The National tribune., 1908-10-22

at the death of his Countess, should he
survive her. The London divorce court
has decided that all these rights are ex-
tinguished, and that he cannot have a
penny of the Thaw fortune. In the af-
fair of Alice Thaw it was SO plainly a
case of you give me so much money,
and l will give you the right to be call
ed the Countess of Yarmouth" that no
one has ever felt much sympathy for
her domestic unhappiness. He was
| palpably unworthy of her or any other
| self-respecting American girl. and she
knew ii, of course. She was old enough
| to realize fully what she was doing, be-
! ing several years older than Consuelo
| Vanderbilt when she married the DUKE
| of Marlborough, and her family were
greatly opposed to the match, even de-
praved Harry Thaw holding out to the
very last moment against it. Alice
Thaw is lucky in getting rid of her
worthless titled husband SO easily, and
specially in saving so much of her for
tune from the wreck.
John D. Rockefeller begins his Sc
ries of Random "reminiscences" in the
October number of The Worlds Work
and tells his story in very straightfor-
ward and convincing manner. His
style is simple, without any attempt at
literary frills, but his narrative runs on
ingly. He starts in by saying that it is
not on his own account that he has at
last decided to speak on this subject
Standard Oil, of course-but for the
sake of the dozens of able, faithful
men who have been associated with
him, who have been adjudged by the
world as having been guilty of grave
faults. Mr. Rockefeller says that the
powerful organization of which he is
ifS
ton by travelling along no royal road,
nor is its success due to any one or two
men. 1t has developed step by STEP by
the hardest of hard work, and only thru
the earnest, combined efforts of all its
employees. From the very first the
men who kept the books of the COM
pany kept them intelligently and cor
rect1y and knew just where and what
the company made and lost. It grad
ually extended its service from the
large cities to the towns, and then to
the smallest places, delivering the oil
at the very doors of the homes of its
customers. 1t has always made a pro-
found study of adapting the trade to
the convenience and needs of the peo-
pie. In China, for instance, 1t had to
teach the Chinese to burn oil by MAX
ing lamps for them; in other parts of
the East the oil was carried to the most
remote and inaccessible localities on the
backs Of camels or native runners. To
sell oil has been it's determined purpose,
and to that end all the intelligence and
'ereFgy~of the company has been bent,
no money, time, ZOE effort being spared
which would further it, but AIR. Rookie
teller earnestly denies that any attempt
has ever been. made by the Standard Oil
to crush out its competitors. 1t was
never their purpose, he says, to inter-
fere with dealer who already had pre-
empted field, but when they saw a
fresh, unoccupied field they pushed in,
naturally. 1t has, always has had, and
always will have hundreds of active
competitors, and has lived only because
it has managed its affairs with great
gives us some very interesting facts
with regard to this great company. lrs
foreign trade is something enormous;
more than half of all its product Is sold
outside of the United States Every
week in the year for many years the
Standard Oil has brot more than 81
0G0.0G0 gold into the country, and this,
against the struggles of Russia, with
her great oil fields, for the trade of Eu-
rcpe. and in spite of the competition of
the Burma oil, which the people of In
dia largely burn. The Standard Oil
gives employment to 10000 men year
in and year out: its works are never
closed down. Many Stringencies may
come and co. but no employee of the
Standard Oil is ever given his ticket of
leave if he has proved himself faith
full worker. The men are given good
wages; when they are sick the COM
pany takes care of them, paying doc
tors bills, etc. and when they becor1e
too aged or infirm for work it pensions
them. Any industry which provides
profitable employment for such an army
of men in good times and bad could
give no better proof of its honest inten-
tions, so the oil magnate thinks Mr.
Rockefeller has been out of business
for IA years and only once in eight or
1c years to the company's office. The
marked spirit of harmony and cooper
alton which exists among the Stand
ard Oil people is shown by all the off,
GERS of the company and the heads of
the departments lunching together
every day, as they have done for years.
On the top floor of the company's office
building Is the lunch room, where 100
or more of these men meet daily, and
seated at the long tables talk over
things. Mr.. Rockefeller thinks the or-