The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-10
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! 1t requires a huge staff of clerks and
| secretaries with an almost endless ar
ray of books and records to give away
| the money of John D. Rockefeller, the
Standard Oil millionaire.
Just how much is given and just
! where it is given is a secret between
Mr.. Rockefeller and his trusted cash
/ Ter. Fred T. Gates. These two are nos
! telling anyone what is going on, and
/ they viii not even admit that any
money in any form is going out of the
/ busy establishment. 1t is a fact. now
I ever, that to conduct the charities OF
the millionaire scores of persons are
always busy.
! The system is like a huge mail order
| business. The only difference is that
| the requests for money come into the
office, and instead of sending out lines
I of goods the office sends out aid to the
needy. Like everything else connected
with the Standard Oil concern. this de-
partment is development from small
! beginning How much greater Il VIII
grow cannot be predicted. 1t is grow
/ ing every day and the force needed to
/ operate it is being added to as time
/ progresses.
| At the head of the disbursing de-
partment is the Rev. Fred T. Gates, at
one time a minister, who was forced
{
! creasing call upon him by Mr.. Rookie
Teller. Finally he had no time for any
thing else but the charity bureau. 1t
is his duty TO pass upon all aPplica-
tons for aid. He cannot do this by the
simple reading OF the letters of the
applicants, and has to avail himself of
| the extensive bureau of information
which is a part of the Organization.
| Every charitable organization in the
| county is used to investigate and re-
! port upon the various cases that come
up for consideration. The police and
I the hospitals are made part of the
vast machine constructed for the sole
/ purpose of giving away money.
| The underlying idea of the whole af-
/ fair is to help those who need help. 1t
/ is not desire to give away There
| are thousands of cases where a lift At
] the right moment will avert an endless
amount of misery; and ii is. to reach
! these that the department aims
Sometimes the aid is given direct, and
! sometimes it is applied through the orr
/ ganized charities of the various cities.
/ l. is all done as quietly as possible, and
/ in the majority of cases the identity
of the giver is lost before the gift
reaches its destination.
| The letters asking aid. and many Of
them simply begging, pour into the Of
flee every day. They are taken in
/ hand by the clerks and treated in a
| business like manner. They are clas-
/ sified and assorted. AS they progress
/ through the office many of them are
! disposed of in various ways. Some &c
/ to the police or some particular hos
pital for action. After the sitting proc
/ ess has been finished, the remainder
/ go to Mr.. Gates. He takes them in
/ turn and disposes of them as they may
appear to him to deserve. No time
! must be lost. 1t is a well understood
maxim that real aid must be prompt to
I be effective
/ Inside of half an hour after the mail
! reaches the office there VIII De a dozen
agents of Mr.. Gates out on individual
cases. They have authority to use
their judgment in these cases and "a
! give immediate aid if ii is needed. This
| however. is only in exceptional cases
/ that cannot be reached through the
regular charitable organizations.
he less urgent cases are tabulated
( and sent to the societies with which
/ the bureau has connections. All OF
these are to be investigated and re-
ported upon IN due time. 1t is seldom
/ that these cases are sent to societies
that have not from time to time beer
| supplied with funds by the Rockefeller
bureau. 1t is not heralded TO tht