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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18

large sums similarly invested in New
England and the central west.
Two important items of John D.
Rockefeller's fortune are frequently
overlooked in making computations OF
his wealth. These are his holdings or
real estate and mortgages and OF gov
eminent and municipal bonds. Both are
so vast that if we undertook to follow
out the threads that lead to them they
would take us to every part OF the Unit
ed States and across the Atlantic.
While Mr.. Rockefeller's real estate
holdings would amount to probably
SO. O0O, 900, such investment does not
prove a very attractive venture for the
astute fnancier. He prefers to let the
other fellow own the real estate n ne
hold the mortgage. The city of Cleve-
land is an example of this. He owns
valuable property there-Forest Hills
and his Tarrytown IN. Y.) estate Is
truly baronial in its magnificent proper
tons. but these are nothing in COM
parison to his mortgage holdings. In
Cleveland he holds a $4,000 mortgage
on the principal hotel, a mortgage for
| a like amount on a large wholesale bust
ness. and banking and street railway
holdings which would bring the total to
SIS. 600, 900 in the Ohio city alone.
But Cleveland is not the only city In
the United States that is doing a good
part of it's business on John d. Rookie
feller's money and paying him well for
the privilege. New York, Chicago, Pitts
burg and Buffalo are cases in point.
Will Be Worlds First Millionaire.
OF Mr.. Rockefeller's holdings in gov
eminent and municipal bonds it were
die to speculate. His beneficent atten-
lions have been bestowed on other fields,
too. that are not included in any Of the
above classifcations, such as that of
the big insurance companies, steamship
and telegraph and building corporations
and other things, as the department
store advertisements say, too numerous
to mention.
Taking into account all these wide
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18

danger of unlawful combination will be
passed.
But however that may be, certain it
is that a war cloud of ominous proper
tons is arising upon the horizon OF
the Standard Oil company's sky. 1t
began to gather in Kansas, that home
of the cyclone, and has spread until
from Texas TO New York and from
the Indian territory through the
prairie states of Illinois, Iowa and In
diana to the capital city on the Po-
tomac. the ominouS mutteringS of the
coming storm have been heard. Had
the Standard only had to deal with the
situation in Kansas it would have
been the merest child's play, the most
amusing diversion, to have in time
crushed all opposition and forced the
people and the state into submission.
John D. Rockefeller has been laugh
Ing UP his sleeve and serenely waiting.
It has amused him to read in the pa
pers that the Kansas legislature had
appropriated $4,000 for the estab-
iishment of a state refinery to buck
against his $3.50, 0O0, 900 company. He
has been annoyed, perhaps, at the eff
fort to NEEDLE with his pipe lines, but
he has felt confident that the end
would come in victory for him and the
establishment of his company in the
state on firmer basis than ever before.
He has mapped out a campaign OF
waiting. This great %fnancier, this
$3.50. DOC, 900 money bags, a afford to
wait, for his dollars work while he
sleeps, and he car keep busy banking
the $50, 000, 900 yearly income from his
investments while the Door Kansans
see their $410, 900 refinery a sink hole
into which to pour the wealth of the
state and the independent producers
there brought to a state of sub
mission where they will be willing to
make peace at Rockefeller's own
terms. and if reports are to be credited
Rockefeller's terms are never generous
except to the interests of Rockefeller
himself. He is never satisfied, it IS
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18
GIGANTIC STRUGGLE WHICH HAS BEEN
BEGUN AGAINST H GREATEST
OF L COMBINES.
THE FIRST GUN FIRED in KANSAS
Government Orders an Investigation Which Will Lay
Bare the Methods of the Oil Octopus--John
d, Rockefeller and the Part He Plays
in the Game-In Fifty Years
He Has Become the Worlds
Greatest Potentate.

said, unless he can buy at ruinously
low prices and sell at figures which
tell the story of a fair &? profit OF
several hundred per cent.
Kansas Fires the First Gun.
Kansas seems to be always doing
things which other states are afraid
to do, or never think of doing, and she
has fired the first gun in this ire
mendous war, and, as Lincoln's call
to arms in 81 was met by the cry
from the different states: I'VE are
coming, Father Abraham, 100000
strong" so the sound of Kansas first
shot at the oil octopus has aroused
the nation, and on every hand, and
from unexpected directions, reinforce
ments are coming to the aid of plucky
Kansas.
The Government to Use It's Probe.
The most important of all develop
ments in this fight has been the action
of congress in ordering the department
of commerce and labor to begin i1-
vestigation of the business of the
Standard Oil company, and as an evil
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18
Telling Time by the Scales.

