New-York tribune., 1903-03-15

Union grocery store for a few years. and some
Fairhaven people treasure receipted bills for bags
Of -four and other groceries that bear the sigma
ture Of Henry H. Rogers. In those days the news
Of the town circulated around the stove and
cracker barrels in the Union grocery. and II was
there that young Rogers first heard Of kerosene
OIL A number Of in the town were inter-
ested in the Oil wells, and invested money
made in whale oil in kerosene and this had much
to do with the clerks decision to to the oil
regions
A Fairhaven man. bartholomew Tab"r who kept
a paint shop. partly responsible for Mr.
Roeers's going into Standard OIL Mr. Taber was
a customer OF Charles Pratt, the New-York oil
manufacturer. and one day he told Mr.. Taber that
he looking for yourg man TO enter MS
business, and he would like to get New-England
boy. Mr. Taber knew Mr. Rogers and that ne had
worked In the oil fields and he recommended him
to Mr.. Pratt It was not long afterWard that MI
Rogers entered the employ Of Mr.. Pratt Inc
benefactor Fatrhaven has said that good fortune
had something to do with his success. put MS
friends in that town who know his shrewdness
and business tact assert that man OF his ability
could stay at the bottom.
In his boyhood days Mr.. Rogers and Uncle
George Taber who died last year. aged ninety
four were boon companions. Captain Taber, VINO
went voyage for whales and then salieo IN
many merchant vessels master was to MS last
days practical joker The boy Rogers chased
about town to get gtrnletS to bore square holes
for him. and also attended his Sunday school
class. Captain Taber learned the gentle art OF
using profane language during his career on the
sea. and Mr.. Rogers tells story bearing on THIS
point
When boy went to Captain Tabers place TO
assist the ploughing. I started off on Old Ned
a horse that Captain Taber's father and mothef
rode on to Saratoga I thought when got astrfde
Of him that riding a saw, and he did not
go yerv straight across the field. When Uncle
George saw the snakelike course he forgot the
Scripture about swearing. and at the end OF the
furrow I dropped off old Ned and climbed over
the fence. Captain Taber shouted after me- Here
YOU young cuss where are you going? and 1 re-
piled: I'm going home to get my mother TO PICK
the profanity Of my ears "
When Mr.. Rogers gave the Masons fine busi-
ness block, with lodgeroom finished throughout
IN orartered oak he stipulated that the name
should be changed from Concorda Lodge to George
H. Taber Lodge. and this was done, although cap
tain Taber then alive; and 1t is rare that the
name of living person is given to q lodge IN
the last davs Of his life Captain Tabers visits to
the building were often and his happiness was
complete. AT the dedicatory exercises MI Rogers
made an impressive speech. in which he SAID:
Captain Taber is the finest old fellow ever
knew with a heart as big as an OK ana love
enough for the whole world"
An old woman who lived a farm in Fair
haven's outlying district had trouble with her
lamp one day. The trouble with the wick but
she did not think She turr ed 1t up and 1t
smoked: then she turned IT down and it smelled-
Why not people content to do what they are
rerea tendent I0f of Streets h makes good
better in the country-but just look at his oil n,
BY way Of explanation it should be sad that Mr:
Rogers has held the Office of Superintendent OF
Streets of Fairhaven for seven years ., the Fair
haven High School celebrated and through
an event of unusual magnitude. A dinner such as
Of the people OF tse town rraduates Of
the school and their husbands and wives and NJ;
felisr Of this oacas5S3 he resa xbo
was a
at 45r the and 6Fi@s Was asked about it. Greatest
revival held in esrs 5em tha M raR was
asked. oh they ,o did not get any, but 'neS got
re e Of mans fondness for the place that
is home Mr Rogers told Of visit onds nd mage dfh 10
r,>ne room eight feet square. which stood on the
land at Phoenix almost In the Shaoow 3o d DO #
nomehodv gave YOU $1,000 oo? he asked the old
man day: 1t was minute peIo1e b me o tv.o
thopFht tho FarrsT ert this answer, '"aN@ '''
a MOCK cSeee Schoo and Nj Rogers had chance to
cIt up as he did when he pupil He was 10 10
na1u,s was until he arose and announced the suo,
iect The Hen Roasted: or Truth rr1caseeaai A.
HS4 heq e7eranth 1 month "a The hen hew
over the garden cnne,derabie hT DRY humor
which comnlete surprise m TO tb sch"oaster
o1e of shs qqssonTW s Whsf hsfen IS sS sr
The first answer vas AotheI pney answer u ~ was "A
srroInne1 SIR nf 1noneV H entirely surrounded by men
Mr. Rogers anxious to give os1n1ion hand adn
nHTe 9I ~ Is Ta1ue n11 dissolved in water
When Mr. Rogers had GnarSe 5 vas a. Tepored bv the
emnloves of plant to those OF anotneo ~ .ho,h
phTTassse pT se This code was based the condition
Of his mustache II he lsft ms ms "s7G d " his mus
,acha were turned upward. and as ne stooad td az az
the factories word was sem reTed 0n adyance
~ e,ina had p chance forearm themselves