White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-04-06
]. P|ERPONT MORGAN DIES IN ROME
WHERE He HAD GONE FOR HEALTH
Death Attributed to General Nervous Breakdown
CLOSE Of an EventfuI Career During Which
F~inancier Became a Power in Worlds Business
Affair.". ..Fortune Estimated at $500, OC0, 900.

J. P. Morgan, the American finan-
cier, died at five minutes past II
o'clock, Monday, March 81, (6.05 a.
m, New York time,) in Rome, where
he had recently gone for his health.
Mr.. Morgan before the end showed
he was suffering internally only by
a movement by his right hand.
otherwise he displayed no sign of
vitality except by continuous heavy
breathing.
Mr.. Morgan was unable to as
simulate the artificial nourishment
administered during the morning and
his physical weakness was extreme
Heart tonics were injected, but these
had no effect and for several hours
before his death he was in a state of
coma unable to respond to any ques-
lions or to recognize any OF those at
his bedside.
Coincident with Mr.. Morgan's
death it became known hat he had
suffered a serious attack before his
departure for Europe, but rallied so
rapidly that it was not considered a
forerunner to his fatal illness and
was known only to his most intimate
friends.
Fol five days Morgan received ar
tiicial nourishment, but was unable
to assimilate the food. As a result
he lost strength rapidly. He was in
a condition of semi-coma, which pre-
vented him from recognizing those
about him for many hours prior to
his death. His end was without suf-
fering.
Morgan's daughter, Mrs. Herbert
l.. Satterlee, who has been in con-
slant attendance, was at the death
bed. She held the hand of her father
cognition. She thought that when
the supreme moment came he faint
ly pressed her hand. Satterlee and
the physicians almost carried the
weeping woman out of the room
The statement given out by Nor
gan's physicians, qualities his illness
as nervous prostration, but say that
his intelligence remained normal un-
til Easter Sunday. Then a gradual
general collapse s~upervened.
The physicians in attendance upon
the dying inaneier were DIR. Giuseppe
B%astianelli, DR.. NJ. Allen Starr and
DR., George A.Dixon.
For many years Mr.. Morgan spent
a considerable portion of his time
abroad, but on this trip, for the first
time, he severed all connection with
business affairs and permitted his
partners to shoulder all responsibility
for their conduct. 1t was the first
instance of taking such a complete
rest since he entered the banking
business In New York City, be-
fore the Civil war.
Prominent bankers in New York
City said hat they did not predict
any decided u%nfavorable effect on the
stock market by reason of Mr., Nor
cams death. The reason of this, they
explain, was that the recurrent ru-
mors of his serious illness had pre-
pared the market for n possibility
and enabled those engaged in market
operations to prepare for just such a
situation.
The death of j. Pierpoint Morgan
had little or no effect on prices on
the London Stock exchange.
DR., NJ, Allen Starr of New York,
called into consultation over J. Pier
pont Morgan's illness, attributed the
fnancier's breakdown to emotion
caused by the investigation carried
i. out by the Pujo committee at Wash
ington into the operations of the
money trust"
Surprise was expressed by members
of the money trust committee now
in Washington that Mr.. Morgan's
breakdown should have been at
tributed by his physicians to the eff
fects of the Pujo inquirs. When the
banker appeared before the commit
tee December Is and 10, he was APP
~parently in good health and his bear
ing was confident and self possessed.
"Mr. Morgan appeared to enjoy the
Investigation said Representative
Hayes of California. HE seemed