The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-01-06
MAILER.

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Then the muscular examiner arose in
his wrath. He gripped the would-be
blackmailer by the neck, kicked him
out of his office through a long hallway
and threw him downstairs.
1t is a toss-np as to whether Cornc-
Illus Vanderbilt or John j.. Rockefeller
equally difficult to say which is the
more democratic in his ways. Black
mailing cranks have about as much
fun with the Standard Oil magnate as
with the railroad king-and that i.
none at all. Personally, Mr.. Rookie
Teller can walk from his home to his
office on lower Broadway without any
need of u guard. He is the least known,
perhaps, of all our very rich, men, and
may walk the city for days almost un-
recognized. As for getting at him in
his offices. that is impossible. They
are hidden in the immense granite
building of the Standard Oil Company.
ut the foot of broadway, us are those
of William Rockefeller, Henry NJ.
Flagler and the other oil kings. There
is n private entrance to them, but this
is not generally known. To get at him
ordinarily the visitor must pass through
q labyrinth of offices and under the
close inspection of Il hundred keen
eyed men. Even them you may not
get speech with him, for you have his
secretary to deal with, and he stands
firm in the belief that his employer,
with the management of two hundred
millions of dollars of mis- own on his
hands and with q large share of re.
sponsibility in the management Of
several hundred millions more belong
ing to his partners, has no time to be-
STOW upon idle callers. So it comes
about that, although hundreds of men
cali in a single day, the oil king may
| see less than u dozen OF theln.and some
times o n
d. @. Mills, OF PaSifc Railroad fame,
is another man whom it Is impossible
for men who prey upon other men to
see. His Offices are on an upper floor
of the great building on Wall and
Broad streets that bears his na,ne, and
they are almost shabby in their plain.
ness. A single clerk stands Mt n high
desk I'M room leading to that OF the
great railroad builder. He asks your
business and you tell him. He at once
goes into the other room and in q mo-
ment comes out with a well-looking,
sturdy young man with q frank and
pleasant face.
aMr. Mills, Jr.,n the clerk says, and
r~atires.
us it really necessary for You to see
my father?n the young man says;"fa ct
for him in most things"
II there are good reasons, or il you
are a newspaper-man, you are ad'
mitted at once to where the prisoner
himself sits at a plain Sa5 desk. near
which is a much better one that is oc
cupied by his son. A brokcn-backcd
sofa and some chaiA make up the
furniture OF the room. Even if q
blackmailer got into the place ac would
be likely to think he had made q mis-
take and go out again. And if he staid
in he might find himself equally mis-
taken, for Mr.. Mills-leaving his sou
out of Though no longer young, is
sturdy and has seen the game of bluff
played very roughly before now. Al
any rate, black,pailers do not fool with
D. o. Mills.
The present members Of the house oI
Aston IN America pay no attention
either to blackmailers or cranks. Th.
Astors paw no attention to any one
Before William Waldorf Astor SHOOT