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Show STANDS FOR THE FATHER IN "THE BRITISH BRANCH" Sii LITTLE known to the general public, but pretty well sized up In financial circles on this side of the water, and even better 111 London. J. P. Morgan. Jr. "Jack" Morgan he was called In his college days -Is one of the millionaire heirs apparent from which great things are expected bve and byp. Born In 17. he Is two years under t of the first generation gen-eration entirely clear of Qlyll war Influences, and distinctly distinct-ly a product of the multi-mllliohalre age. so-called. The general Impression among thus.- who know him well Is that 'Jack ' Morgan is .1 good all-around chap, not exceptionally intellectual, but full of solid hois.- sensi . Sturdy both In mlrtd and body, and likely to be so stimulated stim-ulated by the stress of the responsibilities placed ii his broad shoulders as to main him a creditable BUCCOSSOr to his remarkable father. Though himself educated abroad, the senior Morgan Sent the Junior to Harvard Har-vard There "Jack" Morgan carried himself wlh average abllltv. unlike the father falling to sere a noteworthy mark as to scholarship. He gae a good deal of attention to athletics, thouch h made no unusual records and never becarqe exactly famous In the shell, on the football field on on the track He was graduated in 1889 and married the rich and wp 1 1 -connect e 1 Miss Crew of Roston soon afterwards He v,rul to work In his father's banking house at B '1 k almost immediately after getting out of college. It Is the custom of some rich men who put their sons .il work to make life In the office easy for them, but Morgan senior didn't do th.it. lie advised the boy to begin be-gin at the bottom and master every detail of the banking business, and, while "Jack" probably never swept tin-place tin-place out, he practically did Just what his father suggested, sug-gested, and liked it, too. " 'Jack' Morgan," says a man who knew Mm well in those days, c an get more fun out of hard work than he 1. hi out of anything else, and more than any other man J know.' He used to work from b to 10 hours a day regularly six days In the week. In cold weather, and live In summer. On Saturdays he always took a hulf holiday; sometimes be knocked off ail day. He was steady as the clock In his movements, week In and week out. Ho lived in New Rochelle, 011 the New-York. New-York. New Haven & Hartford railroad, and went to his office every morning on the S;M train, anil never started for home before 4 30. even on his shortest days, which meant ten hours away from home Many mn would h.i.-found h.i.-found It Impossible to keep up their rignlar exercise under such conditions, but not so "Jack ' Morgan. He played golf in the long late afternoons and sometimes in tho mornings before his 7.30 breakfast, and he rode a gn- it deal, both on horseback and on the wheel. Both his pet diversion was sailing a knockabout yach! This he couldn't do "mornings and nights," but his Saturday afternoons were devoted to it almost exclusively exclusive-ly Possibly he spread his sail occasionally on Sunday. One year cspeciall oung Morgan's knockabout matches with his best friend. Charles Appleton, of the famous publishing house, were the talk of all the western end of I. one Inland sound's north shore. !Phe two knockabouts knock-abouts salb-d by the two friends were as nearly alik-- as It was possible for human skill to make them, each measuring meas-uring ninetc-n feet on the waterllne and twenty-nine feet over all The only appreciable difference between them was in their names. Appleton's was christened I Ola J Morgan's, GollywOg Morgan's friends had great faith in his ahllltles as a sailor, but the I. --.i-.e, ins t.iste In calling bis bo.it by such an uncouth name as GollywOg, and they begged Mm to change It This he wouldn't do. declaring Gollywog a good enough title for any boat and as likely to bring go. id luck as bad Nobody knows what the results 6f that summer's racing might have been had the name been (hanged. As It was. the records made by the two boats were practically tied all summer. That war in 1W. and at the cli.se of the season Morgan and Appleton agreed to try it again the next inir But early in ISM J P., Sr., decided to send his son over to London to helu run the British bran, h of the banking ii.iuse "jack" hardly thought he would stay long, and made a pact with Appleton to try out conclusions when ever he should return. But seven years have pass -d. tho finals hove not been sailed yet. and the chances that they ever will be now seems remote. New Rochelle men still reminisce fondly bver the days when "Jock" Morgan was one of them. His devotion to business idled th'-m with admiration and they t 11 how, In order to Induce him to get away from the office In the middle of the week and attend the Wednesday yacht 1 aces, an Innovation in the shape of a special km ck-about ck-about class was proposed. 'Jack" sighed, but shook bis head and declared It wouldn t do. After having been loan clerk, bond clerk, corresponding clerk and what not besides, be-sides, he had been made a partner In 'M or '05 Just after af-ter the death of 1 Hood Wright and he had an enormous mass of final office details, such as passing on securities, visaing accounts, receiving Important visitors and the Ilk.- whl. h In- wouldn't think of leaving to any .-lie else "anyway, lust to sail a boat." he said. In some ways ' Jack ' Morgan is held to be an Improvement Improve-ment on his father I'nllke the latter, he never forgets Ills manners, in Ms office or anywhere else, and this gives him a gr-at advantage when Carrying on delicate in go-tuitions go-tuitions with Important people, So far the oung man has not shown the quick, comprehensive grasp nf thing"' which characterises his father, but possibly that Is because be-cause he hasn't yet had full swing. According to all accounts, ' Jack ' Morgan lives a far more formal life i,n ,,n,in ... J J Jhis side he had no town heft hom. wa ., modest cottag" - fl rented from y. ar to year R. J21 cunt of his wife, who IcIUchudfaT J Iw... r. understood to eari no' a fl himself. Over there he ' "3 residences In town and rnV'J much splendor, and. as the Idl ' '"".tain , R , ,,,, bUcsSSSJ a nc- with Ldward II he U ws J H" " '"' fid- - i.'Ci.larlv Ir, HvdU his mode life ha changed u9 as In- ever did here In the old days he was very rynofl car set on the commutation itM ' Js ''r MKSost man inE two and wld. iii rordlngly. His could smell his "briar pipe r.n, 3 station mornings, but ho a!ani of consideration for the- not? iJJ Iran,. -Jack ' Is a good talkerTttJ llkr good stone.-:, hut doesn't IfjM American friends hope that the bS f.it her s representative in thV-'Brl . hang.- his old-time, si rr.j. nature 1 |