The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-02-26

Charles Page, multi-millionaire oil
man OF Tulsa. Okla, has 70 adopted
children and wants TO adopt 1000
In addition to 1000 poor boys and
girls he is preparing to care Tor loV
poor WILLOWS. ..,.
For the care of the 20 children be has
built q large home on q wooded biz. II
Is crowded to its capacity with boys
n girls. He Is getting ready to build
another home that will house 200 chill.
dren, and when that IL finished he Will
begin building more homes nt1l he mas
accommodations for 1,00e.
He has already built eight houses for
poor widows, has four more under con-
struction IND will have 100 built this
winter. Each house will have two
rooms, furnished. with. free gas for
heating and cooking. free water, free
electric light n a garden plot.
The 70 boys and girls have an So-acre
park for a playground, q lake OF IA
acres for swimming and boating, a
wading pool for the smaller ones, lawn
swings II all sorts Of contrivances for
their amusement, q hospital. a. zoologi-
cal garden, a kindergarten and a grade
school. and a $4,000 high school, In
which they will finish their education
Wnen they are old enough to attend IL.
IN addition to this Mr.. Page has the
plans drawn and win build this winter
a hospital that, win be in charge Of
some OF the greatest surgeons and spe-
eialsts IN this country: He plans this
nospital TO be as good In every way,
n as famous as that Of the Mayo
prothers in Rochester, Mimi. Those
VINO are able to a will do so; but any
person In America who is too poor to
pay may come to this hospital and be
operated upon by the greatest sur
geons In the world, and nursed back to
health free Of any cost whatever.
10 maintain these institutions and
keep them going forever Mr.. Page has
created a great endowment fund. the
or which is nearly all Of his
vast holdings OF real estate, gas lands.
OH Wells,. railroad and other properties
value 40
Who 10 Pager
And who is this man Page who has
more adopted children than n other
man In the world?
years ago. when Charles
rage was q boy Of 10, his father died
leaving a widow and sever ohih5ren'
Siis latner had been in the teaming
business In Stevens Point. wis We
was sick for q year before he died and
IN tnat year his teams were sold to nav
doctors n buy medicine.
Inc widow, with the house full of
smah children, had a hard time of IL.
one day while she was doing the
Masnlrg Tor a neighboring family and
nae stopped a minute to rest, the bow
VINO Is now a millionaire stood before
her n watched the tears runninr
down her cheeks.
You just wait, mamma, till 7 get 70
De a big man, and rich. and Won won't
nave TO wash any more. nor m other
Mvnnan won't either. I'll take care of
All n poor widows and orphans" the
little fellow said. "'
Eoward Page, brother of Charles
says ne remembers well that incident
and or now his mother grabbed Charles
In her arms n Rugged him to her and
Wept an the more.
When he had grown hi~ arorrh
ShaTIes became q messenger boy for
the Wisconsin Central railway. and
then he became a brakeman. and later
on a railroad fireman. Every dollar no
earned, abov living expenses. in those
days went to his widowed mother and
her fatherless children.
Charles drifted west to the Pacific
coast, worked in the gold mines in
Idaho. was hungry many a time, and
penntleSS for weeks. He drifted east
ward to n OIL fields Of Colorado and,
seven years ago, came to Chandler,
Okla. with $4,000 in cash which he soon
lost in the oil fields near Chandler.
Each Chue Of a Drill Meant a Dollar,
Then oil was discovered in the ia
nous Glenn Pool field. south Of Tulsa,
and Page went to a spot near there
with $4,000 he raised by mortgaging a
piece Of property in Colorado. He got
an Oil lease on a small tract Of Indian
land in what is known now as the
Taneha field, and put down a we'll. The
drill sank day after day through the
different layers OF rock and shale and
sand. and almost every chug Of the
drill meant a dollar OF Pages small
hoard gone. If his well should turn
out to be a dry hole" he would be
broke again. But one day. when he