Onward to Finis.
From a photograph by Pach
THE MORGAN LIBRARY, EAST THIRTY-SIXTH STREET, NEW YORK
(Architects, McKim, Mead, and White)
MR. MORGAN’S PERSONALITY
AS VIEWED BY HIS FRIENDS
BY JOSEPH B. GILDER
IT was in the panic days of 1907—late October. The Secretary of the Treasury had hurried from Washington to New York, and was spending his days (long days they were, too) at the Sub-Treasury and his evenings at the Manhattan Hotel, where all who needed to could see him. Meanwhile the bankers conferred daily at Mr. Morgan’s office, across the street from the Sub-Treasury, and nightly at his library in Thirty-sixth Street. While they put their heads together and worked out details, their host spent most of his time in his private room in the library building, not infrequently playing solitaire. But he was always within reach when counsel was needed; and his word was law.