The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20


 Rockefeller, the Standard Oil million aires are believers in the plan Of edu- eating rich mems sons to work. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Is the only son or John D. Rockefeller and heir to $2OO,- 900, 900. He is about g years old He is at work in his fathers office, where he draws a small salary and saves part of 1t, just as his father did when he
 was a clerk in a business office in | Cleveland William G. Rockefeller, his cousin, who is 28 years old, has been in the employ of the Standard Oll l Company for several years. Both the 1 RockefeIlers are steady, industrious
 young men, and either of them could | find employment very easily II lhro"h upon his own resources.
 A comparatively new figure In Wall
 street is George Crocker, son of the | bonanza millionaire. Few Of the men who made such quick fortunes in the | gold fields saw far enough ahead to realize the necessity of making their | children bread winners. Many of their sons became dissipated, like young
 Fair. Some of them have fallen into 1 business life because they needed oc- cupation. MT. Crocker is one Of the lat ter He says that the biggest obstacle he has had to surmount all his life is the fact that his father was million aire.
 You will always live in the shadow of your fathers name" said million aire friend of the elder Crocker to the young man one day.
 "It is true" said MT. Crocker,
 though no one ever expressed IL to me in that way before. Whatever l do l am always my fathers son; have no identity of my own."
 George Westinghouse, the millionaire inventor and manufacturer, has son who is too young as yet to think of the e-lzf a liking for the machine shop when he grows older MT. Westinghouse will put him in a pair of overalls and set him at work Mir Westinghouse himself works at the bench in his private shop in Allegheny, where he develops his mechanical ideas.
 Washington is full of idle young men having rich fathers. Senator Stephen B. Elkins, who has been a very busy man all his life, has a son who Is giv ing his attention almost entirely to so- ciety. There are great many young men like him, whose fathers have plenty of money, who are living for amusement. George Pullman's sons were of this type, and they learned severe lesson when their father prac- tically disinherited them because they lacked business ambition. They have undertaken to cultivate it now, and both of them are working for the Pull
 man Car Company in Chicago. The stock yard millionaires are self-made men, and they believe in bringing up their sons to honest labor. Philip D. Armour has two boys. They left col lege to take clerical positions in hteir fathers office, and there they worked beside their fathers clerks, asking no favors and learning the business thor oughly by experience. Both of them are now members of the firm, and there are no buster young men in Chicago.
 David R. Francis of St. Louis, for mer Secretary of the Interior, believes in work for the rich mans son. MT. Francis has seven boys, one of whom graduated last year from Yale. MT. Francis told me last summer that he was going to put the young man into a clerical position in his office, and let him learn the business. MT. Francis