The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-07
Downright. 1915. by A. d. jacobson,

Copyright 1918, by A. ID. Jacooeon.'
Each time Queen Victoria journeyed
to the Riviera she paid the different
railroad companies s1,Ooo for the use OF
their lines, and provided her own con-
veyanee in the form of a royal train. II
is interesting to know what the estate
of ]. Pierpont Morgan has paid for the
special hearse train with wagons de
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 it. 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 a mortu-
airy 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 color, with the
Dampierre drapings. The hangings and
| carpet on La France were black with
silver tear fringes. while those at Dam
pierre are violet, decorated with golden
| feurs-de-lys. There is an altar in the
Louis XIII room, with imposing silver
gilt candlesticks and the other altar be-
| longings which one sees in parish
| church.
| In the mortuary chapel on board the
| steamer wherein was the body of j.
| Pierpont Morgan on catafalque there
was also a draped table with Bible
upon it. He had been for years an
Episcopalian, attended church reg
uiarly and was lavish in his donations
-, for church and choir.
The least poke" from a minis
ter missionary, or promoter of any
any sort of good work brought forth
blaze of generosity. with orders to
his chief cashier for his personal ac-
| count Hence the Bible on the table
All the details had been regulated by
wire from Rome to the Cherbourg un-
! dertaker and the Champagne Generate
/ Transatlantique.
| The Morgan gifts to doctors, nurses
servants, employees of his various en-
terprises recall a similar munificenct
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
| $4,000 each. Those who watched
through the night in the corridor of the
Morgan suite had gratuities of $1,000
| each The hotel bill amounted to So.
| 600. The cost Of transport of the dead
" sick man from Alexandria to Ma
Piles was $4,000; but, of course, foul
| times as many cabins as were needed
had been engaged TO protect the dyine
! king of the financial world from thu
noise Of fellow-passengers.
| 1t is common talk at Rome that Mr.
Morgan died of tuberculosis that had beer
! latent for more than forty years, bu
burst out suddenly in his digestive organs
the Immediate cause being the worries Il
which he had been subjected by the Con
gressional money trust inquiry at Wash
ington, coupled with the modification o.
being attacked by the press of two con
tinents.
His second wife, to whom he had beer
deeply attached, died of galloping con
sumption. She was almost at death!
door when Mn Morgan. then still quite
young, saw and fell in love with her a
! Paris, where she was a steady wor
shiper at the American Methodist Church
| i'm the Rue de Berri. She believed herself
too i'll to marry, but Morgan persuaded
her that a tour of the world would cure
her. Tourists then had their eyes or
China and Japan as hunting ground
| for art collectors. They were 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