It is stated that J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., recently paid £3,000 for a twenty-four hour steamboat ride. When Mr. Morgan was in St. Petersburg in connection with the negotiations of a loan he saw from the condition of affairs in that city that the safest thing for foreigners to do was to get away without unnecessaiy delay. Unfortunately, the the railroads were not running and navigation was stopped. Then Mr. Morgan appealed to the Government, which ordered a vessel from Finland and put it at the disposal of the Morgan party, who were safely landed in Stockholm at the cost of a small fortune.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 2
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