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...Chief issuing His inexorable orders from General Headquarters. Last week, as the result of such a G. H. Q. order, Miss Janis used the News of Tarrytown, N. Y., where she owns famed Phillipse Manor (built in 1683), to reveal her plan to dispose of that 15-acre estate, auction off her other effects for local charities later this summer. Wrote Miss Janis to the News editor...
...woman who had traveled all night to buy the Britannia's ship's bell was told that Queen Mary is keeping that and it was not for sale. In all, the auction netted close to $5,000. The King's signal flags will be draped in the taproom of an English inn; the 102-ft. solid pine mast is to be the flagpole of a country estate; and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brinton are taking home to South Africa two feather pillows upon which once lay the heads of King George & Queen Mary...
...soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
Mostly, the first Lord's official home is furnished with antiques of a quality which made them costly even when bought at auction by an astute namesake of the British Admiralty's famed Samuel Pepys. In the great hall, between gleaming white Corinthian columns, long-dead British Admirals look down from heavily encrusted frames. After running this gantlet, guests arriving for an Admiralty ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented...
...creditors of Joseph W. Harriman, who is now in a Federal penitentiary for misapplication of his bank's funds, William R. Willcox, trustee in bankruptcy for the personal Harriman properties, last week asked a court's permission to disinter the body of Alan Harriman, auction off the cemetery plot. Permission was refused...