Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-09-06
MILLIONS IN HIS NAME.
stenoerapher Holds $12,ooo,ooo in Steel
Stock. Gets S18 a Week SALARY.

New York World: When the $50 p. m
trolley car from Port Richmond, S. l..
reached the Prohibition park Wednesday
afternoon a tall, rosy-cheeked young man
jumped off nimbly and fairly ran down
the street to a modest, gray painted, vine
uncovered cottage at the foot of the hill,
In a jify he was out again, hatless and
c~oatlcss, tennis racquet in hand, with
rubbeTsoled canvas shoes instead of the
russets he had worn. On a well laid ten
mis- court behind the cottage was an
other young man waiting for a set with
him. In a moment they were deep in the
intricacies of Sorty-love and deuce. Two
pretty girls watched the game.
The young man was Bertram Cutler,
owner of a record of 1913, 1915 shares OF
United States Steel, preferred, and of
1886 shares Of United States Steel, COM
mon. lie is s~tenographer and typewriter
for John d. Rockefeller at &c Broadway,
and his salary is SIS a week.
Are you Mr.. Cutler?" asked a reporter,
interrupting the game.
mo, I'm not" replied the young man,
pausing In her service. He lives over
there" waving his arm toward New
Dorp. About two miles away"
Nonsense, Berthe said one of the
DltAlN " OABil ~ Nv
There was "A chorus of giggles, too, from
the back porch of the cottage, where the
young mans relatives were, and 50 he
owned identity.
We'll" he said. "all that stock does
stand I'm my name. / work for the Stand
ard Oil company and Mr.. Rockefeller. 1t
isn't anybody's business who bought the
stock for me. It's mine My picture?
oh, I'm too fast for any one TO take it.
paGilac Mr. Rnpkgfpllpr wouldn't like
that"
William Cutler, tho young mans faith
err, wasn't so bashful as his son. His eyes
beamed as he spoke of his son, and II
was very plain that he was proud of the
boy.
Yes, he's my only boy" he said.
We've got a daughter, Blanche, and she
Is a stenographer, too, for the Standard
Oil. They're all we've got, and were
mighty proud Of the way they're getting
ahead. Bertram is q. He was born on
my farm down on the Manor road and
raised here OF Staten island. He was
graduated from the public schools here,
went to the high school and then took q
course at the Packard Business college,
New York. He did so we'll that he was
graduated before his class.
Its true that the stock stands In his
name. I don't know who really owns II
and l don't care. All the dividends arc
made out in Bertram's name, but OF
course he doesn't get them.
"Bertram's been with Mr.. Rockefeller
four years or so, and Blanche about the
same time. Everybody in the whole Stan
dard Oil ompany trusts my son implic'
lilly, or else they wouldn't have let him
own all those millions of stock, you know
He's getting ahead very fast there, and
some day, perhaps, he'll be a big man ir
the company"
The Cutler home is one OF the most mod
est in Prohibition park. No servants were
visible about the place, and Mrs. Cutler
answered the ring of the door bell.
Young Cutler Is no different from otheI
youths who draw SIS a week, but whC
don't own $12, 900, 900 of steel stock. HI
Is rather good looking and of athletic
build He plays tennis, rides a bicyclt
and swims well. He and a chum Guil
the tennis court back of the Cutler house
His name was first made public las
Thursday, when because OF New Jersey
litigation over the bono conversion plaI
the list of principal stockholders of thu
steel trust was made public in Trenton
The largest block of the preferred wa:
found TO be In the name of Bertram Cut
Ter. Wall street assumed that Mr.. Cut
Ter represented Johh ID. Rockefeller. Th'
total value Of the stock in his name Il
81, 9S4, 962. These are believed TO be tn,
holdings OF John ID. Rockefeller alone. HI
is a close supporter of ]. z. Morgan'i
plans for the steel trust.