Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-01
LAST IRE ABROAD.
Morgan, An AiIing Man, Sailed, Jan. z,
From New York for Egypt


New York, March 31.-Mr Morgan
sailed from New York an ailing man,
for Egypt, on Jan. :, within three
weeks after he had testified before the
PHie committee investigating the
Money Trust" For weeks there hal
been reports that he had been far
rem well, but these We're somewhat
allayed by the announcement that no
physician would be taken with him.
He WAS accompanied by his daughter,
Mrs. Herbert l. Satterlee. and the
Count and Countess Jean La Cree,
the latter. a daughter of his partner,
Charles Steele.
He met his first mishap before the
liner on which he sailed reached the
lower harbor. The fog was thick and
the vessel poked her nose into the mud
Oft Governors Island, but was extri =
Gated within a few hours and found
to be unchanged. After an unevent-
full trip across the Atlantic, Mr. Nor
gan reached Monte Carlo, Jan. %, and
Naples, the next day. With his party
he motored to the ruins of Pompeii.
Fhe Eext day he sailed for Alexandria
He reached Cairo, Feb. I, and shortly
afterward started on a trip up the Nile
Alarmist reports concerning the fl
nancier's health were sent to the world
from Cairo. These dealt chiefly with
the declaration that Mr.. Morgan was
suffering greatly from indigestion. that
the trans Atlantic trip had failed to
accomplish it's usual Improvement in
his health and that physicians and
nurses had been summoned. The stock
markets of the world responded to
these rumors and Mr.. Morgan's son
in New York, issued a reassuring
statement concerning his fathers
health.
After Today trip on the Nile, Mr..
Morgan returned to Cairo, apparently
benefited in health, but in reality a.
failing man. So serious was his cond-
ton that fresh butter and eggs were
rushed to him half way around the
world from his New York farm With
IN four days, Feb. q, Prof. Giuseppe
Bastianelli, the leading medical spe-
cialist in Italy, was summoned from
Rome to his bedside Meantime the fl
naneier's son-in-law, Herbert L. Sat
teTlce, left his New York office for
Cairo and joined Mr. Morgan's party
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Morgan had sustained a slight stroke
of apoplexy, but this was denied. Prof.
Bastianelli issued a bulletin upon his
arrival at Cairo saying that Mir. Nor
gan's condition was good and for sew
eral days the patient seemed to i'm
prove.
On Feb. 26. Mr.. Morgan drove out to
the temple of Karnak at Luxor He
wanted to drive round, but a guard re-
fused him permission and when the fl
nancier demonstrated the guard pointed
to a line of invalid chairs for nire. Mr.
Morgan declined to get into an invalid s
chair
eff Mr.. Morgan was carried around
Karnak,'' explained his secretary, 1.-The
news would be cabled to America; it
would be said he was too i'll to use his
legs and there would be a great financial
crisis"
Mr.. Morgan may have been able to use
his legs to get around, but he didn't.
Instead he drove back, disappointed, to
Cairo.
Professor Bastanell remained with
Mr.. Morgan till he sailed back to Rome,
March TO- Because of the uncertain con-
dition of his health. Mr.. Morgan had to
forego his usual visits to the I<hedive
and Lord Kitchener while in Egypt. A,e-
fore returning to Europe, however, Mr..
Morgan was sufficiently recovered to at
tend the merry-making at Helopolis,
where he was pelted with flowers and en-
joy it, apparently, by party of Ameri-
can tourists.
Mr.. Morgan landed at Naples, March
10, and went direct to Rome, where he
received no visitors. but spent the even
ing playing solitaire in his room. ais
party, meantime, had grown till it inelud
ed DIR. George a. Dixon of New York,
Mr.. Morgan's cousins, Mrs. Lucy Lee
and Mrs. John Hurlburt, and his grand
daughter, Miss Hamilton.
Mr.. Satterlee announced at Rome that
Mr. Morgan's ailment was not an organic
disease or debility attendant upon adj
vanced age, but simply overwork.
Denying himself to callers, but be-
sieged by art dealers from every country
in Europe, Mr.. Morgan passed the time
quietly at Rome. keeping much to his
hotel. occasionally motoring and driving,
much of the time playing solitaire and
nearly always-when the public glimpsed
him-wth a cigar in his mouth. His ply
scians. still baffied by his ailment, put
him on diet of barley soup and chopped
meat and tried to limit the cigars.
The sun of Rome, the diet and the doc
tors seemed to have started him back to
health and he attended the Easter SER
vices at the American Protestant Episco-
pal church atH Rome He appeared to
walk with difficulty, however and LETT
before the church services ended. he
grew rapidly worse and for several days
lay in practically comatose state.