The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-11
WILL BECOME A MILLIONAIRE.

John d. Rockefeller is expected to be
Millionaire before he dies. He is worth
about third OF a billion already. and his
fortune is growing by leaps and bounds.
He is the Standard OIL Trust. He has as
sociates, Of course, but the extent OF their
partnership depends on him. In one day
recently the market value OF Standard OIL
stock jumped s25,0O0,OOo.
John d. Rockefeller said before some in
vestigators not long ago that he could not
tell within ten or dozen millions how
much he was worth.
The Millionaire is o new character In the
world. Rockefeller could buy and sell
Croesus dozen times over. The boards OF
the Astors. Vanderbits and Goulds are as
foothills to the mountain of wealth this
man has heaped up.
The destinies of thousands of men, with
their families. are in his hands. They are
prosperous or penniless as he dictates.
KING Rockefeller looked like very ord-
nary man as he left his home on West
killy fourth street, New York. one morD-
ing last week and boarded an ord mary
street car. He hung BY strap mot of
the way and tramped through the siush OF
Broadway to the Standard Oil building, at
No. &c Broadway. Hardly anybody knew
him.
He is intensely pious.
He is absolutely INSCRIPTIONS in money
making.
He gives millions to his church.
He is frugal almost 10 RIGHTEOUSNESS In
his personal expenditures
He gives more millions TO education--at
least to the Chicago university.
raI nt-it,. SAX.
Presiden- Andrews to task for uttering
views on finance contrary TO his own.
He fights the tax assessors
O. II. Rockefeller, who said he was his
cousin, was allowed 10 starye to death In
wretched lodging house in Chicago.
These are the characteristics Of the COM
irg Millionaire.
He said once that God gave him his
wealth. ard said it with an air that indi-
Gated his. belief that God made no mistake
in picking him out.
He Is fond OF addressing Sunday schools
and Bible students. and usually talks about
himself to them, but in his office he is as
hard TO approach as the emperor Of China.
John d. Rockefsller was. at the beg N ning
of his business career a bookkeeper at $50
month. The methods that nave raise
his income from $50 month TO 81 $780, 900
a month are told In a hunired futile SUITS,
Investigations and criminal court records.
Yet there are people who do not consider
the imminence OF Rockefeller's millions a
particular menace to civilization or morals
or progress. For instance. the professor OF
political economy at Columbia university.
Richmond Mayo Smith. when asked 10
his views OH the coming Millionaire. said
that no alarm ought to be felt BY the COM
munity ia this concentration OF wealth In
the hands Of such men as John d. Rockies
Teller.
and yet every State OF these United
States has declared by law the Standard
Oh Trust to be crirne. and battling
tutile.y agailst the b lllonaire. has sought
TO suppress the trust and It's of boots.
Following ara the tens which r. oFd the
pyegeh hoidlegs Of this financial crcesis;
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A CHS n, Topeka and Santa
Northern Pacific -. $500. l9,Dg9vVv
CiilcsG;D milwaukee, and 81
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rsa. stocns @.sAs 49,. -. 100000