PIERPONT MORGAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 944, 21 January 1911, Page 4

PIERPONT MORGAN.

The current number of McClure's Magazine contains an elaborate study of the financial career of Mr Pierpont Mogan, in the course of which are interspersed some notes of personal history. At the age of 50, we are told, Mr Mogan began to experience some of the effects of strain. All his life he had taken no particular care of his health — relying, and, indeed, often imposing upon his naturally fine physique. Feeling badly, he began taking up artificial exercise, with dumb bells and apparatus, and when he got no better he called in one of the greatest physicians in New York. He was stripped and given a thorough physical examination from head to foot. The doctor left him saying he would give him his opinion in the morning. His opinion was this : ” Stop exercise in every form. Never even walk when you can take a cab. You have formed the habit of living without exercise, giving your energy to your brain. It is too late to change the habit of a lifetime.” This unusual advice was followed at once, and with immediate success. Since that time, Mr Morgan has shunned exercise, eaten heavily, smoked much, and buried or shelved his business generation, And since this has come, the time of his really great achievement —the achievement of which his previous life had been a mere preliminary —the re-organi-sation of the American railway system.