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One Long Legal Fight.

There followed a legal fight. but if
Mr. Gould had no trouble in securing
appointment of a receiver from the
Tweed judges Morgan and his associ
ates were equally successful in getting
their own receiver named by an up
state judge. What was more to the
point, the Morgan people persuaded
Governor Hoffman to protect their re-
ceiver by calling out the militia.
During part of the contest the stock
transfer books were hidden in an
empty tomb in an Albany cemetery.
There were as many as twenty five
lawsuits, but in the end the Morgan
party triumphed, leased the road to
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-26
F FINANCIAL
RECORD TINE
His Son, ]. P. Morgan, Jr., Will
Take His Place as
Head of Firm.

of great intrinsic value. Mr.. Morgan
had studied its possibilities as had
they. He turned up at the stockhold-
ers' meeting with stock control. though
not until the time of the meeting had
it occurred to Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Fisk
that their operation was opposed. least
of all by young Morgan
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-26

A man is always more successful if
he knows how to adjust matters
promptly. -.---.-..- $500.
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How Much Was He Worth ?

Many estimates of Mr. Aorgan's
wealth have been made 1t has never
been suggested that it was as great as
John d. Rockefellers, whose fortune
is often appraised at a billion. The
average guess on the Morgan fortune
is $5O0,OOO,0O0. Others range all the
way from S25OOO0,QO0 to S7J0O0O,O00
One guess is probably as good as an
other.
People who 90 into statistics have
liked to compile tables showing the
Morgan resources. One of them re
Gently demonstrated to his satisfaction
that Mr.. Morgan controlled financial
institutions and corporations with re
sources of S14,0O0,OOO,O0O. The table
was imposing, but the so called table
of resources was Il table of capitaliza.
ton of all companies in which Mr.. Nor.
gan had influence.
Mr. Morgan himself was a director
in but three important railroad sys-
TENS, New York Central. New York,
New Haven and Hartford and Erie.
Erie was under his control but the
New Haven had Kuhn, Loeb & Co as
fiscal agents and it was only as fiscal
agent of the Central and through asso-
citation with the Vanderbilts that Nor
gan's influence was important there
He was not a railroad manager. He
knew nothing about traffic" he once
testified. but exercised influence il
railroading simply as a banker.
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Educated In Europe.

A few years before he started bust
ness in Boston Junius Spencer Morgan
married a daughter of the Rev. John
Pierpont, hneal descendant of the
Rev. James Pierpont, who was a con-
temporary of Elihu Yale and associated
with him in founding Yale college.
Their only son, John Pierpont Morgan,
was born in Hartford, April II. 1887.
and was finishing his course in East
high school of Boston as Pip Morgan.
a none too brilliant student, when the
London banking house was established
and the family moved abroad. The
son was graduated from the University
of Goettingen in 1857.
From the university young Morgan
went into the London banking house
for two years. He then came to New
York and entered the employ of Dun
can, Sherman & Co. In the year of the
outbreak of the civil war he helped Il
organize and became a member of thu
firm of Dabney, Morgan & Co. Will
this firm he remained until 1869.
After nine years of hiding his ligh
under bushel Mr.. Morgan emerged il
1869 as an antagonist of Jay Gould ant
James Fisk. who at the zenith of thei
power We're busily engaged in exploit
ing the Erie. As a tributary to tn
trunk line they went after the Alban,
and Susquehanna, road in bad fnan
cial condition then, with its stock sell
ing at % cents on the dollar, but a
events proved-for in 1909 it paid a
extra dividend of $50 a share-a roa
Executive ability excuses much cru
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Modern Improvements.

Mrs Bloodgood--I want to get a ny
yorce.
Lawyer-Mill YOU take IL with you
or shall j send il home Puck.
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His Railroad Interests.

The Morgan firm was in control of
the Southern Railway and was intlu
entail in the Northern Pacific, the Bur
lington and the Atchison. Mr. Morgan
was also regarded as the most infiu.
entail person in the Reading. Lehigh
Valley and Jersey Central. and in the
anthracite trade generally. He assisted
in the financing of various transit and
tunnel lines in New York city.
The only other important Morgan
transportation company is Information
al Mercantile Marine, one of the less
successful of the Morgan promotions.
The British government at the start
dealt the combination a hard blow by
substituting the Cunard line and thus
keeping lit out of the combine.
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Many a grandson would make poor
grandpa.
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Had Many Interests.

