The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-22
BY JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT.
NEA Service staff Writer.

NEA Service staff Writer.
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc
Ormond Beach, Feb. D. For /;
week l have been living aero s the
street from the worlds richest man
walking with him brief strolls though,
they were; talking with him, though
not officially interviewing h i m,
watching him as ne played golf; go
F.; ing to church and musicales, in his
wake; getting a picture, intimately
of his playtim\ life.
So | found out many things abou.
John ID. Rockefeller. Jr. Here are
two of them that stand out:
He isn't exactly the guarded cod.
died Croesus you may imagine.
He is being treated here in Or.
mond as an ordinary neiehhor.
There is no fence around his hot =
! at the corner of River Road and
Beach Road; | can see it from my
window in the Ormond hotel. There
are no guards, either. And one
| morning l met him at the half-ligh
hour Of 6 strollng along the bank
of Halifax Road, unattended
It is the stranger in Orm ond who
fogles him, gollowing, pointing. The
people of Ormond accept him casu-
ally as their winter neighbor, and "a
seems to get Il lot of fun out of such
association
fell into step with Rockefeller on
the toll bridge, after he had dug in "a
his pocket for the nickel which Adolf
d'Grom, toll-gate keeper, exacts from
rich men and reporters alike.
Looking at me keenly Rockefeller
said: "Are you reporter"
(And foolish people say age has
dimmed the eye, blunted the wits,
and dulled the human intuition of
this mani!
admitted my identity and told
him many things I wanted to know.
"Well," he smiled, walking along
with me (there were no guards
about, YOU must remember!), IL
don't think have anything to say
about those things. Instead won't
you accept this?" (And he game me
a shining dimc-and another for my
mother, when assured him l
wasn't married)
1--WE can be friends can't we?" he
SAID, "Witnout talking about all those
things"
Those dimes! He gives them TO
caddies, millionaires, reporters, su
ciety ladies, photographers, garden
ers, the mayor chauffeurs, and chill
dren. Formerly he dealt in smaller
coin. Youngsters here told me he
used to give them each nickel and
a penny, saying: "Now the five-ce,it
piece is for the bank and the penny
is for the church"
Is this an indirect expression from
John u. Rockefeller that one-sixth
is the proper portion of ones wealth
he believes should go to religion
and charity?
John d. hasn't got leathery, num-
my-like face. His eye is clear, and
his skin on close view looks healthy
Yet he undeniably looks much older
in his eighty-fourth year than
Chauncey' Depew in his eighty ninth.
Older, too, than General Adelbert
Ames, his golf-partner here, who is
SO.
Yet he doesn't take a nap in the
afternoon as Depew, and many young
er men do. Often he is. up before
6, taking a. solitary walk if the wealth
er is good.
Breakfast is at 1880. Usually
bacon and eggs, but sometimes a
chop. Then walk in the grounds
and discussion with Head Garden
er George Whitlinger about the
shrubbery and the prospects for the
spring fower-beds.
A. 10 sharp he appears on. the o.
mond golf course For eight holes,
which he usually does in so strokes.
He rides to the course and later
meets the chauffeur at. the eighth
hole. ~ an
I. Luncheon is at /. A long automc-
bile ride, then, and talks with
guests. always there are guests
At z is dinner, to which a few con-
genial friends are invited. Bed at
II.
John Yordi is the most important
man around the Rockefeller menage,