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Full text from Millard's Review of the Far East Publication

The Columbia Country Club

The new Columbia Country Club informally opened its handsome clubhouse and grounds at No. 50 Route Doumier in the French Concession with a reception and tea dansant from five to seven on Saturday, June, 30.
Papini's band furnished excellent music for the occasion. Punch, tea, and other refreshments had been provided by the Board of Governors, and the many ladies and gentlemen in attendance thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

The club grounds comprise about twenty mow of land and are sufficient to accommodate four tennis courts, which are all ready for use. Showers baths and lockers are being built for the accommodation of the players. A profusion of shrubbery and pergolas combine to make it a very attractive place. The building is four stories high and contains ten large rooms, the three on the ground floor being so arranged that they can be thrown into one, the resulting dancing floor being sufficient to accommodate about one hundred and fifty persons. Up stairs there is a ladies' card room, a ladies suite and dressing room, a men's card room, and a fully equipped billiard room.
This club numbers amongs its members the great majority of American business and professional men in Shanghai. It will be run on the usual Country Club lines and will prove a convenient spot for recreation for Americans of both sexes. The officers are: W.A. Burns, president; W.C. Sprague, vice president; J. Harold Dollar, treasurer; and R.A. Curry, secretary. The affairs of the club are managed by a Board of Governors, as follows: Messrs C.H. Blake, Arthur Bassett, Sterling Fressenden, J.J. Connell, W.L. Merriman, W.A.B Nichols, J.D. gaines and L. Everett.

The American Club
The new quarters of the American Club were opened July 4, when the Club kept open house to its members and friends in Settlement. A few weeks ago this Club, which formerly was known as the "Slam" Club rented the entire floor on the second story of the building occupied by the Bank of Territorial Development in Nanking road, just west of Kiangse. By running three shifts of workmen, working continuously night and day, the rooms were got ready so that the opening could take place Independence Day. Although the quarters of this recent addition of Shanghai's Clubs are not very large, those who attended the reception last Wednesday were loud in praise of their appointments and arrangements.
The rooms include a billiard room with bar, smoking and reading room, dining room, and several card rooms, together with a kitchen and the usual accesories. The stairways, the entrance, and the principal rooms are all finished in beautiful hardwoods, as are also all the floors.
The reception, which was held from one to three, was attended by seven or eight hundred persons, the rooms part of the time being so crowded as to be uncomfortable. Shepherd's Cafe served an excellent cold buffet, reinforced with numerous large bowls of ice-cold champagne, punch and lemonade.
Mr. F. W. Sutterle, president of the Club, delivered an address of welcome, in the course of which he explained how the Club had come into existence and the modest part it hopes to play in Shanghai Club life. Among those present were Mr E. Pearce, chairman of the Municipal Council, Mr D. Siffert, Senior Consul, Mr Thomas Sammons, American Consul General, and a majority of the other Consuls in Shanghai. Members from all the Clubs of allied nationality were in attendance.