Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-11
MAY OuTDO CARNEGIE.
Employee of Rockefeller Tells of
 More Gifts to Come.
OIL KING EAGER TO GIVE FREELY

One of His Estate Managers Gives
 His Employers View of the "Taint-
 ed Money" Controversy-Tells of In-
 cidents of His Kindness to the Poor
 and His Great Love For Children.
 The following is John D. Rockefel- ier's side of the tainted money" con- troversy, as given by one of the man. agers of his estate at Pocantico Hills, in New York state, man who has been in MT. Rockefellers employ for ten years and has shared his confidence during all of~that time, says the New York American.
 MT. Rockefeller is greatly distressed over the criticism that was directed against him by ministers of the gospel following his recent gift of large sum of money to the board of missions. He is determined, however, not to be dis couraged from making further gifts to religious, charitable and educational institutions, and purposes transcending F in liberality and generosity all dona- i tions heretofore made by philanthro pists. He recently gave away $11,O ,O0O,- 900. He will soon give away even lar i ger sums.
 "Why does Mir Rockefeller not an swer his critics!" was asked. With en- thusiasm the Rockefeller manager who stipulated but one thing-that his name be not used-replied:
 l MT. Rockefeller has refused to make reply to those who have criticized him because whenever he has undertaken to speak to the public his statements, | if not distorted in the first instance, have been misconstrued and misinter- preted.
 "Only recently, when Mir. Rockefeller and I were driving through the estate together. he said to me:
 ".Why do people abuse me so? Can 1 it be possible that l am regarded as an enemy of civilization? I am willing,
 yes, anxious, to give freely of what l possess, but my money must go where it is intended to go and not line the pockets of others
 "Mr Rockefeller is deeply interested in road building. In fact it is one of his hobbies. There are thirty miles of l macadam roads on the estate, and they cost MT. Rockefeller between S3,000 and S10000 mile, according to the amount of filling in and blasting that ] had to be done. The work is still pro- gressing and when completed there 1 will be fifty miles of the best roads in all. Between nine and ten miles of these roads have been turned over for public use The town authorities have never shown any appreciation of this or of the other things that Mir. Rocke- ; feller has done for the community. On i the contrary, they lost no opportunity 1 to criticise and abuse him because he refused to turn over the money to them and let them do the road building. MT. Rockefeller hired the men-40O of them, all skilled at road building-built the i best roads that could be laid out and then turned them over for public use. That made the authorities angry. But Mir. Rockefeller is determined that if his money is to be spent for the public i good or for charitable, educational or religious betterment, he must know where it is to go, how it is to be used and what benefits are to be derived from it.
 When MT. Rockefeller first came | here to Pocantico Hills, the inhabitants were actually hostile to him. They sup | posed his intention was to drive them away, that he proposed to tear down all their cottages and houses on his es- tate and compel the people to look else where for homes. As matter of fact he has not torn down Q single house and will not do so unless perhaps it is house that is beyond repair. Every | house on the premises has been repair ed, painted and made as comfortable as possible for the tenants.
 .'The rents they are asked to pay are smaller than would be asked if the i houses were owned by any one else. In many instances MT. Rockefeller asks no rent at all. and I can tell you of 1 families that he has taken care of for years-famiiies that had met some mis- fortune and that would either have starved or become public charges had not Mir Rockefeller stepped iE, furnish ed medical attention wherever it was needed, purchased provisions. fuel and clothing and supplied every want.
 Last year Mr. Rockefeller bought a parcel of property and added it to his estate. On it was house occupied by a man named Mcintyre. Scotchman, who had a wife and five children. Me [ Inyre fell sick. lost his position, and [ the condition of the family became des- perate. Several of the children be came i'll from lack of nourishment and neglect, and the matter was finally called to Mr. RockefeIler's attention. | It was who mentioned it to him in a casual way.
 GO to them al once he said to me, and see that they get everything they need Then report to me-
 T tol1 him tint aside from fool they were most in Eoed of a physician. Mir
 Rockefeller sent to New York for the best doctors he could obtain. and he cared for that family for several months until McIntyre finally obtained