Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-03
DAY WITH
THE mROCKEFELLERS.
PEN SKETCHES OF TWO OF TIE RICaESI
nEN IN THB WORLD.
The Methods by Which Th'y Conduct Th'ir Vast
Intsrsss-Qaist in Thsir Tastes and Sinpls in
Their Dress-Hard Workers and Difficult Of
Apprach-Wh~s They Live and How They
Spsnd Their Money.
AT Rlgst, Rs,sru.a BY the WIsOa Pros Syaa

cats.
New York, December 1.-0i all the
~millionaires In New York City, and
there is no lack OF them, there are none
who are such moving forces in great
business channels and yet so little
known to the general public as John d.
and William Rockefeller.
These two between them are worth
not far from $500, 600, 900 OF their own.
In addition they are at the head OF the
great Standard Oil Company, q corpor-
alton that extends its tentacles not
alone all over the United States but all
over the world, from New York to Hong
Kong and from Hong Kong to
Liverpool. It's pipe lines and rail-
road connections spread over thousands
OF miles Of territory. It owns thou.
sands upon thousands of acres OF coal
and oil lands, it employs an army OF
men, and its steamships may oe seen IN
every civilized port.
Once in the witness stand Mr.. John
D. Rockefeller told a committee that
was investigating tho Standard Oil
Trust that he had no idea as to his W
wealth and still less as to that or the
company Of which he is the head. That
il was enormous he admitted.
The two Rockefellers dominate this
vast property. To be sure there are
partners. II. NJ. Flagler, ex-Secretary
OF the Navy VIM. G. Whitney, repre-
senting the interests of the Ohio Paynes,
and others are largely Interested In the
Standard Oil properties. But the kocke-
fellers are the strong men OF the great
combination.
There may be men somewhere who
are more plain or more u~nassumlng
than these oil kings, but l have never
met them.
Imet the pair on lower Broadway
Yesterday. They were walking together,
II was Just at the luncheon hour, and
Broadway was t%hronged with clerks
and pretty typewriters on lunch Intent
These latter pushed and hustled The TWO
pedestrians as though they we're inter-
lopers instead OF being representatives
OF hundreds OF millions Of dollars.
The brothers are alike In stature,
both lust q trihe above the middle
height. John d. wears q rather closely
cropped greyish moustache, and his
brother affects side whiskers that run
down a couple OF inches below his ears.
Both meu were dressed In loose hitting
dark clothes, that were plainly not maze
by any fashionable tailor. Indeed, they
looked more as though they might have
been bought at q bargain sale in some
ready made clothing house.
No n recognized the two men as
they passed along and they paid no at
t%ention to any one they met, being alb
sorbed in whatever affairs they were
discussing together. Not even the most
acute observers on New York clty's
most busy t~horoughfare would for a
moment suspect that these plain dress
ed, Quiet hammered, farmer-like men
were the much discussed, often aoused
Standard oil Kings.
It was quite early in the day when
saw the Rockefellers on Broadway and
vet the two men walked from FIFTY
fourth street and Fifth avenue to BOWL
ing Green, a good five miles and accom-
nlished the distance In a little over an
hour. This Is the almost daily custom
of John d. Rockefeller, who is a amous
pedestrian Z.
The Standard OIL headquarters in
New York is at the foot Of Broadway
facing historic Bowling Green, a massive
pile Of granite rising ten stories above
the street, and yet with nearly all its
offices occupied by of shoots OF the
Standard Oil Company. There are re-
lining companies; companies that deal
i'm varieties of Illuminating oils, in short,
companies OF all sorts having for their
object the turning Of oil In some way
into money.