The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-31

benevolent He speaks to the negro ia
charge of the Pullman car with.
and returns with punctilious courtesy
the saIutations Of the conductor of the
train and of others who look at him,
almost holding their breath.
The lower part of his face comes to
a curious point. The mouth With a
pointed lower lip, indicates years of
close mental concentration. Upon his
face there is perpetually the expression
OF the man puzziing his mind as to his
next move at chess.
1t is a pointed face beneath a very
wide, well developed head. If one tried
10 analyze ii zoologically, il might be
said that the elephants brain and the
foX's cunning had combined to pro-
cessful man in the great American
game
Mr. Rockefeller was not going TO
town himself 1t was his day to play
golf and TO learn over the telephone
what the world was doing to make him
richer He put the two elderly ladies
on the train and accompanied them 10
their seats on the Pullman car, despite
their protests that he might be carried
away with the train. But that could
not happen. 1T was time for the train
TO go; it didn't go. The porter fol-
lowed Mr- Rockefeller in. while the
conductor held the train Between
them Mr. Rockefeller was restored safe
~ 10 the platform, thanking the con-
ductor and thanking the porter lust
as the train moved off.
Then Mr.. Rockefeller ran along be-
SIDE the car for ten or fifteen yards
as you see small boys do, waving his
hands and smiling at his departing
friends, until his faithful young body
guard checked him and put him in his
automobile, to go back and drive
around his links a little rubber hall
xrr1,fr
remind him sometimes of the world
IN winch he plays so masterful a mart
The English king, centuries ago, Wis
l lteo monastery, and the monk in
nlS~ulary told about 1t. You know how
Carlyle fumed and ragged because the
monk gave no personal details of the
ktnS-didnt tell how he looked, what
ne wore, what breeches he had on.
rms is written that future historians
may have at least some little idea as
TO the appearance of the man who
was the greatest in the United States
andy his own achievement-th
greatest IN influence in the world in
the year 1905.
he is big old man, wide shoulders
STOPPING; intelligent, light blue eyes.
looking out always sideways never
straight ahead. His splendidly devel-
oped head offers the phrenoIogist a
most tempting field bare as it is If
the scientists are right, and evoIu-
ton shall make as ali bald some day.
removing the last animal hair. We
can find comfort in the fact that Mr..
Rockefeller's hairless head Is by no
means ugly
He is pieasant-faced old man. real
~ kindly at heart and wanting to do
good and be liked He takes a bow
lsh interest IN what little fun he has
ne ran beside the moving train like
a boy OF 5.
The friendly look in his eve changes
sometimes TO a heeting but distinctly
unpleasant look of menace when he
sees strangers cycling him too closely;
the look lasts only a second-the defer
entail. almost obsequiousIy polite old
man is again before you.
When you see this very powerful
man leading his absolutely simple life.
above all, refraining from any osten-
tatlous display or any waste of hu-
man labor, you feel thankful that such
very great power Is placed in hands
that do so little harm.
What story will be told of the Rocke-
TELLER power when this quiet old gen
tieman shall have signed his last check
ana ms big hands shall be folded for
ever across his plain black suit?
INTO what kind of work will the for
tune or a thousand or two thousand
million dollars be directed
WIZ 1T continue TO build I'D new in
dustr1es, after absorbing established
ones? Or will it be used for harm
more open and irritating than the cor
ruption Of legislation?
VIII IT continue to make anoyr,o,,s,
approximations Of capital almost bear
able? Or will il become an IRRITATING
ton? III