Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-06
WANTS TO
ADOPT 1000 KIDDIES
Charles Page. Multi millionaire Oil Operator, Spending His
Fortune LavshIy to Relieve Poor Children
and Worthy Widows.

Charles Page, multi-millionaire OIL
nan of Tulsa. Okla, has 10 adopted
children and wants to adopt 1000.
In addition to 1000 poor boys and
girls he is preparing to are for 100
poor widows.
For the care of the 10 children he has
pullt a large home on n wooded hill. 1t
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 is finished he will
pegln building more homes until he has
accommodations for 1,OOc.
lie has already built eight houses for
poor Widows, has four more under con-
struct1on and will have 100 built this
winter. Each house will have two
rooms, furnished, with free a for
heating and cooking, free water, free
eieGtrlc light and a garden plot.
Inc 40 boys and girls ave an SO-acre
Dark ior a playground. a lake of IA
acres for swimming and boating. Il
Wadlng pool for the smaller ones, lawn
swings and all sorts of c~ontrivances for
thelr amusement, n hospital, a zoologi-
caL garden. a kindergarten II a grade
school, n a $40,O 900 high school,, in
winch they will finish their education
when they are old enough to attend it..
IN ADDITION to this Mr.. Page has the
plans drawn and will build this winter
a hospital that will be in charge of
some Of the greatest surgeons and spe-
Siallsts IN this country. He plans this
n as famous as that of the MAYO
prothers in Rochester. Mimi. Those
VINO are able to pay will do so; but n
person IN America who is too poor to
pay may come to this hospital and be
opelated upon by the greatest sur
seems IN the world. and nursed back to
health free Of cost whatever.
70 MAINTAIN these Institutions and
keep them going forever Mr.. Page has
created a great endowment fund. the
,~ounuatlon of which is nearly all of his
o ,1su nolalngs of real estate, gas lands,
value. ooias AZ
Who Is Page?
n who is this man Pape u,bo b..
more adopted children than anv Other
man in the worldo osAet
years ago. when Charles
1 lasi was a boS of 10. his father died,
HIS father had been i'm the teaming
business in Stevens Point. wis. He
vas SICK Tor a year before he died and
W Una year his teams were sold to nav
oocIors and buy medicine.
aa widoW. with the house full of
sln Gu children, had a hard time of it.
One day While she was doing tho
Masn1ns Tor a n%eighboring amiiv and
had stopped a minute to rest the hns,
VINO IS now a millionaire stood before
down her cheeks. At
You just wait. mamma fiji r ao+
pe dig man. and rich, and you won't
nave 10 wash any more, nor any other
woman won't either. I'll take care Of
all the poor widows and orphans.,' the
little fellow said. @Ne
EdWard Page, brother of Charles
says ne remembers well that incident
and OF how his mother grabbed Charles
~ her arms and Rugged him to her and
Wept all the more. "A0
When he had grown big enough
t hms'1 ~ became a messenger boy for
lhe Wisconsin Central railway and
then he became a brakeman. and later
on a railroad fireman. Every dollar he
earned, above living i'm those
days went to his widowed mother and
her ~fatherless children.
coast, worked in the gold mines in
Idaho was hungry many n time, and
pennlless for weeks. He drifted east
ward to the oil fields of Colorado and.
seven Years ago. came to Chandler,
Okla. with $4,000 in cash. which he soon
iost IN the Oil fields near Chandler.
Each chua Of a Drill Meant a Dollar.
Then oil was discovered in the fa-
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. n put down a we'll. The
drill sank day after day through the
different layers Of rock and shale and
sand, n almost every chug of the
drill meant a dollar of Pages small
hoard gone. If his we'll should turn
u to be a dry hole he would b.
broke again. But one day, when he