The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-20
Was President Of Equitable
Life Insurance Company
EX-SECRETARY OF NAVY
Cause Of Death Was Cerebral Hemor-
rhage-Death Came an Hour After
He Was Stricken-His Wife
and Brother at Bedside.

New York, Jan. 20. Paul Morton,
president of the Equitable Life Assur-
anee society and secretary OF the navy
under Theodore Roosevelt, died of a
cerebral hemorrhage in the hotel Sey-
mour here last night His wife and his
elder brother, JOY, were at his side Is
minutes after he was stricken, but he
never regained consciousness and at u
quarter past Z o'clock, an hour after
he tainted, he died. The coroner's Office
is satisfied death resulted from natural
causes.
| Mr.. Morton himself had no idea his
! life was in danger, but his family, his
| physicians and few close friends knew
his condition was precarious and that
| if he did not take care Of himself,
something was going TO break. Joy
Morton, Immediately he left the room
! where the body lay gave q full account
of the death and OF his brothers. health
Il went up to Pauls home" he said,
where | met Mrs. Morton and we
drank tea together, She knew Paul had
promised to be home at & or before.
and as it grew late, she turned TO me
and said: joy isn't it odd that Paul's
later He's always 50 pnetual.'
THE words were hardly out of her
mouth when the telephone rang and
the butler brought the news that Paul
had tainted on the fifth floor OF the ho-
tel Seymour. We jumped into an am
bulance and were there in a iiffy. They
told us that he had tainted in the hall
way, on his way to lawyer friends
room.
Now let me tell you little about
my brothers health. About the first
Of last December the Equitable got out
what il called a Christmas policy, and
it was suggested that it would be fit
ting to make out the first policy in
the name Of the president of the com
pany Paul was examined by Or. Wells,
the chief examiner for the company. who
rejected him.
"0f course it was shock, but Paul
never dreamed how serious was his case.
1t alarmed the family, however, and we
had him come to Chicago to be examined
BY Dr. Frank Billings. Paul laughed at
rs. They're only trying to scare me,
remember he said.
"Of course Dr. Billings didn't tell Paul
all he found, but he did tell me Your
brothers blood pressure is too high, he
said 'fIe has auto-intoxication, and
then he explained that auto-intoxication
is a condition in which the body does
not rid itself Of the toxins it secrctes,
and so poisons itself In addition he
diagnosed cerebral thrombosio. My ia
tier died Of precisely similar conditions,
Then ] came to New York TO find
out what they thought here. Dr. Isaac
Adler, the family physician, told me
that Paul was suffering from a kidney
and arterial condition, indicating
Brights disease. Dr. Wells told me
that he had reieiced Paul because HIS
tests showed traces of albumen. Your
brother he said. 'is feeling the effects
of what We call an unbalanced ration
IF ] tell You little about Paul's
habits that phrase viii explain itself. /
He was a very temperate man. he ate
sparingly, drank aud smoked not al all. |
For breakfast he would eat sometimes
q SAhft AiuiAt HutAAAtA ulbANs IVA lAHtur
con. he would sometimes eat sliced !
orange and nibble at sweets. You see
his diet was unbalanced and his blood |
lacked some of the elements OF strength |
man that did his work needed DIR. |
Wells told me that he would have to
take fine care OF himself and that he |
ought to cut down on work.
1T was his first illness, and he re.
fused to call himself sick, but we had |
persuaded him to take vacation as
theoretical invalid. He would have
sailed for Europe February p.
In the ante-room of the hotel Sew
mour, while Mr. Morton was talking. |
stood Thomas Fortune Ryan, i. J. Der. |
win and Theodore Shonts, all Of whom |
had been summoned by telephone. Mr.
and Mrs. ]. Hopkins Smith. jr., a daugh-
ter and son.u.law, had joined Mrs. Nor
ton upstairs
Coroner's physician 0'Hanlon said /
that from the antecedent history and /
by the symptoms there was no doubt |
in his mind that death was due to ar.
terial sclerosis. terminating in a cerebral /
lesion. He thought that Bright's dis
ease was indicated, but there would be
no autopsy.