The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-05-22
HENRY NJ. FLAGLER. WHO DIED AT
PALM BEACH. FLA. MAY 20. 1918.

byteriain clergyman and the creed of
the republican party was part of his
business education. Paradoxical as
it may appear he says that most of
his friends are numbered among the
Catholics and democrats. He is cath
olics along all lines and is supremacy
tolerant of the opinion of others. He
voted for Governor Flower when he
was running for congress, and he
would have voted, he says, for Judge
Gray for president had the democratic
party been wise enough to have NOM
mated him.
,"Mr. Flagler possesses excellent
judgment, and especially of men, His
Judgment rarely fails him. This is
significantly shown in the men he has
around him. Mr.. Beardsley, who han
dies his finances, he has had with him
for twenty-six years, and Mr.. Parrot
and Mr.. Ingraham he has had ever
since he first came to the state. He
has implicit faith in those he has
about him, and he is disturbed by no
gossip concerning them. Indeed, he
does not permit gossip Of any sort to
/ reach his ears.
For much of the success OF the
Standard Oil Company Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter generously comedies the credit to
Mr.. Flagler. He was the active FAC
tor behind it and quickly foresaw its
opportunities and possibilities. Mr..
| Beardsley says that on all questions
upon which he has given the least at
tention that he had rather risk Mr.
Flagler's judgment than any man ne
has ever known. That in the twenty
s;x wears that he has been intimately
associated with him he mas rarely
! known him to have made a mistake OF
men or measures. He has remarkable
mowers of intuition and penetration.
"Mr. Flagler possesses a spienold
memory and has made himself tamli-
lar with a wide range of literature
both ancient and modern, and recltes
poetry with facility.
"He is an excellent conversational
ist His voice is strong, clear ana mu-
sica1 and his manners are most charm
ing. He is most thoughtful to the
smallest details of life. Nothing is too
minute to escape his observation. one
If his friends said that he had so long
studied the art of making others hap
nv that It had become second nature
RI him. but we rather suspect that IL
;s ono of his inherited characteristics
they are too natural to have been
acquired.
I can incident that came under our
personal knowledge, which we nope
we shall not be regarded as violating
good taste in making public, but
which so beautifully illustrates this
magnificent trait we feel that we can
not resist doing so.
ut was long in the middle OF Ias'
summer that we happened 10 selo
him a postal photo of our little grand
son, and in his name accompanied II
with a brief note. After telling MIN
who he was the little fellow was
made to say: Don't you want ne"
: superintendent for your Florida Eas
Coast railway"
"Mr. Flagler made an immediate re
: ply and said that Mr.. PARROT was y
be in New York the following FRIDAY
when he expected to consult with mn
about his Florida affairs. but that III
was so pleased with the appearance
of the little fellows looks that n
needed no other endorsement, and Il
say to him that the position was his
! 'The incident, pleasing as it was t
) us, soon passed out of our recollee
ton, but what was our surprise OF