The new dining room is on the fifth floor of the building, and is the old card room re-arranged and redecorated. It is an ideal place for} ity purpose, being both lofty and commodious, and getting the full benefits of the south wind in summer.
For Saturday night's ceremony, the dining room was filled almost to its seating capacity with members of the engineering profession in Shanghai. "An Englishman was also Present. Mr. James Amour, pres-dent of the club, occupied the chair. 'There was an air of good will and good cheer, and the Greenock and Dumbarton' accents pervaded. The atmosphere was delightfully cool, the food delightfully cooked, and the speeches delightfully brief. And what more could man want?
AYhile there was no official eating ofthe first mouthful or popping of tthe first cork, Mr. Amour, in a few well: choset reniarks "declaring the dining room open, reviewed—very briefly the history' of the Club and
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