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.TULL ASSOCIATED nl' v ' '-' ' (1 ' ' 'A : fl f1VrX ' -;:,- ' ; PR2S3 S2RVTCT ' ' ' K Vr Mr A aWa! I A Vf ' 1 f J V. ' . LAST XDITION VOL XVlII, NO. 41. fl ASHEVILLE, N. C.f MONDAY AFTERNOON MARCH 31, 1913. 7 -V -V?':- .. l ' Z ' : '. " : J' PRICE THRE35 CENTS JrP.' MORGAN DEAD; PUJO 'Morgan as He Appeared 1 OBE C A US E. SAYS rR Wn last in New York t.A mils: Nmou$ cJJapsc Results M In Death at Rome; Long in Coma. MARKETS OF WORLD ARE' LITTLE SHAKEN Early Today Swift Approach of the End Was Seen His Daughter, Mrs. Satterlee, with Him Almost until the ,' ; , End- Messages of Condo lence Are Receive! By Associated Press. Rome March 81. J. Ilcrpont Mor gan, the , American financier, died at live minutes past 12 o'clock noon to-! duy (6.05 a. m. Now York time). At half past' 11 Mr." Morgan's con dition was announced" to have become worse: He had not been able to as similate the artificial nourishment ad ministered earlier In the morning. His pulse had become more rapid and his temperature was rising. At a quarter to 12 the financier was still In a state of coma. ; 1 Dr. Starr, called Into consultation In connection with Mr. Morgan's ill iicnh, attributed the financier's break down to emotion, caused by the inves l!l.tlqn rrled out by the Pnjo roin mltteo at Washington into the onera lioim of tlie "money trust." j ; Approach of tlio End. When thfe death Of Mr. Morgan was seen to be approaching rapidly. Prof. IliiHtianelll and Dr. Dixon forced Mr. unci Mrs. Herbert U Satterlee, his son-in-law and daughter, and Miss Helen lamllton, who had been in constant attendance, to leave the room. Mr. Morgan toward the end showed that he was suffering Internally only by a movement of his right hand, otherwise he displayed no signs of vitality except by continuous heavy breathing. ; .' , . ' Frequent bulletins were Issued dur ing the morning showing that his condition-was gradually iHromin? www ind bjf irii'cldck the physicians had n-twun itn oil hnna ' ' Mr. . Morgan was unable to asslmr llute the artificial nourishment ad ministered during the' morning and bis physical weakness was extreme. Heart tonics Were Injected, but they, had no effect and for several hours be lore his death he was In a state of coma, unable to respqnd to any ques tions or to recognize any of those at lils bedside. , Jhv'-':.;1' 1 -. . One of his relatives, . Mrs. Fltszlm mons, wife of the Kev. Fitzslmmons arrived from Cannes and was shown into the death chamber but her pres ence remained unknown to the dying man. . . Resides the four trained nurses In attendance. Mis Helen Hamilton was of great assistance to the three physi cians, Prof. Giuseppe Bastianelll, Dr. M. Allen Starr and Dr. George- A. Dixon. . - - ' During the morning George Post Wheeler, Seeretary of the American embassy,- called to make inquiries on behalf of the American ambassador, Thomas J. O'Brien, and was told that Mr. Morgan had collapsed and that his. condition had. been rendered worse by increasing deafness, i i" ' ' f Trip to Rome Criticised.' ' From his arrival In Rome, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Batteries had feared a mistake had been made In bringing Mr. Morgan to Rome Instead of tak ing him direct to' London where he could have been In hl own house In stead of a noisy hotel and they thought too, that the climate' of Rome. was -.- too mild and enervating for him In his condition of ill health. Cable dispatches from America, Great Britain and other parts of the in.U .......... .1 n tell .1 t ' mnllltlff unit. "UIIU IUUI PU .11 11 " .' I . i ........ r. ious Inquiries and expressing the af fection In which Mr. Morgan . was held every where. The financier's secretary found It Impossible to reply to all the Inquiries and Mr. and Mrs. Satteilee expressed the desire to Inform the Inquirers how touched they were at the manifesta tions of sympathy they had received. The body -of the late J. Picrpont Morgan1 is to be embalmed and sent to the United Mates on board ship from Naples. A funeral service will be held here before Its departure. ' ' - Announcement Made at New York. Ne Tork. March Sl.