The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-21
]. PIERPoNT MORGAN.
His Personality as It Impressed It
self Upon a San Franciscan.

self Upon San FRANCISCAN.
(San Fran cisco News Letter.
A study of the face of Mr.. Morgan
/ reveals strange characteristics. There
/ is not another like it in the wide world
/ There could not be except in America.
| What is more, its real strength and
] power is toned away in every photo
/ graphic representation, until it is safe
to say that a true picture of the best
/ known man in America has never been
/ printed
/ At first sight it is fierce Then as
one watches the drama which plays
l over it one begins to see distances and
| perspectives which mellow the more
striking features. Seldom is a face
( capable of such powers of expression.
[ To study it is to realize what sort of
{ a man it Is who can create a $1,000
100000 aggregation Of capital and man
age Z with success. A careful analysis
of his face shows his secrets.
Hard work.
Indomitable will
Electrical rapidity of observation.
! comprehension and mental assimila-
| tion.
+ He is an elephant Of toughness. yet
with flexibility.
! A volcano for power, vital force and
/ solidity Of mass.
4 To watch his face as he sat in the
/ Episcopal convention was to see a mir
ror of every passing event. His eyes,
( ever sweeping back and forth. pointed
peTpetually as indicators to where the
center Of interest might happen to be-
He is energized all through, every
fiber of him, and as good as tonic to
look at, for no one could feel anaemic
or inert with that mass of vitality be-
fore him. He is a man whose vivant
example must stimulate those about
him TO the doing of all that is in them
Morgan the banker and Morgan the
organizer have both been well before
the public. Morgan the human being
is less known. He is over six feet in
height. heavy, but no mere so than a
heavyweight boxer in good training
1 would be. His massive concentrated
face has under its strong line sug-
gestion Of jovial good nature-the kind
that comes from good health When
business is not compelling his atten-
ton he looks as though he were wait
ing to laugh with someone at a good
big joke, but it would have to be big
one; small joke would get but a cold
reception, probably a rebuke.
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His face. like most of those which do
not at first attract. grows on one who
studies it. Like that of Bismarck or
Grant. it has history written in its
strong. deep lines, that seem almost
ike scars on its surface-they would
seem scars on the pale. smooth, ex-
pressionless face of the ordinary man.
but not on Morgan's Life has writ
ten a great story upon that counte-
nance, which tells Of battles, hopeless
hard fought but won open handed
without indirection or subterfuge-bv
pure force, ability and application. It
is the real dominant Uncle Sam in con-
quering the world, of which Mr.. Nor
gan is the type.
He smokes necessarily large. strong
cigars, that burn fiercely all the While
With'a red, glowing tip of coal on the
end, which shows that he enjoys plenty
Of smoke, strong and hot. He eats
much, drinks not too much, works
hard, sleeps hard. He is alive all over
ana mas none of the dead, pasty look
ing flesh which marks so many men of
his age. tThe only sign of falling about
him is his hair, and few men make a
success of hair growing and business
both. What he has is crib. bright.
silVery, with just enough backing of
iron gray to give it strength of color.
His whole appearance is that of Wig
Orous man of 40, and there is the Vi
tality in him which is good for twenty
years of hard work.
The good sense of his charities is
even more remarkable than the vast
amount Of money which he has given
so quietly that none will ever be able
to trace all that he has given.