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[[Letterhead]] Imperial Hotels, Ltd. Tokio. (Imperial Hotel & Villa, and Metropole Hotel.) [[hotel insignia]] CARL FLAIG, Gen. Manager. Imperial Hotel & Villa [[/letterhead]] 116 [[underlined]] Omit [[/underlined]] May 15th 1907 Dear Colonel Hecker, I have your good letter of April 16th and cablegram announcing my election to the chairmanship of the Yondotega and Phil's place on the Board of Governors. I wish that some one more competent and a better club man might have been chosen to succeed Will, but the honor given me is deeply appreciated and I shall act until some one better equiped can be found. I am particularly glad that Phil accepted a place on the Board. I wired you expressing my acknowledgment of the election and asking you to "set up the bottles" which I have no doubt received the attention of the members. I am glad, too, that Mr. Ryan was made President of P. D & Co - He is young, able and progressive and if given proper assistance in the various departments, as he doubtless will, he will surely advance the firm. Mr. Hargraves should be given greater power