Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

PROGRESSIVE
FIRM
G. G. SLOAN & COMPANY, WELL
KNOWN AUCTIoNEERS.

The firm of c. G. Sloan & Co. Is so we'll
known to the Washington public that there
remains little to be said regarding them.
However, a few notes on their interesting
business cannot come amiss C. G. Sloan,
the head of the concern. was born in Mary
land in 1857, went to school at Thompson'S
Academy and local schools, and, after
graduating, went into the auction business,
and has continued the career of his early
selection. He went with Thomas Bowling
in 1875, and started his own business at his
present location in 1891, which has devel
oped into the largest legitimate auction
business in Misunderstanding only on
commission. The training he received in his
early business career has been fostered and
cultivated by him un... now his opinion on
real estate and house furnishings is con-
Sidered uninpeachable.
Mr.. Sloan has made some of the largest
real estate sales in the District, for in
stance the Willard Hotel site-involving con-
sderably over half million dollars-oid
space allow could mention many other Of
like character. When he leased the pres
ent building G street was not the business
thoroughfare it is to day, and 1t is another
instance Of his rare knowledge Of real es-
tate in which time has proven that his
Judgment was correct, for he could not
have chosen a better site for his business.
The building also has undergone many
changes to suit the growing business of the
firm, and now includes sales rooms,
each 100x25 feet in dimensions. The third
and fourth floors are blocked off into forty
separate rooms for storage, and are known
as the Army and Navy storage rooms.
A walk through the sales rooms discovers
hundreds of interesting things. The very
fact that the firm generally handles the
magnificent furnishings of the households
of retiring ambassadors and ministers Of
foreign governments, senators, congress-
men, army and navy officers, ETC., etc..
will show the class Of articles auctioned,
and their intrinsic value is increased by
q sentimental value when one considers
whom they have been owned by. There has
bsss, sold in these rooms rare collections of
personal mementoes of Napoleon, Louis XIV
and Louis XVI and lesser historic per-
sonage One finds here rare old Chippen-
dale, Sheraton and early colonial furniture,
beautiful Sevres vases, exquisite bric-a-brac,
oriental rugs and carpets, fine pictures, and,
except for it being a sales ROOM one
could imagine themselves in an exquisitely
appointed drawing room, and, when the
fashionably dressed society people who at
tend the sales are considered, the effect is
heightened. Most Of the best-appointed
homes in this city have been furnished
through attending Sloans sales. The
furniture and house decorations of
ambassadors and ministers are gen.
orally chosen and purchased abroad and
imported duty free These personages,
when transferred or recalled, usually dis
pose of their lares and penates through the
fundamentally of C. G. Sloan G. Co., thus
affording Westinghouse an opportunity
of acquiring beautiful objects of art which
no other city offers and no other auctioneer
can handle. Our own government does not
hesitate to use the experience and good Of
fees Of this form. in proof of which are
many letters from government officials COM
mending Sloan & Co. for their satisfactory
sales of condemned government property,
dead letters, ETC., ETC., and they are to sell
early in the coming January the condemned
furniture and effects from the White
House.
The firm handles an immense amount OF
rare and costly furniture, which is shipped
| to all parts of the country.
The late John Chamberlin's collection of
| rare racing pictures were sold here, also a
puuch bowl Of Daniel Webster-a card table,