Exiles from Far East Who Lunch Together Once Monthly to Talk of Old Times From Ovx Own Conmssroxosyr, Washington, Apr. 1
In a hyle restaurant in the shadow of the Woolworth building New York City and thousands of lies from a ricsha or a tall, clinking glass of Scotch and soda that you can trust, an aggregation of fox-Shanghai and China hands that looking "Jimmy" up ana getting all ithe dope. Down at 37 Broadway if you ask for "Jimmy" Rogers the office boy presently allows you to [see James J. Rogers, manager of the New York office of the Equitable astern Bani Corporation. When he sees an old friend from JShanghai, however, he's still "Jimmy" Rogers, late of the Shanghai Dank, baseball rooter, and a boost-jer for Clifton, New Jersey.
For the benefit of those Shanghailanders who were always spoofing Jimmy about Clifton he lives in. [Clifton no longer, however, but is nightly recpeeted supporter of the [Babbitts in Montclair, New Jersey, which, Jimmy asserts, "was con [sidered the second richest comm! ity in the United States but si my arrival has dropped down to nearly last.
There are as many Chinese cards in the little tray outside the Rogers. office as there isin any Tuchun's jyamén in China and among those Still on top of the pile indicating. their recent visits are Malcolm G. Howland of the Eagle Silk Com-E. Elliott of Ault and srg; Major Jack Hamilton, who represents the "Far Eastern' Re-ow" in New York; H. A. Wiley Jof the American Foreign Insurance Association, who has just returned to the United' States, and Nat Sachs, who expects to spend four or five months here before returning to Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.