Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-09-04
MILLIONS IN HIS NAME.
stenosrapher Holds $4,000, 900 in Ste
Stock, Gets S1s a Week Salary.

Stock, Gets $18 Week Salary.
New York World: When the 80 p m
trolley car from Port Richmond, S J.,
reached the Prohibition park "Wednesday
afternoon tall rosy checked young man
jumped off nimbly and fairly ran down
the street to q modest. gray painted Vino
embo"ercd cottage at the foot of the hill
In jiMy he was out again, hatless and
coatlcss, tennis racquet in hand with
rubbersoled canvas shoes instead of the
russets he had worn On n we'll laid ten
mis- court behind tho cottage was am
other young man waiting for n set with
him. In moment they We're deep in the
iniricacies of ;orty-love and deuce. Two
pretty girls watched the game
The young man was Bertram Cutler,
owner of record of l23975 shares of
United States Steel preferred and of
25,365 shares of United States Steel, com
mon. He is stenographer and typewriter
for John y. Rockefeller at &c Broadway,
and his salary Is SIS a week.
Are you Mr. N'utler? asked a reporter,
Iinterruptng the game
No. I'm not. replied the young man.
pausng In her service .'I1e lives over
there waving his arm toward New
Dorp. About two miles away"
"Nonsense, 3ertic," said one OF the
pretty girls. You ought To be isila med.
There was Il chorus of giggles. too. from
the back porch Of the cottage, where tho
yot,ng MANS relatives wcre and SO he
owned identity
Well" he said. call that stock does
stand IN nay hamc. ] worl. TOR the Stand
ard oil company and Mr.. Rockcfeller 1t
isn't anybo1g's l!ancss who bought THO
stock for inc. LIS mine. My picture?
OH IN too fast for amy one to take it.
m.
THAR
William Cutler, the Young mans faith
or, Wasn't 50 bashlul as his SON. His eyes
bcamed as Ne spoke of his son, and II
WAS very plain that he was proud of tho
boy
Yes, he's my only boy" he said.
We've rot Il daughter, Blanche and she
Is 81 stenographer, too, for the Standard
Oil. They're all we've got. and were
mighty proud of the way they're getting
ahead Eertram is % lie was born on
my farm down on the Manor road and
raised here on Staten island. He was
graduated from the public schools here.
went to the high school and then took a
course ut the Packard Business college,
I New York. He did so well that he was
graduated before his class.
''Jts true that tho stock stands In his
name. don't know who really owns 1t
and | don't care. All the dividends are
] made out in I9erram's name. but of
course he doesn't get them.
4 .Bertram's been with Mr. Rockefeller
/ -four years or So and Blanche about the
same time. Everybody in the whole stan
dard OIL company trusts my son !mp,!c
lilly, else they wouldn't have let him
own all those millions OF stock. you know
Hes getting ahead very fast there. and
some day, perhaps, he'll be Il big man III
the company"
The Gutter home Is one of the most mod
est in Prohibition park. No servants were
I visible about the place, and Mrs. Cutler
answered the ring of the door bell.
/ Young C'utlcr Is no different from other
I youths who draw sIS n week, but who
don't own sl2eO 600 of steel stock. He
Is rather good looking and of athletic
build. lie plays tennis, rides a bicycle
and swims well. He and Il chum Luilt
the tennis court back of tho Cutler house.
His name was first made public last
Thursday, when because of New Jersey
litigation over the bond conversion plan
the list of principal stockholders of the
| steel trust was made public In Trenton.
/ The largest block of the preferred 10
found to be In the name of Bertram Cut.
| Ter. Wall street assumed that Mr.. Cut
/ Ter represented John ID. Rockefeller. The
total value of the stock in his name Is
/ 81, 1854 9G2. These are believed to be the
holdings of John d. Rockefeller alone. He
| is close supporter of j. p Morgan's
| plans for the steel trust.