The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-04
SELLING MCGOWAN OUT.
HIs TRENTON MANSION OTERRUN
By CURIOSITY SEEKERS.

stock OF Far value or oAaS, 600 Hriprp oniy
e5sO-A Paitry snm Realised ana the sale
Adjourned Mt the Creditors Request
MaEownn's Former WHO = Spectator.
TRENTON, N. j, June 3.-After many post
ponements two Sheriffs went into the new
mansion Of ex-Mayor Frank A. Mcgowan to-day
and began to sell his personal property to satisfy
judgments aggregating over $4,000. Mr..
Mcgowan attempted to secure another post.
ponement. and his efforts were seconded by the
counsel Of some Of the Judgment creditors, who
feared that the property would be sacrificed at
such figures that some of them would collect
nothing on their claims. Conferences between
tho lawyers took up n great deal Of time, and
little progress had been made when the sale
was adjourned till tomorrow morning.
A beginning was made with the shares of stock
in eight corporations In which Mcgowan is In
tercstcd. As the auctioneer made his announce
ments a lawyer would step forward and notify
the bidders that the stock had been hypothe-
Gated and that purchasers must run a risk.
Sixty shares Of Taylor Opera House stock sold
for $50; fifty shares had been hypothetical to
secure q savings bank loan of S5, 900. The stock
is worth $3.50 n share. Thirteen hundred and
ninety shares of common stock Of Trenton Light
and Power Company sold for G840 TO Stephen
Pcll of New York. For 1913 Samuel Walker
bought 1850 shares OF Trenton Potteries COM
mon stock. Six hundred and forty shares Of
Trenton Rubber stock brought Sls; 219 shares
Trenton Oil Cloth. $17; 20 shares common stock
Trenton Watch Company sold for 81, and SO
shares of preferred brought sic; 1,o4s shares
Empire Rubber stock, $50. All the prices arc
for the lots. In all, stock to the par valuo Of
$44l 300 brought but $3.50.
After tho stock, tho contents of the stables
were sold. Two little sons Of Mcgowan camo
across the yard from their mothers home, and
claimed a pony that was included. in the sale.
s saa i fos ssGi s ess%ptl R%'' Sf joy 4 g. to as Which h hiT Is
entitled took, two volumes of ",Vanderbilt's
TT9 anSarSIIt m whish contain nn t a a ds ss1,s2x ,n Of tho
carriages sold for about 800.
kitchen, and the servants dining room and
adjourned. Tho days sales amounted to about
Masowan in trying TO SECURE q weeks adjourn.
ment Of the sale. in the hope that arrangements
maS he made Ss by S Sa Gem a6S sHr to New sp Yo sfTe fos
sale saaS,.n Their ,h,v v z We. is f "a ,i,t to be BE- $40, 200 and the
Maeownn's first wife was an interested spec.
tstor during a part Of the day from the vor&nda
Mcgowan No. 2. occupied a suite of rooms in
the mansion. and a servant guarded her door
against Intrusion from the crowd Of curiosity
seekers who swarmcd through the house. Mrs.
Sheriff that the sale would take place to-day,
but she declined to vacate the house.
Many OF Magowan's old friends were at the
sale, and he personally took some OF them
through the establishment and pointed out it's
beauties. The notices that are painted on the
walls of the library attracted much attention.
Hero are some of them:
a pound OF pluck is worth . ton OF luck"
Thine Il the old Justice that examines all OF.
Tenders"
THE poetry OF earth In never dead"
difficulties are the things that show what men
are"
There IL nothing good or bad. but thinking makes
10 So"
"The heavens declare the glory of God and the
hrnament showeth His handiwork."
This afternoon a summons was served upon
Mcgowan. at the suit of John 7. Bird, receiver
Of the Trenton Rubber, Company. to recover
$247, 900 which 1t 10 claimed Mcgowan has
overdrawn from the Trenton Rubber Company.