Show POOR PI MOR AN i WRETCHED V VACATION J HI HE HAS SP SPENT NT A ROAD f Tor For Tor nearly twenty years the name namo of Morgan has been a A. synonym for the tho money power In America and since sinco 1900 the millionaire has won on a reputation world wide for his tremendous tremendous tremon- tremon dous dotis expenditures In the purchase of or objects of or art But in spite arite of his millions in spite to of his priceless tre treasures surel of art and andin andin andin in spite site of the power which makes hun hen hundreds dr s of mere e cr every da day damen men of ono or ortO two tO millions ea eager er to do do his bis bidding I Ithe the great Napoleon of ot finance is not really a a. happy man and has been hat pp ing jag a most wretched Just about the first of March he decided de tie tided to leave leayo for Europe and close upon his decision things 5 began beJan if tp hap hap- pen pon Since that time there has hH not been a week when ho he has hns not figured rd inthe inthe in inthe the daily news and arid his outing has been attended by one ono long continuous performance per performance forma nee of shots shocks and sensations that mu must t have mado made him utterly miserable miserable miser miser- able ablo at times To be begin in with came the elopement of oC his Santiago Veve a Cornell student with Miss iM Mina alina Tichenor of Ithaca Somo Some years ago Mr Morgan became interested in this young youn man and decided to civo virn him nil all the tha ad ad- vantages o of oan an American education By Bv trolley they went to to Sayre but finding they thep must musE have a license to be e married in Pennsylvania the they returned to just over the theline line in the tho village of Waverly N. N Y where they were married married mar mar- ried by bv the Rev Rov J. J F. F Warner Vl the ceremony ceremony taking place in the Hie street car with the motorman and conductor as 35 witnesses Veve Vese was in his last year at nt Cornell and tho the bride was 19 Mr lr Morgan n i is said to have be been n furious when ho heard of ot their marria marriage e. e But he had made a all l preparations to sail tho the week following and nothing could delay him Just at that time Hmo the railroad agitation was at its hei height ht and President Roosevelt was firm i in his insistence on an n investigation A General ney-General Moody had directed District District Dis Dis- Attorn Attorneys s 's throughout tho the country to secure all possible evidence e n against iu t tho the railroads and bj big railroad men were ero ter very ery much exercised over tho the attitude at of the Federal Government Without consulting tho head of ot tho Pennsylvania tho the N New w York NewHaven Now New Haven R Hartford the New York Central Central Cen and the tho Chicago o fc Northwestern Mr Morgan arranged ed for them to talk with Mr Roosevelt Roo and gave e a out for publication n a statement that Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt elt was WM anxious to see them at tho the White Whito House Then much to tho the surprise of or the gentlemen in question on he left for Europe March 1 12 1 The railroad presidents presidents presidents dents found themselves in such a quandary quandary quan quan- dary that in tho the case of tho Pennsyl Pennsylvania vana vania a of the board of di- di di di- rectors was called to to consider o wh what t 1 ac action action ac- ac tion should be taken Finally the four pr presidents decided that as no direct in invitation tation had been sent them to visit the White House HOlIse they thoy would stav stay away But to jud judge e efrom from in the th e remarks the they made mado about the affair the wireless messages f.'S sent lent speed ing g acro across s the tho Atlantic can hardly nave have been such as to fill till the great financiers financier's heart with ith delight just at the beginning of his vacation Then before Mr Ir Mor Morgan an had reached tho the other side came cam tho next little tittle unpleasant un n pleasant incident In the Italian Cham her ber of Gi Gustavino ino attacked q tho the Government for having ins permitted Mr Ir Morgan to carr carry off six six pictures b by Van Dyck which he purchased from the famil fatally family Si Signor nor Un der Secretary for or Public Instruction in defense of or his Government replied that while certain Van Dycks had Deen been mc illegally taken out of the tho country others tad had been sequestered M and would ho bo guarded carefully carefully and action would bo be o taken in New ork and London