--J. Picrpont Morgaw' ls lead. He died at, 12;0V made by the offices of J. P. Morgan & vo. toaay. Henry P. Davidson, a memner ni me house of Morgan uo., mauo in ' announcement. Via sld merely' that rift ' nan' pamea away snomjr ' go abroad some time this week, but It ' Is thought possible that tnis inp wm be pnntponed. ' Coincident with Mr. Morgan's death It became known that he had sustain ed a serious attack before his depart ' ure for F.uroie, but had rallied so ' rapidly that It was not considered a forerunner to fatal Illness and was known only to his most lntlmats friends. - For mnny years Mr. Morgan spent a considerable portion of his nrnr abroad, but on this trip for the first time bit severed all connection with busineiis afTuIni and permitted his Partners to shoulder all responsibility lor ttii'ir cond'lt't. it was me nmi stiince uf liln taking sni-h a eoftlnete ' ; r-- t Hn'v be t-nl. red tlifi li.Vdl in business In this city before the civil war. Prominent hankers in this city said this morning that they did not predict any decided unfavorable effects on the stock market by. reason of Mr. Mor gan's, death. The reason of this, they explained, was that the recurrent ru mors of his serious illness had pre pared' the market for any possibility and enabled those engaged In market operations to prepare for such a situ ation. . '. i . "Please don't apeak to me now," ADR1AN0PLE FORTS OF OBSOLETE TYPE Key to Turkish Stronghold Crumhled Easily under Modern Artillery. DAMAGE By Associated Press. ' Purl?, March 9 1 . ; correspondent of the Journal sends an .account of the storming of Acirmnople. in a despatch dated Adrlanople, March 26. He says the collapse, after a 48-hour assault, of the fortress which had re sisted the efforts Of the besie'gers for five months Is soon explained. When the allies got within the lines the "ter rible" forts, which were-supposed to have thick walls of concrete, turned out. to be more or les imaginary. The so-called "Indestructible" Alvas Ta blet!, the key, of the defense, was real-' ly only of brick construction; t-, During the siege Shukrl Pasha had more heavy guns than the. Investing armies and by moving them was able to crush the : fire on the side at tacked. ; --'i. ',''.'. "-'Vvi. viJ '-". March 24, however, General Ivanoft" ordered a general" attack fAra all sides. The only point where the fight was slack was opposite Alvas Tablet! now J. P. Morgan to the smalll'"c" ""'.', army of newspaper men who greet- j troop8' e ? "Pe1'0" J"1" ed him when he left .his home in i." wlth thf,. bayonet the Turkish uuvuncea- position at jvtasiaK. nie Madison avenue this morning. , Mr. Morgan was bound for the home of his mother, a few doors away. : Be fore he entered her door, however, he added: - heavy siege pieces on Alvas Tabieh celved from Rome. One was receiv- ,, u, ,s Turkish, artillery at Aivas Tabieh opened a terrlllo fire on Moslak and two Bulgarian batteries were wiped Opt. " ' ' ' - '';'-' The Bulgarians then directed 80 ed "at 8:15 and the other at They have not yet been translated. V statement will be given out later at the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. : ' which soon became a shapeless mass Meanwhile the Bulgarian Infantry crept cautiously forward'ready to rush the fort, from which the fire had prac tically ceased at nightfall. When the supreme moment ' arrived. - General Ivanoft ordered four regiments to ad vance. - : .: ',( The Twenty-third got through the barbed wire entanglements by throw- The Morgan's UukIiicmh Career. John Plerpont Morgan started his business career half a century ago on the board of directors of a large marl, time Insurance company.; He secured the position through the Influence of ng their coats across- the wires. his wealthy father. . For a year younsiTu.r';9boltel' -abandoning thelt,j.os4-, Morgan attended . the directors meet f .: Tn'Twenty-tnirtf rushed Into ings, but never opened his mouth, ex cept to vbte. - ' The president of the company told the elder Morgan thut nothing could 'be done with his son, who seemed to take little Interest In business. Young Morgan, however, all the time was laying plans for his first railroad con solidation, which when accomplished established his standing In Wall street as the only man who ever got the best of Jay Gould. The president of the insurance had mistaken taciturnity for Indolence. The sobriquet of "sphynx" of Wall street later was applied to