New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-02
TWO STORIES OF A MILLIONAIRE.
MR.. ROCKEFELLER AND THE EXERCISING
MACHINE.
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer


MACHINE
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer
good many yeas ago certain young man
he rudy and pOrtly now and the father or
a family-was employed by growing corpora
ton. He was quite a young man, with an acute
sense or his responsibilities, and, like young
men who are afflicted in that particular way,
was dreadfully tOlchy when his work was inter-
rupted. He was the only employe in the room
of one Of the leading members Of the corpora
ton, and was kept pretty busy with his con-
stanty growing duties.
In the room was health lift, somewhat old
fashioned exercising machine left there by some
shifting Of employees, and one day about noon
time quiet man came in and for the space OF
several minutes worked the machine He made
no noise about 1t, ard departed as quietly as he
came.
The next day he came again. and the next. and
the next.
The young clerk didn't like these visits. They
drew his attention from his work They made
him fdgety.
one day he looked over the railing and caught
the quiet mans eye
Say he said irritably, Il wish you wouldn t
do that. 1t bothers me. Can't you come IN
after Office hours? You seem TO PICK out the
very time when l have the most to do"
The quiet man didn't get mad
TN sorry il interferes with your work, was
all he said as he passed from the room.
That afternoon the lifting machine was taken
away.
company who bossed the youth took him into
another part Of he building to do some WriIng.
They wen; into a certain room ana there sat
the quiet man. He looked up as the youth APP
pearpd. and quietly nodded 20 him. 80
When the work finished. and ii was a
somewhat uncomfortable job for the abashed
youth, he left The apartment with his superior
officer
who was that gentleman he asked as they
passed along the hall.
Haven't you seen him before?" was the as
tonished query.
And you don't know his name!
No"
well. that's John n. Rockefeller"
The thoughts Of the young man at that par
ticular moment were long. long thoughts, Dul ne
kept a stiff upper Lip and said nothing
And he's still in the employ OF the Stanoaro
Oil Company.
Not very long ago a crowded Euclid car,
bound east. took on Few extra pasSehseiS a.
the -Hickok- st. stop Among them was a man
in a gray suit who found footing on the rear
platform. The last instalment OF patrons cioW W.,
ed the car TO the utmost. The aisle was luli nhe
platform backed and the footboafd Hheu. lie
motorman, knowing the car was oVerTro~o ru'
went right ahead regardless OF slgnaiilhe pa
irons At the corner Of Ernest stout man
waved his arm vigorously, but the motorIliah
shook his head and pointed back, where another
Fuclid ear was following The stout man WASH
to be ignored, however. He yel!ed iieTceiy al tne
conductor. and made Wlld dasii al NV "a.
He reached for the hand bar on the rear pid'-
form missed it, and " eni down IN a heap'
The conductor instantly stopped the chl hliu
went hack and helped the stranger 70 MS Ieet'
He wasn't hurt. but he was fightiuHy Iidu.
The conductor took his name in the cus'oi'i,!
wav brushed him off. and then went pach -
the cav When he had rung the bell 10 90 ahead
he asked for The names Of few witnesses Of Inc
occurrence. as conductors have orders 70 90
Ru. the men or the platform shook the!i hedus.
,rba,, xyere no; looking or the mOtOrman may
have been to blame or they didn't want to gel
mixed up in it, The conductor looked discoui-
aged. ~ o,o,hos raacbed
across ard tapped him on the shoulder
IT eau the affair" he said. you may call upon
ne IL necessary" ~.
The conductor looked renewed as lie po'Seu -"
pencil in air. a,os
What is your name" he asked .
The man in gray clothes hesitated shghu!'
"Rockefeller' ne replied; j. D. 49,,
The conductor shut his book with a snap tha'
suggested he had all the witnesses he NEEDED
"a IA. car boyle! along.