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“They imagine the lonely
young girl to be commun
ing with the spirit of her
venerable grandfather
concerning the art objects
that he loved 30 much.”
it would like to enfold the whole
world. What the grandfather did
for art she will do for the general
upliftment of the mass The nun
nery will appeal to her much more
than the drawing-room. Her life is
essentially mysterious, the pendu
lum that moves the hand on the dial
of destiny swings hither and yon,
and the bent more often than not
will be toward the quarter of the
unconventional and the unexpected.
“I am much disposed to judge this
1915 love affair as being the great
disappointment in her life, but just
the same an open sesame to the
more serious perspectives—an epi
sode marking a transitional process
that will have a much deeper sig
nificance than will be quite under
stood at the time.
“Some marked disturbances show
in the next two months, particularly
at or near the close of August. An
engagement will be announced in
the early Fall; tentative and unre
liable. It will occur on a foreign
cruise, with her directional Moon
aspecting Uranus from that quarter.
This Includes unusual social activ
ity, with preferment of the same
nature. December brings ill health;
likewise loss of a very dear friend ”
The celestial bodies are apparent
ly quite positive in predicting excit
ing adventures at sea and more
than one sentimental encounter for
Miss Jane before 1916, One might
argue a probability from these pre
dictions that she w’ould be wrecked
on a desert island and be roman
tically rescued by a young man, who
would receive the reward he de
served. The stars do not supply all
these details, and it is useless to
question an astrologer too closely.
As Miss Morgan is the richest de
butante in America, it is safe to pre
dict that several gentlemen with
coronets will be paying attention to
her before 1916.
It is noteworthy that she spends
a great deal of time upon the ocean.
She crosses the Atlantic usually
twice a year. Since the death of her
grandfather her father has become
the owner of the Corsair, one of the
largest private yachts in the world
She has always spent a great deal
of time on this. When aboard the
Corsair she is always guarded with
remarkable care and never allowed
on deck without a special com
panion.
Old Mr. Morgan loved to have
little Jane with him on the yacht,
although he did not care for large
family parties. The members of the
crew were always selected after long
investigation by the captain, who
had been with Mr. Morgan for twenty
years. It was noticed that after the
accident to the little Russian Czare
vitch on the Czar's yacht Mr Mor
gan took even greater precautions
than ever. The coal bunkers were
searched before sailing, and it has
been said that every bit of fuel
taken aboard was carefully screened
under the eye of a detective.
Strange to say, the Titanic disas
ter occurred immediately after her
debut last year. As her grandfather
was the principal owner of the line
and knew intimately the ill-fated
Captain Smith, the tragedy threw a
shadow over her coming-out festivi
ties. Some of them were abandoned.
The astrologer concludes with
some further interesting observa
tions about Miss Jane
"Her horoscope implies longevity
to the father. Certainly a marine
disaster in 1916, when Saturn crosses
her Mars in a watery sign
"She could easily develop the lit
erary faculty, and will contribute to
the literature of such movements as
she becomes interested in.
“She will wear a coronet—and
eventually throw it in the dust-heap.
She has too much of the grandfath
er's practicality to admire the tinsel,
and too much of the humanitarian to
waste time on a butterfly existence.
“I don’t get the father’s influence
very strongly in this horoscope—
some barrier there. The senior J. P.
Morgan was her idol, and ever will
Snapshot of Miss Jane Morgan Just Taken at Newport. The
First Photograph of Her Ever Published.
M'
riss JANE MORGAN, the old
est granddaughter of the
late J. Pierpont Morgan, pre
sents a mystery that society has
puzzled over for many years—nearly
all her life, in fact. Although the
eldest daughter of the present head
of the house of Morgan, who was
the late financier’s only son and
principal heir, and the richest debu
tante in the country, Miss Jane is the
least known and the most mys
terious. With the enormous fortune
and powerful influences of the Mor
gan family it would seem that this
young girl might be one of the hap
piest and gayest of human beings,
that her life must have been one of
complete freedom and happiness.
The opposite has been true, how
ever. There is no princess in Europe
hedged about with the conventions
that surround royal persons who
has not had more freedom and inde
pendence than this American dollar
princess. While society has realized
that the Morgans were tremendous
ly careful of this young girl, it was
never sure just how r far the grand
father was instrumental in the
espionage that puzzled them. The
girls who came out last year, when
Jane made her debut, speedily saw
that she was not allowed the privi
leges that they were. She could not
belong to the Junior League, nor to
the popular dancing classes; she
• never went to a 4ig football game,
to college sports of any kind
where there would be great crowds.
When she walked on Fifth avenue
she was invariably heavily veiled,
and always walking a few paces back
of her was a husky man servant or
a special detective or two. This
curious state of affairs naturally
caused gossip among her friends,
and the general public, which al
ways hears snatches of social gossip
audibly, wondered whether the young
heiress to much of the Morgan
wealth was deformed or in ill health.
