The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-03-27
Ex-C0nviCt Who Had ONLY
Year to Live Returns
For Pot of Gold.


w. cover Of two flags while he has
no citizenship HIMSELF arrived
in New York recently on a fast ocean
liner to resume his gigantic operations
just one year and two months after
the doctors at the federal prison at At
lanta,. Ga, solemnly felt his pulse and
said he would die in one year. 1t was
Jan. 10; 1912, that the board of physi-
clans, headed by DR.. A. L. Fowler, con-
suited that medical horoscope Morse
then possessed and decided that the
stars had doomed him within twelve
month.
Upon the veracious word of Dr. Mar
chiafava, physician to his holiness Pope
Plus X, the little wizard of ice, ships
and banks is just as sound as a dollar
and had no evidence of willingness to
accept the sentence Of the doctors
whose reports led President Taft to
parole Morse that he might die out of
prison.
While the doctors are feeling his
pulse today to see just how much of
a laugh the financier can enjoy at the
expense of forecast and medical pre-
diction, aged one year, Morse is feeling
of the ticker with the free hand and
preparing to give a demonstration of
the art Of coming back.
Finance Interested.
There is intense interest in the inan-
cial district over the return Of Morse
The interest not only extends to finan-
cial circles, but it has a keen angle in
the direction Of international politics
which shoots off from the question of
the number Of pulse beats Mr.. Morse
enjoys to the minute to a discussion of
the nice points of treaty law and inter-
national agreements relating to the
most important subject known to world
poWers-the traffic Of the sea.
While this man is under SEN
tence of death, which he politely but
none the less firmly declines to accept
as conclusive, he has been Industrious
ly Harvesting up British capital to
American shipping, especially in rela-
ton to the coastwise trade of the
United States, and with an eye ahead
to the opening of the Panama canal,
with it's vast possibilities for the coast
wise ships.
Just at the very time when, accord
ing to the doctors, Morse ought to have
been making his last will and testa-
ment. arranging for the small lawn
with the marble marker and the sort
of flowers that look best in a subdued
light. to say nothing of the names of
the pallbearers. active and honorary
he got as busy as a bird dog in new
sagefield over in London and pointed
out to John Bull the desirability Of
getting Sin with live one' in the
shipping game.
And England, marveling at the view
of the American doctors, decided that
Morse was a live one" and "got in"
Backed by British Capital.
They ''got i'm to the extent of pro-
viding the financial sinews of war for
good part of the Morse operations
that are yet to come and came back
with the absolute assurance that when
he opened his rolltop desk at No. 43
Exchange place. New York, he would
have the chips and the cards for new
game with the big forces that, in 1907,
put him so severely out of business.
The remarkable part Of his feat is that
he got the foreign support at a time
when wars and rumors of war had
made folk in Europe stick tighter to
their coin than Dr. Friedman at first
did to the secret of his tuberculosis
germ culture.
Evidently the London bankers did
not expect that Morse would drop by
the wayside. Nor does a term in an
American penal institution have any
bad effect upon the English financial
mind. The late Charles T. Yerkes had
no trouble in getting big English in
terests behind him in his London tube
and other enterprises in spite of the