Show M HGAN MEETS P A ROME controller OF BILLIONS AND KING OF financiers ANSWERS SUMMONS OF GRIM REAPER 0 organizer of big 1319 business Bu lne and practically director of the fina financial iclal world began bean 9 his HI career ae as a rich man van and added to H hie Is wealth rome nome john pierpont pont morgan the american onan financier cler died here monday march 31 a few minutes after noon for months his health had bren been declining but the symptoms became greatly aggravated about a beok ago and since march 26 ho he had been in a semi conia comatose tose condition tho the official statement prepared by tho the attending physicians indicated that a grad gradual jal general coll collapse aPte followed a condition of nervous prostration which prevented tho the digestive organs from performing their function and affected the mental mendl faculties mr morgans daughter mrs herbert I 1 ra satterlee who has been in con slant stant attendance was at the death bed all the rome newspapers publish tributes to mr morgan expressing the deep sense of loss felt by the italian people it has been suggested that mr morgans body should be taken to the united states on board a warship J pierpont pont morgan vms as born april 17 1837 in a brick cottage in hartford conn mr morgan came from an old puritan new now england family which dates back in this country to S 44 J PIERPONT MORGAN 1636 he lie aias ft as born in wealth his ills father junius spencer left him 00 and he inherited important banking connections mr air morgan started his business career on the board of directors of a large maritime insurance company the president of which declared that morgan would never be a business man john pierpont pont at the time was laying wing plans for his first railroad construction st Bt which when accomplished established his standing ingvall inwall street as the only man who ei ever or got the bettor better of jay gould tho the sobriquet of sphinx of wall street later was the appellation applied to the man who iho at first ft as believed to hae been without business acu acumen nien but later became tho the supreme bead head of american finances morgans control over men and money was the dominant keynote of his life others perhaps were nere 1 healthier than morgan but he commanded his wealth and that of others at the helget of his power he is said to hai hao e controlled nothing Is known knon as yet as to how bow mr morgan in his will disposed of his vast estate J P morgan jr baa ha been his fathers understudy for cars and Is classed high in financial ability the extent of mr Al morgans organs pailun gifts probably noer neer will be known kno n probably his ills greatest gift was as toward the building ol 01 the cathedral of st john tho the divine in new york city As a patron of art mr 11 morgan forgan ft as as famous as in the world of finance his expenditures for objects of vertu were boundless the price nearly al va was a s was a secondary consideration tc to possessing an art treasure his col lection in tho the metropolitan museum oi illi art has been estimated by conn connors deurs to be worth oriu |