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...Whitemarsh Mystery...
...scrap pile were three and, a quarter tons of armored limousine-the rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...
Press reports that 62 servants had been dismissed from Whitemarsh Hall, mogul-mansion (272 rooms) of the late, drum-beating Philadelphia financier, Edward T. Stotesbury, brought a disdainful disclaimer from stately Mrs. Stotesbury: Said she: "I personally have not discharged any one, nor do I intend to. The responsibility is in the hands of my co-executors...
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...
Victory came to Mrs. Hill after a 24-hour duel over the Whitemarsh Valley Course that equalled the title tourney's marathon record established in 1929 when Mrs. Leo G. Federman of New York defeated Mrs. Helen Statson at Oakland Hills...