the man who at first was believed to have been without business acumen, but later became the supreme head of the fin ances of the American continent. : Morgan's control over men and money was the dominant keynote of his life. Others, perhaps, were wealthier than Morgan, but he now commanded his wealth and that of others. At the height of his power he is said to have controlled nine billions of dollars. . . ' His Prentlge World-Wide, In addition to finance, art, litera ture, philanthropy and sport atl came under his influence.' His prestige was not confined to his own country kings and emperors and even the pope were wont to call him Into consulta tion. -, ' .-' Mr. Morgan tame from an old New England family which dates back In this country to 1638. He was born in wealth and his father, Junius Bpencer Morgan, left him ten million.- J. 8. Morgan had accumulated his fortune In the drygood business with Levi P. Morton and later as an associate of George Peabody, merchant, banker and philanthropist. ' , J. Pierpont Morgan was born April 17, 1833. In a modest red brick cotias In Hartford, Conn. As a youngster his tendency tn write poetry gave him the nickname of "Pip." " When he was fourteen Morgan was sent to Boston to the English High school. He showed a particular bent for mathematics, but had no gifts In dicative of unusual' mental power. Probably His first attempt at finance took place in Boston. The school teacher gave him money with which to buy eraser ; Young Morgan was gorte'for a long time. ; When he re turned he handed the teacher the erasers and also some change. t"What'i this for!" tasked the teacher, "t gave you Just enough to buy the erasers st the price 1 have always paid for them." "Oh," replied young Morgan, I went around town until 1 could find S place to buy them at wholesale." ' For two years after graduating - i .u,. Tloaton high school Mr. torf Alvas Tabieh and. Immediately the 'Bulgarian Held guns and mortarj rushed up and took positions. These and the guns In the forts were turned on the other Turkish defenses, which, attacked on the flank, made slight re sistance, v. ' ' -j ., In the meantime two Bulgarian reg iments entered the city In , triumph with colors flying and bayonets fixed. At. 10 o'clock In the morning Shukrl Pasha, who had hoisted the white flag on the tower and sent out flags of truce to ask for a cessation of hos tilities was taken prisoner before any of his messengers returned. Cettinje, March Sl. Montenegro will reply in the negative to the rep resentations of the powers, made col lectively, yesterday thut an envoy of tho powers corjvey a cipher message to Erzad Pasha, the Turkish com mander In Scutari, containing the porte's orders to permit their civilian population to depart. This Information, which came from an authoritative source, gives as a reason for this that King Nicholas has or. three occasions offered to allow the consuls and all the foreigners to' leave the city but each time the commander of the town rejected the suggestion. 1 X ' i:l ' . . ! 'xOiwwml I, i' " " ' V J FLOOD IS AUGMEN TED ffiiiv III BREAD LIRE E. J, Barney of Dayton Drew Three Loaves of Bread and ' Sack of Potatoes Today. Thousands Are' Driven from Lowlands from Mouth of " the Ohio ' River to , Marietta. . . A.L RADER KILLED FELL UNDER TRAIN Former Railroad Employe Started to Board Engine . When Foot Slipped. A. L. Rader, a former employe of the Southern railway and well known in Ashevllle, was killed shortly after midnight Saturday on the yards of the Southern hers, when he fell be tween the engine and tender of a freight train that was moving out of the yards. Beveral cars passed over i his body before the train could be stopped, and the body was horribly mangled. Coroner Morris was notified of the accident and the body was re moved to' the undertaking parlors of Noland, Drown & Co. Yesterday aft ernoon It was shipped to his home In Knoxvllle. deceased was about 35 years old and is survived by a wife and one child, who reside In Knoxvllle. For itha oat vtr.r.1 mnnlhl. It ! unrittr- Motcnn was a student at Ooettlngen, tood tne deceased has been without Germany. At 31 ne emoaraeu vv" . employment, but before that time he his careei" as a banker. ,'had been working in a machine shop Of J. P. Morgan, financier, and or