81 happened to be in a butcher shop up
in Harlem the other afternoon" said
Mr.. Edward Morgan, the assistant post
master of New York, when In came a
woman of ample proportions and unmis-
taxable Hibernian extraction. The
scales were the ol~d-fashioned kind. with
a round brass dial, on which a pointer
swung around to indicate the pounds.
AFTER she had waited some tine her
eye happened to light on that dial, and
she jumped like q deer as she almost
shouted:
For the love o HiVen. give me that
mate, quick. It's six o,c1ock."-N. (.
Herald.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18

The Worlds Greatest Potentate.
From the purely financial point OF
view, however, Mr.. Rockefeller is easily
the worlds greatest ~potentate. Tho
car of Russia enjoys al annual income
of about $12, 600, 900; Emperor William,
as king of Prussia, receives a little less
than 1900, 900; the emperor of Austria
Hungary, S .875.000; King Edward, ST.
1885, 900, and the king of Spain, 5 $1,000, 900.
In the expressive phrase of Wall street,
King John, as emperor of oil, king Of
steel, banking and railroads, and
prince of several lesser dominions,
could buy and sell them all. If he had
to earn his present wealth at the rate
of two dollars a day, which many of his
employees receive, it would take him
something more than $4,000 years to
accomplish the task, or considerably
longer than we have any record of in
human history. 1t is not merely tho
number Of John d. Rockefeller's mil
lions, astounding as is their total, that
is most impressive. 1t is the power
which they convey. BY reason OF his
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-03-18

spread interests, Il is not difficult "a
figure out that John d. Rockefeller ID
already possessed Of upward OF $780,.
900, 900, or that, with the power which
his vast wealth gives him of buying
cheaply when prices are at rock bot
tom and when financial stress compels
the holders Of particular properties to
let them go he will become a full
fiedged Millionaire within another ten
years, If he lives so long. Indeed, the
accumulation of his yearly income OF
$50, 000, 900, or thereabouts, will carry
him to that point without any allowance
for the appreciation of the properties in
which his money is invested such as Is
certain to occur.
If one were to construct a table show
ing chronologically the growth Of Mr..
Rockefeller's fortune it would read about
as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
=" The Invisible"

DIR. Alexander j. McIvor-Tyndall, the
will speak this afternoon at Blanchard
hall at the usual time on the subject
The Invisible" DR.. McIvor-Tyndall
is fast becoming famous as a liberal
and progressive lecturer, no less than
as an expert in the investigation and
study of the unknown powers of the
human mind and soul.
The psychologist makes no attempt
to found new religion, but rather to
establish the unity between religion
and science, which he holds are one and
the same thing, when each is rightly
understood. Something of the life about
us which, though invisible to the av-
erage intelligence. is none the less real.
will form the basis of his theme this
afternoon. Next Sunday he will speak
on The Vital Spark"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
Japs in Faust"

Goethe's Faust" says writer in
the Theater magazine, is often per
formed in Japan, but adapted to the
taste and patriotism of the Japanese.
The heroine of the drama is always
Marguerite, the seducer is always
Faust, but Mephstopheles is always
modern European. 1t is plainly
shown that it is the perversity of this
Satanic being which fills the world
with grief and calamity But when
Marguerite, abandoned by her lover,
dishonored and guilty of infanticide, is
dragged before the bar of justice, the
judges have pity upon her, and for sole
punishment make her swear that she
will avoid forever all contact with the
infamous Occident. She swears will
ingly, and she is then permitted to re-
habilitate herself by marrying a Japan
ese warrior who returns victorious
from the plains of Manchuria.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
The Shakespeare Memorial

