The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-31
Great American Financier
Passed Away at the Hotel
Where He Had Been
Confined.
WEALTH COULDN'T SAVE
The End Came at 1905 p. m.
After Night of Unconscious
ness, Surrounded by Rela-
tives and Physicians.
LBy Henry Wood, Correspondent
United Press

IBy Henry Wood, Correspondent
United Press.l
ROME, March 31.--J. Pierpont Nor
gan, the great American f1nancier,
died at the Grand hotel here today,
the actual time Of his demise being
given as 1905 p. m.
Announcement Of the death was
not made to the awaiting newspaper
men for some time after the end
came, the information being held up
until private cables could be sent TO
the London and New York houses OF
the Morgan firm.
The end came peacefully, while
Morgan was still unconscious.
Herbert L. Satterlee, Mrs. Satterlee,
daughter of the financier; Prof Bas-
tianelli, Doctors Starr and Dixon and
other members of the Morgan party
were at the bedside but for hours be-
fore his death the banker gave no
sign of consciousness.
His daughter. Mrs. Satterlee. visited
Morgan's bedside at II a. M. and
again near noon. Her father was
then unconscious and she remained
but moment.
Throughout the day the Satterlees
and other members Of the Morgan
party remained in the adjoining
] room, awaiting the end, which the
physicians told them was not far off.
Morgan's collapse was today at
tributed to the strain incident upon
his appearance last winter before the
4 Puio money trust" committee In
! Washington, according to the state
ment today of DR.. M. Allen Starr, the
eminent nerve specialist who Is at
tending the financier.
During the day messengers from
i King Victor Emmanuel Pope Plus
and the British, German and Greel
embassies called at the Grand hote
Ito inquire after Morgan's health.
. At the hour when Morgan's pulse
was 14O and his temperature 104, hl
], respiration was 4S and the doctors
said his death might be matter o
only hours.
/ Morgan passed away after weel
of critical illness and he was for th'
most part unconscious since las
| Wednesday The last words he utter
, ed were said on that day. when n
aroused himself and asked that hi
legs be massaged, treatment tha
before had relieved him when he sui
fered from nervous disorders
Early in February, while Morga
was making trip up the Nile to nj
excavations in a specially constructe
boat. he was attacked by acute ind
|, gestion and lapsed into state G
: coma in which he remained for twer
.ity-four hours He was rushed
!, Cairo where physicians and nurse
: were in waiting.
The sudden end of his Nile trip wa
great disappointment to Morgan.
Aboard the specially built boat wer
eighteen women friends of Mrs. Sa
terlee and the banker had counted o
leisurely river trip to last sever;
0 weeks. The boat was luxuriqlsl
i equipped fyd stocked for regal erte
n tainment. The aged fnancier realize
t that 1t possibly would be his last tri
: to the Egyptian excavations in whic
r he had taken such interest, and whe
II illness cut short his tour, he grieve
y greatly.
e Prof. Bastianelli was summonc
e from Rome to attend the banker Mo
e gan already had engaged immedia
J. passage to Naples aboard the lin
A. Caroni and specialists from Paris Al
/ Berlin had been cabled to meet hil
r. But Bastainelli vetoed the trip, kno'
h. ing that his client was in much mo-
serious condition than was admitte
IS Morgan was persuaded to remain
st Egypt until March 10, when he sail
= for Naples aboard the liner Adriat
BY that time he had recuperat