there H4 had htirn ner, ror A fow his schlevemenu . all' the world uy, on a visit, and tt Is supposed that knows. Few men have been more ( he WM making an attempt to board widely feared, yet more general y ( ()e ftngne for ns return horns when trusted. Those men met him ony.the fatal accident occurred, He had In a business way saw a man rough, B,,p)l( 0n to the engine running emphutlc and repellant. Inaccessible noar(I( n, foot Bp,)fld and he was as the -mperor of Russia, wnen no )tnroWB under the cars. choe to be. known as tne worst man in th. world to interview and as a man who believed absolutely In him self snd apimrently never questioned the correctness of his method. Wlir lln Waved in Itiisliw-wi. itl .Joseph T. Orme Pestl. By Associated Press, . Atlanta, (It., March II. Joseph T. firms, 'o prominent Atlanta banker. friends, however, knew him as. died at his home here this morning. . . I ' By Associated Press. ' .D&yton, O?,' March . 31. John H. Patterson, chairman of the CltissenH' Relief committee, issued the follow ing statement today regarding condi tions here: : "Our committee has now at its-disposal all the food and clothing neces sary to meet the loss of the sufferers of Dayton, "Money, however, urgently Is. re quired for putting our city in a condi tion to prevent the outbreak of serious disease and. to rehabilitate the thou sands, many of whom have lost their homes entirely aniT all of whom have lost their household and personal ef fects. 'The committee wishes to send out an urgent appeal tn the citizens of iJMCxeicriMS V "trim n ,rftr IMIOTOf.It.U'll OF J. !. MORGAN, WKXT TAKKN SHOKTLY ABHOAI). BEFOKE HE mmw& T Cpi chosen IN NEWINGUND? AS LO NDON ENVOY President Wilson Reported to Have Chosen Home of Winston Churchill ( By Associated Press) Cornish, N. H., March 31. Presi dent .Woodrow Wilson has chosen the home of Winston Churchill, the novel ist, to be his summer capital, accord ing to a telegram received here from Mr. Churchill, who is now in Santa Barbara, Cal. . The message was dir ected to E. F. Huberts, manager of the Churchill estate, and contained in structions for getting the place in readiness for the , president's oc cupancy. Hurlakondunsom house,- as-tne Churchill property Is known, is a, two-story structure situated on a hill three miles beyond Windsor, Vt, It commands a view of the Connecti cut river valley and of the Green mountains. Between 600 and 700 acres of roll ing farm land and frugrapt plna groves give the estate the seclusion the president desires. , Nearby Is an artist colony, where Maxfield Parrlnh, Kenyon Cox and others come during the summer and where the late Augustus Ht. Gaudons, the sculptor, spent many vacations. On the estate are . two seven room cottages where the executive offices can be established and whors the president's attendants may live. A tennis court adjoins the mansion house and at tho foot of the hill the Connecticut river ofTers opportunity for boating. Sightseer ArrrstHi and Comix-lied to (nrrv.ttater.- . By Associated Press. Columbus, O.; March 31. A party of about 25 young men. In Sunday at tire, who vudted the wrecked portion of the West Hide, came to grief yes terday when they refused to respond to a request by a military officer that they tuwlst In carrying water to a re lief station. The entire party was placed under arrest. They were com pelled to carry water for several luilll'S. World's Work Editor Has Ac cepted Tender of the Brit- ' ish Embassy. i DAMAGE IN REGION r V RUNS INTO MILLIONS Levees at Cairo Are Still Hold ing and No Additional ' Loss - of Life Has Been Reported. 1 " By Associated Press. Floods In the Ohio river from Its mouth to Marietta, O., due to the great vlounie . water -poured into It during the past week by Hs tributaries have caused thousands of people to leave the lowlands and seek refuge on higher ground. " i'-v i ' '- lEarly today the water is still rising and at every city along the river -heavy damage to property Is report ed. Railroad traffic has - been im paired and many miles of track wash ed out. In Illinois Governor Dunne has ordered 1500 state troops to pro ceed by special trains to Cairo and Shawneetown for the purpose of Ba the United States for the necessary trolllnB.the leei'- Hundreds of ,lab- funds. All contributions should