The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-12-14
ROCEEFELlER'S RICHES GROW
So FAST THAT HIS INCOME
NOW EXCEEDS $4,000
AN HOUR.
he Controls LIS Corporations sni The
Biggest B,sk in The Nation.

- Y published statement that
9 ~ 9 John ID. Rockefeller now
holds no securities outside
e0~ of the Standard Oil certifi-
Gates, is made by the Wall
Street Journal. That publication as
serts that the Standard Oil Millionaire
holds so many securities that he re-
suires one of the largest compartments
of the Standard Safe Deposit Com
pany, and that even this compartment
contains only small percentage of
MT. Rockefeller's vast wealth.
John d. Rockefeller is the richest
man in the world. The value of the
securities he holds is greater than the
holdings of any other individual in the
world. He is represented on the
boards Of more than 125 corporations,
and his income within the last eight
years, according to the Wall Street
Journal, has exceeded 5000. 600.
Half of this vast SUM he received in
dividends from the Standard Oil Com
paf1y. The rest came from other cor
porations in which he is interested.
y Every time John D. Rockefeller
draws 81 ,OO0,0 900 of his income, which
Is something less than twice month,
ID means that the reinvestment of that
sum will swell his income for the next
month. The most moderate estimate
gives him an income Of $50, 100000 a
year, and this is constantly growing.
The most eXtravagant man in the
every year. Mr.. Rockefeller is frugal,
not to say parsimoniouS, and he spends
less each year than many men whose
INCOMES are not very high up in the
thousands.
INCOME OF $1O,O15 AN HOUR.
On this low estimate Mr.. Rockefeller
receives $3.50, $50 a week. Every day
his fortune is increased by $S0.125. On
the basis of an eight-hour day. which
Mr.. Rockefeller's employees do not get,
by the way, he would receive $1O,015
an hour. But Mr. Rockefeller's money,
as well as his employees, works over
time. 1t is never idle. 1t is constantly
addina unto itself. The owner Of this
vast wealth could not impoverish him.
self. He is the modern Midas.
Nr. Rockefeller has virtually given
ep active participation in the business
of all the great concerns in which he
is interested except Standard Oil.
That is his own creature, and he guides
1t still.
His gon represents him on many gov
erning boards But for the i'll health
which has pursued John D. Rookie
falier, Jr., for two years, he would have
ssSnmpd still more Of the burden of his
fathers fortune.
The elder Rockefeller has reinvested
His inaone rs rapidly as he has re.
ceived it, and has elected his business
associa les to represent him on boards
where his interests needed watching
TIE following list Of corporations that
are dominated by the Standard Oil
Company or have representatives OF
the Standard Oil on their boards Of di
rectors will give an idea of the vast
power Of this one man in the business
woFld.
ROCKEFELLEE CORPORATIONS.
Eailcaad companies--Baitimore and
Ohio, Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western, Missouri Pacific. Central New
England, st. Paul. Michigan Central
New York Central New York, New
Hsven and Hartford. New York, On
4ario and Western, Northern Pacific
Piusbufg and Lake Erie, Chicago and
AItDn, Chicago and Northwestern, Chi
cago burlington and Quincy, Southern
Pacific. Union Pacific.
Industrial companies, etc.-Americar
Idpsee,1, Colorado Fuel and Iron, Fed
eEal Mining and Smelling. United
kfStes Steel Corpora ton, Standard Oh
Company, Amalgamated Copper Com
pany, Anaconda Mining Company
BGOoklyn Union Gas, Consolidated Gas
Company, East River Gas Company
UAited Metals Selling Company, Allls.
Chalmers Company. sThompson-Starre
Company, Western Union Telegraph
Company. Buffalo General Electric
Company. Buffalo Natural Gas, Inter.
nsHionaf Steam Pump Company, Mag
ara Falls Power Company, Northw est
FLA Ou4O 4AdluIdl JdS SUlQDduY, NEW
York Glucose Company, q. S. Realty
and Improvement.
Banks, trust companies, etc.-Colum-
biz, Bank. Hanover National Bank, Lin
coin National Bank, Mechanics Ma
tonal Bank. National City Bank. Mu-
tunl.Idfe Insurance Co., United States
Tp1st Co.. Bowery Savings Bank, Cen
trsl Realty Bond and Trust, Citizens
Central National Bank, Columbia
Bank, Farmers Loan and Trust Co.,
National Butchers and Drovers'. New
York Life Insurance Co., Title Guar
aztec and Trust, New York Trust Co.,
Riggs National Bank. Washington;
SSAboard National Bank, Colonial
trust Co., Peoples Bank, Buffalo.
COUNTRY IN HIS HANDS.
The wealth of many of these may be
reckoned as Rockefeller wealth. As
nauch as any individual may he coz
trpls United States Steel. The Ma
tional City Bank, with its $4,000, 900
a ~s& grx u