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Show JOHN D. GETS A CASH DIVIDEND Little Matter of $10,000,000 in JRoimd Numbers Goes to the Oil Magnate. By International News Service. NEW YORK. Feb. 3. -Advices from Tarrytowu report that John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller was obliged to forego his customary dally game of golf bpcau.se of rain which turned tho snowfall of this morning .Into deep slush. However, Mr. Rockefeller was partly consoled for this dlsanoolnt-mcnt dlsanoolnt-mcnt by the news that tho Standard Oil directors had decreed a $40 cush dividend on the 1,000.000 odd shares of tho company. com-pany. This distribution, wlilch was ordered today, is to be paid February 1C. John! D. owns 241.119 shares of the company's slock, about one-quarter of tho entire atock Issue, and in exact figures he will get S0.77C.7CO. The quotations upon tlie shares of tht" company wort-. $44S a share, which In-I In-I eludes tins dividend. Mr. Rockefeller's (part of this great aggregation of capital I arter It had been "dissolved" by thu i United Stat..3 supreme court Is $108,000,-joOO $108,000,-joOO In round numbers. Jn addition. Mr. Rockefeller has j, prorata pro-rata Interest the same basis ln tho various Standard OH subsidiary corporations corpora-tions which wcro sot apart from the parent corporation under the direction of the highest court. |