After months of preparation, tary of the Favre Committee, and the effective conquering of Mrs.
(President of eleventh how troubles almost the American Woman's Club), inseparable from such an event, Gen.. Ho Feng-ling, Mr. Hsu Ye Olde English Favre, at the Race Club, organized by the British Women's Association to give effect to the designs of the sub-committee entrusted with the establishment of a permanent residence, was opened last Friday in most auspicious circumstances.
The Favre itself is a pretentious business, not so elaborate, perhaps, as some of those staged for other purposes in the Town Hall before the war, yet a really vast undertaking and by contrast the opening ceremony was of a very simple nature. This seemed to be well in keeping with the general idea, for one is accustomed to associate simplicity with an Elizabethan country village. Sir Ronald Macleay (the British Minister to Peking) and Lady Macleay just before 3 p.m. drove up to the Race Club in a motor car escorted by a troop of Sikh Police lancers and at the Mohawk Road entrance were received by members of the committee ani others. A procession then was formed and! wended its dignified way through the grounds to 2 platform erected in the public enclosure. There was a quaintness about some of the ladies' costumes when one saw the wearers individually, but in the procession the old time garb and the long be-ribboned canes strangely seemed not at all out of place beside the silk-hatted and frock-coated escorts. As the procession centered the enclosure the Russian cadets' band played the British National Anthem and so anxious were the lads to do full honours to the people who have done so much for them that they played on for two verses and evidently had a mind to go through the full measure, but were checked by a discreet warning The visitors and officials then took their places on the platform, as follows Sir Ronald and Lady Macleay, Mrs. O. M. Green (acting Chairman of the B.W.A.), Mrs. G. H. Stitt (Chairman of the Favre Committee), Sir Skinner and Lady Turner, Sir Edward and Lady Pearce, Judge Peter Grain, Mr. G._S. Moss (acting British Consul-General), and. Mrs. Moss, Dean C. J. F. and Mrs. Symons, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Stirling Fessenden (Chairman of the Muncipal Council), Captain A. 8. Campbell representing St. Andrew's, and Mr. R. B. Moorhead, president of St. Patrick's Society, Mr. G. H. Stitt, Mrs. Craddock, Miss Thomson, Mrs. H. Y. Irwine, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Clear, acting Vice-chairman B.W.A., Mrs. Leslie, secre-
Yuan and officials of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs,
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