Show HOW ROCKEFELLER GIVES HIS MONEY I Standard Oil Methods Applied to His Private Bureau of Charities I requires a huge staff of clerics and secretaries with an almost endless array of bciokn and records to Rive away tho money or John D Kockefillur the 3iand anl Oil millionaire Just how much Is given and JUt where It In I given Is a secret between Mr Ttoclco fcllcr and lila truatcd cashier Fred T Galen Thosu two are not tolling any one what Is going on and they will not even admit thai any money In any form la go hue out of tho busy establishment It Is a fact however tKat to conduct Iho charities char-ities of the millionaire scores of persons are always husy The system la like n lingo mal order business The only difference Is that the requests for money come Into the office and Instead of sending out lines of goods the ofllce send out aid to the needy Like everything clso connected with the Standard Stand-ard Oil concern this department Is a development de-velopment from a small beginning How much greater It will grow cannot ho predicted pre-dicted It IH growing every day and the force needed to operate It Is being added to as time progresses At tho head of the disbursing department depart-ment Is the Rev Fred T Gates at onetime one-time a minister who was forced to give up his charge by the everInci casing call upon up-on him irom Mr Rockefeller Finally ho had no lime for anything else but tho charity bureau It Is his duty to pass upon all applications for aid He cannot do tills by the simple reading of the letters let-ters of the applicants and has to avail himself of the extensive bureau of Information Infor-mation which Is a part of tho organization organiza-tion Every charitable organization In tho county la used to Investigate and report upon time various cases that come up for consideration The police and time hospitals hospi-tals arc mado a part of tho vast machines constructed for tho Hole purpose of giving giv-ing away money IIELJ > THOSE WHO NEED HELP The underlying Idea 0 the whole affair Is to help those who need help It Is not a desire to give money away There arc thousands of cases where a lift at the right moment will avert an endless amount of misery and I Is to leach these that the department alms Sometimes the aid Is given direct and sometimes It In applied through tho organized or-ganized charities of the various cities I Is all done as quietly as jiosstblc find In al the majority of cases the Identity of the giver Is lost before the gift reaches It destination eslnnton The letters asking aid and many of them simply begging pour Into the office every day They are taken In hand by h the clerks and treated In a buslncSHlIku manner They arc classified and assorted As they progress through the office many of them are disposed o In various ways Somo go to the police or to some particular particu-lar hospital for action After tho sifting process has been finished the remainder go to Mr Gates lie takes them In turn and disposes of them as hey may appear to him to deserve No time must be lost tme It Is a wellunderstood maxim that real aid must be prompt to be effective Inside of half an hour after the mal reaches the office there will be n dozen agents of Mr Gates out on Individual cases They have authority to use their Judgment In these cases and to give Immediate Im-mediate aid If I It Is needed This however how-ever Is only In exceptional cases that cannot bo reached through the regular charitable organizations MANY CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETIES SOCIE-TIES The less urgent cases are tabulated and sent to the societies with which the bureau bu-reau has connections All of these are to be Investigated and reported upon In due time It is seldom that these cases arc sent to societies that have not from time to time been supplied with funds by the Rockefeller bureau lit Is not heralded to the world and would probably be denied by Mr Gates Even the great fortune of Rockefeller could not meet the demands that would he made If the actual methods macc pclual became generally known Like all the Rockefeller gifts the principle prin-ciple of helping those who help themselves applies In all these cases The recipient al apples must show some disposition to do his share And to this end gifts aro often made conditions mn e on conditons There have been cases where loans have been made to persons In actual need of the money to tide over difficulties Tho horrower has In these cases been held to a strict accounting for every cent and made to pay it all back to the salvation of his BOlfrespect Many despondent men have In this way been given a new start In life and have been made to feel that they have been helped to help themselves without the loss of any manhood Charity pure and simple Is applied wherever It Is needed but In these cases It is mostly women and children who arc aided Helpless cases are found everyday every-day where the help Is given outright and without question as the need Is obvious BUSINESS METHODS IN ClARITY Tho rule that guides Mr Rockefeller In his business Is 1 applied to his charities consolidation of forces to reduce operating operat-ing evpenscs and a thorough knowledge of details Over I all must be that secrecy that shrouds l the operations of tho giant concern and which alone makes It possible Public charity has always been found to defeat itself Those who arc willing to accept public charity arc not worthy of It and those who are worthy will not accept ac-cept aid when It comes with a blare of trumpets and i display of Un purpose to the success It Is therefore necessary of than enterprise that Its operations bo kept from the public It the books could be shown the entire structure would fall And If I the books In the office of Mr Gates were mado public they would be n revelation Tho amounts set down for various purposes would be simply amazing amaz-ing The sums given away would const tute a comfortable fortune for even a rich man The whole thing started In tho most simple way Mr Rockefeller had for years bcun giving money whore he thought it would do good Ills mail begun he found he had gun to grow and soon rounl not the time to attend to it so Mr Gates was engaged to read the letters and dispose dis-pose or tim This he did until he In turn had to engage assistance Then are a-re llaX bureau grew up until the establishment estab-lishment reached Its present proportions KEEPS TRACK OF l DOW mNTS Now aside from Iho purely charitable work It does the department keeps tracK of all the gifts nnd endowments to colleges col-leges and other Institutions to which Mr Rockefeller Is giving a helping hand Manv of these in order to secure the promised gifts have to raise certain sums themselves Time progress of these funds Is watched by the bureau and If the conditions con-ditions ere fulfilled the endowment Is sent on without further difficulty Time extent of this task con be understood under-stood when It Is known that in the last few years Mr Rockefeller has given away thirty or forty million dollars to colleges schools and other Institutions Among tho gifts are funds tho income of which In paid out regularly to the beneficiaries and all these have to be looked after am1 managed Vnken In Its entirety the task o giving and demands away money is not an easy one < mands almost as much skill and business abllltv as docs the accumulation of It To keep l the huge fortune of Mr Rockefeller Rocke-feller flowing out by the proper channels requires all the attention of Mr Gates and his trained staff of assistants Chicago Tribune cago |