The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-14
PAYS HER $4,000
TO WARD THEM OFF
H. II. Rogers, of Standard Oil
Trust, Employs a Woman
Cer5eTus.

NEW YORK Feb. 1S.-If you were to
ask the financiers Of Wall street who
might be the most inaccessible man in
their district nine out Of ten of them
would laugh and say:
1t isn't a man, it's woman"
For denying herself to the public who
might have business with the great
corporation of which she is such an i'm
portant part, this woman receives SIC, 900
year. You might count the women in
the United States on the fingers of your
hand who earn this salary. Her name is
K. l. Harrison-Miss Harrison they call
her in the big building at No. &c Broadway
where the great Standard Oil corporation
! has its head offices.
Before her even millionaires must
figuratively bend the knee. Mere en-
ployes of the company-clerks, ac-
countantS, statesmen, secretaries stenog-
raphers, messengers, office boys-look
upon her as third only to the Rockefellers
and II. II. Rogers, the men who control
ana dominate the great concern. She is
private secretary to Mr.. Rogers and not
even Mr.. Morgan himself could get in
T. see Mr.. Rogers unless Miss Harrison
Goked over his card or was told his bus
mess with her chief.
Mr.. Rogers has his Office in the suits
on the eleventh floor which is numbered
1902 Pass within the ground glass and
cherry doors and you meet three import
ant personages. These are the guardians
OF the outer door.
Programme Of Ordeal.
One of them will take your card. If a
glance at this does not satisfy, you must
state your business. Thereupon the card
and business are carried within to an
other room, where the secretary to the
| secretary sits in state. He is a young
man. If he feels that your business is
pressing he will acquaint "Mr. Rogers
secretary" Then it is dollars to dough-
nuts that you get one of two replies They
| will be-
l. Miss Harrison Is too busy to see YOU
| now; if you will call up on the telephons
! perhaps you will be able to let her know
| what it Is you desire"
q Miss Harrison is too busy. She can
only make an appointment by letter"
Of course, when Mr.. Stiilman president
of the National City bank, or one of the
| Junior partners Of J. r. Morgan & Co,
or an emissary from Kountze Bros, bank
! ers, Or tha- New York Central railroad
calls, Miss Harrison is apt to allow the
name to go before Mr. Rogers. But the
minor parsonage whose errand is Of a
! strictly business character has about as
much chance OF getting into Miss Harri-
| sons presence, much less Mr.. Rogers al
he has of seeing Mr.. John d. Rockefeller
! come rushing out with a handshake and
the warm greeting, Come in, old man.
| you're just the man I've been waiting to
| see about this little NATTER
| So the average man uses the telephone
| or the mail after his first call To the
| telephone comes this answer:
Miss Harrison is very busy now. If
| you will call in some day perhaps it will
| be possible for you to communicate with
| Mr.. Rogers"
Those who write get this:
Very Busy Woman.
Miss Harrison is very busy at the
moment. If you telephone as a later
| date, etc. etc.
| Miss Harrison has to her credit rec
| ord that is unsurpassed. Not a soul has
! ever passed her whom Mr.. Rogers did
! not wish to see. Not a soul has ever rea chs
| ed her whom she did not wish to see See
| cret service guards armed with revolvers
and leaden~ billies allowed a crank to
| pass them and STAY President Mckinley.
| The police let a harmless patent medicine
man get to President Roosevelt at his
| uncle's funeral. King Edward has been
| fired at by half witted youth. Inquisi-
| tive society women successfully outwitted
! a phalanx of detectives and special
| guards and without tickets witnessed the
| RoXburghe-Goeletw wedding. But never a
| one has reached Mr.. Rogers without his
| consent coupled@with that of Miss Harri-
son.
This important adjunct to the Stand
| ard Oil menage is tail and spare. She
may be thirty five; there is likelihood
| that she might be forty-five. At any
rate, she has been with Mr.. Rogers for
| fifteen years Those who have been
privileged to see her at close range es-
| innate that she is forty. She is certain
| ly past young girlhood.
Her Looks a Matter OF Taste.
Miss Harrison is what might be called
| good-looking. Her eyes are aglow with
purpose and resolution. When you speak
with her-if you are Iucky-you see in
minute she knows her business and that