| Show WAS f S A 5 BOY BOYa 1 a Henry H Rogers Started on I le w U I IT T W L LAWSONS attack upon Henry H HI T I Rog Rogers rs has th that t financier into the limelight For years ears Rog Roger er rs has been the real master or of time the most p perfect rf ct and stupendous monoPOly In his Standard on company coman He is Ie toda today the most powerful active a arent ent In inthe the money mills or of the world and yet ct so 80 oiled and silent are his are those of the mills few cw are arc aware that H H Ro Rogers generates the directing energy f tho huge machine i or of which he is the h head ad and eyes If not the soul Probably no man of equal stature In the financial Orena rena has had a more remark remarkable able career than II H H Begin Beginning fling ning as a newsboy In Now Bedford and Mass he has risen rIsen risen But only now and then has he appeared on he stags stage His place has been scenes But when he has chosen to court the limelight and make a hit In a monetary role other actors cast with him have hat thrown aside their dummy dumm swords and run for their theair financial lives Jives Yet thousands who ho have hae felt Celt his hand handin in business competition pass him by on the streets without recognizing In the tall tail athletic l re with eyes hidden under shaggy brows and with long heritage from his seafaring author of their discomfiturE He is the blue goat of tile tho unfamiliar Is his figure among the bulls and bears or of the money cages At a pUblic meeting In the High school I recently Mr Rogers exhibited a lively lIely Interest in n a debate debat on th the duty of th the teacher the thinker and the citizen to his countr country A young lawyer attacked the combines and created considerable among those thos who sn sat t near the lt king When the young oung man had concluded there was general surprise and apprehensIon when Mr 11 Rogers aro arose c and saId We are aU all monopolists In a way if Ie w we desire to be for every one of 01 u us It if a vat idea strikes us can have hav It t patented and secure exclusive Control of It for a term of 01 years ears We will ivill under such cir circumstances 1 make aU all the money w we can call out of that Idea Is there anything evil In a ti tion of ideas s sUh Uh u capital pl 11 I worked d for five years in a union grocery store stor and by bJ buyIng QUI our stock ot of It a union ullon In Boston w we were enabled to sell beloW our Jur competitors Could the Penns Pennsylvania hanla rail rall railroad road carry on the ImmensE amount or of traffic It does dOCH if It were r not net for or a com eom rJ Ideas I may Jy Or be course ou misdirected r di lede energy energy i ind and ideas idaH but there It Is no more mort misdirection than In the management of the individual merchants and workingmen this coun not so much Continuing Mr lr Rogers stated that hp ho was In his fort fourth year par In Uw the oil business and would like to know what he had done statements statement of certain critics to the tho contra ry notwithstanding Answer Ing a Question to how he got his start in the Ule ne newly discovered oil king Icing said he ha worked as af lined liard for what he had as AA thy Q of whom he had bad ever heard lIfard or ra read Gazing from the nu da of hIs n manlon this no loss Iss strange than who In his year ar ean write his hiR check k for forn rit nb at a any In bank big n to o hOnor the caner 1 cn still see e the union grocery r cn store stort he worked pa n a cumulated elo h to defray hi tS to the Penn I yanla vania Oil bU fields He was graduated at the age of IC 6 at th the Fairhaven High school and then peddled 11 I per on the of New e Bt ord et a stepping pr st Stone n to the and wagon which he drove droe for live years I at i a week and his board Today a I number of persons tr treasure T TI bills bUls for bags bag of flour and oth other r I staples which beat bea the ot of Henry H Rogers One ot of these thes receipts bears the date of 1 Noem November QT lS 9 anti and it was wa shortly I that date that toung oung Ro Rogers ers burned his j I bridges behind him and on lit hl Pennsylvania hazard of e fortunes This Is 10 how grocer bo boy drifted to t the oil l ld et I In those e days t the news ws or of Y I lr village the toe stove and I cracker barrels in the union and andi an anIt i It was there that the future Standard OU on king first h heard ar 1 of f OIL haven residents hud become 11 I Ia a small way a in time oil One or of them was B rth Tabet Tabe r who ket a i and who a or orf oJ f Chaile hazl Pratt the Nv York Oil n r r Pratt told Taber r one hay tay when the was In Now York th te be Wa vat lookin for a young oung man to enter his business s sand and would prefer preter a Nf New En land bo boy Ro ers had nt at that time gone one to t Pennsylvania and Taber rf him to the New York tf refiner Six weeks ks later soling Rogers entered rt d tin firm oC o Charles Pratt Co and embarked upon man mana a career almost a parallel In fn the th romance of riches When hED MIlk Mark Twain tho great preat American humorist on morning nine years an a ago o the tim or f a 1 publishing house hoUff In which h hi was Interested he 0 himself In debt That Ht Henry H Rogers came to ti I his assistance and violating a unbroken rule of his carper career acted as bJ tru trustee tf and benefactor In recouping the thu F Twain Io losses ses I is one or of hit shining mono meals Ills His g gifts to his natIve to town n In eluding a church han hac been princely Besides h being the thc hi big man in on oil mind the right hand or of John D Rocks feller r h he Is president or of Lbs mated Huntington Bf Sandy railway National Transit corn com New IlP York Transit cornI nfl I Ohio River Railroad company ny Hl He is IR aisi aho vice president of the Anaconda and Ar radIan s Cont Coas Electric Railway company CIa Manufacturing company compan East River Gas Ga company New Amsterdam Gr Gas company Federal Steel Navigation company Notional National Dry Dock company compan National Storage company Na National Union bank Staten Island Electric Company compan Rapid Transit Ferry Fero company compan anti and trl trustee t of the Atlantic Trust corn com Record I |
