Evening star., 1938-10-02
VAN SWER|NCENS'
ITEMS FOR SALE.
84.Legged Dining Table
Among Articles to Go
Under Hammer.
sy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Oct ALI the amaz-
ing and expensive household furnish
ings gathered by the late Van Swer-
ingen brothers were busted and tagged
today. ready for the auctioneer-rare
china, Oriental rugs, their 84-legged
dining table and even table-tennis
set
The 54-room Daisy Hill home where
the two railroad rulers, O. p and M.
j., relaxed from the worries of their
tremendous transactions will be thrown
open to bargain-seeking public Octo-
Der Is for the benefit of creditors of
the famous bachelors. The auctioneer
expects to raise 100000 from the sale.
The house, in the form of large
ct" is set in 500-acre estate on the
outskirts of Cleveland. 1t was once
huge dairy'barn The railroad mag
mates furnished the residence almost
entirely in American colonial furniture.
They added enough modern effects
to make living there an adventure in
luxury.
Open to Public. ~
The handsome. spacious bedrooms
with proud four-posters and expensive
chests and secretaries will be open
to curious public which knew the
Vans" as almost legendary figures,
dealing in millions and living in deepest
seclusion. They died within week
Of each other in 1885 and 1886.
Outstanding among the items to be
offered the public are some 200 pieces
of blue and white Staffordshire China,
made about 1925 and decorated with
also are collections of English and
American pewter and English 18th
century china of the 1770-1800 period
Among several rare and unusual
clocks is one made by Simon Willard,
famous New England clockmaker,
about 1870.
Admirers Of Dickens.
The brothers were admirers of
Charles Dickens and had q small study
which they called the Dickens room"
In it are a complete set Of Dickens
work, including several first editions,
a portrait of the writer and q chair
he used while editor Of the London
Daily News in 1846.
Also priced by the brothers were
a dozen or more miniature. brightly
colored Staffordshire figures of Dickens
characters.
There are tags on the huge dining
table where the Van Sweringens could
seat Is guests; on the chairs, on the
carpets.
In a bedroom upstairs is an eye
catching maple bonnet top chest, once
owned by Edward Holyoke, president
of Harvard College in 1877. and OBJ
tanned from his heirs. Others are
Jacobean oak chests of the 18th CEN
tury. On the walls of a second-fioor
corridor are six rare Rowlandson draw
ings-satires on English life of the
18th century There are many Ferge-
han and Persian carpets of unusually
large size.
Chairs Made About 1850.
There is a set of six chairs of the
Chippendale type made in about 1850
In Philadelphia and another Phila-
delphia Chippendale wing chair made
by William Savery. Many paintings
and prints hang on the walls, the
brothers having shown preference for
early American scenes.
Fourteen servants looked after the
house at one time, the number being
reduced to seven during the depression.
While brisk young man with an
expert eye catalogued the prints and
vases which frightened the masters
bedroom, a houseman followed visit
fully.
Il still hope" he said, that some
one will buy the house and keep
things as they are"