Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1913-04-01
FLOWERS
COVER BODY
OF MORGAN
Royalty and Society Of Every
Nation Send Loving Trib-
uteS to Dead FinanCler
PREPARE CORPSE
FOR SHIPMENT HOME
BY The United Press.

by me united Press.
ROME. April Surrounded by
mountains of floral tributes from the
royalty, big business and society OF
every nation, the body Of J. Pierpont
Morgan today lay in the Grand Hotel.
while relatives planned for It's remov-
al to America.
II was the day when the wealthy
and all-powerful banker confidently
had planned even while critically III.
to start for AiX-les-Bains TO spend his
birthday. the seventeenth of April.
With every necessity and luxury
that money could buy at his COM
mand, Morgan actually died Of starva-
ton. This fact, startling In contem-
plation. was stated by his physicians,
who said that all the artlfice of mod
ern medical science could not get
nourishment into the mans system
because OF the failure OF functional
nerves to do their work.
While the body of the great Morgan
watched over only by six paid en-
ployes. lay in his S5O0-a-day suite that
mad been twice occupied by Kings, and
his relatives were all gathered in an
adjoining room where Mrs. Satterlee
his daughter, required a physlclans
care, the usual feverish gayety went
on uninterrupted throughout the
Grand Hotel.
The noise OF dancing. the rancous
calls OF chauneurs and carriage start
ers at the entrance. the blare OF or
ohestras and the shouts of gamblers
all the discordant sounds Of revelry
that the physicians were In part re
sponsible for the sudden collapse OF
Mr. Morgan went on as usual until
the gray hours OF morning. just as II
the body of powerful monarch Of
finance did not lie almost unattended
! on the second floor And II might
have been that some OF the revelers
did not know IT,
When the undortakers finished their
task today permission WIS given BY
Mrs. Satterlee for Albin polacelIs, /,
Philadelphia art student. to make I
death-mask Of the inancier. polac
eks is studying In the American Aced
emy here founded with Mr.. Morgan
money and his study was financed h
Mr, Morgan
floor OF the hotel. taken up entiref
BY the Morgan suite was almost de
serted Neither the Satterlees, no
any OF the other relatives or i'm
mediate friends were in the dealt
chamber. Scores of friends oneroI
/ their services as watchers, but thei
offers were declined, as were fhosi
OF other distinguished compatriotl
and diplomatic representatives Pace
the faithful italian courier who ha,
served Morgan on his annual visit
TO Rome for many years. was oi
guard at the door OF the suite an'
! everything was attended 10 by the si'
! paid men who watched the corpse.
The Morgan party here occupied
the palatial royal suite always takeI
! by Mr. Morgan In the Grand Hotel
II consists OF two salons with elgh
. sleeping apartments. on the secon,
floor of the hotel II has a private
outside entrance. on the southcas
corner OF the building and once wal
occupied by the late King George o
Greece. King Gustav. OF Sweden al
so had the suite at one time
Mr. Morgan occupied the cornei
room and two OF his windows looked
out on a park with green trees, wbil'
two on the east gave view OF th'
! imposing towers OF st. Peters. Thil
was the favorite outlook OF Mr.
Morgan in the days before his las
illness sent him to bed
With the consent OF Signor Truchl
: the director of the Protestant Gene
/ terry. the body OF Mr.. Morgan wal
embalmed at o'clock today. Th'
/ death-mask then was made. Th'
/ Italian Government interposes al
most endless red tape in the remova
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