Show HENRY H ROGERS Pen Portrait of Once Active Head of Standard Oil I I Genial and Companionable He Has Many Friends and Is Praised for His Americanism His Generosity < TM York When a man like r drops out of tho nc In I Rogers world wherein ho made iclarss IlKiire his friends are innns a tiling i to become nnicdotlc about him 1lories that take on a romantic 111 bank parlors nnd directors ami in htl chatty cornets of flange not to speak of the flrhangl If offices near the water front feels IIko resuming the i Rogers lot ItowlltiR Gieen in a few U or so he will flnd a recon Id Rogers looking at him from Icorner ami whom he may have Ljlttle difficulty In recognizing I mi erect figure of a well with whitening hair and ltd man r < I nioustahe who somehow IC Lin his ripe ago of 67 the graces lie I cultivated a quarter of n cen tick is howover the figure that t Rogers Library Falrhaven i i Mends will recognize His photo Is h have done him tho doubtful ee of giving him a proud rather ity air as of one who marshals lof facts and figures and who is js bent on hard achievement Itt It-t familiar tilck of the camera tn r cat In the selfconscious moment one stands before It tho traits treat the root of character rather those that are familiar to every I The Habit of Victory lie all great men of business i banker H II loved affairs r than anything else It was not draggle for the bake of the light for the end In view As soon as JOB he passed on without a halt 7 another tilt and ho had what aportant the grit for a long 1 and what believe me is most riant the habit of victory Ien like the heads of the Stand Oil company are no accidents a sharp observer They were out In a bundled ways before I fame to control It was the many 1 ness of H H Rogers that made iprlse a necessity In that remark 8roup headed by John D Rocke I r I dont know any of tho quail they posboss that is not common be business world of America r arc no better and no worse than tiousamls l of mel engaged In the tl t of thp higher business of tlie try but each ono has had some 17 notably In excess of the aver Their combination has been lr roughton Mrs W U Cue and Mrs W K Henjamln have already provided pro-vided him with nine grandchildren And he Is proud of thrm In a way usual to grandparents and one may find their pictures making cheerful his roomy olllce at 20 Broadway From this lovable domestic side ono travels easily to his geneial social so-cial outlook That can best bo described de-scribed as frankly American He Is tro I FUBlblo of the value of his position posi-tion as a man of wealth to underestimate underes-timate Its possibilities Ho mixes easily In society entertains tin a generous gen-erous fccale with an eye to the ele gancies so easily within his iwich but ho enjoys most the company of the gifted the genln1 and thp witty for he rather leans to saying good things himself and is never happier than when ho applauds a smart sajlng or a good story A quiet game of cards for the love of the game in congenial company is his occasional pastime He has never developed the fondness for Held games that pleased him in his youth He has taken easily to the automobile but like all good tons of the saltwater his liking for the sea has grown with the years At Home on His Yacht Nowhere Is he perhaps more genially genial-ly at home than on his yacht No hurry that sends men to express trains Is allowed to Interfere with his yachting runs to Falrhaven Hence the Kanawha is about as well known as Mr Morgans Corsair around the waters of Now York Hut it is in Fall haven Itself that ho fairly revels In life as he thinks he would like to live it There he was born and reared and his affection for tho town and the bay ana tno country roan is extravagant In Its manifestations There in his frequent vlsltlngs It Is his delight to move about and chat with all and sundry old cronies of half a century gone who call him Hen sons and daughters of old friends who are middleaged men and women salute him as Mr Rogers and third generation little ones who regard him openpyed as tho local representative of a magnificent providence Said n newspaper man recently I couldnt find anybody there who would say anything but kindness of II H Rogers Rog-ers Generous to Falrhaven lie surely has been good to Fair haven which picturesque village looks across Buzzards Bay to New Bedford ancient home of whalers and all the romance and business that came of their seafaring There he built a great mansion for himself amid beautiful beau-tiful grounds and there he loves most to live when away from work But he alone was not to bo the only Fall havenlte who was finely I housed He built and piestiited to tho citizens a I handsome town hall and a Mas > onic hall On the death of Milllcent a beloved be-loved daughter he built a beautiful public library as a memorial It is called the Milllcent library and has the highest record In the country for books taken out and read In proportion propor-tion to tho contents of Its shelves The village wanted water works and H H Rogers provided them That they might be doubly useful to Fair haven he deeded the income from I them to the Milllcent llbiary forever Sblr 7HS jSvKllvriteb Country Home of Henry H Rogers In Falrhavn lIbe liiraiiso Its action has boon unions Jts steady buslncsH pies Its Riiavp method Its conimcr Kllabllitj have been duo 1 have loul tn John D Rockefeller but 1Vfe no uonbt either that Its ire ° 01s nit reach and coiiquirlng I han boon greatly duo to the I patlvt Kido of tho tempetument tory U Rogers He has inhcilted 1 Monopr spirit His Domestic Life Dlan alwa > s Impjiy In his domes JjlatloiM and devoted to his fain lr Hogers has been accumulating Wrlaichal with tho rcgulailty of renh in other wealth Ho has twti married and his son H Rogprs Jr and his thice rInK daughters Mrs Vrlmn H ho that draughts Horn the plerlan spring might supplement satisfaction of tho oidlnary thlvst of tho villagers Commissioner of Highways Ho built a grammar school and a Unitarian church with a palish houtu altogether ono of the and parsonage most complete and handsome edifices In Massachusetts Hu became at universal I uni-versal request commissioner of high thiieaftcr never were I and va > s streets so looked after Ho turned 1 low land 1 Into a park beautified tho highways and byways furnished n stone approach to tho bridge over tint Acushnet river and JPB the traveler I might think ill J of Fall havens hostelries hostel-ries erected the handsome Tublthn suggestive of Now Kng I