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Show Mr. r icrcmVCift. to tbo TCbn. And now J. Pierpont Morgan is about to get in line with the rest of the millionaire trust kings arid inate a bid for public favor. While Mr, Morgan is iiot a popular man with the rnastses he stands in a "clearer li2;ht before the business interests of the .'country than does Rockefeller and other wreckers of his class Morgan has been a rough rider since he las been in the saddle, but his policy has been to "build up, not to destroy, as has been the role with the Standard Oil king. And for this reason a gift from Morgan will-be more acceptable to the public than were Rockefeller the donor. There Is excellent excel-lent authority fori stating that. Mr.. Morgan is planning plan-ning to build a splendid art museum and present it to the American Jfjftion. Mr. Morgan's private art collections are by jfar the rarest and most extensive 'owned .by any individual in the world. ' The most valuable of the treasures of this munificent collector lire now abroad, scattered over continental Europe and England. That bete noir of American artj collectors col-lectors the tariff has so far stopped Mr. Morgan from transporting his art bjects to this countryJ It 5s asserted by Mr J Morgan's friends that the-ambk -Mion of Mr. Morgan is to create a great art institution which shall be monumental in scope and which shall contain theTery cream of the available art objects 'cf the world. "This much can be said definitely said one of Mr. Morgan's friends, "and. that is that llr, Morgan-is by nature one of the most philanthropic philan-thropic men in the world. He has not made his vast , collections with a yiew to keeping them secluded for the personal enjoyment of himself and his friends, but he cherishes the ambition of making his collection collec-tion the most beautiful and valuable in the world. It is the desire of the owner of these objects that they shall be made available for the American people, peo-ple, lie is planning to have all his collections In Eorie one place, and it is very likely that the great museum of art which he will establish will be offered as a gift to the American Nation. or be madej.the foundation for a great national art gallery. Mr. "Morgan's visits to J Europe every summer have been 'devoted quite as much to the purchase of art objects 'as to the transaction of his banking business. J In the last seven years he Is believed to have purchased fully $7,000,000 worth of art treasures in Europe. Thi3 will be a splendid gift, and the public will be 'duly grateful, but! is not this friend of Mr. Morgan straining things a point or two when he declares Mr. Morgan to be "by nature one of the greatest philanthrppists in the world"? When an effort is made to bring the trust king before the public as the "greatest of philanthropists" people are apt to; become be-come suspicious of Mr. Morgan's intentions.", Any-Svay, Any-Svay, it will be wise policy to keep tab on this father cf trusts for the next six months. . .1 |