Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
The Grand Staple to the Front at
the Big Exposition.
ALL ACCORDING TO HoYLE
The Standard Makes Display Of
Oil and It's Products That is o.
K. From the Word Go.


more natural than to expect that
petroleum, the lusty young giant
whose growth is the industrial
marvel of the ages, would be well
represented at the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition. 1t now seems
equally certain that an adequate
exhibit. if made at all, must be
owing to the enterprise OF the
Standard Oil company, the great
corporation that never sulks IN
it's tent nor waits for somebody
else to set the pace when any
thing worth while demands at
tention. Neither has it been
found wanting on this important
occasion, although displays by
Pure Oilers, alleged Independ-
ents and the tribe of knockers,
who get up on their hind legs
to howl monopoly" are consplc-
uous only by their absence.
Wordy profession is empty froth;
actual performance is the stuff
that hits the vital spot, and GER
tainly the Standard is no drone
in the world of affairs. Yet some
credulous folks, whom Nature
missed in ladling out brains, keep
buying gold bricks, put good
money into turf investments, read
William J. Bryan's Commoner,
think Parker will beat Roosevelt
and imagine the fellows who
damn the Standard from Dan to
Beorsheba, are the salvation OF
the oil business! Faith, based
upon horse sense, is straight
goods; belief founded upon envy
or ignorance ought to be sent to
the scrap heap with neatness and
dispatch. And this is the TWEEN
tieth century, with the grand art
of printing 400 years old, and
the crop of gullible suckers not
extinct by large majority. Per-
haps some of earth's tangled mys-
teries will be unravelled in the
sweet by-and-by, until which
happy time patience must remain
a cardinal virtue, needful as IN
the days of Job himself.
The Galena-Signal Oil COM
pany's exhibit in the Transporter
ton building does full justice to
the lubricating branch of the
trade. The Galena-Signalites are
built that way from the ground
up and simply can't help doing
the right thing in the right style
twelve times out of every dozen.
The Eclipse refinery of Franklin,
shows case of the heavy oils
that make the county seat ia
nous "from Greenland's icy
mountains to midas coral
strand" Wyoming presents
samples from Natrona and Ulnta
counties, tucked around pyramids
of coal and other minerals. Plac-
ards, in glazing type, assure the
tenderfoot that the dark liquids
came from "the richest oil fields
on EARTH" statement to be ac-
cepted at an immense discount:
Natrona has goodly array OF
small wells: Uinta's score or
more. doomed the past two years
for stock jobbing, stand idle and
deserted. Oklahoma hangs up a
few bottles Of crude in its own
building. a structure decidedly
creditable to the infant settle
ment. Kansas. Indian Territory
and Canada follow suit on the re-
tail plan. These scattered entries
whet the appetite of the petrol
eum-seeker for complete menu,
which the Standard has prepared
according to Hoyle in most salts
factory fashion. Thousands. who
admired the tempting bill Of fare
at Chicago and Paris. have been
gratifed to find it revised, i'm
proved, enlarged and brought
down to date at st. Louis.
Space 43. plump in the center
of the Mines-Metallurgy building,
contains the Standards petrol
cum exhibit. which none can at
ford to miss. The beautiful pa.
vilion. devoid of cheap tinsel and
ginger bread furbelows, was de-
signed especially for exposition
purposes. Striking Transparent
cies on the sides and tops of the
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