The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-02
Receives Weekly Salary But
Holds Millions In Stocks.
ROCKEfELLER'S
Steel Trust Certificates 10 The Value Of
$l1,948,962, Placed In The Name
Of bsriram Cutler

New York. July 2-when the $3.50 p. m.
trolley car from Port Richmond, s. L..
reached Prohibition park yesterday af-
ternoon "a tall. rosy-cheeked young man
Jumped off .n.mbly and fairly ran down
the street to a modest. gray-paintcd.
vinerembowered cottage at the foot Of
the hill.
In jlfry he was out again. hatless and
coatless, tennis racquet In hand. with
rubbersoled canvas shoes instead OF the
russets he had worn. on a weli-laid ten
mis- court behind the cottage was anoth r.
young man waiting for set with him.
In a minute they were deep In the intri'
cacies OF a 40-love and deuce. Two pretty
girls watched the game.
The young man was Bertram Cutler
owner OF record OF l23s75 shares OF United
States Steel. preferred. and or 1886
shares OF United States Steel. common.
He is stenographer and typewriter for
John ID. Rockefeller at No. 26 Broadway
and his salary is SIS a week.
Are you Mr.. cutler7' asked a report
er. interruping the game
mo. I'm not" replied the young man..
pauslng In his service. He lives ovE
there" waving his arm towards New
Dorp About two miles away"
Nonsense. Bertie.' said one OF the
pretty girls. You ought TO be ashamed"
HE OWNS HIS IDENTITY.
There was a chorus Of gigglss, too.
frem the porch OF the cottage, where the
youEg mans relatives were, and SO ne
owned his identity
Well he said, "all that stock does
dard oil coispany and Mr. Rockefeller. II
isn't anybody's business who bought the
oS sS9'f m nor too e fast for e amy one 70 take Il
Besides. Mr.. Rockefeller wouldn't Ike
William Cutler. the young mans faith.
invite. the reporter into his coy cottage.
His G. = beamed as he spoke OF his son,
and Il was very plain that he was proud
''Ycs, he's my only boy" he said.
We've got a daughter, Blanche. and she
is stenographer. too. for the Standard
mighty proud OF the way they're getting
ahead. Bertram Is twenty-five; He was
road and raised here on staten Island;
lie was graduated from the public school
here. went to the high school, and then
he was graduated before his class.
Its true that the stock stands ons IN MS Is
and / don't care. All the devidends are
made out in Bsrtram's name, but OF
course be doesn get tneHl.
YEARS WITH RoCKEFELLER.
''Bertram's been with Mr.. Rockefeller
four years or so and Blanche about the
same time Everybody In the whole stan
card oil company trusts my son lmpic-
!t!V. or else they wouldn't have let him
own all those millions OF stock. you know;
He's getting ahead very fast there. ana
some day, perhaps. he'll be a big man IN
lng company.
ne Cutler home is one OF the most
modest I'm Prohibition park. No servants
wtre visible about the place, ana Nj.
Cutler answered the ring Of the door neIi: tsa.
don't own sl2. .Oo0. 600 OF Steel stock. He Is
rather good looking and OF athletic build.
lie plays tennis. rides bicycle and sw,ms ,s
court back OF the Cutler house
His name was first made public last
Thursday, when because OF New Jersey
litigation over. the bond conversion pisn
Steel trust was made public In Trenton.
The largest block OF the preferred was
found to be I'm the name or Bertram
Wall street assumed that Mr.. Cutler
represented John ID. Rockefeller, and the
fact was so published. Pittsburg CORE
spondents insisted however, that Ber-
tram Cutler was Mr.. CarneBies secretary,
because that sentleman's middle name Is
Bertram. Ii now turns out that Pittsourg
Efforts to connect Bertram Cutler WIN
MIR. Carnegie were misdirected. ~
Steel preferred closed last night at ~,
so that the shares owned by Bertram
Cutler are worth $l 033, 775. Steel COM
mon was quoted at 3Sla. making his hold
ings, OF this stock foot up to ssIi;lS NJ 81 NE ahs ,s
sii ga. go These are believed TO be the
holdings OF John ID. Rockefeller alone.
He is a close supporter OF j. p. Nor
gans plans for the steel trust