be 'BI8 nave sen sent to pile sent- direct n w w T!i,,0 ,v,r. Una I sacKs or Sana on the levees. been appointed treasurer of the relief ! Reports early today from Hender, By Associated Press. Washington, March 81. Walter H. Page (of Garden City, L. I., editor of the World's Work and member of the firm of Doubleday, Page & Co., pub lishers, has accepted President Wil son's offer to be ambassador to Great Britain. LEGISLATORS QUIT TEI. TO BLOCK ELECTION LAW committee. Mr. Bippus will send re ceipts for all moneys received." A meeting of the members of the relief committee with members of the city council was called for this after noon. On Saturday the council dis cussed a request from the relief com mittee that 3100,000 be diverted from the sinking fund of the city to the relief fund. -1 Councilmen Harry Klein and Gus Happel protested vlgoiuusly and made numerous remarks derogatory to the relief committee end its motives, ac cusing members of the latter among ,lhsc.Uj,ngSef tsn.lqig-to.tei4hft-ciU government. (. tinder th present reign of martial law, modified into sort 6f a commis sion government, the city administra tion is without authority and there Is a well defined movement on to retain the "commission" form of government until the city has recovered from the flood. Today's meeting was called in the interests of harmony. Tn the bread line today was Eugene J. Barney, a multi-millionaire whose gifts to charity have been large which recently Included 325.000 to the Y. M C. A. of this city. He obtained three loaves of bread and a small sack of potatoes, x A Narrow Kicapo. With the rapidly subsiding flood waters and dissipating of panic among refugees thrilling adventures continue coming to light. Among the most in teresting of these was the experience of the family of Charles M. Adams In Riverdale. When the flood first rushed through that section of the city Mr. Adams got his wife and ten months old twin girls into a sklfT and took them to the home of a friend in Warden street. An hour later It was again necessary to move and the family was taken by rescuers out of a second story window. The canoe In which they were riding was dashed against a telegraph pole and capsized. Adams swam In the Icy waters several minutes before he was picked up. Just as he was rescued he saw his wife sink for the third time. The baby girls were floating down the street. Then he collapsed. Three hours later he regained consciousness, On the floor lay his wife, who he be lieved had been drowned. A few min utes later a man crawled Into the at tic window from the floating roof of a barn, bringing him the twins. They had caught In the branches of a tre and were picked off unhurt, Mrs. Adams was rescued as she was going down the third time by a high school boy on a hastily Improvised raft. The I lad was a member of the Riverdale troop of the Boy Scouts and had been trained how to administer first aid to the drowning. 31 A i'; By Associated Press. Knoxvillo, Tenn., March special to the Sentinel from Middles- boro, Ky., says: j Nine members of the Tennessee legislature arlved In Mlddlslmro this morning. They have engaged quar ters at a local hotel for a term, of three weeks and declare they will re main here as long as may be neces sary to carry out their avowed purpose of breaklsg a legislative quorum and precluding . the possibility of ; the amendment to Tennessee election statutes becoming a law. The lawmakers here are: Represen tatives Frank h. West, J. U Hender son, J. T. Dannell, Henry Fisher, N. K. Robinson, A,, J. Argo, William Ausmus, J. V. Stephenson and I A. Scott, all republicans. NuHhville, Tenn., March 31. For several days rumors that a fusion fili buster In the leglalature was likely. have been current, but If such plana US FIRE AND FLOOD SWEPT By Associated Press, Lawrenceburg, Ind., March -St, Practically the whole of this city Is under water today and more than fifty buildings are reported to have been carried away. The Knlppensurg carriage factory burned here during the night, owing to the warnings of the flood danger, however, it Is not believed there will be any loss of life here. , - Large Excavation from Panama Slide, t , (By Associated Press) Panama, March 31. The larfst excavation from a single slide In one have been matured they have been day since th commencement of the carefully guarded. The legislators are In town today. Filibusters out of the state have been features of the past two sessions. A 111 which has passed both houses muklnir hrenklnir a IcclMliltlve nnorum a felony is now before the gUN-ernor. 