The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
LIFE OF SECLUSION
MOST TALKED OF MAN IS UN-
 KNOWN.
While Filling Up Enormous Wealth
 Rockefeller Has Hidden His Personality.

Chicago Tribune.
 Here is one of the greatest accomplish ; ments in the world:
 A man has been able to pile up the greatest fortune ever known and yet kept his personality so far in the background that little or nothing is known of him. It would be difficult to say which at' tracts the greater wonder-the fact that one man has been able to accumulate SC much wealth or the fact that in accumu. lating it he has been able to hide himself so completely.
 The mans name is guessed at once John D. Rockefeller.
 Look at him by way of contrast. J. Pierpont Morgan is a man hard to ap- proach. He says nothing for publication or next to nothing. He is hard field from which to secure information And yet--every move he makes is reported. He buys masterpieces in Paris; he gives great dinners. he SCOUTS the country in a private car, he calls on the king of Eng land, he buys a palace in London. You know a great deal about MT. Mor- gan and MT. Morgan's habits and MT. Morgan's doings He has accumulated a fortune of s5O.OOO,0O0 and you know consid- erable about him.
 That is a drop in the bucket compared to what Rockefeller has made, and yet what do you know about him? You have heard that he suffers from indigestion, that he has lost good deal of hair. that he plays golf little. and that once in a while he makes a speech before a Sunday School.
 Silence Due to Systematic Policy. The fact that you do not know anything 6 about Rockefeller is due to the systematic policy not only of the man personally, but of the Standard oil Company. which he has built up and controls
 If a man quits the company's employ ment he IS informed that he can return to his old position, providing he be dis erect any time he wishes to. That Is. if he keep the secrets of the company he may 20 back A former employe was asked:
 "Can't you tell something about the personal habits of MT. RockefellerT'
 With a startled look he asked:
 Are you going to roast him?'
 Mot at all" he was assured. People would like to have a closer view of him that's all"
 ''Well. don't know anything that would interest you. had sixty men un- der me in his office and not one of them knew a thing about him. don't believe he has any personal habits. IT he has never heard of tnen'
 'Perhaps you mean to say that you don't care to talk about them," was sug-
 T really and truly do not know" he insisted. If did I would not tell you. but I don't know. I may want to return to my old place some of these days and if I talked I could not"
 However there are few things known about the man. A few new points of i'm terest have been unearthed recently. A little light on his character was thrown bv n dealer in pencils who had been sell ing to the Standard oil Company for many years. One day while in the offices Mir. Rockefeller came in and was intro duced to the dealer. After a hearty handshake MT. Rockefeller said:
 q wonder If you couldn't help me to get some leads for this pencil of mlne." exhibiting small gold pencil attached to his watch chain.
 ''Nope; nothing in the market to fit that pencil; it's out of date" replied the dealer. But think we can make some leads for you at the factory. If you will