Show MORGAN MEETS I DEATH IN ROME CONTROLLER OF BILLIONS AND KING OF FINANCIERS ANSWERS SU SUMMONS MONS OF GRIM REAPER Organizer of Big Business and Practically Practically ally Director of the Financial World Began Career as a Rich Man and Added to His We Wealth I Rome John Rome John M Morgan the American financier died cUed here Monday March 31 a few tew minutes after noon For months his health had been declining de tIe- clining dining but the symptoms became greatly aggravated about a week ago ago and since March larch 26 he had been In a semi-comatose semi condition The official statement prepared bythe by bythe bythe the attending ng phY physicians Indicated that a gradual general collapse followed tel fol lowed towed a condition of nervous prostration tion Lion which prevented the digestive organs or or- gans gaas from performing their fun functions and affected the mental faculties Mr Morgans Morgan's daughter Mrs lits Herbert L. L Satterlee who has been In iii constant constant con con- stant sLant attendance was at the death bed All the Rome newspapers publish tributes to Jo Mr Morgan expressing the deep sense of loss felt by the ItalIan Italian Ital Ital- ian people It has been sugg suggested sted that Mr Morgans Morgan's body should be taken to the United States on a warship J J. J Pierpont Morgan i was born April 17 1837 in a brick cottage in Hartford Hartford Hart Hart- ford Conn Mr Morgan came from tram froman an old Puritan New England family which dates back in this co country to I J. J PI PIERPONT MORGAN 1636 He was born in wealth His Hit father Junius Spencer left him 10 and he Inherited important banking connections I Mr fr Morgan started his pis business ca career career reer on the board of directors of at a large maritime insurance company the president of which declared ed that thai Morgan would never be a business businessman man John Pierpont at the time was vat laying plans for his his' first fit railroad construction construction con Call which when accomplished established his standing in ill V Wall aU street as the only man who ever g got t the better better bet bet- ter of ot Jay Gould The sobriquet of Sphinx of V Wallstreet Wall Vall ll street later was the appellation ap applied applied plied to th the nina man who at first was wat Believed to have been without bus busl n ness ss acumen but later became th the supreme head of American finances Morgans Morgan's control over men and money was the dominant keynote ol of his bis life Others perhaps haps were wealthier than Morgan but he commanded com corn his wealth and that of ot others At the height of his power he is said to have controlled Nothing Nothing is known knon as yet as asto to how Mr dr Morgan In his will lIi disposed of his vast estate J. J P. P Morgan 1 Jr hai hal been his fathers father's Understudy for years and is classed high fn In financial ability I The extent of Mr Morgans Morgan's philanthropic philanthropic philan philan- gifts probably never will be bJ known Probably his greatest gilt girt was toward the building of the Cathe Cathedral of St. St John the Divine In New York City As a patron of art Mr Morgan was wa wasas wasas as famous as In in the world of finance His expenditures for objects of vertu were boundless The price nearly aI all allI I ways was a secondary consideration on to possessing an art treasure His collection col lection In the Metropolitan Museum of ol Art has been estimated by connoisseurs connote connote- to be worth |