The movement to erect in London an
adequate memorial to Shakespeare is
taking form and promises in due time
to beget something worthy of the OBJ
ject. Meetings are being held at in
tervals and many distinguished per-
sons have shown interest in the project.
Various plans as to the form of the
memorial have been submitted. among
them ideas of a national theater for a
hospital, for a monument and for a
Shakespeare house, equipped with a
splendid library and adorned with
statues" but all this of course is tenta-
tive, and it will be some time before a
definite plan is decided upon. When all
the great minds that have shown a
keen interest in the project come to
compare notes and the best idea is fixed
upon, no doubt something in line with
the greatness and dignity of Shake
speare will be the result.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16

is the Basque equivalent for Red Villa.
Madame de Rostand is, like her hus-
band, literary. She was Rosamond
Gerard, the author of a volume of
verse called Les Pipeaux." She is
now the mother Of two little boys,
Maurice and Jean.
Under governmental instructions
Juan Boarri, an architect, is drawing
new plans for the National theater,
Mexico, that will be built on tract of
land facing the east end, or the Ala
media. The plans being drawn are for
a building that will cost not less than
s3,0000O0. Little is known of the char
acter of the plans for the proposed
theater other than they will be for
building much larger than any theater
in the city and much more elegantly
furnished and equipped. One set of
plans has already been submitted, but
did not meet with approval.
Maxim Gorky, during his recent i'm
prisonment in a Russian fortress, COM
pleted new play, "The Children of
the Sun" of which the police has seized
the manuscript. The idea of the play
is that there is a great gulf between
cultured Russian society and the poor
classes, and shows that while one-half
of society is rich and cultured and the
other half sunk in barbarism united
happiness is impossible
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
Friendly CIergyn7en

Following is a letter published in
the Denver Republican and written by
Rev. w. Parry Thomas, rector of Holy
Trinity church, Greeley, Colo. 1t is in
answer to an attack on the members
of the theatrical profession made by a
Denver clergyman:
After reading of the reflections made
upon the theatrical profession by one
who calls himself a minister of Christ,
I fell that have something to say and
something that / ought to say. 1 have
always felt it a part of my duty as a
priest of the church to which l belong
to look up the members of my church
In the theatrical companies, circuses,
etc, that come to my parish, and have
done this for more than twenty years.
I have been in close touch with these
people. 1 believe them to be morally,
intellectually and religiously the equals
of any class of people. Were 1 asked
today, What class of women earning
their own living do you consider the
most careful in making acquaintance?
I would without a moments hesitation
say actresses and lady performers in
circuses. The sneer at the morals of
these people comes from those who
know nothing of them-sometimes, in
deed, from men and women who have
never in their lives spoken to them.
Where are the mothers, l would like
to know, who give a better moral train
ing to their children than this much
maligned class of mothers? Who has
ever appealed in vain for charitable
cause to the men and women of the
stage? AS whole l have found them
particularly grateful for every Kindness
shown them"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
Future of Opera
BY GRACE VAN sTUDD1FoRD.

BY GRACE VAN STUDDIFORD.
believe that the future of the
comic opera as we have chiefly known
it for the last few years will be brief.
I believe that better day is coming,
a day that will see the public dissatis-
fed with comic opera that is not musi-
cal, that Is not we'll sung, that is moth
ing but a string of variety acts. Right
in New York you probably cannot see
this but through the country one can
On Broadway a second or even q
third rate singer can now make hit
in comic opera, if she will look demure
and get off some gags on local mana
gers and events around the Tenderoin,
which no one but Tenderloin fire.
uuenters ever heard of. And there
are enough of these frequenters in
New York to keep opera after opera
successful. On Broadway today is the
easiest place in America to gain n
reputation in comic opera. But out
through the country the people who go
to light opera are not of this class.
They are more critical, they like good
music we'll sung, and are getting tired
of sextets and Stiffness. A fresh de-
mand for legitimate light opera Is
arising, and-now don't laugh at me
the composers and librettists are go
ing to rise to meet it.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
11TsIDE of grand onera. !

