The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-31

they explained, was the rccurreIsL rss- current rumors of his serious illness had prepared the market for any pos sibility and enabled those engaged in such a situation
 MT Morgan sailed from New York an ailing man. for Egypt on January ', within three weeks after he had testified before the Pujo committee Investigating the money trust. For weeks there had been reports that he was far from well but these were somewhat s-I1ayed by the announce ment that physician would be taken with him. He was adeompauiad bg his daughter Mrs. HeKhErt l.. Ssttar- lee and the Count and Countess Jean La Greze, the latter a daughter of his partner Charles Steele.
 He met his first n1isaap before the liner on which he sailed reached the lower harbor. The fog was thick and the vessel ran her nose into the mud of Governors Island but was ex- tricated within a few hours and found to be undamaged-
 After an uneventfuI trip across the Atlantic MT Morgan reached Monte Carlo on Jan. g and Naples the next day. With his party he notored to the ruins of Pompeii. The next day he sailed for Alexandria He reached Cairo on Feb. and shortly afterward started on. trip up the Nile
 Alarmist reports concerning the fnancieris health were sent to the world from Cairo. They dealt chiefly with the declaration that MT. Nor gan was suffering greatly from indi- gestion, that the trans-At1autic trip had failed to accomplish its usual fn- provement in his health and that phy- sicians and nurses had been sum moned The stock markets of the world responded to these rumors and MT. Morgan's son, in New York. is- sued a reassuring statement concern ing his fathers health.
 After a 10 days trip up the Nile, MT. Morgan returned to Cairo appar- entIy benefited in health but really a failing man. So serious was his con dition that fresh butter and eggs were rushed to him half way around the world from his New York farm. With in four days, on Feb. 21, Prof. Giu- scope BastianeIli, the leading medical specialist in Italy, was summoned from Rome to his bedside. Mean time, the financier's son-in-1aWs Her bert L. Satterlee, left his New York office for Cairo and joined Mir Gor- gan's party there on Feb 26- It was that Mir. Morgan had sus- tained slight stroke of apoplexy but this was denied.
 Prof Bastiane1If issued a bulletin upon his arrival saying that Mr. Nor gan's condition was good and for sew eraI days the patient seemed to inn prove On Feb. 26, MT. Morgan drove out to the temple of karnak. at Lux or. He wanted to drive round bat a when the ffnancier remoDstrated the guard pointed to line of invalid chairs for hire. MT. Morgan declined to get into an invalid chair
 eff MT. Morgan were carried around Karnak,'' explained his secretary, ''tss
 D. to use his legs and there would be a great financial crisis"
 Mir Morgan may have been able ta use his legs to get around but he lidn't Instead he drove Lack, dis appointed, to Cairo.
 Prof. BastianeIh remained with Mr. Morgan till he sailed back to Rome ,n March 10. Because of the uncer- ain condition of his health, Mir. Mor- gan had to forego his usual visits to he Kahdive and Lord Kitchener while in Egypt. Before returning to Europe, MT Morgan was able to at end the merrymaking at HeliOpopOlis where he was pelted with flowers.s
 Mir Morgan landed at Naples on March 8 and went direct to Rome where he received no visitors but spent he evening playing solitaire in his oom. His party, meantime, had ,rown till it included Dr. George A Dixon of New York; Mir. MOrgau's ousins, Mrs. Lucy Lee and Mrs John IurIburt, and his granddaughter Miss Hamilton. MT SatterIee announced at Rome that Mir Morgan's aiIme1t was lot an organic disease or debility at- endant upon advancing age but sim 'ly overwork-
 Denying himself to all callers, but esieged by art dealers from every ountry in Europe. MT. Morgan pass q the time quietly in Rome. keeping much to his hotel, occasionally motor ng and driving much of the time
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