Show MEETS death IN 00 M E controller JF BILLIONS AND KINO KING OF financiers ANSWERS SUMMONS OF GRIM REAPER of big business Buel nei and ally director of the financial world begin began his HI career ai as a rich man and added to his HI wealth nome john pierpont pont into dorfan aran the american financier died here anday march 31 a few minutes after noon for months bli his health had bad been do declining but the symptom symptoms became greatly aggravated about a week ago and since march 26 he had been in a semi comatose condition the official statement prepared by the th attending physicians indicated that a gradual general collapse followed a condition of nervous prostration which prevented the digestive or gana gans from performing their function functions and affected the mental faculties mr morgana morgans daughter mrs airs herbert L batteries Batt erlee who has been in constant att attendance was at the deathbed all the rome newspaper newspapers publish tributes to mr sir morgan expressing tho the deep sense or ot loft felt by the ital lan ian people it has been suggested that mr lir morgans body should be taken to tie the united states on board a warship J pierpont pont morgan was born april 17 1837 in a brick cottage in hartford conn mr morgan camo came from an old puritan new england family which dates date back in this countr t to J fONT MORGAN 1636 lid ito was born in wealth ills 1113 rather father juulia spencer left bair 10 and he inherited important banking connections mi mogan started bis his business ca wr reer t c tho board of directors of a largo large maritime in au tance company the president preel dent of which declared that morgan would never be a business nan man john pierpont pont at the time wai wal laying plans tor for his first railroad con st ruction which when accomplished established hie his standing in wall street is its the only man who ever got the bet ter er of jay gould the sobriquet ct of I 1 sphinx of oz wall later was the appellation appel litou ap 1 plied to thi th man who bo at first was believed to bare have been without busl bust ness acumen but liter later became the supreme head ot of american finances gri ances mowina control over rooi inett and money wae was the dominant keynote of his life others perhaps were wealthier than Sl morgan orran but he corn com 1 banded his wealth and t nd that ft rf othe I 1 at the height ot of his power he la Is sata to have controlled nothing is known aa as yet as to bow how i mr hir morgan in his rill disposed of hia his j vast estate JP J P morgan lE organ jr ha has been his father fathers e understudy tor for years and f Is classed high in financial ability abill tr the extent of mr air morgan morgans e philan gifts probably never will be known probably his greatest gift a toward the building of of iho tho cathedral ot of st john the divine 1 in nw N w york city ae As P patron of art mr SI waa wan as RN famous as la in the world of floanie ills his exp adI tures for objects of vertu were boundless the price nearly al at waya way was wax a secondary consideration ta to poss ging an art treasure H his col geltion in the metropolitan ol 01 0 art has been estimated by con connol fri sours to be worth |