From these and other men active in
Wall street since the civil war Mr..
Morgan differed widely in that his
financial interests were not his only
interests. In yachting, art, literature
and travel he spent time that to many
of his contemporaries must have seem
ed wasteful
His father was q banker before him,
and he was trained in the business here
and abroad. The father, Junius Spencer
Morgan, lived in Hartford with his
father, Joseph Morgan, at the time
in 1888 when New York city was devas-
tated by its most disastrous fire. The
old Aetna Fire Insurance company of
Hartford encountered embarrassing
losses in the fire, and Joseph Morgan.
then proprietor of the City hotel, took
hold of the company, reorganized it,
saw it through it's troubles and eventu-
ally realized profit of $150,OO0 With
a third of the amount he started the
son in the mercantile business in Bos-
ton.
The Boston enterprise, prospecting, at
tracted the attention of George Pea
body, the noted London banker and
philanthropist. In the early ffties Mr.
Peabody persuaded Junius Spencer
Morgan to join him in London, and
there was established the banking house
of j. S. Morgan & Co., in which Mr.
Peabody consented to act as junior
partner. The house is still in existence
with name unchanged, and it has long
been the London house of ]. P. Morgan
g. N
]. 2. Morgan, Jr., has been the senior
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Many famous man knows not how
it happened. ~
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His Son the Boss Now.

]. 2. Morgan, Jr.-Jack Morgan OF
Young J. P, as he has long been
called-is by no means a young man
or an inexperienced one. He is we'll
along toward fifty and has been en-
gagged in business with his father since
his graduation from Harvard. Fol-
many years he has been head of the
firms London house. But ordinarily
when his father was abroad the son
had general charge of the business
here, subject to the daily cables con
stantly passing between the elder Nor
gan and his firm. He is the senior
member of the house now and, as was
his father, is the boss.
The new head of the firm resembles
his father in appearance and in the
direct and incisive manner of his work.
He is a Eyes and no" man. of few
words, but of sure and prompt deci-
sion Like his father. he gained his
earlier training in banking abroad and
supplemented it with long experience
here. Between the two men the only
observable difference has been that the
younger is smoother or more suave
He has little of the brusqueness which
the father was wont to show in mo-
ments of.impatience.
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Executive ability excuses much cru
dition.
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Philanthropy Hidden In Ledger.

Mr. Morgan's gifts and benefactions,
though incompatible with those of An.
drew Carnegie and John D. Rockefel
Ter, were more numerous than has been
generally known. He was as reticent
regarding them as on any other per
sonal or business matter. A great
many of his gifts never will be known
unless the knowledge can be extorted
from the keeper of Il private ledger in
which these accounts were kept.
Mr.. Morgan's gifts to literature and
art, which were the most costly of his
public benefactions, are well known.
The largest single gift was S4,50O,OO0
for the Cathedral of st. John the Di-
vine. The next was $1,350,O00 for the
establishment of the lying-in hospital
near his favOrite st. Georges church,
of which he was long a warden. For
a new parish house and rectory for ST.
Georges church he gave 100000 and
numerous smaller sums like 100000
to the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton.
In 1861 Mr.. Morgan married Miss
Amelia Sturgis. She died the follow
ing year In 1865 he married Miss
Frances Tracy. who survives. They
had four children. a son. J. p Morgan.
Jr., and three daughters, Mrs. Herbert
L. Satterlee, Mrs. William Pierson Ham.
ilton and Miss Anne T. Morgan.
NFanxr a orandson would make n moor
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~ INANCIAL circles are interested
* in the question of who will take
the place of J. Pierpont Nor
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
HOUSTON MARKET REVIEW

Houston, Tex, Sept. 16.--The heavy
rains Of a week have been severe
blow to the Texas cotton crop. The
rains are reported general over the
State and little, cotton has escaped
the beating down that resulted during
the downpours. In many localities
where the fields were white with the
broken fluffy .bolls they are as green
as hay field with the cotton hang
ing limp under the stalk or buried in
the mud.
A season OF warm dry weather and
plenty Of sunshine will rejuvenate a
great part Of the crop. Until then
picking is at a standstill, gins are not
turning wheel, and the great ma
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16

