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...Long Island Place, so we are putting it in the vault here." Some one trying to confirm the gold report learned: "It's tea all right. There are three restaurants in the building. Much food comes in here." Wall Street oldsters recalled the legend that John Pierpont Morgan the Elder, a great tea-drinker, had once sipped some particularly fine tea in a London office, had been told that the tea was privately grown on an Island owned by a Chinese. Next morning he had ordered an agent to buy the island. As long as he lived he always...
Stolen from Columbia University Oct. 24 was the manuscript of Vol. II of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, lent for exhibition by its owner John Pierpont Morgan...
What the late great John Pierpont Morgan banished from New York 25 years ago, the great golden-haired Maria Jeritza last week brought back?almost. In Europe the role of Salome in Richard Strauss's opera is one of the most celebrated of the many which Jeritza sings. For ten years she has wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod...
Died. Arnold Seligmann, 61, famed Paris art connoisseur, founder-president of Arnold Seligmann & Son (antiques & old masters) with Paris & Manhattan offices; of heart disease; in Paris. He advised Art Collectors William Randolph Hearst, the late John Pierpont Morgan, the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, the Rothschild family, the late Paul Dutasta...
...Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven...