The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-13
A s.'n ROCKEFELLER

trFrom Miss Tarbelrs Character Study
| of John D. Rockefeller in the August
| McCIure's.1
study the photograph, the last taken
OF Mr. Rockefeller, study George Var
fan,s powerful sketch from life made in
1903. and say if it be worth while to
cost these portraits show. Concentra-
ton. craftiness, cruelty, and something
! indefinably repulsive are In them. The
/ photograph reveals nothing more. Mr..
yarian's sketch is vastly more inter-
esting for it suggests, besides, both
power and pathos and no one can look
! long on Mr.. Rockefeller without feel
! ing these qualities. The impression
he makes on one who sees him for the
first time is overwhelming. Brought
face to face with Mr.. Rockefeller I'M
expectedly, and not knowing him, the
writer's immediate thought was, This
! is the Oldest man in the world--a living
mummy" But there is no sense of
feebleness with the sense of age; in
deed there is one of terrific power. The
disease which in the last three or four
years has swept Mr.. Rockefeller's
head bare of hair, stripped away even
eyelashes and eyebrows, has revealed
all the strength of his great head. Mr..
Rockefeller is big man, not overtall,
but large with powerful shoulders and
neck like bull. The head is wide
and deep and disproportionately high,
with curious bumps made more con-
spicuous by the tightly drawn, dry,
naked skin. The interest of the big
face lies in the eyes and mouth. Eyes
more useful for a man of Mr.. Rookie
feller's practices could hardly be con-
ceived. They are small and intent and
steady, and they are as expressionless
as a wall. They see everything and
reveal nothing. 1t is not shifty eye
not cruel or leering one. 1t is some
thing vastly more to be feared-a
, blank eye, looking through and
what they found on the way.
But if the eyes say nothing the
mouth tells much. It's former mask.
the full moustache Mr.. Rockefeller has
always worn. is now completely gone
Indeed the greatest loss Mr.. Rookie
Teller sustained when his hair went
was that it revealed his mouth. 1t is
only a sit-the lips are quite lost, as
if by eternal grinding together of the
teeth-teeth set on something he would
have. 1t is at once the cruelest fea-
ture of his face-this mouth-the
cruelest and the most pathetic, for the
hard, close-set line slants downward
at the corners, giving a look
of age and sadness. The downward
droop is emphasized by deep YER
teal burrows running from each side
of his nose. Mr.. Rockefeller may have
made himself the richest man in the
world, but he has paid. Nothing but
paying ever plows such lines in a mans
face, ever sets his lips to such a melan-
choly angle.
But when one has counted the cost
of making Mr.. Rockefeller's fortune
the cost to the public. to his friends
and foes. and to himself, he has not
said all. There is. if you please. another
Mr.. Rockefeller Here then is
the other Mr.. Rockefeller, as the world
sees him, quiet, modest church going
gentleman, devoted to Sunday school
| picnics. golf and wheeling. whose even
ings are never spent in anything more
exciting than a game of numerico.
Il l1.x- I, -I,C
chief occupation. outside of business,
| is giving away as much money as he
can without it's doing more harm than
good, whose chief pleasure is in fine
fields and trees. in flowers and garden
| ing, whose smile is friendly for young
and DID, who welcomes old friends, who
adores his grandchildren, and who
meets criticism and misrepresentation
by quoting the meek doggerel:
There is 50 much bad in the best of us,
There is so much good in the worst
OF u.s.
That it scarcely behooves any of us
| To talk about the rest of US.
There is no doubt that his charities
are many of them personal and never
known outside of HE immediate circle.
There are three or four old ladies In
iCleveland, friends of his youth, to whom
he gives a monthly income. Unfortun-
late Baptist ministers, WORKOUT teachers
and missionaries in great numbers are
Ihelped by him, while the poor of all
grades receive much direct help. OF
course, he gives much to his church.
but he has never made any church the
object of affectionate and lavish Civ
ing. He seems never to have been
willing to give more than what he
| considered his share. . 1t has
| been computed that Mr.. Rockefeller's
entire gifts, pubic and private chart
| ties, have amounted to about $50, OOO,-
| 600. 1t would be fair to cali the aggre-
| gate s40,000,0o0, and that would prob
] ably do Mr.. Rockefeller full justice. 1t
> is not a great sum considering Mr..
, Rockefeller's vast income. Probably
mis- dividends from the Standard
Oil Company alone in the last three
years would cover it, And the STAN
dard Oil Company is only one of Mr..
: Rockefeller's dividend earners
81 1t is quite probable that the man