Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-03
Charles Page, Rich Through
Oil, Establishes Unique
Charity Enterprise on Out
skirts of Tulsa. Okla, y

SAND SPRINGS, Okla, May 81.
AS an orphaned boy almost 60 years
ago, Charles Page with his finger
traced in the sands Of a cornfield
near Stevens Point, Wis, the plans
for a, model city dedicated to serve
humanity.
Today the boy, now grown to man.
hood and wealthy through millions
of dollars amassed from Oil, sees a
realization of his immature dream
in this utopian town he founded
just seven miles from the outskirts
of Tulsa.
Sand Springs, the city as Page in
tended it to be, is built about what
is probab bly, the most charitable or.
ganization of the United States. \
The nucleus of it's life is the Sand
Springs home, an institution estab-
lished to shield orphaned boys and
girls from some of the hard knocks
which Page had experienced most
of his life.
Sand Springs home owns outright
more than $4,000 acres of fat farm
ing land.
1t dominates and controls a stand
ard gauge electric line running from
it's door to Tulsa, runs a. water and
gas company, owns innumerable
spouting oil wells, operates a cotton
mill costing $4,000, 900, sells electric
power to surrounding cities and has
it's corporate hand mixed up in nu-
merous other enterprises and utili-
ties.
Revenue i'm Millions
t.
perhaps the wealthiest institution
and power in Oklahoma.
Its holdings and revenue run up
into the millions every year.
The hundred boys and girls shield
ed by it's broad eXpanse OF modern
buildings enjoy all the comforts and
privileges of guests invited for n
permanent visit to some palatial
country estate.
And Sand Springs home asks
nothing in return save that they
fashion themselves into good men
and women.
The institution operates more like
large family and does not smack
in any wise of institutional air.
There are parties, vacations, and
time for recreation in model play
yards equipped with every conceiv-
able kind of apparatus from swim
ming pool to swings.
Likewise there is no drudgery
about the home, for all work is per-
formed by electrical servants com
manded by the institutions own
power plant.
Colony for Aged. Too
Anyone who pleads the cause may
carry away bacon, -four, cheese and
other food products from the homes
we'll lardered refrigerator for the
asking.
In Sand Springs, the home main.
tains a widows colony. Here wild
ows and couples too old to work, may
bring up their children with all
sustenance provided free by the
home.
Page, the man who made all this
possible, is loath to talk about him
self.
Sand Springs Home is in the
world to serve but one purpose" he
says.
TT exists to destroy seIfishness,
the greatest curse of man"
Page made his last stand and leap
ed to fortune when almost so.
The jinX of hard luck and poverty
that had pursued him since boyhood
trailed him still into the switchyards
and roundhouses of frontier railroad
towns.
II followed close on his heels into
the lumber and mining camps of the
Sierra NevaGas and Rockies and the
cattle ranches of the great plains.
This pathway finally brought him
to the Indian Territory in 1900 along
with a band of adventures.
Just south of the Kansas line Page
halted and drove his tent peg to take
one last chance,
His first drilling attempt was re-
warded by oil.
The first we'll was followed by
others. and soon Page, the dreaming
orphaned boy, had the millions
which made his early dream come
true.