The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-13
JOHN D. AND RUMsELLER.
Swedish SaloonkeePer Says Rockefel-
Ter Is Too Deep For Him.
brooklyn Eagle.)


This is the story of the Two Johns One
Is JoIln ID. Rockefeller worth $780,, 900, eco,
and the other is John l. Melin worth
$4,000. Herein may be read how John -.
Rockefeller, master of men and of mil
lions, has up 10 the present time met his
match in the tactics of John Meln,
the square jawed, phlegmatic Swedish
Saloonkeeper, whose rum shop STANDS
lmpudently at the head of the crossroads
standard Oil king al Northampton
But a new deal has just been shuffIed
from the Rockefeller deck. and all the
good people in the Pocantico hills. from
the millionaire jewellers in the high lands
10 the aStute philosophers sitting around
the red hot stoves in the stores at larry
town and White Plains are wondering
what is going to happen next. This lat
est move on the part of the rockefeller
IN order to take away the patronage OF
the offending saloon.
In the meantime the war is on and
Melin's flag is stu flyings But in the
interim, every time that the reputed
richest man in the world is driven to the
Tarrytown railway station to catch u
thE One-stOry frame shauty with the giar-
ing legend informing the thirsty way
farer that all kinds Of wet goods, from
brown pep and Herklmer county apple
jack TO yellow peril beer and WHISKY war
ranted to kill while you wait may be had
within Some men struggling WIN the tOtdl
. abstinence principle might avoid the i'm
pudent little gin mill by riding cross
country on the back OF a thOrOGSh Dred
hurdle is4uaDar .tIrSnfu
Others might cIrcunvent the willy dealer
in red liquor by constructing a subway
from their mansion to the railway tracks
But Mr. Rockefeller has other ways
ways that have resulted in the eHpendl-
ture Of much money and that have, IN
cidentaily. brought much trouble To the
door Of John Melin-
But during all this battle royai. which
has extended over period OF three years,
and which has not yet reached its cuI-
minaJiOn, Melin has never weakened, but.
on the contrary, mas, thus far, beaten his
D mn frr1fl i'm afra MT fGf
point In vain Mr.. Rockefeller has at
tempted 70 buy out the saloonkeeper-
begged and coaXed, but this squat legged,
broad shouldered Swede has shaken his
head and said he knew his business. Now
Rockefeller has adopted new tactics. lie
Is buying up the whole town of Briggs
vile. in which Melin does business, on
the logical dcduction that If there arc no
( people to drink whisky and beer there
VIII be no whisky and beer sold, ana
without The sale OF whisky and beer there
Mr.. Rockefeller is said to have teen in
some big fights in his life He has
! achieved the reputation of having sue
ceSSfully led battles in which millions or
dollars were involved. Wall street has
/ eyed him with suspicion and admiration
He has conquered all obstacles in a
gigantic enterprise that has n it's mag
niUude astounded the financierS of TWO
hemispheres. But in ali his fights. in
all his financial calculations. it Is doubt
/ full II he has ever entered into battle
+ with more vim and moro grim determine
/ ton to come out the victor than he has in
I this warfare with the other John who has
] planted himself down on his stOcky legs
/ like a bulldog with the resolve to stick
/ Il out as long as there Is bark and a
/ bite left in him. And Wall street and
1 POcanticO hills are looking on with bated
: breath.
! Now, with two such foemen-each
worthy of the others steel.-it becomes
/ interesting to know what kind OF men
! they are. Mr.. Rockefeller is, perhaps.
/ the better known of the two When he
/ is driven along the old SLEEPY Hollow
/ road that intersects the Bedford road
right at John Melins GROCERY everyone