The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-03

with something of the Maine Yankees typical quaintness of speech and man ner still clinging to him. He's friend not only to the Czar, but to the con- stitutionai rulers Of Brazil. Chilli. Peru. Nicaragua and Costa Rica, having done some signal service for the government of each of those Latfn-A American re- publics He is not so prominent now as formerly in South American affairs. He has his critics, but he has dohe fairly we'll for one who was boy of 17 in 1867 and has had to make his way from that time on.
 James stillman of the National City
 Bank.
 Every one who knows James Still man, President of the Natiohal City Bank of New York, and sometimes called a Rockefeller lieutenant because the Rockefeller millions have played so important a part in the building up of his bank, counts him as having reached the Class c level.
 Stillman Is known almost solely as a banker to the present public. but he was a cotton merchant before he was q banker, having joined the firm Of Smith 6 Woodward nearly thirty-five years ago. after which 1t was known as Smith, Woodward & Stillman. Both Smith and Woodward have been dead for some years. but the firm still lives under the style of Woodward & Still man. James Stillman's brother Charles and friend named Simon J. Harding are the other partners.
 James Stillman would keep this firm of cotton merchants alive. his friends say even If 1t cost good bit of money | to do so. They say he has a pet su- perstition that he must never quit the business he started in at the begin- ming of his career. Reverses In other | lines, no matter how prosperous now, may come, but as long as the cotton dealing firm Is running along he will have something to fall back on. what ever may happen.
 Stillman is rather under the middle size, yet he looks as if he might be n rather tough customer to tackle. or would be. were 1t not for the mollify- ing effect of his znustache upon his fa- cial appearance. It is short--trimmed somewhat at the ends as we'll as over the lip. He is about half way between 50 and 60; and he Is one of the most carefully dressed men in New fork's financial district. Ever since the sum- mer of 1904 he is said to have been held in the most wholesome awe by certain of the sporting fraternity who sail back and forth across the Atlantic for the purpose of fieecing rich men at cards.
 The incident which brought this feel ing toward him into being took place on the Cedric. There were several very rich men among the passengers, but for some reason the gamblers couldn't entice them. One day when the ship was only day or two from port, a final attempt was made to rope in Stillman. This made him hot.
 Look here. now" he cried. DO you see that taffrail? We'll, you get out Of here ar I'll throw you over it."
 Stillman was talking to H. Mex. Twombly at the time, and he looked complete approval of Stillman's words. When the rebuffed gambler backed away he was heard to mutter under his breath that he had never run across so cheap a set of millionaires on an ocean liner before. but the taunt had no effect on either Twombly or Still man.
 It is often stated in print that Will liam Rockefeller married Stillman's sister, but he didn't. William c. Rockefeller. the coming millionaire Rockefeller, as he predicts and his friends believe. married Elsie Still man, and Percy Rockefeller, William G.'s brother, married Edith Stillman. There are no other family ties between the greatest bank in the country and Standard oil, but these two are cer- tainlv sufficient. Stillman's son. James Alexander StilIman, married Eff Pot ter. daughter of Mrs. James Brown | Potter. .Nt
 Just before he got out of active life Carnegies cabinet, as the public un- derstood 1t, numbered a score or more more than twice as many as the Presidents.
 Not many of Carnegies men have reached the standard level as yet, how ever. II. c. Prick has; Henry Phipps has. thought perhaps his friends would class him as a level partner rather
 than as a cabinet minister of Carne- gie. supposed to have finally and admittedly arrived when made President of the steel Trust, but vicissitudes beset him and he yet has some distance to climb before his place will be as firmly fixed as the places of sipps and Prick. Some of Cay men no doubt re- sented the general impression that l their chief importance to the world was | derived from their association with him. Every one was very rich man when that association was dissolved; some of them probably owe nearly all of their prosperity to him.
 1 For years John D. Rockefeller's cabinet in the management of Stand ard oil has been understood to be even larger than Carnegie's, some of the
 published lists including more than thirty names.
 'H So far as anybody knows. John D.