The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-04-19
RICHEST MAN In AMERICA.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE DAILY
LIFE OF JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER.
The Standard OIL Magnate is Unos-
tentatious A Great Walker
Business Habits and Charities.

Business Habits and Charities.
X WRITER in tho Detroit Free
~ Press claims that John d.
NJ Rockefeller, tho Standard
Oil magnate, is now the rich
est man in America. His fortune is
estimated at S145, 900, 600. Mr. Rock
efeller's day is plain matter -of-fact
one. He spends it much the same as
the 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 Company in its Offices on
lower Broadway, New York, have ever
spoken q word to him. Many of them
would not know him if they saw him.
Mr.. Rockefeller is methodicnl in
everything. He gets up Mt : in the
morning and breakfasts with his wife
and two daughters, Alta and Edith,
and his son, John d.. Jr., Mt s o'clock.
At o'clock he starts for his down
town office. The Rockefeller home is
on the south side Of Fifty fourth
street, Just west of Fifth avenue, and
overlooks the park fronting st.
Luke's Hospital Oh the opposite side
of the street
The house is big, substantial
brown-stone affnir u no particular
kind Of architecture. 1t is built on
the lines of solid comfort, with a wide
entrance in the middle aud with large
rooms opening on the central hall
hnttCn I'M tttrn
around it, a very exceptional thing III
that part OF the city, where ground is
worth in the neighborhood OF $1,000 u
front foot.
When Mr. Rockefeller leaves his
house at Q A. M, if the day is fine, he
walks toward Fifth avenue. Very
often he starts uptown in the direc.
tion of Central Park. Sometimes he
is accompanied by one or both of his
daughters and sometimes by his son,
young man OF twenty-five years.
who is now learning the ropes Of the
oil company.
Mr.. Rockefeller Is great believer
in the efficiency 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
a 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 takes a
Broadway car to his Offices. Ere.
Quently he walks all the way down to
the Office, distance four and a half
miles from his home. On these tramps
he is sometimes accompanied by his
son or by his brother, William Rock
efeller. who is also one OF the Stan.
dard Oil princes.
At times Mr.. Rockefeller can walk
the whole distance from his home to
his office without mectin" II single ac-
quaintance. He has never figured in
public life, has never taken any ap-
parent interest IN politics and has
studiously avoided meeting people.
thus making of him self the least known
millionaire in the metropolis. His
clothes have the appearance of the
ready made article, and in every way
this modern Croesus looks the plain,
ordinary business man.
Arriving at the building Of the Stan
dard Oil Company, which overlooks the
historic Bowling Green, Mr. Rockefel.
ler goes at once to his suite of private
Offices. There he is met by his two
private secretaries. One of these seci Z.
taries attends to that part of his bust.
ness relating to the Standard Oil
Company, while the other attends to his
personal business interests.
Hundreds Of letters addressed t O tha
rich man are received every day, but
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