The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-06
WORLDS RICHEST NAN
J. D. Rockefellers Income Ag-
gregates SIS, 5000 Yearly.
HIS WEALTH GROWING RAPIDLY.

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owns standard OH stock with Mar
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which Pays Him Dividends Of Az
most 100000 a Week.
Those who are fond Of computing the
manner in which the wealth Of rich
men expands after the first nucleus
has been obtained are estimating that
in the course Of five years at the rate
Of increase noted for the past five
years J. pierpont Morgan will stand in
the list at the head Of which is John
D. Rockefeller and in which are to be
found the names of the yanderbilts
Russell Sage. the Lewissohns, the AS
tors, the Goelets and a few others,
says Holland, tile New York CORE
spondent Of the Philadelphia Press.
If it is a race for a supremacy In the
field Of individual possessions, neither
Mr.. Morgan nor any other one viii be
able to cover that vast space between
which are the boundaries which sepa-
rate John D. Rockefeller from every
man of enormous wealth. Not even
Andrew Carnegie, who appears to be
bestowing his income IN philanthropies
rather than his principal, can reach out
his hand and bridge the space that sep
arates him from Mr.. Rockefeller All
sorts Of estimates as to BIr. Rockefel-
ler's wealth have been made, some
placing him first in the list of the
worlds rich men, others assigning him
to place second to that Of the Roths-
childs or to the South African diamond
prince.
1t is possible now TO report on the
authority of one whose relations are
almost as intimate TO Mr. Rockefeller
as those of any other one except his
brother and son. that Mr. Rockefeller
is beyond any doubt the richest indi-
viduaI in the world, at least in the
world of civilization and commerce,
and also to report approximately by
what figures his wealth is reckoned.
This friend Ia the course Of CONVEX
sation Of unexpected frankness and
without the imposition Of any conf
dence said with emphasis that Mr.
Rockefellers wealth Is double that Of
any other citizen Of the United States
that his yearly income Is fully the
equal Of the vast wealth William FL
Vanderbilt bequeathed to his two elder
sons, that he can put his hand on more
cash in a day than Russell Sage can in
a month and that his wealth is increas
ing so rapidly that the increase alone
within ten years will reach $1,000,00o,
300.
This friend reports Mr., Rockefeller
as possessing S60.O00,O00 par value Of
Standard Oil stock or certificates. On
4 per cent basis that stock today is
worth nearly s500.000,000 Mr. Rookie
feller's income from that alone las for
some years averaged $40.000,0O0, d lit
tie less than 100000 q week. His
aggregate income for some years has
been approximately S75,000,000. His
Investments in railroads, mines and in
iustrials yield him in the neighbor
hood of S20.000000 year, and while
he is not a large owner Of real estate
from which rentals are obtained, but
chiefly of real estate necessary for rail-
roads and mines, yet his income from
those properties must be considerably
in excess of S1,o0o.000 a year, although
this estimate was confessedly guess
work
An interesting side light upon Mr.
Rockefeller's character was furnished
Turing the course of this conversation,
It was said that as soon as the anti
rebate. the interstate commerce laws
md the antitrust laws were passed
Every officer of the Standard Oil cor
Doration was instructed neither to ask
nor to receive any rebate nor to seek
any special fayors.
The corporation is invulnerable to
lttack under the Elkins or any other
aw excepting that if it should be call
d upon for such a statement of its
condition as the publicity law recently
passed by congress puts 1t in the dis
.retion Of the government to demand
here might be some difficulty in OBJ
aiming report that would be salts
factory to the government. Certainly
10 statement Of the amplitude Of detail
which characterized that recently made
public by the United States Steel cor
loration would be given.
This richest citizen Of the world, even
Ills most intimate friends look upon as
phhinxlike or masked. Every other
me great in affairs, even Mr.. Morgan,
lbides the questions that are asked
concerning his personality, his intel
ect his methods and his temperament.
The western college professor who
ikened Mr.. Rockefeller to Shakespeare
n carrying tile human intellect and
achievement further along toward
.haos than any other had done since
shakespeare's day may have exagger-
tied III that comparison, but II he had
aid Mr.. Rockefeller resembled that
profound intellect in the mystery which
urrounds his personality, his methods
if thought. in his ability to Nemain
lumb while one inquiries, in his capac-
ty for self schooling, self scanning and
lelf content, the comparison might not
lave been farfetched
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