The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-02
No Arrangements Have AS Yet
Been Made and Date of
Sailing Not Known
HOLD NO FUNERAL
SERVICE IN ROME.
Annoying but Indispensable
FormaIities Are Complied
With by Family and
Small Fees Paid

RUNE u pI+A - ne IOiiU@lHS
notice was issued at . o'clock this
evening:
mo church funeral service will be
held in Rome over Mr. Morgans re-
mains, At the request Of Mr. and
Mrs, Satterlee the Rev, Frank III.
Nelson, the minister in charge Of
the American church. will hold a
short service for them and other
relatives here in the apartments in
the Grand hotel. The service will
he according to the ritual of the
Protestant, Episcopal church, emitting
the commtttal and Will be entirely
private.
THE time of the departure of the
body and the funeral party for New
oYrk, where the funeral Will he held,
has not yet been set No decision as
To what steamer they will sail on has
been reached.
Mrs Satterlee is unable to ac-
knowledge the many expressions Of 8
sympathy from Mr.. Morgan's friends
in Rome and elsewhere nor TO ex~
pres sthe deep appreciation of her.
self and the family. for the evidences
father
Death Certificate
The death certificate which was
ffled with the municipality was sign
ed by Professor Bastianelli 1t at
tributes Mr.. Morgans death to .'ner-
yous dyspepsia and collapse from de-
iirium"
Mayor Nathan, who called at the
hotel al 0 O'Clock this morning, saw
MIR. and Mrs Satterlee and offered his
own condolences and those of the city
on the death of the financier. He
also made exception and allowed the
embalming Of the body before the
customary twenty-four hours after
death as is usually required. At his
suggestion. which was endorsed by
cess invented by Professor Guaidi, tho
head of the municipal hygiene bu-
reau, was adopted This process, 1T
is claimed, will preserve the remains
intact for nearly a century.
Pink Carnations Decorations.
The embaIming was finished at
noon. The body was laid on plain
brass bedStand in "a room decorated
with MIR. Morgan'S favorite pink car
nations. The only wreath on the bed
was one sent by the family. Mrs Sat
terlee spent the day with her fathers
cousins. Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Hurlburt.
Indispensable EorInalitics,
As the next of kin they had to sign
several applications for necessary
legal formalities for the removal OF
the body from Rome. The formali-
ties are annoying, but they are indis-
pensable They involve the payment
Of So to the municipalities. for per-
mission 20 embaln the body. and $40
/ for q permit fer it's expectation
These unsentimeutal matters were
not concluded until evening when
there was short service in the
apartments of the Satterlees. In adj
djtion to the daughter and son-in-law
of Mr.. Morgan only Mrs Hurlburt,
Mrs. Lee, DIR. Dixon and the Amert-
can ambassador were present.
1t has not yet been decided when
the body will he removed, but &c
is likely that 1t viii he taken to
Naples on Wednesday. or Thursday.
and placed aboard the North Ger
mann steamship koeuig Albert, which
viii sail Tor New York on April 4th.
II is not known whether the Satter-
lees Will accompany the body.
Many Obstacles In Transportation.
MIR. Satteriee this morning thought
II would be better to charter a spe-
Cial train to Gherbourg and take a
faster ship or charter "a yacht but
the time thus gained by the Northern
route would he lost and further bu-
reaucratic formailities complicated
owing ga the transit of the body
through France which would neces-
state an application To the French
embassy here. and the sending OF
certain documents To Paris.
It was found that it would proba-
I bly, he five days before the body
would be allowed to enter French
territory, where there would be
further delays for identification and
the payment of custom duties. The
Cherbourg plan has consequently been
practically abandoned
kilograms of sympathy still cons
tinue To pour in from all over the
world, but their number is so great
that it is impossible to make a list
OF them
No Arrangements Made Here.
tonight for word from Rome which
would give them some grounds for. de- Il
ciding on the details concerning fun-
eral arrangements fer J. F. Morgan and
/ the removal of his body to this eoun-
try.
Henry p. Dawson. of ]. p. Morgan
Re Co. said that cable messages we're
exchanged during the day with Herbert
was at the deathbed. but that no ar
rangements for the funeral had been
made yet He expected to get q Cable
give out a statement of what would
MIR. Dawson also said that any re-
( ports about what disposition would h.
| made of the Morgan art collections
and other matters of. public interest
information that the family Wishes ID
give out will not be Forthcoming for 4
several days. In the meantime all
[ speculation must wait upon the am
nouncement OF the provisions OF Mr..
Morgan's will
~choai In Mourning.
GENEVA. April 1.-The siiiig school
at Neyey is In mourning for Mr..
I Morgan, who was one Of its Oldest
pupils. He was there IN 1854 ana Isas
I to study languages. He visited tho
place every Summer after he had taken
the cure at a Les Bieines for the past
( twenty years. The head master 1f thH 4
Sillig school has teiegraphed hiss cel2s
sciences to Mrs. SatterIaes lS