Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-03-14
NEw YORK NEws avn GOSSIP
Great Corporations Make Millions
for ManipuIatOrs.

for ManipuIatOrs.
NEW YORK, Mar. 14-Despite
criticism in certain high quarters,
the "malefactOrs of great wealth"
continue to prosper. The Standard
on Company of New Jersey today
paid a quarterly dividend of SIS per
share, or 15 per cent, for the quar-
ter ending March 81.
AS q result OF this disbursement,
our distinguished friend. John d.
Rockefeller, puts sS.s52,slO between
him and the poor house. Three
months ago he received little pin
money of the same amount His an
nual income from Standard Oil stock
alone is over S15,000,OOO, or about
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 $40, in ord
err to get rid of few millions of SUI
perfiuous 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 $50, 100000 year. AS the tot
al capitalization is 100000, 900,
this is at the modest rate of 60 per
cent.
According to the records, John d.
Rockefeller has drawn $143,852,810
in dividends from his New Jersey
Standard Oil stock in the the last
eight years 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 cor
porations, which serves to bring his
dividend receipts to quite a respect
able 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 regards the sons of
the Emerald Isle will probably be
forthcoming next Tuesday, If the
wearing OF the green counts for any
thing. Every Irish organization in
the greater city--and there are not
few--is preparing to celebrate st.
Patrick's Day with greater out
burst of enthusiasm than ever be-
fore, All Irish business men will
close their places of business at noon,
and the municipal government will
give a half-holiday to all employees
of Irish birth.
One of the most notable events of
the day will be the banquet of the
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick. The
speakers OF the evening will be Gov
ernor Hughes, Secretary Taft and
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, and
while 1t is said that their addresses
will be devoid of political signifi-
canoe, such a meeting of disting-
uished presidential aspirants will un-
doubtledly attract wide attention.
Abe Hummel 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 is 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 retirement to
the Island was the result. Upon his
release, 1t is said. he will make
tour of Europe before resuming the
practice of his honorable profession
In New York,
Some time ago reports were fam
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, garbed in stripes,
was engaged in the pleasant pastime
Of breaking large stones into small
ones. Those familiar with Hummel's
sojourn on the Island state that both
reports were false. and that the pris-
oner has enjoyed the best of health,
that he has not been forced to wear
the clothing of the other prisoners
and that his most strenuous labor