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Show MIND OF ROGERS IS 1 STILL PERFECTLY CLEAR Special to The Tribune. BOSTON'. Mass., Oct. 8. That the rec-orfl rec-orfl mav be exact and clear, it may be as well to" state thac Ilcury K. Rogers of. the Standard Oil company was stricken Julv 22. but Uiat his mind is perfectly clear. The shock, however, affected his walk and facial expression. It Is not however, how-ever, uncommon to have all traces of a first shock disappear, and with care Mr. Rogers may live and be usefully active for many years. , Noxt to John D. Rockefeller he has been tho great laboring oar ln the Standard Oil organization in its later material progress. Ills financial plans, It Is believed, have covered a wider tango than thoso of any other one of xho twenty-six multi-millionaires making their headquarters ln the Standard Oil building In Now York. He has been the most active man of the group in railroad construction, financing nnd upbuilding. He was the most potent factor from 2G Broadway ln backing up 12. IT. Harriman in the rebuilding of the Union nnd Southern Pacific systems at a cost of $200,000,000. M m t Rogers has been tho one man carrying tho Standard Oil money Into eoppcrdom. Next to John D. RockofeHor, he probably got moro millions out of tho United States tatcel consolidation than any other Standard Stand-ard Oil man. Ho has represented the Standard Oil Interests most potentially In the gas Helds of the country. In conjunction con-junction with William Rockefeller he has been tho great financial pioneer ln putting tho Standard Oil money into the opening and upbuilding of new fields of enterprise. enter-prise. Ho has almost alone at times turned tho tide of depression In Wall street and carried hope and courage into the vitals of American enterprise. The larger part of his fortune has been made within the last fifteen or twenty years, and although this may have amounted at one time to above $100.-000,000. $100.-000,000. It Is now believed among his financial associates that he is not worth much more than $G50.000. a large part of which is ln the Tidewater railway, which is planned to bo tho most economical eco-nomical connection between the West Virginia coal fields and tho Atlantic seaboard sea-board . Mr. Rogers's retirement will not affect tho dally operation of the Standard Oil as an Individual corporation, but it may largely reduce the activities of Standard OH money in stock market enterprises. Some of Mr. Rogers's friends (Voclarc that tho shrunken volume of business on the Now York Stock Exchange and the decline of 25 per cent ln tho exchanges of tho New York clearing house while business Is at flood tide throughout the rest of th country Is directly due to cessation ces-sation In the activities of Henry 1-1. Rogers. |