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At 8 P.M., Devent to
China Town with a Police
Sargent, Kelley + with
Knuth + Jausseen, + Myers
Ellurian + Parley a S.T.
business house. Chinatown
was vastly different from
a town in China for its
streets were wide, clean
+ the underground rooms
were deserted, no Opium
Shopters or Fan tan
players being extant.
The sargent showed us many
secret doors closets etc.
He introduced us to Rosay
a Chinese girl of 18 who sang
the latest American songs &
Fan Chuiers over but she
Yorkulittle Chinese &
She had never seen China.
She was a good fellow + as free
+ happy with us as could be,