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The article announces the erection of the Harris Monument sponsored by Viscount Shibusawa, founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Tusen Kaisha, financier, and philanthropist in Tokyo, Japan. The monument will be launched before U.S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh. Funds to be used for the monument will come from the estate of the late U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Edgar Addison Bancroft and attorney Henry M. Wolf.

The article describes the diplomatic message of U.S. Ambassador Charles Mac-Veagh to Japan. It was observed that he often speaks of U.S. sports and sportsmen. Given is a forensic passage cited in news organs throughout the country which relates that men who do the sport for sport's sake are part of the highest class in the country, and countries with the same class of sports representatives competing can expect a friendship between the nations.