Inn name land neatness and qualntntss U was In 185G that Henry Rogers was graduated from the high school nt Falrhaven I and it appeared to him that there was still something else to build as tho fiftieth anniversary of that event approached So he called I for his merry men all and commissioned commis-sioned them to build and equip tho finest high school ever and as It went up ho watched It and nursed It as a mother might a growing child And now filth Its wonderful fittings its gymnasium Its class rooms Its offices of-fices It Is at once tho most luxurious and practical building of tho kind in I tho world What Is at the bottom of all this home love and passion for local adornment adorn-ment a friend of his was asked It Is his Americanism was tho answer He loves his people and would see them second to none In the world Taking Life Easy Mr Rogers is taking life easy now and obeys the behests of his doctor with a smiling acquiescence that conCeals con-Ceals whatever Impatience ho may feel at unwonted restraint You noticed no-ticed tho other day that ho had Mark Twain with him on a short yacht ciulse Well that was not tho first time they had foiegathered In tho cabin after a day of steaming In tho open Men like Mr Clemens and tho late Tom Rped are the typo he most prizes for companions they should r The Falrhaven High School be bright and brainy both Of a winter win-ter evening when he lives In town ho may spend a few hours at ono of his clubs the Metropolitan say Theros he would bo apt to gather a group of bright people and smoke a single cigar while good things went around I heard him once tell of meeting a whaling captain whom he had known i as a lad 10 years before He took his old comrade about the town and the countryside identifying old landmarks land-marks together The captain had been away six years from home and was to hall on a now voyage the next day Im going aboard now Hen he remarked And wont you go homo first und tell your wife goad by I asked Bfazes no replied the whaler Im only to bo gone two years That seemed ho said the most extraordinary utterance ho had over hoard He saw the humor of It but to u homelover It seemed sacrilege sacri-lege Whqn the new high school IItI about to bo opened I spent an aftet noon with him and our talk turned quite naturally on education What he said then Is about as good a key lo the man and his opinions as anything any-thing I can think of and this is the drift of It High School Best Outfit For the boy starting out in life who Is anxious to succeed In business I believe that the ordinary high school education Is the best outfit He Is master of the ordinary implements im-plements of business life whether It be mechanical or commercial that Is ho can read write spell and figure He has nt least a foundation of gen 01 al knowledge uur American mgn schools too cultivate n sense of the greatness of the country Which Inspires In-spires him with confidence in her future fu-ture and hence In his own I speak now more particularly of what may be called the country schools which 1 know boht The high school boy has had set for him a standard of good conduct and that giveandtake which Is the necessity of all civilized social I conflict His great advantage over tho col logo bred nyin Is that ho gets his start In life at 1C or 17 years of ago as agalnht the 21 or 22 years of the college graduate The high school graduate Is proud enough In his way of what ho has accomplished In getting get-ting his class standing but he does not bring his pildo with him when ho Is going to work or looking for a job On the other hand the college man who Is not entering ono of tho piofes slons Is apt to have moro pildo than I tho situation warrants andthat Is a hampering thing He Is expecting the world to conio to him rather than ho should set out with eager heart to dlbcovcr tho world Had Mechanical Bent I As for myself I was very eager togo I to-go to work after graduating and In fact did go to work in less than u week from the day I left school as a giaduate My Hither and I were ugiced that 1 should take up tho trade of machinist but there was no chance Apprenticeships weio limited oven at that time as much as they uro now The machine bhops within reach were full so 1 hud to look In another direction direc-tion I wanted to be at work and I found work 1 was proud to get three dollars n week to begin Mv father said to me Make your hand ablo to support your head nnd maybo your head will learn In time to support your hand It was worth a whole volume of maxims to me I never forgot It and for tho 11 years following I worked with my hands No doubt I was born with a mechanical mechani-cal bent but when In 18CS I entered the oil refining business in Brooklyn I had an equipment of mechanical knowledge and experience tllIt gave mo a special value and I may say that I exacted a money return for It My mechanical knowledge and aptitude apti-tude were of great advantage to mo with my > oung competitors In the business and Indeed with many If not most of tho older ones Great Opportunities Today What I am asked Is tho young high school boys chance now as compared com-pared with GO years ago The cry IB general that It is much loss than It was then Is that so It Is emphatically emphati-cally not so Tho chances for tho high school boy now are many times greater than they wero then People count too much by tlio conditions they find In their Immediate surroundings They dont look at It in a broad enough way Remember that in 1856 I seemed to find closed to me a trado that has since grown with tho cOlin trys growth In a proportion far greater than the increase in population popula-tion Think of the number of machine ma-chine shops In tho country now com I paled with then Not only that but think of the Increased average of output out-put or the total of machinery of tho United States today compared with 50 years ago Wo are truly In tho way of having the whole world as our market Our cotton wheat and corn our coal Iron and copper our gold and silver our oil and all its byproducts not lo speak of all the manufactures that arise out of these and which call for more and moro mlllons of workers these are the great Holds open for the effort of the young men just out of school And theso United States alono will some day bo the home of 500000 000 In this great opportunity of today to-day and this multiplying prospect of tomoirow the high school boy may surely find all that any ago has presented pre-sented or ever will present |