The Detroit times., 1911-01-20

the direction of the big insurance
corporation, to bring about better rela-
tions between the warning elements
In finance.
He had also consistently counselled
a policy OF conciliation toward the
public.
The question OF his successor as
head Of the Equitable was discussed
today at length. 1t is agreed that the
new president will be a Morgan man
and II Il also said that the death OF
Mr.. Morton will probably cause Nor
gan to rush through his scheme to
mutualize the EQUITABLE.
Arrangements for the funeral were
completed today. Private services
for the family will be held In the Nor
ton mansion tomorrow morning, fol-
lowed In the afternoon by public scr.
vices In ST. Thomas Episcopal church,
conducted by Rev. DR.. Stires. Burial
will be In Woodlawn cemetery.
Nothing to Add to Explanation.
II was said at the Equitable Offices
today that there was nothing to add
to last nights statement made by Joy
Morton, regarding the cause of death.
DR.. Wells said that there was no
doubt about death being due to hard
ening of the arteries of the brain.
When stricken Mr.. Morton, accord
ing to the official announcement, was
trying to enter a suite I'm the Hotel
Seymour to keep an appointment with
Paul |. Herman, an attorney. A cham
bermaid found him lying In the hall
and doctors were summoned. A hur-
ry call was sent to the Metropolitan
club for some of the sick mans friends
but the only one to reach him before
he died was K. j. Berwind. Mrs. Nor
ton and Joy Morton arrived after he
died.
Coroner Feinberg deemed an autop-
sy unnecessary and had the body TAX
en- at once to Mr.. Morton's Fifth-ave.
home.
Joy Morton said he took luncheon
with his brother yesterday. He left
the Equitable office at half-past 2, and
returned at o'clock, thinking they
might go uptown together, but Paul
had left before him.
u went up to the house alone, I" says
Joy Morton, where met Mrs. Nor
ton and we drank tea alone. She
knew that Paul had promised me to
be home at 6 or before, and as 1t grew
late she turned to me and said, 10y,
isn't 1t odd that Paul Is late? He's
always so punctual.'
Mr.. Morton Has Falnted."
The words were hardly out Of her
mouth before the telephone rang and
the butler brought bad news. Mrs.
Morton" he said. the Hotel Seymour
telephones that Mr.. Morton has just
tainted"
I'VE jumped into an automobile and
were there In jiffy. Edward J. Ber-
wind was there before us. They had
telephoned to the Metropolitan club,
to Pauls Office, and to others of his
friends.
He was on the fifth floor. where
he had an appointment with a lawyer
whose name I'm not sure of. They
told US that he had tainted In the
hallway on his way to his friends
room, and that they carried him into
vacant apartment
Now. let me tell you little about
my brothers health. About the first
of last December the Equitable got
out what II, called a Christmas policy,
and when everything was In readiness,
II was suggested that IL would be At.
ting to make out the first policy In
the name OF the president OF the COM
pany. Paul was examined and DR..
Wells, the chief examiner for the
company, rejected him.
"Of course. Il was shock, but Paul
never dreamed how serious was his
case. II alarmed the family, however,
and we had him come to Chicago TO
be examined by DR.. Frank Billings.
That, think, was about Dec. 8. Paul
laughed at us. They're only trying
to scare me- I remember he said.
"Of course, DIR. Billings didn't tell
Paul all he found, but he did tell me.
Your brothers blood pressure Is too
high, he said. He has auto-lntoxica-
ton And then he explained that
autoIntoxicatiou IL a condition In
which the body does not rid itself OF
the toxins IL secretes, and SO poisons
itself. In addition. he diagnosed cere-
bral thrombosis. My father died Of
precisely similar conditions, April "a.
1904"