UTSIDE of grand opera, probably
the chief attraction Of the coming
~ week in local theatrical circles
will be the revival of the famous "Old
Heidelberg" at the Belasco. This is a
stock company attraction which can be
Internationally praised 1t was pro-
duced here with better balanced and
generally more efficient company than
the original in which Richard Mans
field appeared The theater press
agents talk can be taken for truth in
this case and such instances are
rare.
Melodrama will continue at the other
stock theaters and both promise to give
attractive bills in this line. At the
Mason will be seen a couple Of Dutch
comedians.
While the theater season in New
York is nearing it's close It is promised
that much of what is best is still in
store for Los Angeles. Many of the
bigger stars, including Julia Marlowe
and e. II. Sothern, are billed for the
near future.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16

declare that it will have nothing in
common with that system.
There will, it is said, be no box Of
fees in these theaters. The tickets
will be given out by certain merchants
in each city interested in the system.
the supposition being that customers
will be favored thus without expense
to them. 1t is advanced as IAN ad
vertising idea, pure and simple"
I'VE will have our own booking
agency" Mr.. Pelletreau is reported as
saying, land shall give four vaude
Vile performances a day, two in the
afternoon and two in the evening,
with the best talent to be secured"
The Lyric. a German theater in
Cleveland, is reported to have been ta
ken for this enterprise, the German
society from which it has been leased
reserving me right to use it on Sunday
evenings for productions in that tongue.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
Easter Week Attraction

At the Mason opera house, Easter
e. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe in u
Shakespearean repertoire including
Much Ado About Nothing" Hamlet" 4"
and Romeo and Juliet" All these
three plays will be adequately por-
trayed and pictured by these newly al
lied stars and an admirably selected
company.
In many respects Mr.. Sothern has
been the hope of the American stage.
He has youth, intelligence, ambition, d
studious, perseVering temperament, and
many years of excellent experience for
He is a master of stage technique and
an artist in it's fullest sense, yet Mr.
Sothern's art is deeper than for art S
sake merely. 1t makes for progress,
and he achieves the efforts that he
aims at; hence he has warrant for the
conception of the characters which he
'portrays; and his point of view de-
serves to be borne in mind. He, it is
said, gives the finest performance of
Benedict yet seen upon the American
stage; his Hamlet has passed the critl-
cal period. while as Romeo" he Is the
passionate and inspired lover, and most
impressive where tragic intensity is re-
quired.
In Miss Marlowe's Interpretation of
the charming characters of the roper
toire we have the personification of the
best ideas. AS Beatrice in much Ado
About Nothing she banters, jeers and
satirizes Benedict to her hearts con-
tent, to ultimately yield to him. AS
Ophelia, part which has almost in
variably been badly played, she is said
to be a revelation and is the Fair
Ophelia" herself. AS Juliet we have
the highest conception of maidenly per-
fection. Miss Marlowe, in her imper-
sonations, is apparently as young as
when she first fascinated by her exqui-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16

