J. P. MORGAN DIES IN ROME; DELIRIOUS SINCE EASTER
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Unable to Eat or Drink Following Acute Attack of Gastro Enteritis On His
Egyptian Tour---Was Seventy-six Years Old
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END CAME SOONER THAN PHYSICIANS EXPECTED
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King of Italy and the Pope Had Sent Frequent Messages of Sympathy During
Last Few Days
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ROME, March 31---J. Pierpont Morgan lies dead here at the Grand Hotel. His
death, which had been certain for hours owing to the fact that he had been
able to take no food for two days and but little liquid food for many weeks,
came with a swift decline at 7.05 this morning, New York time.

About Mr. Morgan during his last earthly hours were only four members of his
family---his son-in-law and partner, Herbert L. Satterlee and Mrs.
Satterlee; his granddaughter, Helen Hamilton, who is also the daughter of
one of his partners, and Mrs. William Fits Simons, a distant relative.
Attending him as physicians were Dr. M. Allen Starr, who was not only the
Morgan family physician, but one of his closest friends; Dr. Dixon, who has
been travelling with Mr. Morgan, and Dr. Giuseppe Bastianelli, an eminent
Roman specialist in diseases of the stomach.

It was announced this afternoon that Mr. Morgan's body will be taken to
America as soon as proper arrangements can be made.

A statement giving the full story of Mr. Morgan's illness has been prepared
by Prof. Giuseppe Bastianelli, Dr. M. Allen Starr and Dr. George A. Dixon
and cabled to his son in New York. The statement recapitulates the symptoms
of Mr. Morgan's malady since it first developed in Egypt. It qualifies his
illness as nervous prostration, but says that his intelligence remained
normal until Easter Sunday. Then a gradual general collapse supervened,
affecting the digestion and the mental faculties until delirium ensued. The
rise of temperature noted was, it is stated, probably due to lesions of the
brain.

The end came sooner than the physicians had anticipated. Drs. Starr, Dixon
and Bastianelli had issued a bulletin an hour before, saying that while Mr.
Morgan was unable to recognize those about him and his condition was
hopeless he might linger for forty-eight hours.

A quarter of an hour before the end the physicians asked Mr. and Mrs.
Satterlee to leave the death chamber and to go into an adjoining room. They
feared that the end might come with a distressingly violent spasm of pain.
Mr. Morgan's life faded out without the slightest indication that he was
conscious of its passing.

The members of the family were called in just at the moment of death, and
were at the bedside when the last spark of life flickered out.

WORRIED BY WORK OF PUJO COMMITTEE

Immediately after his death Dr. M. Allen Starr, who was very much affected,
said that Mr. Morgan's illness and death were directly due to the emotional
strain inflicted by his being called upon to account for his life and his
financial career before the Pujo committee at Washington just before the
Christmas holidays. His departure for Egypt was at the insistence of the
physicians, who said that his nervous breakdown demanded a change of scene
and a departure from this country.

The whole truth of Mr. Morgan's illness was confided to The Evening World
to-day by a close friend of the Morgan family. Mr. Morgan was ill with a
nervous breakdown when he left New York on the Adriatic. When the ship was
stuck in the mud down the bay he did not feel well enough to go to the deck
with the other passengers who were watching the tugs haul her back into the
channel.

Before the ship reached Alexandria he was taken ill on the Mediterranean
with acute gastro-enteritis. He suffered horribly, and it was feared he would
die on shipboard. On his arrival he became slightly better and took
liberties with his digestion.

An immediate return of the earlier attack occurred, and there was again
grave danger of his death. Dr. Bastianelli, the Roman specialist, was
summoned. He found on his arrival in the first week in March that the
gastro-enteritis, almost certainly fatal in a man of Mr. Morgan's years, was
complicated by Nile fever.

From that day to this Mr. Morgan had not tasted solid food. He had been
nourished on champagne and champagne glace. Two days ago even this slight
nourishment failed, and he did not assimilate the food administered
hypodermically. The physical exertion of the convulsions of pain which
accompanied the two attacks of gastro-enteritis had caused an attack of
paralysis which affected the throat and reduced him to writing his brief
communications to the physicians and his family, and in the end to
communicate with them by signs. There was grave fear of his death on the
ship which carried him from Egypt to Naples. He was on deck but once, and
then was supported on the arms of his physicians and stayed only an hour.

When the physicians forty-eight hours ago gave up all hope for him, Mr.
Satterlee obtained a special train from the Government with the purpose of
carrying Mr. Morgan to London or at least to Paris to die. The physicians
vetoed the plan, saying that the shock of moving him would mean his death
between the Grand Hotel and the station.

Mr. Morgan death was anticipated by the frank acknowledgment of his danger
issued lat night by his physicians, reading as follows:

A week ago Mr. Morgan was ordered to go to bed and remain there in order to
conserve his strength. Until Wednesday afternoon he did very well under
this regimen; he rested and slept without the aid of drugs and took a
satisfactory amount of nourishment.

Wednesday afternoon he began to refuse food and since then it has been
impossible to nourish him. He has lost weight and strength very rapidly.
His nervous system is showing this, and it has added to the strain
seriously.

Mr. Morgan has not developed any organic trouble but is so exceedingly weak
that his present condition must be considered most critical.

