Mallet

A loud-tongued auctioneer addressed a vast crowd of official diplomatic and social Washingtonians. The furnishings of the home of the late Senator Frank D. Brandegee, who committed suicide last fall, had been put up at public sale. The hammer fell repeatedly as the public bought valuable furniture, Oriental rugs, beautiful books and a rare collection of paintings, etchings, prints, including many portraits of men of the Revolutionary period.