Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-01-14

on Company are nearly al public bene-
FACTORS. They are generous coatriou-
tors TO charitable objects. They
claim that the corporation itself
public benetaetor, in that
IL has reduced the price
OF universal commodity TO the lowest
point In its history. Be that as 1, may,
70 Is certain that score OF worthy
projects have been benefited by the
money the company has made for It's
managers. The Rockefeliers have given
several millions % the various boards OF
the Baptist church. One OF them par
ticularly founded the Chicago Univer-
sity and continues 10 lavish donations
upon the Western institutions. Henry
NJ Flasler is a Presbyterian.
He attended Or. Paxtoa's church
during that eloquent clergyman's pas
torate SO recently terminated. lie
was liberal contributor TO all the ob.
iects presented. IL Is said he gave Or.
Paxton check every Christmas for a
large amount with the request that he
eNpend IL where 10 would do the most
good. He sat near Jay Gould and Rus
sell Sage on Sundays and is believed 10
have opened his purse wider than his
fellow milliouaires. William G. Whit
ney is known, In an unobtrusive maa-
ner, 10 make large donations n the d.
ItNNlOu OF NuAflNF. ne lftSeE NEhtS
OF the concern believe In benefactions
and practice generosity.
1t is hard TO tell just how many ont
side enterprises the STANDARD on is In
terested IN. Nobody really Knows their
number nor their names, except those
In the very inner circle. THE corpora
tiOn as corporation is In somc OF these
enterprises, but group OF tho individ-
ual managers Il in more. The National
Linseed on Co.. Is believed to be con
trolled by the Standard. Large blocks
of stock were purchased In other indus
trial concerns The Northern Pacific
railroad is understood 10 have received
considerable assistance from Standard
magnates. The Rockefellers are
are certainly deeply Interested as
investors In the great Gogeblc
iron range IA upper Michigan. The
railroad that connects the Standard
works at Constable Hook, on the Jersey
shore opposite Staten Island with all
the great trunk lines terminating al
Communipaw, Jersey City aud Ho.
boken, is the property OF the corpora
lion. The Sphinx has frequently been
called an octopus, because 10 reaches
out and grasps 50 many industries.
The slmile is a good one. Were the
truth known probably the many arms
than any other concern In the world.
The fact that both John and William
Rockefeller are members Of the Stock
Exchange shows the interest taken in
tho market.
Plenty of estimates have boon made
as To the wealth Of individual holders of
Standard stock. They are moro or less
ia the nature OF guesses. Probably the
figures here given, and which were
named by good authority, come pretty
close TO the mark. John. ID. Rockefeller
leads tho list. ue is believed To- be
worth SIPS. 600, 900. lie is the wealthiest
man in the United states; w. w. hstor
| only being put down for SEQ, 900, 600 and
Russell Sage AZ 500, 600, 600. Henry NJ.
Flngler follows ia tho great oil list
/ lis fortune is estimated at $50, 600, 600.
/ 1 he estate OF Charles Pratt is figured at
/ $50, 900 600; William Rockefeller oJ
/ $50 600. 600; the Bostwick estate at
/ $50 600, 600; O. II. Payne az S25, 600, 600
| and william G. Whitney at SO, 600, 900.
| Charles VI. Pratt is said 20 possess
| nearly SlO.OOO,OOO. Among the other
/ stockholders aud heads OF departments
/ there are AT least a score OF men who
can be safely put down as possessOrs OF
| from two to FIVE millions each.
LAWRENCE $. MoTT.