Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-10

the muscular examiner arose in his
wrath. He gripped the would-be
blackmailer by the neck, kicked him
out of his Office through q long hallway
and threw him down stairs.
1t is a toSS-up as to whether Cornelius
Vanderbilt or John j. Rockefeller is the
richest man in America, and it is equal-
IL difficult to say which is the more
democratic in his ways. B~lackmailing
cranks have about as much fun with
the Standard Oil magnete as with the
railroad king-and that is none at all.
Personally, Mr.. Rockefeller can walk
from his home to his Office on lower
Broadway without any need OF a guard.
He is the least known, perhaps, OF all
our very rich men, and may walk the
city for days almost u"nrecognized. As
for getting at him ia his offices, that is
impossible. They are hidden in the i'm
mense granite building of the Standard
Oil Company, at the foot Of Broadway,
as ara those of William Rockefeller,
Henry Nj. Flagler and the other oil
kings. There is q private entrance TO
them, but this is not generally known.
To get at him ordinarily the visitor
must pass through a labyrinth OF Offices
and under the close inspection of a
hundred keeu.eyed men. Even then you
may not get speech with him, for you
have his secretary to deal with, and he
stands firm In the belief that his en-
ployer, with the management Of two
hundred millions OF dollars Of his own
on his hands and with a large share OF
responsibility in the Management Of sew
eral Hundred millions more belonging
TO his partners, has no time To bestow
upon idle callers. So it comes about
that. although hundreds Of men call in
a day, the oil king may see less than a
dozen of them, and sometimes not one.
d. o. Mills, Of Pacific Railroad fame,
is another man whom il is impossible
for men who prey upon other men to
see. His offices are on an upper floor
Of the great building on Walland Broom
streets that bears his name, and they
are almost shabby in their plainness. A
single clerk stands at a high desk in a
room leading to that of the great rail-
road builder. He asks your business
and you tell him, He ct once goes into
the other room and in a moment comes
out with a well-looking, sturdy young
man with a frank and pleasant face.
"ATr. Mills, Jr.," the clerk says, and
retires.
'Is it really necessary for You to see
my father?" the young man says; Il
act for him in most things"
If there are good reasons, or if you
are a newspaper man, you are admitted
at once to where the prisoner himself
sits at a plain S25 desk, near
which is much better one that is occu-
pied by his son. A broken-backed sofa
and some chairs make up the furniture
of the room. Even il a blackmailer got
into the place he would be likely 10
think he had made a mistake aud go out
again. And if he staid in he might find
himself equally mistaken, for Mr.. Mills
leaving his son out OF it-thOugh no
longer young, is sturdy and has seen
the game of bluff played very roughly
before now. At any rate, blackmailers
do not fool with d. 0. Mills.
The present members OF the house OF
Aston in America pay no attention
either TO blackmailers or cranks. The
Astors pay no attention TO any one. Be
fore William Waldorf Aston shook the
dirt Of America from his feet and
settled in England newspaper men
would talk back to their superiOrs II
told to interview MIN, aud they become
even more iusubordinate now now II
told TO look up John Jacob Astor.
When a well-mannered reporter can
not enter it Is useless for ordinary
cranks to apply for admission.