The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-12
BODY OF MORGAN.
REACHES NEW YORK
ON STEAMER FRANCE.
Rests in State Among Art
Treasures of Private Lii
brary Awaiting Inter-
ment Monday

New York, April 1.-THE body Of j..
Pierpont Morgan lies tonight among
the art treasures of his private library.
1t reached New York on the steamer
France in driving rain this afternoon
and at dusk was taken from the ships
mortuary chapel, sombre in heavy vel
vet and resplendent in silver and gold,
to motor hearse, which conveyed it
from the pier To- the library Hum
dseds braved the drenehing rain and
stood In the streets to watch it pass.
Among the rare bronzes. costly paint
ings and other art objects which he
brought here from Europe, the body
of the dead financier will lie in state
until Monday morning. when the funer-
al services will be held in st. Georges
Protestant Episcopal church.
Flags at Half Mast
The France came into the harbor
with her flags at half mast. Through
thick weather and amid torrents of
rain she crept to her pier at the foot
of west Fifteenth street. All her pas
sengers save the funeral party, were
ashore half an hour before Mr.. Nor
gan's body was removed to the hearse.
| Mrs Herbert L. Satterlee, the dead
| financiers daughter. and Miss Helen
Morgan Hamilton, his grand daughter,
the only women in the funeral party.
were met aboard the vessel by Mrs. j.
! p. Morgan, Jr. The three women leIt
| in an automobile for the Morgan home
before the body was removed. j. p.
Morgan, son of the dead man. met the
France at quarantine and remained
aboard with Herbert L. Satterlee, H. H.
Harjes, partner in the Morgan bank
| ing firm in Paris, and DR.. George Dix
\ on. Junius S. Morgan, grandson of the
| financier Joined. the party when the
vessel docked.
Follows Body to Hearse
! When all other passengers had left
| the vessel the men of the funeral party
assembled in the mortuary chapel to
| follow the body to the hearse. The
mirrored doors opened and 10 uni
| formed men of the France emerged
with the heavy casket. Across 1T was
draped large American fag-the
same flag which the United States gov
| ernment gave to the France to COM
| memorate her maiden voyage as the
largest ship which the French had ever
| sent over to America.
| The casket passed between double
| file of the ships company, standing at
attention with barred heads in the pas
sageway. while the ships orchestra played
| 'The Star-Spangled Banner
| Attendants bearing some of the floral
| offerings followed the funeral party to
| the hearse Among these offerings was
| wreath wrought in solid silver from
| the town of Aix-Les-B -Bains, a beneficiary
| of Mr.. Morgan's generosity great
cross of orchids, which had withered on
| the trip across the Atlantic, remained
| in the chapel This was the offering of
the German Emperor Later 1t was sent
| to the Morgan library. Many rare fiow-
| srs which perished en- route were strewn
unon the Atlantic before the ship reached
port.
| slowly carried its burden to the Morgan
home. Two automobiles followed it, one
conveying Messrs. Morgan Satterlee,
| IIarjes and Dixon; the other tne serv-
ants and attendants.
Chapel Thrown Open
| The mortuary chapel, where Mr. Nor
pan,s bodv reposed during the trip. was
| thrown open after the casket had been
| taken away and the ships, onicers and
| crew trooped silently down to see 1t. The
| catafalque on which the BASKET nau rest
| ed was draped with its great covering of
| bIack with a gold embroidered cross in
| the center.
AZ the head and foot there rose two
| snlender silver electroliers Back of the
| catafaloue there hung heavy drapery,
| brilliant in gold and silver trimmings;
the walls of the death room were SPAN
rled with silver stars and maltese crosses
with fleur de lis here and there.
In this mortuary chapel ]. P. Morgan.
Jr.. that was, looked for the first time
on the dead body of his father when
| he boarded the France at Quarantine.