The National tribune., 1907-07-18

crowd was admitted, lines of people
stood up aronnd the walls, many squat
ted on the floors. dozens OF chairs do
! ing double duty by afordiEs 4 very i'm
perfect seating for two people. When
/ Mr. Rockefeller. finally arrived ii took a
! force of 20 policemen to keep the
! crowd back and make n pathway for
I him to the court room. while . num-
/ Der of Secret Service men gathered
! closely around the sacred person of the
| oil masnate to protect him from any
possible attack from a crank. Mi.
! Rockefeller did not seem to be in the
! least disturbed by the sensation he was
creating. OF course, he is pretty we'll
hardened to TINS sort OF thing, and af-
ter taking his seat in the court room
surveyed the perspring, red-faced sea
of faces with considerable curiosity for
a few minutes. Judge Landis's princi-
pal object in calling MIR. Rockefeller
( to the witness stand was to find out
from him whether the Standard oil
Company of Indiana. lately convicted
of violation Of the law, was really own
ed by the Standard oil Company of
New Jersey, Of which Mr.. Rockefeller
Is President, and also If the Union
Tank Line. whose cars have been un-
lawfully used, was owned by the same
corporation. This information was
deemed necessary by the Judge before
iniliCting a fine upon the convicted
company. Mr.. Rockefeller decided both
these questions by stating that the
Standard Oil Company of New jersey
controlled the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana and the Union Tank Line
as well. He appeared to be perfectly
willing to reply to any inquiry put to
him. but declared that he had been but
Il fgurehead in the business for SO
many years that he was entirely iEnOr-
ant of its details Mr.. Rockefeller
SAYS that the marvellous financial sue
cess OF the Oil Trust has come thru
gras2ing of the magnitude and impor-
tance of the petroleum business: in do
ing the business more economically
than its competitors and giving better
and cheaper oil to the public. II has
made the industry great one, has
held IL in this country against foreign
competitors, il has been a blessing
rather than q bane to the country, ana
its downfall would be q national disas-
ter. Mr.. Rockefeller ascribes his great
success in life TO the training in pru-
dence and economy which he received
in youth from his parents. He began
his business career as Il clerk in a
commission house at the age of 16. ana
commenced at once to save money out
Of his modest salary. In three years he
had by his careful economy amassed
the tidy little sum of $1,000, and with
this money started out in business for
himself. The world is full of men the
foundation of whose fortunes was laid
by the modest sum saved, penny by
penny, sometimes from the meager
earnings OF their youth. To the fool
ish-minded, short-sighted person no
small sum is ever worth saving-such
4 habit is TO them almost sign OF
small mental ability. Browning, the
poet, says:
THAT low man goes on adding one to
one,
His hundreds soon hit:
This high man aiming at million,
Misses an unit
BY following this course of adding
one to one" Rockefeller has become
the richest man in the world to-day,
to suppose there will ever be many
RockefelIers, as his wonderful business
ability amounts to genius, and genius is
ever rare, yet it lies perfectly within
the power of any young man to gain a
modest fortune by adhering to the
methods practiced in youth BY the great
oil .nagnatc. Mr.. Rockefeller is by far
the most Interesting personality in the
country to-day. No man is so much
talked about as he. All items with re-
gard to him, no matter how trifing. are
eagerly received by the public. Until
quite recently he has been 50 remark
ably non-committal and secretive, so far
as his own affairs We're concerned, that
he was to most people a man Of pro-
found mystery, Laterly he has changed
a good deal in this respect, and now
speaks quite freely about himself, his
and his ambitions. He has
confessed that UP to 10 years ago his