Since the death of her grand
father there has been some relaxing
of the mysterious vigilance which
has marked her life since she was
five years old. For the first time in
her life she has been allowed to
visit away from home witihout a
member of her family at her elbow.
She has been visiting the Lewis
Cass Ledyards at Newport. Mr. Led-
yard is the Morgan family lawyer,
and there has always been a close
friendship between the two families.
But until this season Miss Morgan
has not been permitted to stay with
them She did not make the trip to
Newport by train, but on board the
splendid steam yacht Oorsair, which
belonged to her grandfather and
.which he left to his only son.
This visit has roused almost as
much gossip as the former vigilance
and the peculiar care of the past.
Was it all because the grandfather
was afraid of some evil befalling
his favorite? Pierpont Morgan was
the greatest financier in the world.
he was one of the most pow’erful
men in the world, he naturally had
many enemies, and among the poorer
people all over the world he was
feared and hated for his wealth.
Was he afraid that some one of
these people might harm the being
he cared most for in the world? It
would seem so. Else why the great
mystery?
As a child, after her parents re
turned to this country to live, she
was not allowed to play in the parks
with other children of the same so
cial standing and wealth. Just be
fore the Morgans left London their
house w r as entered by burglars.
Nothing of great value was taken,
but there were evidences that the
burglars had invaded the nursery
where the little heiress was sleep
ing. They were frightened away by
servants, and the supposition has al
ways been that they wanted to kid
nap the child All the mysterious
espionage of this very mysterious
young girl dates from that time.
Therefore, when she was brought
to New York her grandfather had
made for her a special playground
worth several millions, where she
played under the watchful eyes of
half a dozen men servants and
nurses. To do this he tore down the
splendid mansion which he had
given to the Herbert Satterlees for
a wedding gift, and on the site was
created the most costly garden in
the world for its size.
Her little cousins, the Satterlee
children, have never been restricted
in the least; they play with other
children as they please and are even
allowed to stick their tongues out
at strangers, as can be seen in the
picture shown here.
What a contrast to Miss Jane, who
until her visit to Newport was not
permitted to walk unveiled on the
streets, and the camera man fortu
nate enough to snap her w ould never
have been allow-ed to publish the
picture. But, after all, just why all
this mystery? Can it be explained
in a perfectly natural manner, or has
it been because of a plain everyday
fear of kidnapping, or has there been
some deep mystery connected with
it? There are friends of the family
who believe that the stars and heav
enly bodies have decreed a very
strange destiny for Miss Morgan,
and that her parents, holding similar
views, are • guarding her with spe
cial care on that account. In order
to find out what the astrological
view of Miss Morgan’s future might
be, a well-known New York astrol
oger, Professor Leo Bernart, was
asked to cast her horoscope. After
ascertaining that she was born on
June 13, 1893, the astrologer imme
diately remarked that her destiny
was an extraordinary one
"A most peculiar combination of
the celestial arbiters is presented in
this nativity; a veritable Chinese
puzzle, as it were.’’ he wrote. “The
sixteenth degree of Cancer rising in
fble T>nt1 prb«»TT»0 i«5 rOTTlTnontP^
Mabel Morgan Satterlee and Helen Satterlee, Also Grandchildren of
Pierpont Morgan. They Have Been Allowed to Play About Like Ordi
nary Children and Even to Put Out Their Tongues at People.
Mis* Jane Morgan’s Horoscope Cast by Prof. Leo
Bernart, Which According to That Eminent Astrolo
ger Shows That a Strange Destiny Awaits Her.
Miss Morgan and her remarkable
grandfather referred to by the as
trologer is very noteworthy, and is
confirmed by all who have had an
opportunity to study the family. Can
it be that the curiously reserved and
thoughtful-nature of the young girl
is due to her absorption in the Na
poleonic plans and ambitions of her
deceased grandparent?
She has spent hours and hours in
the wonderful city garden which
lies between the houses of her
much anxiety A
man gained ad
mission to the
Morgan bouse at
No. 13 Prince's
Gate on the pre
tense that he was
employed by the
telephone com
pany. His peculiar actions at the
telephone aroused the suspicions
of an intelligent servant, who
caused his arrest. He turned
out to be a desperate criminal named
George Howard, who maintained a
fine country house on the proceeds
of his crimes and robberies in many
places «
Afterward the family came to New
York and occupied the house on the
southeast corner of Madison avenue
and Thirty-seventh street. The elder
ter Jane could play in seclusion and
security that Mr Morgan pulled
down the $1,000,000 Satterlee man
sion and laid out there a splendid
Italian garden, protected by a heavy
bronze fence and a thick hedge
from curious eyes. On the south
side of the block he built his library,
and east of that a new house for
the Satterlees. It is estimated that
he spent upward of $5,000,000 in real
estate on this block.
The strong desire of the junior
Pierpont Morgans to keep their
daughter secluded was again shown
when they started to build a new
country house two years ago They
built it on East Island, on Long
Island Sound, a place that could
only be reached by a private yacht.
