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Show 1 filGAII MEETS ' DEATH IN ROME f I CONTROLLETl jF BILLIONS AND . KINQ OF FINANCIERS ANSWERS 1 SUMMONS OF QRIM REAPER, i l r Organlxsr of fig Business and Practlo- i ally Director of the Financial World, I Began His Career as a Rich Man and Added to Hie Wealth. I 1 Rome. John pierpont Morgan, the ( American financier, died here Monday, t March 31, a few minutes after noon. , For months his health had been de-t de-t dining, but the symptoms became f really aggravated about a week ago, And since March 26 he had been in a ( semi-comatose condition. I The official statement, prepared by ( the attending physicians, Indicated , that a gradual general collupHe followed fol-lowed a condition of nervous proatra-; proatra-; tlon, which prevented the digestive or-, or-, gans from performing their function ' and affected the mental faculties. j Mr. Morgan's daughter, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, who has been In con-stant con-stant attendance, was at the death- bed. All the Home newspapers publish tributes to Mr. Morgan, expressing ( the deep sense of 1uk felt by the Italian Ital-ian people. It has been suggested that Mr. Morgan's body should be taken to the United States on board a warship. J. Pierpont Morgan was born April 17, 1837, In a brick cottage In Hart- , ford, Conn. Mr. Morgan came from J , an old Puritan New England family, which dates back In this country to i J. PIERPONT MORGAN. 1636. lie was bora la wealth. 'Ills father, Junius Spencer, left him $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 and be Inherited Important banking connections. Mr. Morgan started his business ca-! reer on the board of directors of a j large maritime Insurance company, j the president of which declared that j Morgan would never be a business , man. John Pierpont at tho time was i laying plans for his first railroad con- j itructlon which, when accomplished, j established his standing In Wall street ; as the only man who ever got the bet- j tcr of Joy Gould. ' The sobriquet of 'Sphtni of Wall tract" later was the appellation applied ap-plied to the man who at first was believed to have been without business busi-ness acumen, but later became the supreme head of American finances. Morgan's control over men and money was the dominant keynote of bis life. Others, perhaps, were wealthier than Morgan, but he commanded com-manded his wealth and that of otbe-s At the height of his power be Is laid to have controlled 19.000 OOO.ooo. Nothing Is known ss yet as to bow Mr. Morgan In bis w ilt disposed of bis vast estate. J. P. Morgan. Jr., bat been his father's understudy for years and Is classed high In financial ability. The extent of Mr. Morgan's philanthropic philan-thropic gifts probably never will be known. Probably bis greatest gift was f4.500.000 toward the building of the Cathedral or St John the Divine In New York City. As a patron of art, Mr. Morgan waa as famous as In the world of finance. Ills expenditures for objects of vertu were boundless. The price nearly always al-ways ras a secondary consideration to possessing an art treasure. Ills collection col-lection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been estimated by connoisseurs connois-seurs to be worth $50,000,000. |