The age-herald., 1901-02-24
J..Pl6rmOnt MOrOdn
RODNEY BLAKE the HOME MAGAZINE

The American king of finance is a many sided man. Known as practical Chris tian, generous and philanthropic, he is at the same time high liver and lib- eral 'spender," to use the sporting phrase. He enjoys unstinctingly all the good cheer of fine dinner at his home, or voyage in his gorgeous steam yacht in foreign waters. As an art connoisseur he collects rare things of all sorts,. even peach blow vases, and he has made lib- eral donations to the Metropolitan and other art museums. He loves fast horses and owns many of them; high-class dogs, and breeds them; rare books, and treas ures them. His famous Cragston ken nels, adjoining his country manor on the Hudson river, near West Point, are known to every dog fancier in Europe and America. His library of fine books, rare manuscripts and scarce prints is second to none upon this continent So- cially he is a man of prominence, for he is a member of all the leading clubs of the metropolis. In business way he is an expert banker, and is regarded as the leading financier in the United States.
 The great financier was born in Hart ford Conn.,, April 13, 1887. At the age of 23, fresh from his university course in Germany, he was admitted full partner in the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Co.,, in Exchange place. New York. Then came the formation of the great banking house of Drexel, Morgan & Co.,, which by the comparatively recent death of the sem for member, has been changed in name only to J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He is not only the nominal but the actual, executive head of this great house. He controls the firm of J. S. Morgan & Co.,, of London; has partnership interest in Drexel & Go. of Philadelphia, and main- tains the closest relations with Drexel, Harjes ct Cie, of Paris.
 It is said of him that he can command more ready money of his own, and of other people for the furtherance of any great enterprise than any one man in the world. So well established is his reputa- tion that his name is invariably men, tioned in connection with any vast com mercial transaction, bond sale, or indus trial formation foated in Wall street, or only having newspaper suggestion. Since the civil war this noted money maker has been almost constantly before the public as man who was the master mind in schemes of stupenduous import,
 
 of millions, were used. He has reorgan- ized great railway lines; he fioated the nal al bond issue of $200, 900, 900 in 1895, ana has had much to do with the in vestment and management of the great Vanderbilt estates. To relate his various commercial achievements would be sim ply to rehearse the best known facts in the financial history of the United States for the past forty years. His occasional gifts to public institutions, such as a million dollars to New York hospital, are indications of a large-handed and large-hearted liberality in private mat ters. He is lavish in his personal ex- penditures but that is a right conceded to a man whose wealth is estimated at $75, ,O00, 900. t
 If MT. Morgan were to devote his time to speculating, he could be the richest man in America, for his power in Wall street is practically unlimited. But he holds stock tickers and speculators in