to force tho the restoration Jf bf jf pictures a already al read ready e exported March l 17 Mr Ir Morgan an landed in Europe end and nd the cr very first message e handed to him bim told toM him that thit his beautiful beau beau- eau yacht acht the Corsair had barely barch escaped es escaped es- es destruction in an an oil overflow o that filled d tho the dry docks in Hoboken where here the bi big steamer was hein being fitted out for her ber trip across the Atlantic to meet her owner r in the Mediterranean But fortunately the Corsair escaped and set forth on her journey at once Mr Morgan boarded her ner as a's as soon goon as ns shy she arrived and anti proceeded to Italy Hah There ho he had a conference with Signor Signer r Rava nna the Minister of oC Education to whom he denied havill having taken the fam famous tam fam ous on Van Vun Dycks that had caused so much trouble The Minister politely accepted 1 the tho denial th the more BO so as Mr Morgan an at It the time formally restored to itt its ri right ht ful owners the lamous famous cope of Ascoli upon which his name was ordered cm em in token of gratitude at getting get et tin ting it ba back k e And even en before Mr Morgan Mor an had left Rome on this occasion Pro Prof Boni a famous archaeological 1 authority and especially a great expert on Roman nuns expressed doubt whether the marble marble fra fragments presented by Mr Morgan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York wet were genuine portions portions portions por por- of the Forum Julian JuHan Another little Incident that th Ad added ed zest to his treasure hunt in Rome Romo was the case of ot Count who stole etole nearly b by forging Mr rr Morgan's Morgans Mor Mor- Fans gan's ans an's name The financier had pur purchased purchased chased from the impecunious Count Count A A by bT for g giving in his che check k in payment made a careful Copy opy of the 61 signature nature and appended it to a draft for This he pled pledged ed with a banker for 40 O or more with the understanding that Mr Morgan should not lot hear of the thA transaction Then Juno June 4 while whilo the tho New Yorkers were re reading about his art purchases abroad an nn unpleasant incident f right in New York brought him to the tho front Edith A. A Jones or Merritt a J living in at No 24 4 West ninth Ninety street was arrested for having offered offered of of- to her landlord Moses L L. Frazier a check for 70 O purporting to bear benr Mr Ir Morgans Morgan's signature on which she got 25 with a promise of the balance next day dav The Ibo very cry next day something of even oven moro more unpleasant nt tenor had to do with ith the in holidaying millionaire In tho the United Stares Circuit t court at Toledo tho Ohio Savings Sa Bank and Dd Trust company com com- company pany filed a petition objecting to conn confirmation con I of the tho sale of the tho Toledo Railways and Terminal company and I accusing in Mr Morgan organ of conspiring conspiring- to prevent ent competitive bids bid when the road rond was sold at auction to a committee re representing rep resenting tho the bondholders of Aboard rd his sumptuous yacht Corsair Mr Morgan was cruising in the tho Mediterranean Medi Idi and ho he was busy sending out denials of the story that he hc was to turn Catholic and receive the papal title title- of oC prince for restoring the stolen cope to its ri rightful owners when the Italian customs custom officials at Venice demonstrated demon demon- that Mr r Morgans Morgan's denial of having havin r removed tho the six ix Van Dycks from Italy wu was hardly as 5 well eU believed as Signor Rava had insisted On orders straight from Rome ROD they boarded the tho Corsair ir and while her owner fumed and swore the they searched the vessel from truck to keelson Even tho supplies were moved moed in in the search and the ba baggage of Mr Ir Morgan Mor Mor- Morgan's Morgans gan gan's gans ans an's s guts was rummaged lest they might aught have havo concealed something of value to the Italian art world Th The e great man stormed ulla unavailingly ly Ho and his guests were detained a day ay and md anda a half balf while the Italian auth authorities satisfied themselves that the tho missing pictures were not conc concealed aboard tho the Cor Corsair a r. r The party part made all haste to London and there them Mr Morgan still smarting from his treatment in Italy Itah found him himself him self confronted with fresh cause causo for wrath As he drove e from Crom the railroad sta tion to his homo