1 progressing favorably. canal operations was mads Frtday, when 10,134 cubic yards ware remov ed from the Cucaracha slide by five stenm shovels. The movement of the slide con tinues, but the removnl of the dlr is son, Owenboro, - Louisville, Newport and Covington Ky., Evansvflle. In diana, Cincinnati. Portsmouth, Marie- ' tta, Ohio, Huntington and Parkers- -burg, W. Va., show that stocks of goods In buildings near the river lv . suffered havHyand that tb:e damage. -': will ru nlnto the millions. , - 1 There has been no loss of life at will run Into the millions. , . ' A telephone message from Cairo, 111., early today showed that the levees were still holding and thju the ' ; town was in- less, danger than was -believed lust night, The wutaf was . UUevfJ3X Jeetlow. the, AjJfwW the dikes. - v 67 Bodies at Columbus. Columbus, O.i March 81. With a total of 67 bodies recovered most of them identified as having been among the missing since the flood waters of the Scioto river wrought havoc In the west side of this city, efforts to recover bodies believed to have been swept down by the swift current were con tinued today. It was planned to ex plore sections that for five days have been Inundated in the expectation that bodies might be found beneath the huge piles of wreckage. It was Btated this morning that efforts to prevent a food famine would be successful because of outside relief that has reached the city. The organ ized effort to relieve the sufferers In the district that was flooded and to supply them with food and provisions are believed by the authorities to have met the demands. The order of Mayor Karb to make all sightseers on the West Side today work or be confined In the workhouse Is expected to have a good effect In keeping those who merely want to "see what Is going on," from the flood district Rise Continues at Cinoinnntl. Cincinnati, O., March SI. Spread ing over a great expanse of territory in this city as well as In the various towns that lie along the river on the Kentucky shore, the Ohio, which at this point at noon was within two feet of being as high as at any previous time In its history, continued to rise. During the night the Central part of this city was thrown Into a seml-panlo by an explosion that could be heard for miles. The Union Carbide com pany at Pearl and Elm streets had been destroyed by an explosion caused supposedly by the carbide coming In contact with so much water. No one was Injured as the building was not occupied and is practically isolated. The river reached the stage of tt.i feet at noon today and continued tn rise at the rake of two-tenths of a foot every two hours. The crest of the present flood Is expected to be reached sometime late today. It is not be lieved the stage will go above 70 feet and that by tomorrow the waters will begin to recede. Cairo Sends Appeal to President. Cairo. 111.. March 31. The Cairo executive committee last night sent an appeal to President Wilson, asking for : aid for Cairo and towns nearby., The mersage was as follows: "The worst flood ever known in the Ohio valley and Mississippi valley is now expected. - All , previous , high water records at Cairo and south, .may be broken In a few days. W, are making every effort In our powsr to care of the local situation, but the river communities nenr us should have assistance. Clothing, food and other supplies are needed. May we not havs the help of your great office for this district?" , Rising at Louisville. Louisville, Ky., March 31. The stage of the Ohio river here . at 7 o'clock this morning was 4Y.7 feet, a rise of l. feet In the last 14 hours. Memphis Stage 8S Feet. Memphis, March 31. A stage of 3 feet was rexlstered on the local gunge of the Mississippi river at 7 o'clock today, a rise of eight-tenths of a foot In the past 34 hours. Rlvermen In this vicinity nre hold ing to their prclicMcns mn1p vn.l days niro thut a . of " f t or mora w lil le h" - i : ' ti ; - ! (ContliKM i i ) t ?;:
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