a new drama by Pierre Berton,
produced at the Paris Ambigu and to
be seen next season in New York city.
The story begins in Paris in the year
1915 and relates the adventures of a
fascinating lady whose husband, hav-
ing lent his clothes to fellow con-
spirator to enable him to escape from
the anger Of Napoleon, is supposed to
have been killed. Subsequently she is
ordered by the emperor to marry one
Of his e-de-camps, and, her hus-
band being alive, though officially dead,
she finds herself i'm a great dilemma.
Clara Bloodgood will be starred next
season under the management Of Lie
bier e. Co. in a new comedy by an
American playwright. She is now re-
hearsng for the revival of she
Stoops to Conquer" and has also been
engaged for the role of Herself in
How He Lied to Her Husband" part
of the double bill Arnold DAILY is pre-
senting at the special matinees at the
Garrick theater.
! Tim Murphy has in mind project of
supporting company made up eX-
clusively of the descendants of actors.
Some of the people he is said to have
in view are: A niece of John Drew;
John Barrymore, son of Maurice Bar
rymore; a grandson of Joseph Jeffer-
son; Mildred Morris, daughter of the
late Felix Morris; Charles Dibden Pitt,
son of Harry and Fanny Addison Pitt; /;
Gilbert Miller, son of Henry Miller If
his release can be secured from the U.
S. marine corps; one of Edwin Booth s.
nephews; Alfred Mansfield, of London
nephew of Richard Mansfield and
Vera Brewster, niece of Julia Mar
lowe, now singing in comic opera.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Sarah
Bernhardt appeared together in London
last spring in a French version of Mae
terlinck's poem, "Palleas and Meis
ande." They are to make another joint
appearance in the same play on Mrs.
CampbelIs return to Europe. Later
Mrs. Campbell will make a tour of the
continent, playing "The Second Mrs
Tanqueray'' in French, and using the
version Of the Pinero play made for
Nine. Jane Harding.
1t has come at last-Frenzied FL
nance in dramatic form has found it's
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
Latest In Theafers

1t is reported that chain of thea :
tiers on novel plan is about to be es
lished in leading cities, to be called
THE Merchants Theaters of the Uni
ted States"
w, b. Lawrence and A. M. Pellet
reau, capitalists of Detroit, are said to
be behind the project, and to have al
ready secured houses in two or three
cities.
While this purposed system. if it
should materialize, seems to be an out
growth of the trading stamp idea as
applied to the selling of merchandise
at retail, its projectors are reported to
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
GreenrOOn1 Gossip

During her Philadelphia engagement
in April Mary Mannering will produce
her version of "Frou Frou," written
by Stanley Dark. L. Daniel Frawley
is the leading man of her company
and before the close of the season it IS
expected that several productions Of
THE Lady of Lyons" will be made
with Mr.. Frawley as Claude Melnotte
and Miss Mannerng as Pauline.
A sure sign that the theatrical sea-
son in New York is nearing its close
is shown in the number of old plays
being revived. Among these are
sherlock Holmes at the Empire;
Buster Brown" at the Majestic;
Richard Mansfield in "A Partisan Ro-
nance" at the New Amsterdam; Lon
don Assurance" "Florodora" and THE
Darling of the Gods" Owing to the
sudden illness of the actor originally
engaged to appear, James Neill was
given part in the cast secured to
support Miss Ellis Jeffreys in London
Assurance"
The Russian censor has barred Toll
stoy's new play, Behind the Scenes
in the Russo-Japanese War;" and the
count has offered it to the world at
large.
A novel disrobing act is creating
something of a sensation in London
and will probably be seen in this coun-
try next season. A young woman in
full evening dress mounts a pedestal
and a sharpshooter commences firing
at her with rifle. By an ingenious
arrangement of springs each bullet re-
moves a portion of her attire.
Francis Wilson, who is now in
straight comedy, said the other night
in curtain speech that he was glad
he had a plot back of him nowadays,
instead of merely pink tights.
1.-The Jury of Fate" is the title of
a new play written by c. M. S. Nc
Lellan, which has been acquired by
Sam s. Shubert. 1t will be produced
next season. Mr.. Mcclellan is at pres
ent in London, comforting with Charles
Frohman over the London production
of Leah Kleschna," which will be
made some time in April
Nat Goodwin has sold his English
estate, Lakewood" and is looking
around for country place not too far
from Broadway.
LA Belle Marseillaise" is the name Of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-16
FraWIey as Burns

Here is what the matinee girl in the
Dramatic Mirror says of an old western
favorite:
"Dashing Tim Frawley, late manager
magnate OF the Pacific coast. with a
Golf like shop girls dropping. eye
brow meeting pompadour, is a sight
to depress his western admirers. Mr..
Frawley would have played Bobbie
Burns we'll in Nancy Stair had there
been anything to play. But he fitted
on and off the stage, a dark, addressed
shadow, that recites few lines of his
own poems and disappears. leaving a
blurred, unsatisfying picture. The
fault was not Mr.. Frawleys. Mr.
Potter's short order plays frequently