L4y, DECEMBER
4, 1941
THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
nf Wreckage
oilwav Empire
tor Auction
I a "in case you're in the
femnsion, the late Van
ifor " , ,, Daisy
f"b.y may be purchased
you'll have to pro
iSs? PaU HUl f ann
rneL HisintewaUon
Eroad and real estate em-
Pu . . -n. Oris Par-
, the a"1
cwringen five years ago,
Cinder of tne eswio iw
being split into highly re
t..m sites. . . '
n Inmn who SDent
Ivan aciiB ; ----- -bis
life in railroad cars,
one of tnem..uj ..,
Eleven nionum
.. Tomoa Van Swer-
i nanus - - -
L in a Cleveland hospital
Thus was written "
. .-j tn nno nt the na-
ost colorful stories, for the
brothers were minions vx
in aeoi.
.t.i Mfa with nothine.
siaivcu
led it with $80,000,000 less,
quired Daisy Hill in a
bus period which saw their
assets cliniD to iiv,yw,-
ljapr value;, assocuu
hem to easn in una mm,
persisted in m licmijr
idea of putting together
.f trtnjiat mil RVR-
tuasL vv-v.w .
M-lir atnrtpn their
- .
as real estate operators j
ie pretentious suburban .
Heights into a haven for j
tr , -
ive clients to the wooded
i Jed to erect a dream
Construction started in
attAaA nnlv nffcpr n nri-
rimming pool had been built
t home, surrounaea Dy im
lely groomed greens and a
ressman Off to Britain
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SUPERSTITIONS SURROUND
"POWERS" OF CHRISTMAS
There is a Scottish belief that
to be born on Christmas is to have
the power to see spirits and even
to command them. Sir Walter
Scott says that the Spaniards at
tributed the haggard and downcast
looks of Philip II to the terrible
visions he was able to see because
he was born on Christmas,
French peasants believe that ba
bies born on Christmas have the
gift of phophecy.
In Silesia a baby born on Christ
mas will become either a lawyer or
a thief. '
In middle Europe it is said that
if a baby is born at sermon tims
Christmas Eve, someone in the
house will die within the year.
English mothers used to take
sick babies to the door Christmas
Eve midnight. Mary was expect
ed to pass with the Christ Child.
If the baby recovered, it was a
sign that it had been touched by
Christ, with healing fingers, and if
it died, the Christ Child had called
the baby to be His playmate in
heaven, i '. V
To Wed Ball Star
n N -dk I
Selected from among thousands of
contestants as the "ideal brunette,"
Constance Joannes will wed Emer
son Dickman, pitcher for the Bos
ton Red Sox. Announcement of the
engagement was made by her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Joannes,
of Wood Ridge. N. J
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
EARTHSHINE, astronomers
tell us, is 12 times as potent as
moonshine. Gosh, mutters Za
dok Dumbkopf, if someone only
could find a means of bottling
and selling it!
I i I
The nverigt weepy ridio se
rial ought to mike a swell pro
?rm lor- the mtnuftcturer of
crying towels.
Indian summer -Is : well-name.'
It seems to disappear even more
quickly than the Vanishing
American.
.:".'!. 1 ' ! :
Grandpappy Jenkins says the
most popular war would be one
By WILUASI RITT-
Centrtl Press Writer
fought between Hitlers army
and Hitler's Gestapo.
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A tenure hocse race is ruined
Cup and Sucer. A gentle hint
to the bettors that there's many
4 slip- , , f
Scientists say It .'hat never
been discovered why human be
ings walk In circles. A study of
the headlines from Europe might
give us a clue.
! ! !
The subsidized football player
earns ls dough the hard way
by working on Saturday after
noons when most everyone else
Is loafing. '
A geologist claims that the
earth is diminishing. That's easy
. understand. The dirt is being
used in current jokes.
The passion of acquiring riches
in order to support a vain expense,
orrupts the purest souls,
Congressmen are wanting more
pay. If they don't get it, they
know how others workers get it
call a strike.
In the summer the baseball um
pires called the strikes. Now the
labor leaders are calling them.
Representative J. Buell Snyder (left), of Pennsylvania, chats with
Capt. Harold Balfour, British under secretary for air, as they board
a Clipper at LaGuardia Airport, New York, for the flight to Europe.
Snyder is a member of the House military affairs committee
m UW WE'RE f
r OF LETTERHEADS W
OONT GET EXCITBQA
MSS'THE NEWSPAPER
WOP WILL PRNT J,
SOME IW A '$tZ$
HURRY IP WE
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medieval moat.
There the railroad rulers relax
ed from worries of their tremen
dous transactions. And there they , headed
worked, even on
ferring with executives and study
ing their favorite textbooks, rail
road maps. A private telephone
switchboard connected them with
the world, and guests ate on rare
china at an 84-legged banquet ta
ble. '.;;
But the depression forced them
to dismiss half their 14 servants,
to drive comparatively modest au
tomobiles '"sent '"p.. P." leader of
the brothers, scurrying for help
to their perennial bankers, J. P.
Morgan & Co.
A $39,500,000 "rescue party"
loan by various banks was ar
ranged but when the note secured
by controlling securities and the
brothers' personal indorsements
fell due in May, 1935, "We'were
sick of putting up money," Banker
William Chapman Potter recalled
later. So the key securities were
auctioned to satisfy a note which
had climbed to $48,000,000.
Attracted by the prospects of
profits, in stepped George A. Ball,
the Muncie, Ind., fruit jar maker.
For $3,121,000. he and an asso
ciate purchased control of a $3,000,
000,000 empire which included such
diverse interests as steamships, a
radio company and even a peach
orchard. .',
Ball paid the Vans $100,000 a
year to run the realm, and gave
them a ten-year option to buy back
control for a nominal $8,050 pro
vided they first satisfied their credi
tors.
They died and Ball disposed of
many key stocks to a syndicate
by Robert R. Young. New
week-ends con- York financier, wno today is
chairman ot Aiiegnany coi porauon,
the top holding company. Young
probably is the most influential di
rector of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railway, top road of the system,
and heads Alleghany despite Ball's
ownership of the largest single
block of stock in the holding com
pany. :
Of the Vans' 25,000-mile rail
network from New York to Utah,
and Canada to the Gulf of Mexi
co, the C, & C Pere Marquette,
Nickel Plate and Wheeling &
Lake Erie lines weathered the de
pression, but the Missouri Pacific,
Erie, Denver & Rio Grande and
Chicago & Eastern Illinois plung
ed into reorganization and out of
the empire. Also under court con
trol went Van Sweringen corpora
tion, parent of the 700-foot tall
terminal, tower dominating Cleve
land's skyline, and the Van Swer
ingen company, holder of the bro
thers' Shaker Heights real estate.
In life the Van Sweringens
shared the same luxurious linen
papered bedroom, slept in twin
beds. In tree-shaded Lakeview
cemetery where lie the remains of
John D. Rockefeller and Presi
dent James Garfield, they now
share the same ivy-covered grave.
From the joint tombstone may
be heard chugging a block away
the engine's of the Nickle Plate--the
railroad which started them
on their spectacular climbs;
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