Ferguson. Part HIN. B. Autry.
.. Algebra: Second Year,. p
Batson. f's>
8. General History: Ancient-F. A
ITempleton.
1;soP. N.
IL. The American Rural School
Chapter xIII-Brandon Trussell.
IL. Conference for Education-w. L,
Powers.
8. Schoolroom Essentials. Chapter
xvII-w. G. Lawson.
FRIDAY . A. N.
4, Roll call; opening exercises.
g. Discussion Of topics assigned.
3. Section meetings.
Primary. ~
General Lessons In the Primary
Grades-Miss Maude Sowarby.
Language: Third and Fourth Year
Mrs. Dula McCulloch.
Writing: In the Primary Grades
Miss Pansy Hall.
intermediate.
Civics-N. c. Cole.
Physiology: In the Fifth and Sixth
Grades--V. c. Mcdonald.
Language and Grammar: In the In.
termediate Grades-Miss Blanche
Hanna.
High School.
Composition-R Rhetoric: Merkley &
Ferguson, Part Iv-M. B. Autry.
General History: Modern-F. A.
Templeton.
Agriculture: What and How to
Trussell.
1880 P. N.
1. The American Rural School,
Chapter XIv-Brandon Trussell.
2. Superintendent period.
3. Schoolroom Essentials, Chapter
XvIII-W C. Lawson.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
BRlzOs COUNTY
TEACHERS INSTITUTE
To Be Held In Bryan In EastsIds
school Building Week Of
Monday, September ~.

The Brazos County Institute for
white teachers will convene at the
Eastside school building in Bryan at
Q q. m. Monday. September 20. and
continue in session Ave days.
The law requires every teacher who
has been employed to teach in the
county during the present school year
to attend the institute for the full
Ave days. The law also provides that
teachers who attend the full Eve days
and do their duty shall be paid a
weeks salary as provided in their
contracts.
From $3.50 to IL the institute will
be divided into sections. as indicated
in the program. Teachers will be as
signed to the sections by the county
superintendent.
The program follows;-
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16

chine Of cotton production is sts
ing idle until the weather clears.
Other States In the cotton belt b
not suffered as Texas. Some RI
have fallen in the eastern belt.
they are described as beneficial.
Fall trade is opening over the g
country. This Is helped by the I
weather occasioned by the I'd
spell. while money is easier with
increasing movement of the cr|
Anyway, the rains will be Of aid
the late crops.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16

Fredericksburg-It is reported here
that R. A. Love, president Of the
Fredericksburg and Northern Rail-
way, will extend that line on to San
Angelo at an early date. The road
was only recently completed to this
place from San Antonio.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
NOTICES!

Beginning Monday. the 18th, the
Crispette Grocery will be open from
z to 8 in the mornings, to Z in the
evenings, and all day Saturday. A
share Of your business win be appre-
ciated. Y
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
NOTICE, PUBLIC!

All barber shops will close on and
after Monday. September 20. at $3.50
p. m. during week and at 10 p. m.
Saturdays. BY order Of Local Union
No. 624.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
All members Of the Weaver 4
Class are requested to meet at +
tain Bros Office on Thursday Q
ing. September IS. at o'clock.
portant business.
GEO. Z. HADLEY. Pre-
s. p. FIELDER. Sec'y.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
NOTICE, X. OF P.

Regular meeting of the lodge to-
night. Initiation work. Members are
urged to attend.
ROBERT, SMITH,
Chancellor Commander.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Onie Hopkins and wife to w. T..
Conoway, 25.4 acres out OF the John
Williams survey; consideration, 1913.
]. H. Wehrman to Lee Cortemelia,
interest in Riverside Gin
Company; consideration. $6s2.75.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

J. ]. Behr and Miss Annie Kropsis.
Ernest Smith and Victoria Davis.
Cleveland Crawford and Jamie
Tapes.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
MONDAY . A. M.