home he found an ted representation of ot his own face staring star atar lug ing at him from er c every hoarding It had been used been used to Morn adorn a huge hugo bill bIn announcing announcing an an- tho the coming business mens men's show at Olympia and tho the well known strong face faco had been distorted to ox ox- hibit hibitS greed cunning and cruelty vin in every lino line It attracted a great deal eal of attention and business men all over oyer En England sent up a protest that it was ras a gross libel on the tho merchant princes of the tho United Kin Kingdom dom Tho newspapers analyzed the sketch as IS a n stud study of concentrated money making the tho face of or a n man cruel and criminal who would stop at nothing noth noth- iD ing to insure business success The Tho artist Mr Ir Joseph S Simpson mp on retorted retorted re re- that he had been commissioned to produce tho face faco of a Napoleon of finance and had selected Mr aIr Morgan because he had hail to an American for the Napoleon 1 since England produced pro pro- produced only the tho Bur o Th discussion waxed warm but regardless re reo re- re of what editors said Haiti the tho faco st still ll placarded e every evory dead dad wall wan and wb wherever re cr Mr Morgan turned that distorted dis dis- counterfeit presentment stared down at him I Ho lie had barely timo time to get Jet tho the offensive of of- I cartoon and and the tho Ohio criminal charges es out of ot his mind and aDd enjoy a pleasant ant function nr or t two o as Is the guest nest of Reid when hen he got fot another nn nn- other pleasant message e from rom America This lain time 1 his hin name nanto was coupled led d with that of the thc not notorious V 3 Ann Odelia Diss Disa D s Debar who had hod just fleeced the Flying Rollers Hollers of Detroit out of or and was bare barel barely y in time to prevent pre her swindling Col Louis Newman of Toronto Canada Oll out t of b by representing ng herself to he be Mr Ir Morgan Mor Mor- gan gan's gans AUS AU'S s 's sister Her lier plan was Wl to palm paint off of hO bogus 5 min in ing mining stO stock k on the tho 51 strength of her II relationship re re to the thc financier I This affair was only four da days davs S old when from front A Versailles canto came ne a new hap pening to dis discomfit tho the banker Albert Klein a French teacher formerly foi of N New York lork was found unconscious in the street and in his in pocket w was as a card of Mr Morgan with a pencil note of introduction to sonic some pcr person on whose name Dame the police kept carefully secret and papers showing that he had bad rc re from Mr fr Morgan 12 I to take a vacation in in Paris Pans Klein Klein's Kleins a sister was found Cound to tw bo o a dancer at th the tho opera and she Rhe ra gave raC C her hl brother a bad character Klein Mem as soon as h he recovered con accused hi his mot mother of hn having hav hav- ing dru drugged ed and robbed him But of or his his knowledge of tho the young man matt Mr r. r Morgan an had not a word ord to J I say Then worst of all up cropped an n nother other criminal ca ea ease e in which ch Mr lIr Mor- Mor Morgan gaii gan was obliged el to appear ar 8 as a n witness and spent an unpleasant hour herded in with the thea a vagabond abond crowd at the Old Bailey waiting for or h his s burn tuni on the stand aud aul was guyed and chaffed by bv the lIl merry rr bums who didn't know who Mr lIT Morgan Moran forJan wa was Josephine Leslie a kennel maid was charged with obtaining 4 00 from Crom Miss Annie Annio Blount her employer bv by false falso pr pretenses and aud Mr Morgan ha hS had l to testify that be he did not Know the pr prisoner had had bad never sent her baskets basket of lou flowers had never pr e invited iO her ber father to dinner and had never recommended d to 10 her hr An any investments 1 Mrs rs L I. Leslie li was QS formerly former Mis Mies J Josephine JosePhinc Jose Jose- Ie phine Eastwick of Philadelphia and she had told toM Miss Blount t that at Mr Ir Moran Mor- Mor gan an was b her r close fri friend and invested inverted her money for her In strict secrecy she offered to put Miss Blounts Blount's ono O money into int a 8 syndicate lilon along with her o j and nI promised 1 12 per cent Interest t and for every 1000 invested Of course our h he denied all an knowledge of the Leslie woman and her transactions tion From rom nil 1111 of which it ap cars that Mr Morgan or an is 18 is not exactly eneth- laving having the most restful time of or 1 his is even though on a vacation |