The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-06
HENRY H. ROGERS
 DREW $116 A DAY Standard Oil Magnate Worked
 as Baggage Master NAME APPEARS ON PATROL L Since Then He Has Spent Millions in
 Good Works for the Benefit of the Massachusetts Town.
APPEARS ON PATROL L
Fairhaven, Mass, Dispatch to the New

Fairhaven, Mass, Dispatch to the New
 York Herald.
 It is not easy for Fairhaven citizens of the present generation to realize that Henry H. Rogers, vice president of the Standard oil company, ever worked for $1.16 day. As evedence that he did, however, Bartholomew P. Fury has a payroll of the Fairhaven Branch Rail road company for the month of June, 1881 which has the signature Henry H. Rog- ers' in black and white At that time Mir. Rogers had been employed twenty two days as & baggage master, and he signed the payroll for $242S.
 There are several citizens in town who have carefully preserved grocery bills which MT. Rogers receipted during his employment in one of the stores.
 Rogers Worked Hard.
 As young man Rogers worked hard for small wages, and when, with his young wife. he left Faifhaven for the oil
 fields of Pennsylvania he was a poor man. His friends have heard him tell of some of the hardships they endured. and the first Mrs. Rogers has never been too | proud to tell with keen delight how she l managed the family washing in the brook l that ran past the cabin in which they | lived.
 No one except Mir. Rogers knows how much this man who worked for s1.16 a day in 1881 has given to his native town. Some think that, all told, he may hpve spent s2,500,000 while others estimate the total at more than $3,00OOO0. He began by building brick school house and turn ing it over to the town. The story that goes with the Rogers school Is that when MT. Rogers was in the high school of the | town he was never comfortable when in his seat, as the desks were so low his legs were cramped under him. When I get money enough I'll give this town a school where children may be comfortable" he Is reported to have said | to his companions.
 Built Modern School. | At any rate he built modern school | in the town. Then he followed it with a | fine building which serves as Town Hall next a free public library, known as MIL | licent Library. a memorial to his daugh- ter, and now he has given to the Unitar- | ian Society a group of buildings-church parish house and parsonage-that are beautiful specimens of church architeo- ture, unexcelled in workmanship. | Mir. Rogers was back of a movement to install a system of sewerage in the town and he was also behind the waterworkE system. Now he Is engaged in converting a millpond that was a disagreeable spot 1T the center of the town into a park. The old Unitarian church was altered into g | school building to accommodate pupils who were unable to find room in ths overcrowded Rogers school, and he built three story Masonic building. which hs gave to George H. Taber lodge. His lat. | est venture is the construction of a hotel to cost not less than s100.000. 1t is said and what will follow is always a topic of conversation among visitors in Fair | haven.
 All things considered, 1t is perhaps no wonder that Fairhaven citizens can hard ly believe their own eyes when they see MT. Rogers name signed to a payroll for wages at the rate of s1,16 day.