barney knew a speculator named charles morse. and a partner, frederick hines, schemed to manipulate copper's price on wall street. copper was a hot item many people speculated on. there is debate, historically over the extent of barney's involvement, but many believe he made the behind-the-scenes arrangements as the morse-hines combine began setting its trap in early 1907. historian robert sobel explains. hines came to new york where he met morse a small-time speculator. their plan was to get several banks behind them and use the banks' assets to create a new copper company united copper, push the stock up, and squeeze those people who sold the stock thinking it would go down. what happened? the stock market was heading downward because of a money crunch. the economy was overheating. many people were frightened of a crash. they took their gold out of the banks. people knew the knickerbocker was connected with united copper, which started to collapse. depositors started to appear ansaid, "give us our gold," and the money started fl

he bought this mantlepiece he bought it from the chateau du jour and built it in charles barney's mansion in new york. when barney dies, hearst bought it many years later in 1922 and gave it a pride and place of san simian. william randolph hearst was the same kind of omnivorous collector that he had been. specialized in the pottery, stained glass pieces, lots of furniture. in 1920, his son, laurence grant white published a monogram, a spirited defense of his father's an attempt to reguild a tarnished reputation. and he said my father put little stock in paintings. he wasn't interest in the minor works. he was much more interested in the decorative arts. what white and hearst did later was build around objects. i don't mean literally around them. they would alter the pieces to make them fit. but take a piece of architecture like a ceiling or a mantlepiece and make it the feature of the room and mix things in such a way that what you ended up with was a rich cultural layering that achieved the effect of generations of family and centuries of collecting in a short amount of time. these are

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