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Died. Mantis James Van Sweringen, 54, younger and more retiring of Cleveland's famed bachelor brothers of railroading; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Because of his illness he did not accompany his brother Oris Paxton Van Sweringen to the public auction in Manhattan last September where, with fresh backing, they regained control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real estate empire for $3,121,300 (TIME...
...loot of 1897, there were 2,400 pieces, sold at auction by the British Admiralty. The British Museum bought 289, all it could afford. German museums snapped up 1,085 pieces. The rest drifted to private hands. Most of the greatest pieces were portraits of kings in their high-necked coral headdresses. What kings it was impossible to say, for Benin had no written history until the coming of the English...
When J. P. Morgan & Co. put the Van Sweringen rail and real estate empire on the auction block last fortnight, it was knocked down to Midamerica Corp., the Cleveland bachelors' new top holding company, for $3,121.000 (TIME, Oct. 7).* Though they are still well able to maintain checking accounts, Messrs. Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen needed help to buy back control of their vast possessions which had been taken over by the Morgan banking group for nonpayment of principal & interest on some $50,000,000 of notes. Last week Wall Street still buzzed with gossip about...
Though both George A.'s were seated close to 0. P. Van Sweringen at the auction, they were strange faces to Manhattan newsmen. Spare, bald-pated George Alexander Ball is a power in Indiana politics, a Republican National Committeeman, a close friend of onetime Senator James Watson and divides the honor of being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie...
...grubby auction hall is the Exchange Salesroom at No. 18 Vesey St., Manhattan. There in one corner is the famed auction block of Adrian H. Muller & Son which for a fee will sell anyone's securities. Both Mr. Muller and his son are dead, and the firm today is run by Miss Helen M. Collins, fortyish and efficient. One afternoon last week Miss Collins held the most spectacular auction in U. S. history...