Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-09-22

EATS WITH EMP0YES
AND SLEEPS IN CAMP
Financial Head of Corporation
Is Trying to Find Out Just
What Is Needed to Bring
Industrial Peace,


tonight after busy day of inspection
ln tine course of which he swung
pick In the Frederick mine and ate
luncheon ON the porch of rustic
mountain cabin under towering pines
at StoneWau The Standard OH mag
uatc late IN the afternoon reached the
lrumcro camp. Tired out with ten
hours Of motoring and tramping.
Rockefeller announced that he would
not return To Trinidad but would
spend the night With the men IN the
camp Before retiring Mr. Rookie
Teller ate dinner in the miners board
Ing house then spent the early even
ing talking with the men who had lust
come from the underground workings.
John D., Jr., Mines Coal.
MIR Rockefelers day of inspection
began az the Frederick mine at Valdez.
about fifteen miles west Of Trinidad
There he donued blue overalls and
jumper and trudged through TWO or
three miles Of narrow tunnels. per
haps a thousand feet below the crest
of the hin into which the mine Is
driven. In one of the rooms whore
minors We're toiltng at the granite
like face of the coal. Rockefeller h0r-
rowed "a pick and chopped away lus-
uly, unul chunks OF coal came rat
Ting down TO the floor to his i'm
msusn delight
Guest of Honor at Luncheon.
From Valdez the Rockefeller party
motored TO Stonewal a summer re-
sort In the shadow OF the SanRre de
Cristo mountains and almost fifty
miles west of Trinidad There Mr.
Rockefeller was guest of honor at q
luncheon given by r. j. Radford,
chairman of the state committee
which expended 500, 600 Of Rookie
Teller foundation money for the relief
of unemployment after the coal strike
WAS called Off After the luncheon
Mr. Rockefeller addressed the party.
which included a number OF Trinidad
business men. Referring tu the relief
work he said
Right Way for Charity
You gentlemen have expended this
money in way that may well be
taken as an example by charitable or
have given no man penny if he was
able to work for 10 The men you
have aided were allowed TO earn every
cent they received and thus they were
not paupcrized nor made objects Of
charity This magnificent road ou
which we have come from Trinidad
is proof chat the work done by them
Was profitable. and that they need
not be 0shumcd Of having accepted
their wages
The purly returned as far AS Sc
gundo where Mr. Rockefeller con
lnucd his minute Inquiries into work
ing conditions The next stop was at
prmcro, where Rockefeller and W.
J.. Mackenzie King spent the night
Eats nt second Table.
Mr. Rockefeller had to wait for
the second table at the Primero
boarding house When he arrived
tired ana hungry the boarding boss
said an the tables were filled SO
lhp representative OF wan street and
Standard OH millions waited until the
men who had earned their days
WAGES digping coal had finished
AT the boarding house Mr. Rookie
Ccllcr talked with several Of he min
ms. telling them he had come out to
colorado to rrt acquainted with the
men who We're helping him get the
.uu out of the ground The biz
Dlpbltiou OF the evening however
anne after dinner. wheu the whole
Hmp men, women and children
gathered a the school house for
uoriug picture show.
Thitber went Rockefeller and his
After Watching the
Hcture shoN with apparent interest,
Rockefeller made "a speech 20 the as
tmbled crowd later in the even
ng Rockefeller with l.. Mackenzie
sing. 4. q. Hcydt ard H. A. McGreg
Dr. we're CHARTERED Ia four miners
abu9 10 spend the nisht
Borrows Nightshirt.
Rockefeller slept la the spare room
d thc home or Joseph flaske superin-
endent of the mine Mr. Rockefeller
ud brought mo- sleeping garments
rom Trinidad and was accommodate
d with a nightshrt of plain and sub
anrlul model hy Nh Haske. In
he meantime the companions OF the
il magnate We're quartcred IN yari-
us houses in the camp, W L. Mae
euHr kue sl,apms "a the four-room
of steve Spapeic a coal dig
err.
At the moving PICTURE show. Mr.,
rockefeller said in his address TO
brona of miners au0 their families