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Chesapeake & Ohio (controlled by the Van Sweringens and their Nickel Plate R. R.) voted $59,502,400 to buy control of the Pere Marquette (now controlled by Van Sweringens) and the Erie (now controlled by Van Sweringens with the aid of George F. Baker...
...purchase, last week, of 130,000 shares of Pere Marquette R. R. stock, the Van Sweringen brothers increased their holdings in this road to 280,000 shares. This is 40% of the stock and gives them control of directors' meetings. More important, it obviates sharp bargaining between the Pere Marquette and the Nickel Plate System that they still propose...
...those "mighty fine young men," Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen, had replaced him with President James J. Bernet of their Nickel Plate road. This was probably another move of the Van Sweringens towards their merger of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley roads into their Nickel Plate System, which the Interstate Commerce Commission thwarted last March (TIME, March 15). President Underwood has always been "good copy" for newspaper men. There was the time when he was arrested for disorderly conduct because he would not get off a Staten Island ferry...
Criss Cross. Charles B. Dillingham's big dress-parade is possessed of every grace except humor. Lively dancers, good tunes, gorgeous costumes are presented in abundance. Criss Cross could find no ready market for its splendors, however, were it not for that priceless pair, Stone pere and Stone fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from...
...Erie and Pere Marquette stockholders waited avariciously for greater inducements; the C. & O. minority, which foiled the first merger plan, remained obdurate...