The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-20

tenti, us than the .0e,ns about it. Tn orc corner is desk; in another stands a large safe. In the wall in a wooden frame hangs report, faded and yellow, received in the Fairhaven School go years ago,
 Send in your card to him, and if you have an appointment you will at once
 be shown into one of the half-dozen
 offices that flank the private office. The
 one in which most of MT. Rogers's vis-
 itors find themselves, so far as appear
 ances go, might be the lounging room of New York Club. Autograph let ters of George Washington, Abraham
 Lincoln, Ulysses s. Grant, and Thomas
 B. Reed hang on the walls. On one | wall is row of push buttons. In this room you cannot hear the roar
 of the street or sound of the tickers. l It is very still. At the very minute
 of your appointment you can hear a
 door creak across the hall and a sec
 ond later the door before you opens
 and MT. Rgers stands before you. If
 your visit is personal, he will greet
 you with genial warmth and with a
 kindly light in the dark eyes. As you
 discuss the weather, or watching, or
 some current happening, you can all
 most believe that you are talking with a mildmannered man of affairs. But
 cross MT. Rogers in business, meet him
 on the checker-board of trade, and his
 eyes flash, the square jaw becomes
 tight, and the mild-manered man is the
 incarnation of power and fight. i Mir. Rogers sees many persons every
 day but he never allows himself to
 be interviewed. Some one once asked him. How do yoHs crowd so. much work into a day?". 54..- ass. l T have been at it x a long time, he said Besides he: added, T only
 see people with whom I have business.
 And you may rest assured" he con- | tinued, most of the people come here ! to get something, not to give"
 Just then d messenger brought in l some registered letters and asked MT.
 Rogers to sign the receipt. 8 4" I Take them away" he said. II won't sign them" Then he turned to the visitor. That's ] one way I dispose of business, If the man who sent them can't trust Uncle | Sam with the message, I don't want lit.''
 The link, however, between MT. Rogers and the world is remarkable private secretary. Sine is one of the most efficient and best-paid secretaries in the world. Her salary is not equal
 ed by the bank presidents in cities. She knows absolutely every detail of MT. Ropars,S b1,SinnsS affairs and in his absence often acts for him. When Mir. Rogers makes gift to
 some charity (and he makes many) 1 he says, My secretary will give you a, check for it.'' She has access to a.
 bank account placed in her name by MT. Rogers for just this purpose. His
 name never appears in the matter.
 MT Rogers and competition are not friends. Some one once asked him if i the consumer is benefited when there is competition. Quick as flash he said: If you and were in the tailoring 1 business don't you think I'd try to squeeze out all the competition?" Nothing is more characteristic of ! his business methods than his reply during the Standard Oil investigation lin 1899, when he said: As the man who sold 2-cent. cigars at 60s cents
 apiece in his hack i1r the midle of an alkali desert remarked: We are not l in business for our health.' "-J. s. Gregory in Worlds Work.