Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-02-14
Americas Richest Man.
MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, THE
STANDARD OIL KING, ACTU-
ALLY ROLLS IN WEALTH.
THIS Magnate is Not A Public Man
but a Toiler-How His Days are
Spent-His Family.

f! What does the richest man in this
country do in day9
John d. Rockefeller, the Standard
oii King, is the man. His fortune has
now reached the gigantic figure n,
sl45, ,oOO, 600. Before the end of the
year 1t will have reached the terrific
sum OF one hundred and fifty millions.
People who claim to know, ,sayt that his
wealth is growing at the rate of fiftee1,
millions year. He is not an extrav-
agant man; his family are even more
modest in their tastes than he is, and
That he does not spend one-twentieth
OF his annual income is generally be-
lieved by his friends.
Mr.. RocBefeller's income is unaues-
tionably somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of fifteen millions a year. The
Standard Oil Company pays immense
profits to it's owners, and Mr.. Rookie
feller is the principal owner. Based
upon an annual income of fifteen mil
lions year, the oil king has 81 ,25O, 600
a month to spend, or s41, 1866 every day
IN the week, including Sundays and
holidays.
a great many men would be satisfied
to retire from all business pursuits il
they had as a fortune just one days
income of Mr.. Rockefeller. Not so
with the latter. Perhaps the ambition
of his life is to have daily income of
$780, 600. In that event he would have
built up a fortune of 1926, ,O00, 600 and
have every cent of it bring in as much
interest as his present fortune.
1t is not without the pale of possibil-
ity that Mr.. Rockefeller will live to see
his daily income reach the 100000
figure. Thirty-fi five years ago Mr..
Rockefeller was worth $4,000. In that
time, practically starting on nothing,
he has made s145, 100000 He is fifty
five years old now, vigorous and
healthy. and in all probability will live
twenty years more, in which time it
would not be unreasonable to suppose
that he could double his enormous
wealth
Mr.. Rockefeller's day is plain,
matter of-fact one. He spends it
much the same as man working on
salary and with family to support.
There is no show or ostentation about
what he does. Few people in the
financial or business world know him
even by sight. Not one out of fifty of
the employees of the Standard Oil COM
Fp1ny IN frs orrces on rover prUauwry
have ever spoken a word to him.
Many of them would not know him if
they saw him.
Mr.. Rockefeller is methodical in
everything. He gets up at in the
morning, and breakfasts with his wife
and two daughters, Alta and Edith,
and his son, John ID. Jr., at O'Clock.
At O'Clock he starts for his down
town office. The Rockefeller's home is
ON the south side of Fifty fourth
street, just west of Fifth avenue, and
overlooks the park fronting St.Luke's
Hospital on the opposite side of the
street.
The house is big, substantial brown
stone affair of no particular kind of
architecture. 1t is built on the lines of
solid comfort, with wide entrance in
the middle and with large rooms open
ing on the central hall. The house
has miniature park around it, very
exceptional thing in that part of the
city, where ground is worth in the
neighborhood of $4,000 square foot.
When Mr.. Rockefeller leaves his
house at a. m. if the day is fine he
walks toward Fifth avenue. Very
often he starts up town in the direc-
ton of Central Park Sometimes he
is accompanied by one or both OF his
daughters and sometimes by his son,
a Young man of % years, who is now
learning the ropes of the Oil company.
Mr.. Rockefeller is a great believer
in the efficacy of walking and all kinds
of exercise as health givers, and he
has taught all the members OF his
family to believe the same. After
three or four mile tramp in the park
Mr.. Rockefeller turns back to Fifth
avenue and often walks down to
Twenty third street, where he taxes
a Broadway car to his offices. Fre-
ouently he walks all the way down to
the office, distance of four and a
half miles from his home. On these
tramps he is sometimes accompanied
by his son or his brother, William