Show ROGERS DECLINES TOI TO TOMAE MAKE MAE A STATEMENT I I Says His Affairs Are of Interest I to His Family Only I Fall tn ra Mass ss opt 20 For W. For the far first t time since his return to Fair Haven Ha Ha- ven en following his collapse e ii In New NewYork eW York lork II H. II n. Rogers the thc oil magnate kept to hi his lIed bed practically nil all el day That hl hiI his condition iota become Lecome more mor grave gravo was sas evident e despite the emphatic denials of or relatives es and nd friends Coming down from Crom his bedroom about S o'clock this this- evening he Ie re refused refused ro- ro fused to discuss his reported financial financial finan finan- cial reverses re or his most mORt apparent iii- iii health Mentally he lie seems not to have hae lost a whit of oC his old time self soU fen fena a reporter r called at the Rogers mansion mansion man man- sion slon In tho afternoon h he was told toM that the financier w was s in bed When Mr Rogers came caine down clown stairs a clipping was sent In In containing the statement that he hal bad so In Invested invested In- In vested his fortune In the Tidewater railway In Virginia that ho he had been compelled to sacrifice vast ast holdings s in Standard Oil Consolidated Gas Pacific e and St. St Paul latil After a a. t ten minutes' minutes wait walt Mr Ir Rogers came to the door loor his hits face nee flushed with witha a n slow step tep and clinching clinching- the hit bit of oC newspaper in his hand he ho replied I I have haxe not and 11 never er shall tell m my private affairs to the public But nut is it tt true that your our Investments In n Tidewater have e cramped you ou financially finan finan- II This Tidewater is my own private hu business so there I Is nothing to si say And Antl your our health Mr 11 Rogers Is IsIt tt It t so bad bal that you OU intend to retire from h business u si a ess s sh 7 Wily Why h should there bo ho such sl a n fuss about m rny h Interrupted th the white haired c financier My fy health healt h cnn cnn can only Int Interest rest m my family and anti friends and ind the they It know now all about me rue Dr C. C A. A Pratt Mr r Rogers's Hos-ers's printe private vate ph physician spent a longer lonter time than ban usual with his patient today lie Hc le denied however howe that the tho surrender of his patient to hi his couch was wag an ominous ominous omi oral sign or was wa caused causel d by hy tho pub pith of his alleged Tidewater re- re verses erses I |