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...last week the indefatigable Van Sweringen brothers (of Cleveland) labored, and not in vain. In their bulging bag of railroads reposed the Nickel Plate, Erie, C. & O. and Hocking Valley, but they continued to gun for the Pere Marquette. Chairman...
Brown of that road tactfully refused to sacrifice pleasure for business and remained absent on vacation. In his stead the Seligmans, bankers for the Pere Marquette, have expertly held out for the most favorable terms obtainable. There have been conferences, rumors, more conferences and more rumors. Stockbrokers have been no losers through the continued uncertainty...
...curities" were active on the Stock Exchange. Rumors abounded. Ap- parently the time is almost here when the astonishing realtors from Cleveland will put together the "Nickel Plate System" as one of this country's greatest railroad mergers. The system will include Nickel Plate, Erie, Clover Leaf, Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio, and the coming consolidation will necessitate a complex exchange of securities, details of which are probably not alto- gether settled in even the Van Sweringens' minds. Probably the most definite notion of the Greater Nickel Plate System that is to be, at present exists...
...Last February, Nickel Plate assumed control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. In the late Winter and Spring, the heavy buying of Erie on the Stock Exchange occasioned much comment. Evidently much of it was for the Van Sweringens. The next road due to be acquired, the story goes, is the Pere Marquette, and then perhaps the Virginian and the Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...picturing Lampy pere et fils conjures time to turn backward in its flight, and Mr. Noble '88, also breathes Etheu Fugaces in a seven stanza "praise of folly." Mr. McCord '21, and Mr. Alger '22, not yet having felt the sentimental stimulus of a class reunion, shape their sketches in the more or less familiar mold of modern college humor...