New Britain herald., 1919-06-18
By Jack Hughes

# BILLIONS sound nearly as common place today as thousands sounded egnty years ago. Perhaps this is ulte introduction to the story of a man whose immortal name will be mentioned a little later on. He lives m a modest, unfenced. unguarded bungalow down at Ormond Beach, Fla, and he is as unpretentious as he is truly democratic. His income for twelve hours sufficed the price of this property.
 John D. Rockefeller-the old man, TOT, in fact, he Is old; he knows and looks tt-retains that characteristic potse which distinguished him from early youth, and a serene manner which many studious observers have declared contributed more than any thing else to his unhindered success through the years he has been looked upon as the greatest financial wizard or the current age He has read so many fakes of his personal affairs, so many specu1ations of his business transactions, that for the past twenty years it has been next to an impossi- blltty for a magazine writer to ap- proach him. Many brilliantly written narratives of his personal, daily doings were ingenious frauds. He silently re- volted at their reading, but dismissed the incident, as he would call it. with out employing the great influence he might otherwise have wieided against his adversary He is very human, re- ngious and fair. This Is John D. Rockefeller, the richest man, in earthly wealth, in the world.
 Unpretentious Home
 With nothing but a narrow, neg lected road between his property and the Halifax river on the west, and a stretch of palms, as they grow without the attention Of even & gardener, a few spruce, pine trees and live oaks, wearing a sedni-tropical coat Of Span 1sh moss, on the east for about 6 mile to the Atlantic ocean, MT. Rockefeller's home looks the same as any other property in Vo1usia county belonging to whnt might be safely styled country gentleman. It cost him $75,- 900, and the few additions now under way wfll bring the figure up to about s125.o If indeed that much. This goes to show how modestly he con- ducts himself at the age of eighty. He will be eighty years old the 9th Of next July.
 ~~ Pa0kafa1l0r rises morning hour, and enjoys a breakfast the same as any other healthy man en- Joys 1t, eating bacon and eggs, if that dish appeals to him. Or lamb chops, if, on the other hand, chops may "sound" better than something else. His secretary does not jump about in the "f1unkey fashion which one might imagine, but talks to his em- blower as frankly and coolly as though he were a partner of the distinguished old gentleman There is no uniformed footman when MT. Rockefeller enters or leaves his automobile; and he steps into his machine as glibly as a man of sixty, and leaves it likewise. He is methodical, however, and goes to the golf links of the Ormond Club at 10 o'clock each morning, rain or shine, except on a Sunday, when he goes to church.
 On the golf links he plays an ex- cellent game for a man of his age, sometimes with Albert D. Fell, a re- tired Philadelphia banker, and at others with Miss Ellen Kaufman, also of Philadelphia, and a very charming young lady in her early twenties Miss Kaufman plays no mean golf herself, and MT. Fell, who is five years MT.