Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-03-22
Tla Richest Man in America.
John D. Rockefeller has Fortune
SI55, OOO,OOO-Lives Plainly
and Gives Judiciously.

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this country do in a day?
John ID. Rockefeller, the Stand.
ard Oil king, is the man. His
fortune has now reached the
gigantic figure of S145,0OO, 900.
Before the end of the year 1t will
bave reached the terrific sum OF
$3.50 100000. People who claim
to know say that his wealth is
growing at the rate Of Sl5,OOO,OOO
a year. He is not an eXtravagant
man; his family are even more
modest in their taste than he Is,
and that he does not sp1nd one
twentieth of his annual income is
generally believed by bis friends.
Mr.. ROckefeleI'S income is un-
questiOnably somewhere ln the
neighbOrboOd of SIS, 900, O,0OOa Year.
The Standard OH Company pays
immense profits to its owners, and
Mr.. Rockefeller is the principal
owner. Based upon an annual lu'
c)me of $15,000.000, the oil king
has 81 ,25O, 600 a month to spend, or
Sal ,666, every day in the week,
Including Sundays and holidays.
A great many men would he
satisfied 10 retire from all business
pursuits if they had as a fortune
Just one days income of Mr..
Rockefeller. Not so with the latter.
Perhaps the ambition of bis life Is
to bAve a daily income of 100000
In that event he would have built
up fortune of S325,OO0,O 600, and
have every cent OF 1t bring in as
much interest as his present
fortune.
1t is not without the pale OF
possibility that Mr.. Rockefeller
Will live to see his daily income
reach the 100000 figure. Thirty.
FIVE years ago Mr., Rockefeller was
worth $4,000. in that time, prac-
tically starting on nothing he has
made SI45 600 600. He is 50 ears
years old ow,llgOrOus aud healthy,
and in all probability will live
twenty years more, in which TIN Q
it would not be unreasonable 10
suppose that he could double his
enormous wealth.
Mr.. kOckefelIel'S day is plain,
matter-of fact one. He spends 1t
much the same as the man work
ing OH salary and with a family
to support. There is no show or
OstentatiOn about what he does.
Few people in the financial or busi.
ness world know him even by
sight. Not one out OF fifty of the
employees of the Standard OIL
Company in its offices on lower
Broadway, New York, have ever
spoken word to him. Many OF
them would not know him it they
saw him.
Mr.. Rockefeller is methOdical in
everything. He gets up at Z IN the
morning and breakfasts with bis
wife and two daughters, Alta and
ElIlb, and his son, John, D., Jr.,
at 8 o'clock. At 9 o'clock he starts
for his downtown Office. The
Rockefeller home is on tue south
side of Fifty fourth street, just
west of Fifth avenue, and over
looks the park fronting st. Luke''
Hospital on the opposite side OF
the street.
The house Is big, substantial
brownstOne affair OF no particular
kind of architecture. 1t Is butt oil
the line of solid comfort, will
vide entrance in the middle anC
with large rooms opening on tb'
c.ntral hall. The house has
miniature park around il, yer!
exceptional thing in that part o
the city, where ground is worth IL
the neighborhOod of 81, 900 a frOn
foot.
When Mr.. Rockefeller leaves hI
house at Ga. m., If The day if fne
he walks toward Fifth avenue
Very often he starts uptown in tn
direction Of Central park. Some
times he is accompanied by one o
both OF his daughters and scme
times by bis son, a young man Q
> % years, who is now learning th
ropes of the oil campany.
Mr.. Rockefeller is a great believe
0 in the efficiency of walking and a
kinds of exarciaa "a health Otver,