Word: chinatown
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...Times Square, Manhattan, drivers of busses which nightly carry yokels to Chinatown changed their signs to read "Mitchel Field"; made money...
...York Days and Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...
...have breathed rose-laden zephyrs and married Terrence O'Shaughnessy (Charles Mack) but for Buckwell (Warner Oland), villainous politician. He wants to take away her rancho. Because she senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord's Prayer. In answer, God sends the earthquake of 1906 to demolish the villain...
Died. "Little Louis" Fook, 43, merchant, prominent in the Tong councils, beloved "Mayor of Chinatown," friend of Governor Alfred E. Smith (he went to Emily Smith's wedding); in Brooklyn, of tuberculosis...
Died. Ng Ah Foon, 61, friend of "bosses" "Big Tim" Sullivan and Tom Foley, for three decades race-track betting commissioner to Manhattan's "Chinatown"; in Manhattan of diabetes...