There they have just completed a
splendid but severe mansion in the
The Corsair, Pierpont Morgan’s Great Yacht, in Which Miss Morgan Has Spent Much Time.
She Is Guarded with Extraordinary Care Aboard the Vessel.
father and grandfather, and the
beautiful library built by the latter.
These buildings are filled with the
treasures of art which absorbed all
Pierpont Morgan's interest in later
life. If ever a man returns to earth,
it is here that the great collector’s
Pierpont Morgan lived in the house
on the lower corner of the block, at
Thirty-sixth street. Between these
two houses w-as one which Mr. Mor
gan had given to his daughter, Mrs
Herbert L. Satterlee.
U was largely to provide a play-
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Georgian style. It is understood
that the older Pierpont Morgan’s
place, Cragston, near Highland Falls
on the Hudson, was considered an
unsuitable place for Miss Jane, as
it was exposed to wandering in
truders
Now U us hear wliu, — .
oger's horoscope has further to say
concerning Miss Morgan’s future;
“Danger confronts her on the wa
ter; yachting cruises had best be
avoided in so far as the social exi
gencies will permit, and when in
contact with that element I would
suggest particular caution. This
peculiarity enters into even the ner
vous organism, the correspondence
being psychical, with a susceptibil
ity to organic ailments of which the
orthodox physician will know little
and understand less.
“Mars rises in her house of life,
show-ing a predilection for the gym
nasium, though by no means athlet
ically constituted, and not a little
danger arises from this point in the
way of calamity or explosion. Her
life on shipboard will ever be fraught
with more or less anxiety, though
fortified against disaster till 1916,
when grave danger arises from a
seafaring trip. This will be in Orien
tal waters, and implies a shipwreck.
“In the same angle of the horo
scope sits Venus in conjunction with
Mercury, a tendency to the quaint
and the antiquated, and which would
have made her a right-hand helper'
to the grandfather in his penchant
for articles of vertu.
“A great humanitarian work ties
before her, but a crisis in the life
will need be passed ere this inter
est manifests The Summer ahead
promises a depletion of the physical
vitality, but more pronounced in
this respect in June, 1914, when
Saturn crosses her Sun. somewhat
anticipated by a similar transit over
the Moon In the meantime the
health calls for careful attention.
"But above all is this peculiar,
fateful tendency to happenings of
mystery, so prominently indicated
in the zodiacal degree rising at
birth. This will be partially cor
roborated in an affectional attach
ment that enters her life in 1915. a
mesalliance that will be precipitated
because of social reasons, and which
will demonstrate to her that the
lamp of Aladdin cannot include ev
erything in the compass of its rays.
This union, while of social promise
and duly inscribed in the codex
heraldia. will be surrounded by some
inexplicable arrangement that fails
to hold, and with an aftermath as a
means to bring her into the char
itable and humanitarian grooves to
which her later life will be con
secrated.
“This latter will come through an
Richest of Debutantes, but
the Least Known, the
Loneliest and the Most
Unhappy—Can the Stars
Explain Why This Heiress
Is Guarded More
Jealously Than Any
Royal Princess?
on by a high astrological authority:
‘This is a blank degree.’ What this
implies I cannot say, as the books
are mysteriously silent about this
degree. There is mystery about the
number four and its square. I may
add that, despite the favors accord
ed by Fate, the life is disturbed by
unforeseen incidents, happenings
difficult to be guarded against.
"She is a lunar child, and the in
stability of that orb will be peculiar
ly manifest at its different phases,
bringing with them a nervous irri
tability as the result of extreme
sensitivity, a concomitant of the
lunar and fluidic nature. Many very
palpably strange incidents in the
past life, if looked into, will be
found answerable to this synodic
law of the lesser luminary.
“Just as strange and unaccount
able will be some of the future de
velopments, but ever along that
mystic plane so little understood or
deferred to by the pseudo-scientist.
An external an^ a subjective con
sciousness belong in a measure to
every individual—the varying per
centages especially to this horo
scope. She lives much in the past,
with a retrospective view given to
every problem. The antique and the
historical have a particular interest,
and in this connection I would say
that she is a child of that remark
able grandparent much more than
of the immediate lineage. The blood
of many nations courses through her
veins, making of her a child of most
singular destiny because of this pe
culiar blood amalgamation, and the
outworking of past or karmic prob
lems.’’
The astral affinity between young
can imagine his sensitive young
granddaughter lingering in the gar
den in the twilight communing with
him about the things he loved so
well.
Miss Morgan is the oldest child
of J. Pierpont Morgan, the only son
of the noted financier. Her mother
was Miss Jane Norton Grew, of an
old Boston family. Her father re
ceived the greater part of his fath
er’s estate, which was worth prob
ably $200,000,000- She is destined to
inherit a large share of this.
In early childhood she lived -in
London. It was there that an inci
dent occurred that caused her family
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