Show MEETS DEATH IN H controller JF IF BILLIONS BILLION 6 ANO AND KING NG OF financiers ANSWERS SUMMONS OF GRIM REAPER Oren nizer of olg big business and ally director of the financial world dag began an his hie career ac a rich man and added to his wealth rome john morgan 1 th american financier died here mo monday aday march 31 a few minutes after noon for months his health had been declining but the symptoms became becam beatly aggravated ag about a week ago and since march 26 2 8 he be had been in 4 semi comatose condition the official statement prepared ly the attending physicians indicated indicate that a gradual general collapse followed a condition ot of nervous tion which prevented the 01 07 gang gana from performing their unction function and affected the mental faculties mr morgans daughter mrs mra herbert herbat 14 satterlee who has haa been in constant attendance was at the deathbed all the rome newspapers publish tributes to mr korgan borgan tho the deep sense bense of ioen felt by the italian people it has been suggested that mr air morgans body should be taken W t the united states on beard a warship J pierpont pont was born april 17 1837 in a brick cottage in hart ford conn mr morgan caine came from an old puritan now new england family which dates back in this country to J PIERPONT MORGAN 1636 ile he was born in wealth his father junius spencer left him and he inherit inh erite ett d important banking connections mr morgan started his business career on the board of at directors of a 1 large maritime insurance company the pre president aident of which declared that Alor morgan iian would never be a business man john pierpont pont at the time was laying plans for his first railroad construction st which when accomplished established his standing in wall street as the only man who ever got the better of jay gould could the sobriquet of sphinx of wall treet street later was the appellation applied to the man who at first was believed to have been without business acumen but later became tho the supreme head of american finances INT morgans organs control over men and money was the dominant keynote of his life others perhaps were wealthier than morgan but he corn com banded his wealth and that of others at the height of his power ho he Is saw sal to have controlled nothing Is known as yet as to how mr morgan in his will disposed of hla his vast estate J P Ar morgan organ jr has haa been his fathers understudy tor for years and Is classed high in financial ability the extent of mr morgans philan gifts probably never will be known probably ro bably his greatest gift was i 4 toward the building of 0 the cathedral of st john the divine in new york city As a patron of art mr morgan was waa as famous as in the world of finance ills his expenditures for objects of vertu were boundless the price nearly always was a secondary consideration to pass possessing essing arf an art treasure his collection in the metropolitan museum ot at art has been estimated by con connol fri deurs to be worth |