Evening journal., 1913-05-08

Ddcn time queen N1CtOIld JOulneyeu
to the Rivera she paid the different
railroad companies 1000 pounds for
the use Of their lines. and provided
her own conveyance in the form of a
royal train. II is interesting TO know
what the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan
has paid for the special hearse train
with wagons dc luxe and salon cars
for members OF his family and friends
invited TO witness the obsequies.
The basis of sovereignty thus shifts
apace. AS the funeral train circled
Paris on the belt line on its way to the
shore, no official notice could be taken
OF IL. But every possible honor was
paid to the body at Cherbourg, where
three state rooms had been thrown
into one on board La France to use as
mortuary chapel Suites fore and
aft OF this chamber were engaged and
kept empty, out Of consideration for
the steamship company.
The undertaken who draped the
room must have seen the mortuary
chamber in the Chateau Of Dampierre.
in which stands a silver statuette Of
Louis XIII. The velvet hangings and
praying chairs mainly agree, save in
NNARAf WIN Aiif DdilUlfllt dUinEos
The hangings and carpet on La
France were black with silver tear
fringes. while those at Dampierrc are
violet. decorated with golden neur-
de-lys. There Is an altar i'm the Louis
XIII room. with imposing silver-gilt
candlesticks and the other altar be-
longings which one sees in a parish
church
In, sItr l.. .,sI
the steamer wherein was the body of
]. Pierpont Morgan on catafalque
there was also a draped table with a
Bible upon it. Hc had been for years
an Episcopalian, attended church reg
ularly and was lavish in his donations
for church and choir.
The least poke" from a minister.
missionary. or promoter Of any sort
of good work brought forth blaze Of
generosity, with orders TO his chief
cashier for his personal account
Hence the Bible on the table All the
details had been regulated by wire
from Rome TO the Cherbourg under
taker and the Champagne Generate
Transatlantique.
The Morgan gifts to doctors. nurses,
servants, employees Of his various en-
lfl UAAHAo liAdll a cAililAul AhuhinNtAAt
at Buckingham Palace on the occasion
of Queen Victoria's heir (the late King
Edward Each of the three Morgan
physicians in Rome received $4,000;
each nurse and other doctors aids,
$40 600 each. Those who watched
through the night in the corridor Of
the Morgan suite had gratuities Of
$1,000 each. The hotel bill amounted
g -
the deadly sick man from Alexandria
to Naples was $4,000: but, of course,
four times as many cabins as were
needed had been engaged to protect
the dying king of the financial world
from the noise Of fellow-p passengers.
Il is common talk at Rome that Mr..
Morgan died of tuberculosis that had
been latent for more than forty years,
but burst out suddenly i'm his digestive
organs, the immediate cause being the
worries to which he had been sub
iected by the Congressional money
trust inquiry at Washington, coupled
with the modification Of being attack
ed by the press Of two continets
His second wife. to whom he had
been decidedly attached. died of gal
Looping consumption. She was almost
az deaths door when Mr.. Morgan, then
quite young. saw and fell in love with
her at Paris where she was a steady
worshiper at the American Methodist
Church in the Rue de Berri She be-
lieved herself too i'll to marry, but
Morgan persuaded her that tour Of
the world would cure her. Tourists
then had their eyes on China and
Japan as a hunting ground for art
collectors. They we're married, and
she really grew better for while.
Mr. Morgan always had an especial
fondness for France, where his firm,
first Drexel, Harris & Co, and later
Drexel. Morgan G. Co., did large but
quiet business. mainly in the letter OF
credit line, for American tourists. But
Mr. Morgan personally got his lift"
In the financial world of France
through the preliminaries to the 8 per
cent. loan which he negotiated with
Clement Laurier for the Tours gov
ernment for q Morgan-Peabody syndi-
cate. This gave him his first real in
ternational prominence in the banking
world.
Since the per cent Baring-Labou-
chere loan, negotiated by the Due de
Richcllcu soon AFTER Waterloo, nc
great French loan had ever been SO
advantageous to the lenders. Yet
Laurier was a singularly adroit, pen
etrating and able man of business
broken into financial affairs under
Cremieux. whose secretary he was a
few years. with Gambetta as his jun
ior. and was the instrument Baron
Hirsch used in obtaining railway ano
other concessions from the Porte that
made the baron Croesus. Lauriei
predicted a great future to Morgan
then only 33
Mr. Morgan WINGED under the at
tacks of certain journals on his nose
( But his eyes were singular and in.
dicative of great force of nature be
hind them and marvelously expressive
OF mental energy They could blaze
CLEAN. or search rclentlessly into the
character Of a stranger whom h
meant to read. The massive frame
shoulders. neck, and high-arched hea'
accorded with the impression of vita
and cerebral force the eyes gave, Al
age crept on they became sad. Out
side OF the power money gave hin
/ as an art and rare books collector, /