again. About three we had a rain storm that lasted for over an hour. It was fun for us. About five a bunch - or rather a bunch of bunches - of bananas were unloaded near us. We thot they were for us so we made a dive for them. It wasn't long until we mad a hole in the bananas pile - and then Turner saw us. He flew off the handle, threatened us with a general court martial and cussed us out for not working. But the bananas were down - and felt good where they were - and I saw him laughing later on when he told Farber about it, so I guess it was all right anyway. After supper we turned to until about 9. We had put on over 1300 tons. After our bath Fully and I slept on a sheet and a blanket on the quarter deck where a good breeze could strike us.