The daily sentinel., 1908-03-12
The POOR HOUSE
Is a Long Way from John D.
---$l4O,0OO,OO0 Dividend
Abe Hummel Out Soon
Gentle Spring Arrives--Irish
Celebrate.
(By Glenn Guernsey.l

New York, March 12.-Despite
criticism in certain high quarters,
the ''malefactors of great wealth"
continue to prosper. The Standard
Oil company of New Jersey today
paid quarterly dividend of SIS per
share, or Is per cent, for the quar-
ter ending March 81.
AS a result of this disbursement
our distinguished friend, John D.
Rockefeller, puts $3,852,S10 be-
tween him and the poor house. Three
months ago he received a little pin
money of the same amount. His
annual income from Standard Oil
stock is over 100000 or about a
million and quarter a month.
For the past three years the New
Jersey corporation has declared a
dividend of SIS per share for this
quarter. In 1903 1t paid $50, in
order to get rid of few millions in
superfluous coin. The dividend of
this philanthropic institution, which
has placed midnight oil in the reach
of the most humble, is now at the
rate of 60,000.000 a year. AS the
total capitalization is $100,0O0,0OO
this is at the modest rate of 60 per
cent.
According to the records, John D.
Rockefeller has drawn $143,S52,S10
in dividends from his New Jersey
Standard Oil stock in the last eight
year. 1t must not be imagined,
however, that he has been forced to
subsist on such modest income.
Mr.. Rockefeller owns much stock
in other oil, railroad and industrial
corporations. which serves to bring
his dividend receipts to quite a re-
spectacle figure.
Irish to Celebrate.
1t has been said that New York
has more Italians than Rome, more
Greeks than Athens and more Irish
men than Dublin. The proof as re-
CARDS the sons of Emerald Isle will
probably be forthcoming next Tues
day. If the wearing of the green
counts for anything. Every Irish or
ganization in the greater city-and
there are not few-is preparing to
celebrate st. Patrick's Day with a
greater outburst of enthusiasm than
ever before. All Irish business men
will close their places of business at
noon, and the municipal government
will give a half-holiday to all en-
ployes of Irish birth.
One of the most notable events oil
the day will be the banquet of the
speakers of the evening will be Gov
ernor Hughes, Secretary Taft and
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota,
and while it is said that their ad-
dresses will be devoid of political
significance, such a meeting of dis
tinguished presidential aspirants
will undoubtedly attract wide atten-
ton.
Abe HummeI Out Again.
Abe Hummel, attorney-at-law, now
guest of the city at Blackwell's
Island, will be discharged next week.
Little Abe, as he is Familiarity known
was a prominent witness in the first
Thaw trial, and was said to have
been Stanford Whites legal adviser
in his relations with Evelyn Nesbit.
Later Hummel came into conflict
with the law, and his enforced re-
tirement to the Island was the re-
suit. Upon his release, it Is said. he
will make a tour of Europe before
resuming the practice of his honor
able profession in New York.
Some time ago reports were flam-
boyantly circulated by the yellow
press to the effect that Hummel was
dying. From the same source the
public secured the Information that
the little lawyer. CARRIED in stripes,
was engaged in the pleasant pastime
of breaking large stones into small
ones. Those familiar with Hum
mel's sojourn on the Island state
that both reports were false. and that
the prisoner enjoyed the best of
health, that he has not been forced
to wear the clothing of the other
prisoners and that his most siren
uous labor has been in eating the
delicacies and persuing the books and
papers brought him by faithful
friends. Thus is the city administra-
ton relieved of the hateful charge
that it has forced n man of Hum
mels wealth, culture and ability to
indulge in anything so vulgar as
manual labor.
Greatest on Earth.
Hail, Gentle Spring! We know
now of surety, that You are on the
way. because the circus is here. The
very greatest on earth" arrived to-
day, with it's herds of ponderous
pachyderms. it's fifty dens-count
'em, fifty-of rare wild beasts, it's
500 horses and its army of perform
ers, beast and human. The first per-
Torrance will be given in Madison
Square Garden next Thursday even
ing, and the intervening time will
be used in rehearsing the new pro-
gram.
The coming of the circus to the
metropolis is distinct event. Those
who imagine that New Workers are
beyond such bucolic pleasures as
those afforded by the sawdust
arenas, the death-defying feats of
ktsts, no. l,o