New-York tribune., 1907-09-18
nR. ROCKEFELLER BACK.
4ctire Interest IN STANDARD Due to
DIR. Rogers's Illness.

John D Rockefeller has been at his office IN
the Standard Oil Building twice recently once
three weeks al go and again last week. these nav
ing been his first visits in eight or nine years.
He is now devoting more attention to the man
agement of the great corporation than at any
previous period in many years.
His health is once more good. but it is under
stood that the primary explanation of his pres
ent interest in the management is the illness OF
H H Rogers which has incapacitated him for
active business. Mr.. Rogers has been the exec
utive head of the Standard since the virtual re-
tirement of Mr. Rockefeller
MI Rogers was at the Standard Oil offices
few weeks ago. having come, his son testified
in Boston on Monday, to give reinsurance to the
stock market He stayed only an hour or So
and is said bv those who saw him at the time
to have looked extremely i'll and to have aged
considerably in the period which had elapsed
since his illness began.
Mr.. Rogers has made his will, it is under
stood, ard has placed his affairs in the hands or
Urban II. Broughton. his son-in-iaw, as the lat
ter testified on Monday. so that, if his illness
should have a fatal outcome no panic is likely
to develop III the stock market
Mr.. Broughton, who has been closely asso-
Ciated in business with Mr. Rogers for several
years. is an Englishman. He is about forty-five
president and manager of the shone Company.
Western corporation which makes sanitary
appliances and he is still it's vice-president.
Following his entrance into the family OF Mr..
Rogers. he has become president or the Utah
Consolidated Mining Company and treasurer.
manager and director of the United Metals Sell
ing Company. the corporation which is the SELL
ing agent for the output of the Amalgamated
Copper Company. He is also officer and d di-
rector of several other mining companies con-
trolled by Mr.. Rogers and his associates
The cutting short OF the European trip Of H.
c. Frick last summer and his sudden return 10
this city are now reported have been due 10
Mr. Rogers's illness. Mr. Frick arrived in New
York on August 4 and denied then that he had
been recalled by anything Of Importance. saying
that he had returned simply because his vaca-
tion over.
It was figured out IN Wall Street yesterday.
however. that a cable message sent soon after
Mr.. Rogers had suffered his seizure would have
reached Mr.. Frick not long before the sailing
day OF the steamer on which he made the re-
turn voyage It is also recalled that coincident
with the arrival here OF Mr.. Frick a heavy SELL
ing movement occurred in stocks. This selling
was generally attributed to the decision of
Judge Lands, imposing the S2a.oo0,oo0 fre on
the Standard oil Company OF Indiana: but II
was reported from Pittsburg that Mr.. Frick vas
liquidating his holdings. and Reading. in which
he has long been understood 10 be largely in
terested broke with especial severity
It was also reported yesterday that the ex-
cellent stock market impression made by the
increase in the Southern Pacific dividend on
August l was awaited Of by MIR. Rogerss close
associates. who informed 10 the facts
concerning his condition. for liqudating a good
part OF their stock holdings II not until
the return from Europe Of ] P. Morgan in the
latter part of August. which was closely fol-
lowed by the news Of his proposed cooperation
in the effort TO make the coming city bond issue
checked.