The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-30
ROCKEFELLER HAS
REMARKABLE FACE
Miss TarbeII Describes Man
Called Money Mad
He HAS WONDERFUL EYES
See Everything, But Reveal Nothing.
Vivid Picture of the Stand
ard oil King and His
Homo Life.
He HAS WONDERFUL EYES

Miss Ida NJ. Tarbel concludes in the
August McClure's Magazine her charae-
ter study of John D. Rockefeller.
After quoting what Mark Hanna said
of John d. Rockefeller: Money mad
money mad; sane-in every other respect
but money mad she goes on to describe
him thus:
1.-THE impression he makes on one VINO
sees him for the first time Is overwheim-
ing. Brought face to face with Mr.. Rookie
Teller unexpectedly. and not knowing him,
the writers immediate thought was, ihls
is the Oldest man In the world-a living
mummy But there is no sense of feeble
ness with the sense of age; indeed 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 a
big man. not overtall put large, with
powerful shoulders, and a neck like that
of bull.
"Eyes Like WALL"
1.-THE head Is wide and deep and dispro-
portionately high, with curious bumps
made more conspicuous by the tightly
drawn. dry, naked skin The interest of
the big face lies in the eyes and mouth.
Eyes more useful for man of Mr.. Rock
efellers 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 a shifty eye-not a
cruel or leering one. Ii Is something
vastly more TO be feared-a blank eye.
looking through and through things, and
telling nothing Of what they found on
the way
but If the eyes say nothing the mouth
tells much. It's former mask, the full
mustache Mr.. Rockefeller has always
worn, Is now completely gone. Indeed
the greatest loss Mr.. Rockefeller sus-
tanned when his hair went was that 1t re-
vealed his mouth. 1t is only a slit-the
lips are quite lost, as if by eternal grind
Ing together of the teeth--teeth set on
something he would have. 1t Is at once
the crueest feature of his face, this
mouth, the cruelest and most pathetic,
for the hard, close-set line sants down.
ward at the corners, giving look Of age
and sadness. The downward droop is en-
phasized by deep, vertical burrows rum
ming from each side of his nose. Mr..
may nave Iudue llIISelI luo
richest man in the world, but he has paid
Nothing but paying ever ploughs such
lines in. mans face, ever sets his lips to
such a melancholy angle.
THE big cheeks are puffy, bugfng I'M
pleasant under the eyes, and the skin
which covers them has a curiously I'M
healthy palor. 1t is this puffness, this
unclean flesh which repes, as the thin
slit Of a mouth terrifies. To the whole
face a certain distinction is lent by the
nose, which Is small and fine rising like
a thorn from between the heavy cheeks
a nose whose nostrils might vibrate were
not the man so much the master of his
features.
Altogether 1t is a strange and power
full head, and one cannot look on 1t and
ever forget 1t. 1t is a head which has
suggested many unpleasant comparisons
and all of them with their SAVIOR of truth
ali of them comprehensive. One who
knows what 1t cost to build Mr. Rookie
fellers fortune understands why a man
who had done business with him shud-
dered when he looked as Mr.. Yarians
sketch and said An Indian with a tom
ahawk-an Indian with a tomahawlS"
His Other Side.
Miss Tarbell turns to the "other man."
the other side of Rockefeller.
There is she says. probably not a
puDiiC CiitIdCltT III the united states
whose private life is more completely con-
cealed than is that of John ID. Rookie
Teller. The club never secs him. He is
almost never numbered among the BAN
queters at great celebrations. He never
appears on the platform when men of
public importance gathers to discuss pub
lie questions or stimulate to action in
public causes. His opinion on great issues
are never quoted.
His three hames are oil ,rnprataod3pc
even to the point of being conspicuous
Not even that they show him to have no
pleasure In noble architecture, to appre-
ciate nothing of the beauty OF fine lines
and decorations.
There is little doubt that Mr.. Rookie
fellers chief reason for playing golf is
that he MAY live longer in order to make
more money. He has two ambitions
lifelong intimate of Mr.. Rockefeller once
said, To be very old and to be very rich'
He is sixtysix years old now.
THE daily life on his great estates Is
studiously simple. Mr.. Rockefeller reg
ulates his household as he does his bus
mess Family and servants are trained
to strictest economy. There Is no more
gas burned than is needed. no unnecesse
ry heating, no wasteful providing. There
fs nothing for display. nothing souan-
dered In the senseless American way to
prove you are rich so rich you need NOT
care On every hand there Is frugaljty
and carefulness. And this frugality GER
tainly Is a welcome contrast to the wan
t2~1avishness which on every side Of us
corrupts taste and destroys the sense of
values
Beyond his intimate personal circ1e
ana HIS church and charity associates !"
she says. Mr. Rockefeller seems TO have
no social life. They say In Cleveland Mr..
Rockefeller always sits with his back to
the wall when 1t is possible"
A Great Machine.
HE is not a great man." she concludes.
mot human man. He is a machine
stripped by his Overwhelming passion Of
greed Of every quality which makes a
man worthy of citizenship He has NOT
made good. He cannot make good. 1t is
not I'm him."
ity inherent in such a study as this by
stating that Mr.. Rockefeller is not the
only one OF his kind He is simply the
type pre-eminent In the public mind of
the militant business man of the day.
From bankers down to street vendors we
have In operation the code which ne has
worked out so perfectly. and to which he
has given the sanction of piety And this
CODE so repugnant to the sense of fair
play and so demoraifzing to Intellectual
honesty, has worked it's way into every
activity of life, until with a growing ele-
ment or the country success is the fustjf1-
cation of any practice until no price is
too great to pay for winning"
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Public Spirited Firm.
The Cox Shoe company is certainly do
Inc lot OF good to Birmingham people