Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-21
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER
JOHN DIS 0|L STOCK
Rockefeller Owns Five Times More Than Any Other Person.
PROFITS OF seoo,ooo,ooo.

1, PROFITS OF $9O0,0 100000. Monopoly of Supply and Fixing of
 Prices Arbitrarily by Trust Shown
 Ten Men and Estates Control the
 Huge Octopus.
 New York, Sept. 21-More than one half of the shares of the Standard oil Company of New Jersey, which earn ed profits of nearly $500, 100000 in eight years, are held by ten men and estates. This carefully guarded secret of the oil octupus was spread upon rec. ord for the first time in the govern, ment suit to dissolve the trust.
 Accountants who are working under the direction of Frank B. Kellogg, the government prosecutor, on the ancient recrods of the oil trust at 26 Broad way, have found that since the forma- tion of the original combination in Ohio in 1882 the profits of the oil mo- nopoly have amounted to $500, COG 900.
 John D. Rockefeller owns today more than five times as much stock as any other individual, his present hold. ings being PAT, ,692 shares. Colonel Oli- yer H. Payne owns 40,000 shares; Hen- " NJ. Flagler, 35,500; H. H. Rogers, 16,020; William Rockefeller, 11,7O0, and John D. Archbold, 5000.
 The heaviest owners after John D. Rockefeller are the heirs of Daniel Hardness, one of the original trustees. There are a dozen of these heirs, and their holdings amount to S0,000 shares. The Charles Pratt estate owns 22,S02 shares and Charles M Pratt individ. ually 5000 shares. The J. A. Bostwick heirs hold 15,000 shares, 6,04S of which are in the name of Mrs. Helen c. Bost- wick, the widow of the Ohio oil man.
 Those Who Control the Trust.
 The ten blocks of stock which rep resent the ownership of more than one-half of the gigantic corporation are in the hands of John D. and VII. liam Rockefeller, Colonel Payne, Hen " NJ. Flagler, II. H. Rogers and the estates of Charles Pratt, D. M. Hark- ness, o. B. Jennings, J. A. Bostwick and c. NJ. Brewster.
 The present market price of the stock is $40, though it has reached $S42. This price would make the pres. ent value of John D. Rockefeller's hold ings $10S 9S4, ,4S0. His dividends amount to $143, ,499,954. It was remarked in the courtroom when his large gifts to educational and other purposes were recalled that probably his benefactions represented about two-thirds of the golden stream which has flowed into his purse in dividends and which is still flowing.
 Surprise was expressed at the com. paratively small holdings of his broth- CT William and the fact that William c. Rockefeller, prominent in the world of finance and the acting treasurer of the. oil trust, does not possess single share of oil stock. It has always been supposed in Wall street that John D. Archbold held much more oil stock than the record discloses. This record was furnished to the government un. der subpoena by the treasurer, Wesley H. Tilford, and he read aloud several of the names while on the stand in this city.
 Wild Speculation In oil.
 , There were between 6,000 and 1000 individual stockholders in the com pany, but thousands of them have ten shares and less. Much interest attach ed to the holdings of members of the families of the oil millionaires.
 Young John D., Jr.. for instance, owns 120 shares and his wife, Abbie Aldrich Rockefeller, 32 shares. Mrs. H. H. Rogers holds 225 shares in her own name and Henry H. Rogers, Jr., 1,050 shares. John D. Archbold's son has 100 shares and Mrs. H. NJ. Flagler a similar block. The Chicago Uniyer- sity has block of 5000 shares pre- sented by John D. Rockefeller, it was said. and the FIagler hospital 11S shares.
 The available list of present holdings of the large owners, even with the rec ord of dividends paid fin the past, does not give a positive basis for computing the profits of those in control of the1 monopoly. There has been wild specu- lation at times in Standard oil trust certificates.
 Millions Lost In Speculation.
 The price has scared to almost double its present figure and has dropped as low as AT. With absolute control over not only the production. trans portation and marketing of crude and refined oil, but with the power to de- clare high or low dividends at will and with always a gigantic reserve of assets and undivided profits back of them, the manipulators of the trust had the market in their own hands. More has been made and lost in Wall street in a single day in oil specula- ton than even the enormous profits of the corporation represent.
 Treasurer Tilford, notwithstanding bis caution and unwillingness to tell anything he hadn't seen with his own eyes. was brought under the spell of ] the government prosecutors cheerful way of quizEing and actually volun- teered a chuekiing remark to the effect that after a rate war when a Colorado I