The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

let me have the pencil for few days I'll arrange it." ,a
 As Rockefeller detached the trlnket he | asked: "When do get this back? It's something I wouldn't cafe to lose"
 Well. in a week or ten days. I'll take good care of it,
 Genial in Personal Relations. | Speaking of the incident the dealer says:
 He had on a g sack coat and the afr of S10 clerk in a grocery. was nearly paralyEed by his companionable ways. | There l was in the presence of the rich | est man in tho world and the most pow rerful, talking and shaking hands with him just as if we were on the same level. I had a hundred leads made, and | we put his pencil in splendid condition, making 1t look like new, and sent it to | him with the firms compliments. I'm a Rockefeller man ever since. He certainly is q gentleman. I've met hundreds of prominent men in the course of my bus- mess, but never did one appear so court eous as MT. Rockefeller"
 Rockefeller is a director in only four corporations--so far az the world knows. He dominates 16O. He belongs to seven clubs-the Union League, Sons of the ciety, Baptist Social Union. American Museum of Natural History, American Fine Arts Society, and the Ohio So- ciety. In no sense can he be called a | club man. He has no box at the opera. He has no box at the horse show. His only pastime Is golf ana he played that | only for short time to regain his health. At home he sometimes amuses himself ! with a game of solitaire. It has been said that he maps out his plans with cards.
 Plans Many Years Ahead.
 Rockefeller is not without his little sanc- titles. One of them is a firm belief in the occult world and its influences. He used to be a regular visitor at the house of a | well known medium in this city, and it is related that on a certain occasion he had an interview with the shade of Jay Gould. Possibly Jay advised him to take up George and go for the scalps of his enemies.
 "The Standard oil Company, in So far as it's policies are concerned" says an associate of one of the directArs, 'is or- ganized just like an army staff. Rocke- feller is the general, and under him are the major generals. brigadier generals. colonels. etc. His is the master mind He plans fifteen years ahead. The man seems fitted with second sight. Far in the future he lays his pipes and builds his fences. He seems to know which way
 
 feet the commercial and industrial world.
 His ministers or generals used to stand aghast at his suggestions. One day a man who is now a director fin the company and worth $50, ,0O0 600, protested that MT. Rocke- feIler was so far ahead of the times that it would wreck the trust to keep up with him. Uusually the most complaisant of men. Mir. Rockefeller was nettled. and did not endeavor to conceal his personal pique. It was the first time his policy had ever been questioned
 '-And. I may add, 1t was also the last time. If he were to propose something for 1850 to prove that in that year the world would be in such a condition that it would be necessary to pipe oil from whales Tn the Arctic ocean his generals would im- mediately set going the necessary ma chinery to corral the whales and con struct the pipe lines, fully confident that things would turn out precisely as MT. Rockefeller predicted His judgment IS almost infallihle
 Promotes Only His Own Interests.
 Rockefeller has never worked for any one on salary or commission since he was a boy. All of his monster promOtions were for himself and his company. Nor gan. for instance, works for both com missions and salary, getting a rakeoff for whatever he does in the way of reorgan- izing or promoting.
 ''In this alleged Cassatt hunting expedi- ton may say that Mir. Rockefeller be-