The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-17
A STANDARD OIL
COMPANY MEETING
DESCRIBED BY A STOCK HOLDER
WHO DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY HE
WAS TREATED.

WAS TREATED.
The overbearng insolence of a great
corporation, as unnecessary as it is i'm
polite, and as unusual. l might add, as
II is unwise, is illustrated by the recent
experience of a stakeholder i'm the stan
dard Oil Company. Armed with
proxy to represent shares owned by his
wife, and in accordance with the regu-
lar printed invitation of the company
to all of its stockholders to attend its
annual meeting, he started from New
York about 3 o'clock in the morning,
for the office of the standard Oil Com
pany, at Bayonne. y. d. where the
meeting was to be held at 1915 a. III.
Taking the ferry to Jersey City and a
trolley line toward Bayonne, he was
shunted off to a little old-fashioned
street-car line, which finally landed
him on the outskirts of the Standard
Oil Company's works. a mile from the
office at which the meeting was held.
After making inquiries of watchmen,
Workmen, sWitChmen and tlagmen, at
the various railroad crossings in the
yards, he succeeded in threading his
way through labyrinth of tanks
pipes, cars and buildings, until at
about II o'clock in the morning, he
reached a common place brick building
on the very edge Of the bay. He was
told to climb two flights of stairs on
the outside of the structure, and there
hidden away in a loft. without a sign
to indicate its location. the annual
meeting of the great and powerful
Standard Oil Company was being held.
Inquring of a clerk the location of the
board room, this gentleman had an eX-
perience which propose to let him tell
, ~, 10 &c u
known New Yorker, of some promin-
ence in financial and business circles,
and his experience may be of interest
to the general public. He says:
Entering the room where the meet
ing was to be held, | found a fine-look
ing, courteous, middle-aged gentleman,
seated by the side of large table, upon
which were piled the proxies sent in
by stockholders authorizing Messrs.
Rockefeller, Flagler, and others, to rep
resent them at the meeting. The gen.
tleman was in earnest conversation
with a visitor, apparently on some 9TH
en- matter than that which concerned
the stockholders. This visitor shortly
departed and the gentleman turned to
me. | asked if this was the meeting of
the stockholders of the Standard Oil
Company. He replied that it was, and
| then discovered that | was the only
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