Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-06-06
A QUIET MILLIONAIRE.
Though seldom Seen In Public He iIns
Given Away s.o,O0O,oOO

From the New York Press.
The quietest. most unobtrusive. gcntlest
and least known OF our many milliona!res
Is John u. Rockefeller. He has an office
somewhere on the sixth floor OF the stand
ard oil building Mt the foot OF Broadway.
but there is no name on the door, no sign
of where he Is. and n stranger has hard
work finding him. II may be fear of bombs
that keeps him in seclusion. He has n
hundred iigureheads in the vast ramiilca-
lions of his business. His connection with
the workaday world Is through them. They
ave SO many electric buttons. He says to
one do this and he .doeth 1t, and TO an
other do that and IT. Is done. He does
not care f9r people to know HIN H. makes s
Rector street station of the elevated road
or that at Battery place 10 his oiiice with
What Shall / siye?, How shalt I give?
To whom shall | give? When shall | give?
are the four QUESTIONS that millionalres
ask themselves. They are not easily an
swered. Most mi%llionalres do give. Civ
inG enables them to appease conscience.
said to have given, away nearly S2O.OobOVlI;
Eight years ago he was unable TO tell
how much he was worth. In court he said
of It. AT that time 1t was estimated thnt
about 100000 was the right figure. HIS
fortune has been Increasing at the rate of
that to-day Il Is probably, s22o.vo'ro or
ss50.1c,0W; Being a, good churchman and
" "'f' W i'hlN'F', ~ ~ ~
to the biblical injunction and gives about
one-tenth. Of his goods TO the poor; His
gifts go largely TO colleges and UNIVERSE
Young men of large fortunes seldom
bother themselves about philanthropy.
Life Is too full OF bright hope and promise.
But when they have reached the meridian
they begin to think about sgmarlns sei i
end that IL bound to come. George Pea:
body save away about 5000, Leland
fortune for a university as a memorial of
his son, This is estimated to be at least
100000. Andrew Carnegie,s gifts N IL
hraries and music halls VIII amount to
something like 10000. Philip u. Armour
has given 10000 to a school in Chicago.
0Oo, 900 to establish n free library. Marshal
Field has given nearly, sl,Ovnoo, TO .le-
mosynary institutions, Mrs William As
in need, TO which she gave carte blanche,
Cornelius Vanderbilt has given freely, but
Is IONS s"i has i'r s! Sst9w away His ' Snnnairoas Of thoas.
nnds TO the needy. Peter Cooper reduced
his fortune more than onc-half by gener-
building. OF hotels for the. INDECENT, and
VIII probably endow several hundred beds
Jack Astor is too young to give. William
Waldorf loves his. millions too much. Will
lie *. Vanderbilt has never been known TO
L, t'u aom e 'oi Ris. 2arff e. '8 Wiiso IN WI Who S' has
MADE .v,Vp.rp since the war, whose son
married an Aston, and whose daughter
is said to be engaged TO n Vanderbilt. is
not conspicuous for giving TO the poor;
The llclmonts. have not distinguished
themselves as biH -hearted men. ]. Pier
pont Morgan gives Just enough. according
to his reckoning, to keep 81. Peter In a
compliment mood, car Brice gives when
he can see a reward in reach. He is of
the worldly. edward Murphy gives to the
campaign bureaus. Croker has endowed
no Institutions. Uncle Coils l.. Hunting
ton has laid up no vast treasure In heaven.
"Would-If-He-Couli" Bill Whitney was
never known to release his 1.-THE. Presi-
dent. Cleveland Is too busy Just now to
consider the poor and needy. Pierre Lor-
Hard bet all of his on the races. Robert
Bonner has done a great deal for DR. Hall,
but precious little. for the poor. George
Vanderbilt has builded n castle In the Will
derness, James Il. Keane needs all Of
his in case he wants TO make n new cor
ner,, Adolf I~.adenburg left Sl5.oco,co for a
lovely widow.