/. Opening exercises and enrolment.
2. Welcome Address-W. c. Lawson.
8. Response to Welcome Address
M. B. Autry.
4. Organization for the Institute
Work; What Is Expected Of Every
Teacher-T. W. Parker.
1880 p. M.
1. The American Rural School, Chap
ter brandon Trussell.
2. Superintendent period.
3. Schoolroom Essentials, Chapter
XIV. C. Lawson.
TUESDAY 9 A. M.
/. Roll call; opening exercises.
2. Discussion of topics assigned.
3. Section meetings.
Primary.
Reading: First Year-Miss Laura
Minis.
Spelling: First Year-Miss Onie
Williams.
Numbers: First Year-Miss Ida
Martin.
intermediate.
Arithmetic: Fifth Grade-Jerome
Kopecky.
History: Sixth Grade-Miss Grace
Watson.
Reading: Fourth and Fifth Grades
Miss Annie Mathis.
High School.
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pNespAv "a. NJ.

WEDNESDAY, . A. N.
1. Roll call: opening exercises.
IL. Discussion Of topics assigned.
8. Section meetings. q,
1880 P. M.-Prlmary.
Reading: Second Year-Miss Laura
Minis.
Spelling: Second and Third Year
Miss Onie williams.
Numbers: Second and Third Year
Miss Ida Martin.
Intermediate.
Arithmetic: Sixth ard Seventh
Grades-Jerome Kopecky.
History: Seventh Grade-Miss
Grace Watson.
Spelling: Sixth and Seventh Grades
Miss Grace Morgan.
Noh School.
Composition-R Rhetoric: Merkley 4
Ferguson, Part I'm. B. Autry.
Algebra: Teaching Beginners. Z.
Batson.
Physiology: Teaching the Adopted
Text. A. Templeton.
1890 p. NJ.
1. The American Rural School.
Chapter vIII-Brandon Trussell.
2. Superintendent period.
8. Schoolroom Essentials, Chapter
XIV. C. Lawson.
THURSDAY Q A. N. =
1. Roll call; opening exercises.
2. Discussion of topics assigned.
8. Section meetings.
Primary.
Reading: Third Year-Miss Laura
Minis.
Language: First and Second Year
Mrs. Dula McCulloch.
Numbers: Fourth Year-Miss Ida
Martin.
intermediate.
Reading: Sixth and Seventh Grades
Miss Anime Mathis.
Geography: Fifth and Sixth Grades
Mrs. Edna Tobias.
Writing: In the intermediate
Grades--A. s. McSwain.
High School.
1. composition-Rhetoric: Merkley &
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Composition-R Rhetoric: Merkley Z
Ferguson. Part I'M. B. Autry.
Arithmetic: Scope Of Work, etc.
w. l.. Powers.
Physical Geography: Plan for Study
and Teaching the Adopted Text-J'
q. Batson.
1850 P. N.
1. The American Rural School. Chap
ter v-Braudon Trussell.
2. superintendent Period.
3. Schoolroom Essentials. Chapter
XIV. C. Lawson.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16

Brownwood-The Free Fall Fair to
be held here, beginning October 8,
will be formally opened by Lieutenant
Governor Will H. Mayes on that date.
Announcement has been received by
the management of the fair to that
effect.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16
TEXAS INDUSTRIAL NOTES
(By Commercial secretarIes.l

Athens-Over $4,000 brick per day
are being manufactured by the Art
Pottery and Brick Company, which
opened for business In this city on
September 1.
| Cisco-R. B. Gilmore, secretary of
the Sweetwater Chamber of Com
merce, spoke here recently on the
subject of good roads and appealed
to the citizenship Of this place to ask
Governor Colquitt to designate No
vember and 6 as general good roads
days, as suggested by the Fort Worth
Chamber OF Commerce.
Brownwood-The Free Fall Fair to
be held here, beginning October 8,
will be formally opened by Lieutenant
Governor Will H. Mayes on that date.
Announcement has been received by
the management Of the fair to that
effect.
Harlingen-The second annual
meeting of the farmers Of the Rio
Grande and Coast Association was
held here last week. Over five hun
dred valley farmers were in attend
ance and several business matters
we're taken up. Among those Of most
Importance was the establishment Of
a large central packing shed at this
point.
Texarkana-Plans are on foot in
this city for the establishment OF a
grain and cotton exchange. II the
movement is a success this exchange
will take the same service as Dallas.
Fort Worth and Little Rock are re-
ceiving.
Plainview-A s25 premium was
awarded to H. C. Mccormick by the
Young Mems Business Club OF this
town for producing the first bale of
1913 cotton at this place. The bale
classed strict middling and brought
the grower IL cents per pound.
s-
Dallas-Saturday October rs, has
been designated as boy Scout Day"
at the Texas State Fair, and 1t is ex-
pected that fully two thousand boys
in uniform will be present. Scout
Master C. M. Richmond and staff of
assistants are working night and day
at their offices in the Wilson building
planning entertainment features for
the visitors.
Fredericksburg-It is reported here
that R. A. Love, president Of the
Fredericksburg and Northern Rail-
way, will extend that line on to San
Angelo at an early date. The road
was only recently completed to this
place from San Antonio.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-16

