Connecticut western news., 1913-04-03
" oHN PIERPONT MORGAN, fsre- most financial genius of his gen.
 eration. is dead Even as this

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 most financial genius of his gen. az eration. is dead Even as this
 is being printed the news is still flashing to every far corner of the earth by telegraph. wireless and cable that the giant central figure of modern American finance has paid the last debt of nature.
 When a king died in ancient times there arose at once the cry: 'aThe king Is dead! Long live the kingp' Morgan the king is dead. but who may take his kingship? That is the question which fingers now on the lips of the mighty. nor finds an answer
 For John Pierpont Morgan, by req son of the magic that lies in the con- trol of many millions. by reason of the vast industrial empire of which he was monarch supreme. was in actual fact more powerful than any ruler of the world today. Moreover. to that de gree also his passing has in it possibili- ties which may make or mar history as the death of no living king or emperor could do.
 The death of the greatest tinancier of this or any previous generation will give the biogrnpher and the historian wide field for strdy and research The Morgun that the 'nhiic has known is gone forever The Morgan that ac- tually was will be judged by posterity purely nnor the good or evil that he wrought
 1t was onrp written of him that be 'never wrecked a property nor depress- ed valneS tlrtl gain might follow. His work waS utw;lyS To reconstruct. to re pair to bnid up And this may be the puhir'S tiirll judgment nf the man
 His Genius Was Constructive.
 Thos, who ~uw tht veteran banker when he appeared before the Pujo con gresslOnul Investigating committee in Washineton will recall the vivid i'm precision that ht made when for i've hours he put lnnlSelf at the mercy of Samuel Unterm!el. counsel for the committee. answering unhesitatingly every question which that keen. adroit I and rpsouwetni lawyer chose to put to him
 instead ot striving 10 avoid or evade the queries hurled at him in rapid sue. | rpSSi0n as so many of the magnates who had preceded him on the witness | staliG had done. he was the personifica tion uf frankneSS Itself Actually he seemed to be trying to outstrip the iawter's desire for information by tell Ing ufnre than he was asked
 Al that time his eye seemed as keen as ever It had been. his voice as strong | and resonant. but for all that there were little signs here and there. triv ial. but none the less apparent which indicated that even his iron constitu tion and rugged mind had begun to show the marks of the years.
 Dominant Financial Figure.
 While unquestionably the dominant figure in the financial worlds of both Europe and the United States for near ly a score of years. Morgan was typ ically an American. the product of American institutions and the oppor tunities fostered by them. So also were his ideas and ideals sprung from the country that gave him birth
 John pierpont Morgan was born in Hartford Conn. April lI. 1887 Ills parents were Junius Spencer Morgan. a business man of that city. and Juliet Pierpont, a daughter of the Rev John Pierpont, the poet. after whom he was named.