Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-06-11

le RNll $25O,OOO,O00, yet
when he first en-
Mr. HoOA fAAN"' parked in the Oil
business he was so poor that he could
not get credit for a carload of oil.
Morgan's every step is known to
the world at large. To-day he is scour
ing the country in his private car. To
morrow he is buying a painters mas
terpiece in Paris for 100000. Next |
week he is taking a party of clergymeD
to California to an Episcopal conven-
ton. He gives great dinners to cap |
tains of industry and princes. He dons
knee breeches and calls on the King |
of England. He buys palace in easy
reach of London to spend his last days
in. He promotes monster corpora lions
for a bankers commission. He is a
patron of the opera. He breeds Cue
dogs.
Rockefelers doings are never heard
Of When he gets to his Office at 20
Broadway, New York, not even his
clerks are aware of it. He employs
%, 900 men, and not more than 300 of
them ever saw him. He gives away
$4,000 every year in charity and en-
keep track of his givings, except when
he hands over to President Harper a
million or two for the Chicago Uni
versity.
This shrinking, delicate man, this
Yelled Prophet of Bowling Green, con-
trolls 10 per cent of all the oil product
Of the land. He owns more stock in
Standard Oil constituent companies
than the Standard Oil Company itself,
, and is the largest stockholder in the
parent company. He controls vast
railroad systems. He owns every oil
car in the United States, 10000 miles
, of pipe line, 200 ocean and river steam
. ers and $4,000 delivery wagons.
l Rockefeller's first money was earned
In speculation in hoop poles. He had
. saved a few dollars on the farm of his
= father, and with them bought raft Of
poles, which he floated to a mill on the
g Ohio river and sold at a profit of $50.
! John d. Rockefeller and his brother,
, William, are members of the Stock
. Exchange, but neither is to be seen on
the floor. If the former should walk
upon the floor there would be q panic
among the brokers. They would con-
clude at once that he had bought out
the Exchange lock, stock and barrel,
a an6 owned all the securities in the
"a world. His brokers are unknown to
! the public. Some are hired to sell to-
IS day and others to buy tomorrow.
II Secretaries and attorneys attend to
II all of Mr.. Rockefeller's business ex-
70 cept signing his name. He positively
knows nothing of them. He is as plain
IN ly dressed as any man of small salary
q In New York.
10 Rockefeller never drinks, and 1t is
20 said there never was a bottle of wine
. on his table at home. While less FOND
=. of corned beef and cabbage than Nor
n gan, his tastes In food are simple. Hi:
~ favorite meat is bacon. He likes cod
\ fish balls and tomato sauce. Once in 6
~ while he yields to the cereals.
* There is not a court in the country
~ that has ever convicted a Standard OF
~ magnate, though all the crimes in tn,
81 calendar have been charged. Attor
10 neys General and Solicitors Genera
70 have toiled like madmen to catch JohI
-. d. Rockefeller in the meshes of lega
lv nelS, Dul ne always las SSCupSu.
bs Mr.. Rockefeller had standing offe
is. of $1O00,000 a year to young mai
who could satisfactorily manage thu
affairs of the Standard Oil Compan.
and reiieSe him of the care of the bust
III ness. The young man never came.
You can hear anything about thi
a strange man-good, bad and indiffer
emit. He is the deepest darkest of mys
ID teries. Intensely pious Che is nick
FL named "Pious John" in the street,
giving millions to churches-Lor'
knows how many he owns on mort
-, gagel-he is almost parsimonious a
home.
nj No woman ever admits OUTSIDE TN
Il divorce court that she drew a matr