The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-03-19
John D. Puts Three and Half
Million Between Self and
Poor House
(By Glenn Guernsey

Company OF New Jersey today paid
quarterly dividend of S15 per
share, or 10 per cent for tho quar-
ter ending March 81.
AS a result OF this disbursement,
our distinguished friend John ID.
Rockefeller, puts s3,S25,S1O between
him and the poor house. Three
months ago he received a little pin
money OF the same amount. His an
nual income from Standard oil stock
alone Is over S15,OOO,000, or about
a million and a quarter n month.
For the past three years the New
Jersey corporation has declared a
dividend OF So por share for this
quarter In 1908 It paid $50 in or
der 10 get rid OF few millions in
suporiluous 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 S6O,OOO,OOO year. AS the
total capitalization is 500, 900, 900,
this Is at the modest rate OF 60 per
cent.
According to the records, John D.
Rocke Teller has drawn $143,S52,S10
In dividends from his New Jersey
standard Oil stock in the last eight
years. 1t must not be imagined.
however, that he has been forced to
subslst on such a modest income.
Mr.. Rockefeller owns much stock in
other oil, railroad and industrial cor
poratlons. which serves to bring his
in his relations with Evelyn Nesbit.
Later Hummel came into conflict
with tho law, and his enforced retire.
ment to the Island was the result.
Upon his release, II Is said, he will
make tour Of Europe before resum-
ing the practice Of his honorable pro-
fession.
Some time ago reports were llam-
boyanly circulated by tho yellow
press to tho effect that Hummel was
dying. From the same sources 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 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 has
been In eating the delicacies and
peruslng the books and papers
dividend receipts to quite respect
able figure.
Abe Hummel Out Again.
Abe Hummel, attorney-at-law, now
a guest OF the city at Blackwells Is
land, Will DO discharged next week.
Little Abe, as he is familiarity known,
was a prominent witness in the first
Thlw trial. and was said to have
been Stanford Whites legal adviser
brought him by faithful friends. Thus
is the city administration relieved of
the hateful charge that 1t has forced
a man OF Hummel's wealth, culture
and ability TO indulge in anything so
vulgar as manual labor,
Greatest ON Earth.
Hail. Gentle Sprlngl 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, its fifty dens--count
'em, flftyof rare wild beasts, its
500 horses and It's army OF perform
ers. beast and human. The first
performance will be given in Madl-
son Square Garden next Thursday
evening, and the intervening time
will he used In rehearsing the new
program.
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 daredevil
artists who have appeared before the
crowned heads OF Europe, and the
seductive lure OF the vendors OF pop
corn and pink lemonade, have an
other mental process coming.
stripped Of his affected superiority,
the New Yorker is real American,
and TO all such the circus is and will
be a JOY forever. Happy is the man
who can use the worn-out excuse
that he must take the children"