The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20
ART TREASURES
STAY IN FAMILY
Amount of Bequests and
Trusts Less Than $780,
600, 900; Total Value
of Financier's Holdings
VIII be Announced
When Inheritance Tax
is Figured.

NEW YORK, April 19.-"I commit
my soul into the hands Of my Savior
in full confidence that having re.
deemed it and washed it in his most
precious blood, he will present it
faultless before the throne Of my heav-
emily father, and | entreat nv children
to maintain and defend, at all hazard,
and at any cost Of personal sacrifice.
the blessed doctrine of the complete
atonoment for sin through the blood
of Jesus Christ, once offered, and
through that alone
This is the extraordinary and strik.
ing utterance which begins the last
will and testament of John Pierponc
Morgan, who died at Rome on March
81 last, whose body. heaped over with
flowers from the crowned heads of
Europe, was, q fortnight later, brought
back to his own land, and last Monday
was borne to its last resting place at
Hartford.
Keen Interest Taken.
Ever since the funeral the publication
OF the great financier's last will has been
awaited with keen expectation. and 1t is
safe 10 say that OF all the interesting
testaments of eminent citizens Of Amer
lea, that os Mr.. Morgan, TO be offered
for probate here Monday morning, is by
far the most interesting.
AS TO the amount of the estate. which
IS one Of tho first questions the public
naturally is asking. there is nothing in
the will TO give any accurate idea, and
the executors declare that no announce
ment will be made on this point until the
appraisal has been made for determining
the state inheritance tax.
The amount OF bequests ard trusts,
named by specific sums. s under $780,
900. 600. but the entire residue Of the
estate Is left to ], P. Morgan. Jr.. who
is designated by his father to become
the chief heir. not only to his fortune.
but to his many charitable and artistic
activities.
Morgan Portrayed i'm Will.
AS 10 the document itself. 1t is IN
usual I'm many Of its features. and. ac-
cording to those two or three intimate
friends who have already had glimpse
OF II, 1t is a portrait of Mr.. Morgan him
self. beginning with the striking con-
fession OF his religious faith "a side of
his character which was known TO his
close associates, but not to the world).
and running through all It's thirty-seven
articles duly set forth in the same
logical and orderly fashion, which. his
friends say, marked all Mr.. Morgan's
mental processes. He has apparently
provided with panstaling care for every
contingency that might affect his family,
or his banking firm, and to his executors,
namely, his son, John Pierpont Morgan.
Jr.: his two sons-in- law. William Pier
son Hamilton and III. l.. Satterlee. and
his friend Lewis Cass Ledyard, he gives
careful directions under many clauses as
to alternate courses OF procedure. 1t Is
to be noted also that his grandson,
Junius Spencer Morgan. ,Tr. a young
man of only 81. now a student at Har-
ward, Is repeatedly nominated to take up
duties, in the event of the
death OF his father. John Fierpont Nor
gan. Jr.
Art Treasures Retained.
In this city the question most fre-
uuently asked by leading citizens and
learned societies has been as TO the dis
position OF Mr. Morgan's wonderful col
lection OF pictures and other treasures
MIR. Morgan makes perfectly plain what
his own hopes on this point have been,
nd yet leaves his son. who is his resldu-
sry legatee, entire freedom in the mat
,er. using the following significant mes
sage:
many years in gathering my collections
of paintings, miniatures, porcelains and
,ther works OF art, and 1t has been my
Iesire and intention To make some suit
lble disposition of them. of such por-
lions OF them as 1 might determine.
which would render them permanently
available for the instruction and pleas
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