The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-07

do any specializing in stocks. 1t seems
strange, in view of his own record as
! a speculator, that the Little Wizard
! of Wall street should have exacted a
| promise from his favorite son to keep
| ont Of the Street as a speculator, but
! the promise was actually asked for
| and given and has never been broken.
| Young Rockefeller's abstinence from
| stock speculation is due to a similar
| promise made to his father, though
| the cause of it's exaction could not
have been similar to that which led
to the Gould promise, for the elder
| Rockefeller never trafficked in the
street, so far as any one knows. What
ever criticism may be passed rightfully
] on his methods of amassing millions.
/ he cannot be accused of ever having
| been a stock jobber.
! Pierpont Morgan has a son, Jack by
name, who is as devoted to business
as either George Gould or the Junior
Rockefeller, but there is no record that
the Morgans, father and son, are as
sentimentally inclined toward each
other as the Goulds were and the
Rockefelers are. That is no reason
for believing otherwise, though, for
the Morgans strive harder than most
modern Croesuses to keep the details
of their private lives hidden.
There are exceptions. but many of
the very rich men of to-day are es-
pecially shy with interyiewers. John
d. Rockefeller submitted to a long in
terview for the last time about eight
years ago, when he gave half a days
time to the star man" of one of the
big New York dailies which published
a page as the result, of what Rookie
Teller denounced the next day as
"garbled rot" John W. Gates has
given out two long interviews with
in the last month. Charles NJ.
Schwab talked a little to the re-
porters several times just before go
ing abroad, but he gave out nothing
that could be termed an interview. Nor
gan has seen the reporters frequently
since his latest return from abroad but
his outgiyings have chiefly been In the
nature of destinations to say anything.
1t is practically impossible for the
newspaper man to get to Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter at all. His door is constantly guard
ed by a shorthand writing Cerberus
with a note book Sometimes the Ger
berus is a smooth young man, some
times a soft-voiced young woman. In
any case the strange visitor Is told
that it is not known whether Mr..
Rockefeller is in or not, but that what
ever message the visitor has to deliver
will be taken down and shown to the
Rockefeller representative. If there is
an answer it win be forthcoming in a
few minutes. No interviewer has re-
Gently received a favorable reply.
An occasional newspaper men has
been able to walk into Mr.. Morgan's
office unannounced, but that has been
because the Morgan system for bar
ring out strangers Is less perfect than
the Rockefeller scheme. In few in
stances, some years ago, unexpected
visitors have succeeded in getting a
few precious words from the great or
ganizer. One reporter was grufiy
asked:
How'd you get in here?"
Through the door" was the reply.
Go out that way and be quick about
it," was Morgan's command.
The reporter went out, but he was
pretty mad and he wrote letter Of
protest to the. great man. saying that
he had no right to complain at a re-
fusal TO be interviewed, but that. hav-
ing always tried to be a gentleman he
thought that he should have been
treated as one even by Mr. Morgan.
In a day or two he received a letter
from Morgan in which the latter adj
nitted that the reporter had cause for
complaint, adding that the writer wae
constantly under a heavy strain and
bSi0t III Ait iAaN1AE VI AttitlEr ne ud0 IeiK
annoyed at the intrusion. He had given
way TO 1T Of temper, unWarrantedIy.
he confessed He desired to apologize
as a gentleman, 10 a gentleman, but
he hoped the reporter would never try
70 interview him again. The reporter
didn't.
name that was formerly staple. al
most daily, in the newspapers, though
seldom seen IN type Of late il that ~
Fanny Janauechek, the one time pow
erful actress. u Was brought forward
again a day or two ago ~ the an
nOpncemeut that she b in practically
dying condition ~ s8ratoga.
Madame tanauseaek came 20 this
country q good thirty -hYe years ago,
and for fifteen ~ tNenfy yfaff, despite
her only partial mastery ~ fhe Egg-
iifh iarRUage, ebf Waa one ~ fas
strongest trsReaieuBee o. fhs AmsFi-