Well to get back to figures again I spent the whole of last Sunday writing letters at the hotel in NY. On Monday we spent the morning in booking our passages to England and all the lot with the Customs and Tax people and at night we saw a show called "Scandal of 1924" a scene in which the scenery and dressing was very good but beyond that it was not anything to write home about. [Presumably George White's Scandals of 1924 at the Apollo Theater with music by George Gershwin.]

On Tuesday we spent the morning shopping and in the afternoon had tea with a woman we met off the "Tahiti" and at night we took the trip to New York Chinatown down in the slums of the city.

We saw the renowned Bowery and then on to Pell St where the underworld of N.Y. have their headquarters. The place was alive with police in consequence of the Tong riots and murders that were in progress there at the time. It is very interesting as we saw the breadline and all the poor devils down and out coming in for shelter in the missions for the night and from that we visited the Doss house and a cafe run Chop Suey fashion.

Next we returned to civilization via the Bowery and Broadway seeing all the wonderful lights of the latter. Saw the largest electric sign in the world advertising Chico and Ginger Ale composed of 28,000 bulbs a wonderful affair. [He probably means the Clicquot Club Ginger Ale sign pictured left.) Thence on to see New Yorks night life at a cabaret but as it was not as good a place as our Palais I was disappointed and returned home at about midnight.