The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
ROCKEFELLER IS
 READY ID RETIRE Some Astounding Figures About the Money King HIS INCOME IS UNKNOWN Would Probably ,s.e Yearly Receipts of 2e of Largest Postoffiees in
 United States to Equal the
 Enormous Sum.
HIS INCOME IS UNKNOWN
from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 John D. Rockefeller, the worlds rich est man, whether ruling sovereign or pri- vate citizen has set January next as definite date from retiring from active participation in business affairs lie VIII then have reached his G6th year, and he has privately informed the members ot ms bnsiness cabinet that from that date his successor will be his only son, John U. | Rockefeller, Jr.
 In the quiet way in which all his busi- ness matters have been arranged during the quarter century he has been an inter- national factor in commerce, finance and l industry. the details of q relinqu1shment of active control over the most stupen- dous private business in the world nave been perfected.
 MI. Rockefeller has retired from all but three boards of management, and these are such as do not require personal at- 1 tendance or care. His cabinet Of adVls- CTS has been so rounded out that every detail of his work may be carried TOT 1 ward without friction with his son as the final arbiter in all matters ot eAeculNe | administration.
 Will Play Golf.
 With four years on the right side Of the scriptural age line of three score and ten, l Mir Rockefeller will devote his time 10 1 health-giving pursuits, the pastime or l golf playing leading in this itinerary, and I to perfecting certain great plans he mas | in view relating to educational alds. l MT. Rockefellers greatest care after he I turns oyer to his son the big private of I flee at 26 Broadway, where for years ne I has wielded power greater in a nnanclai way than any other one man ever had, will be how to spend his income. | It is a problem to this transformations man of millions greater than many people may appreciate, what to do with the money eeaselessly coming to his treasury from his five hundred millions of profit ably invested capital. He abhors display | and ostentation, and has no costly fads He never spends money for the mere pleasure of spending it, and throughout his life has been conspicuously an exam pie of sane living in an age where ex- tremes were the rage.
 An intimate friend of MT. Rockefeller a business associate whose relations are closer than those of the formers business cabinet, said this concerning his yearly l Income: MT. Rockefeller's wealth Is so great that no one may know accurately what his income is. If you should fix the sum total at $36000,0o0 year, it would be as accurate an estimate as could be made by even MT. Rockefeller himself unless he should stop to sum up.
 A Wonderful Income.
 standard Oil alone pays him from $16,- GOO, GOO to $20 GOO a year as his share of | Its dividends. while his income from rail- roads, fractions, mines. lighting, water, banking and a hundred other sources cas- fly exceeds that from the greatest money- making machine man ever fashoned-the | Standard oil company
 Accepting this authority and making $36, 900. 900 the income which the retiring multi-millionaire must find some way to dispose of every twelve months authen- tic comparisons herewith presented show Mr. Rockefeller's task no easy one.
 Suppose the United States government were called upon to pay MT. Rockefellers s income for just one year. What would it mean if it tried to pay the income from it's postal revenues for instance. It would require the entire 1902 receipts of these 1 great postoffices:
 Chicago, ss.576 400: Philadelphia. a151,- 500; Boston. B. eos GOO; St. Louis, s2,40S.7O0 Cincinnati $1. .4S0, 800; Baltimore, $1. 900; Pittsburg, S1,214o0o; San Francisco, I,2ol, O00: Cleveland, $l.f37000 Buffalo, S109o.- O0o aggregating over S26, 0O0,000, and the government would still be shy about s9, O000G0 which would further require the united revenues of the postoffces of De- troit Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Paul, | Milwaukee Washington. Denver, India napolis Louisville. New Orleans. Atlanta Columbus Omaha, Toledo. Los Angeles and Richmond-in all twenty-six of the largest postofflces in the United States
 Or the government could say to Mir Rockefeller: "There are 76.215 postmasters in this great republic. lake their united z call it square"
 He Would Be the Loser.
 As a good business man MT. Rockefeller would be obliged to decline, or suffer loss of nearly s15Oo0.oOo. It is an astound- ing fact. not capable of comprehension unless brought forward in sharp contrast that Uncle Sam accorded liberal pay master, gives annually as salaries to the l 76,215 stmasters-through whose offices | each year pass s0O0.0000 000 pieces of mail matter-s20 7S3.919 which is only Al of John D. Rockefeller's income.
 Again the government could say to the | Standard Oil mllionare: "The nation pays annual interest on a public debt of s90i. .742. 200. Take the interest on the pub lie debt for your income and give re- ceipt in full Again MT. Rockefeller would be compelled to decline to save himself from loss of over s5.000,000, for so colossal is the golden sheave which flows consciously into his coffers, that the interest on S9o0000,0 GOO of government debt falls short by s5,25O0Oo of meeting one | years flow.
 Turning to it's trade with foreign gov- ernments tine United States could offer to turn over to MT. Rockefeller its entire exports of all products to Venezuela, Ee- uador, Korea Bermuda Chile. Colombia Spain, Haiti Nicaragua. Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. and it would still owe him about s3000.o00. And yet in 1902 its exports to these countries was over S3o. 000.000
 If Uncle Sam should say to the silent man of millions that it would give him in lieu of his yearly income the entire production of silver Tn all it's hints dur ing the year 19j3, the public would he inclined to nudge his elbow and whisper