G. BASTIANELLI,
M. ALLEN STARR
G. A. DIXON.

At 9.30 o'clock (European time) this morning The Evening World correspondent
was informed that Mr. Morgan was in a comatose condition and that his death
might be expected any moment. Mr. and Mrs. Satterlee were then at his
bedside waiting for a sudden turn for the worse which would end in the
worst.

The loneliness of the death among strangers of America's greatest
reconstructive financier was accented to-day as last night by the ignorance
of the careless transient patrons of the hotel of the crisis. Last night
under Mr. Morgan's windows the noise of the band in the courtyard and the
hum of conversation and the rattle of dishes and glasses were unabated,
though it was the revelry about the hotel which broke the rest which it was
hoped would stand off his latest sinking spell.

At 11.50 o'clock, European time, or 6.50 o'clock in New York, the physicians
said that Mr. Morgan was "moribund," and, while he might possibly last
through the day, could not by any human possibility live more than
forty-eight hours.

NEWS OF THE DEATH HELD BACK TWO HOURS

While the physicians admitted that Mr. Morgan might die at any moment the
news of his actual passing was held back tor two hours from the
correspondents in the hotel and even from the employees. This was a
precaution of Mr. Satterlee, thoughtful even in the shock of grief to make
sure that the first news of Mr. Morgan's death reached his son and successor
and his widow in New York authentically rather than through channels outside
of the family, which would torture them without doubt.

The earlier statement of the physicians was made in direct terms, with
the purpose of preventing anybody in Wall street from capitalizing Mr.
Morgan's death by getting sudden and unexpected news of his death when the
market opened in that city at 10 o'clock. There was opportunity between the
actual hour of his death and the opening of the market to have consideration
for the son and widow and still protect the finances of the market from a
panic of surprise.

MR. MORGAN'S ILLNESS STARTED IN EGYPT

Mr. Morgan, sailing from New York for Egypt Jan. 7, stayed in Cairo and
Alexandria. He was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Satterlee, and the
Count and Countess Jean La Grosse. The Countess is a daughter of Charles
Steele of the Morgan firm. In the middle of February Mr. Morgan had a severe
attack of illness variously described as apoplexy and acute indigestion.
News of it was kept quiet.

Recovering slightly, he went for a visit to the ruins of Karnak and there
refused to be transferred from his automobile to an invalid chair to go
close to the ruins. He said that news that he had to be carried in an
invalid's chair would start a panic in the American stock market.

The incident was investigated by the newspaper correspondents and it was
found that his condition was alarming. The stock market did drop, but
advance news of the severity of his illness had been sent in time to protect
it from any disaster.

Mr. Morgan complained querulously of Egyptian food and by his request butter
and eggs from his country place at Highland Falls were rushed half around
the world in portable refrigerators. At the same time Mr. Satterlee sailed
to join the Morgan party, saying that while he had no immediate fears for
his father-in-law's condition a man so old ought to have more of his family
about him when away from home.

Mr. Morgan remained at Cairo until Dr. Bastianelli, a specialist from Rome,
could reach him, and then, on March 10, sailed for Naples. On his arrival at
Rome he seemed better and went out daily for automobile rides and received
several American friends. An attack while at Church on Easter Sunday caused
him to take to his bed again.

For the last twenty-four hours the Grand Hotel has been deluged with
messages of inquiry and sympathy. Among them were frequent notes from the
King of Italy and the Pope.

When Mr. Morgan reached Italy, where his millions acquired so many treasures
of art and where he had won the esteem and personal admiration of leaders,
including the King, there were many who, looking at his altered face, saw in
it the signs of approaching death.

He went to the Grand Hotel at Rome. There he remained in seclusion. The
exhaustion was growing more and more profound.

NOISE OF HOTEL TORTURE TO SICK MAN

Last Wednesday night there was a great ball at the Grand Hotel. The crash of
the music, the hum of the voices and the step of the dancers could be
distinctly heard in Mr. Morgan's sick room until far into the morning. The
nervous, worn out old man was almost distracted by the prolonged
disturbance of his rest.

Nightly there are gay throngs at the Grand Hotel. It was, therefore, planned
to move Mr. Morgan from Rome to some quieter retreat. Later those plans were
cancelled.

About midnight Mr. Satterlee saw a correspondent. He said:

"This sudden change was quite unexpected. Even to-day the doctors were well
satisfied. They found that his strength had been maintained despite the loss
of appetite. I saw at once by their expressions after seeing him at 4
o'clock this afternoon that he had taken a sudden change for the worse."

Dr. Allen M. Starr of New York, a noted specialist in diseases of the nerves
was summoned from Naples on Saturday. He had made an examination of Mr.
Morgan on the latter's return to Naples from Cairo. He reached Rome Saturday
night, visited Mr. Morgan immediately, visited him again in the morning, and
for a third time last evening, when Prof. Bastianelli and Dr. Dixon were
also present.

Dr. Starr was startled on arrival at the change in Mr. Morgan's appearance
since he saw him a fortnight ago in Naples, and was much concerned in the
morning over the change which had occurred over night.

The only nourishment which the patient had been able to receive for several
days has been through injections, to which the physicians had to resort, and
they fear that this is not sufficient to sustain him for any length of time.

Pope Pius was greatly distressed when he heard of the death of J. Pierpont
Morgan, whom, he said he had desired so much to see again. He exclaimed: "He
was a great and good man."