Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-12
Morgan's s Body
 Lies in State
IN LIBRARY OF RESIDENCE AT
 r NEW YORK.
FLAGS AT HALF. MAST
Vessel Which Bore Remains Pays This
 Tribute = casket Draped With = Stesnship's American Flag.

New York. April 1.-The body of J. Pterpont Morgan lies tonight among the art treasures of his private libra ry. It reached New York on the afternoon, and at dusk was taken from the ships mortuaGy chapel, som bre In heavy velvet and resplendent in silver and gold. to a motor hesrse which conveyed it from the pier to the library Hundreds braved the drench- Ing rain and stood in the streets to watch it. pass. Among the rare bronSes, costly paintings and other art objects which he brought here from Europe, the~dead financier will lie in state till Monday. when the funeral services will be held in St. Georges Protestant Episcopal church.
 Vesssrs Flags at Half Mast.
 The France came into the harbor with her flags dropping at half mast. Through thick weather and amid tor rents of rain she crept to her pier at the foot of West Fifteenth street. It required nearly an hours strainipg by fleet of tugs to warp the big ship into her slip. All her passengers seve the funeral party were ashore half an hour before MT. Morgan's body was taken from it's resting place in the moftuary chapel to the hearse-
 Mrs. Herbert l. Satterlee, the dead fnancier's daughter, and Miss Helen Morgan Hamilton, his granddaughter, the only women in the funeral party, were met aboard the vessel by Mrs J. F. Morgan. Jr. The three women left in an automobile for the Morgan home before the body was removed. J. P. Morgan. son of the dead man, met the France at quarantine and re- mained aboard with Herbert l.. Satter- lee, H. Fl. Harjes, partner in the Morgan banking firm in Paris. and Dr. George Dixon. Junius s. Morgan. grandson of the financier. joined the party when the vessel docked.
 Casket Draped With Old 0Iory.
 When all other passengers had left the vessel. the men of the funeral chapel to follow the body to the hearse. The mirrored doors opened and ten uniformed men of the Frances crew emerged with the heavy casket. Across it was draped a great Amerl- can dag-the same flag which the United States government gave to the France to commemorate her maiden voyage as the largest ship which the French had ever sent over to America.
 The casket passed between a. double file of ships company standing at at tention with barred heads in the pas saxeway to a stairway, and thence to rarely used, to the waiting heerse. As it emerged from the chapel the ships orchestra, grouped around the stair way leading from the deck above and softly "The star spang1ed Banner"
 Wreath of Solid Silver.
 Attendants bearing some of the floral offerings followed the funeral party to the hearse. Among thase of terings was a wreath wrought in solid silver from the town of Aix-les- Bains, 8 beneficiary Of MT. Morgan'S generosity. A great cross of orchids which had wtthered on the trip across the Atlantic remained in the chapel This was the offering of the German emperor. Later 1t was sent from the ship to the Morgan library. gar den of rare flowers whose perfume of the death room perAshed en route and were strewn upon the Atlantic before the ship reached port.
 Through the driving rain the heGrgs slowly carried its burden to the Mor- gan home. Two automobiles followed it. one conveying Messrs. Morgan, Eatterlee, Hsr3es and Dixon. the other the servants and attendants.
 The MertuarS Chapel.
 The mortuary chapel where Mr. Morgan's body had reposed during the trip was thrown open after the caSket had been taken away and the ships officers and crew trooped silently down to see it. They went behind m1rroTed doors to a short stairway. carpeted self. The catafa&due on which the caskst had rested was draped with it's great covering of black with a gold cross in the center, where had rested the head of the dead nnAn- cier, the German emperor's cross of orchids, withered and dropping, still stood upright against the wall. Petals of roses and lilies lay scattered on the sombre carpeting at the foot of the stairway.
 Gold and Silver Trimmed Drapery.
 At the head and foot of the catafal- que there rose two slender silver cleo troIiers, whose softened light sIowed wisps of crepe fastened over whitened bulbs. Back of the catafalQue there~ hung heavy drapery brilliant in gold and silver trirnrningS the walls of the death room were spang1ed with silver stars and Maltese crosses, with deur- lis here and there.