Athens-Over $4,000 brick per day
are being manufactured by the Art
Pottery and Brick Company, which
opened for business In this city on
September 1.
The day book., 1913-09-10

It's a little early for city series
dope, but that is about all left to the
citizens of Chicago in the waning
days of the present season in the two
big leagues. Manager Evers of the
Cubs feels that he viii give his record
a great boost if he can put over a
win on the White Sox. He points to
the last civil war, in which the Sox
won after the Cubs had copped three
straight, and then declared he will
outdo Chances last stand by bringing
the flag black to the West Side.
,Eyers has an explanation for not
using his southpaws frequently at the
present time. Vaughn, Pierce and
Watson. win get fair share of work
during the remainder of the season,
of course, but Cheney, Humphries,
Stack and Lavender will stand the
greatest labor In the, last week or
so the portsiders can go to it.
Here's the reason: Evers expects
to use right-handers as far as pos
sible against the White Sox. He viii
use a southpaw in one of the games,
but the guys who fling with the nat
urai nitt win start the others. This
The day book., 1913-09-10
BoxING-ALL THE LATEST DoPE-BAsEBALL
Willie Ritchie Cancels Welsh Fight
s Pelkey Accuses Burns.

.
Willie Ritchie, who was on the
main track to the admiration and
respect of fight fans, sidetracked his
own popularity yesterday when he
Cancelled his fight with Freddie Welsh,
scheduled. for Sept. 20 in Vancouver. ]
The split came over refusal of
the promoters to grant :Ritchie an
even cut of all concessions surround
ing the fight. The champion has been
guaranteed $4,000 and so per cent
of the motion picture privileges: He,
wanted a cut at the other side lines. ]
The amount involved in not known.
The promoters claim it is only $400, |
but as Richie has a; forfeit of 81, 500 4
posted, which he will lose if the fight ]
is not pulled off, this sum sounds too
small
Ritchie has gone to San Francisco, 1
but it is significant that he has not 4
broken training. Champions have
such temperamental habit of can
ceiling fights and then remaking them
that there is no certainty what will
happen until the day of the fight.
Arthur PeIkey, heavyweight fight
er, has let out squeal that the bat
tie he fought with Tommy Burns in
Calgary was fake. PeIkey did not
make his howl until he and Burns, !
who had been his manager, split.
I According to Peikey, the fight was
rehearsed for a week in the garret
of Burns house, and it was framed
for Burns to score two knock-dewns
to one for Pelkey. Art says it was
the only time he ever fixed fight.
PeIkey also says he never received
kilograms from Paris offering him a
fight with'Jack Johnson. They were
press agent yarns. That is easy to
believe, and we don't blame Pe1key
for denying them. If the exiled Gin
der should call one of these bluffs
Pelkey would be in peculiar posi-
ton, as he would run several miles
The day book., 1913-09-10
Evers to Use Right-Handers in the
Coming City Series.
RESULTS YESTERDAY

american League:
Sox, 2; Philadelphia, O.
New York, 6; st. Louis, 5.
Boston, 8; Detroit, 2 I'll innings).
Washington, S-8; Cleveland, 1-2.
National League. -
Cubs, 4; st. Louis, O.
Brooklyn, q; Pittsburgh, 0.
Only two games scheduled.
American Association.
st. Paul, II; Indianapolis, 1-2..
Kansas City, 8; Columbus, 2.
Milwaukee, 4; Louisville, 0.
Minneapolis, 6; Toledo, 5 I'll ,in.e
Federal League.
Chicago, 4; Indianapolis, 1.
Kansas City, 6; Pittsburgh. 2.
Cleveland, 2; st. Louis, 0.