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Show THE ROCKEFELLER WAY. A Little Matter of $27,000 Saved by Waiting and Dealing Round-about. (Kansas City Star.) cld .In. Wm,am Rockefeller finally con-fes con-fes c traetUhafe V ,; STeut Adirondack t crea ln thc 'nu '"to a park he - i..,wi i.u ct cml)rae(?cl about 30,yM aeres Ct n lor Kl rS a'llp t,J cure an op: ion ior thirty days. The amount named nirfVi'min was s"- whit'n the terriMrT I?iasoni,blf- a much of . ver ifnri T,?uh"d nevcr t,oe" lumbered ArrtiS o0r,'r?t,ons c ,l,ld have je,irs very, profitably. ?lTy 'nv,tl' Mr. Rockefeller to L H,dl!, hunting in Ulc tract sim the latter took -advantage of the uTr- X0" the .iru&nof the t,? 1,1 option Mr. Kockc-felier c!.,1S , returning from the trip, lie :nd JskTiY101 ready lo elose'the l?al w... ... Vi . "o1"1 UJ secure an option .m'.hi e' tl"r,y Uayp- The agent was !h fxt,end th(1 option lor more than fifteen days. Mr. Ducev thought 'f. ITKle,Tan,w3 yc-y reasonable and he I n lhat Mr. Rockefeller had ha 1 enough ! time to think it over. "All right," said Mr. Rockefeller to agent -j,et n go A liL Ue iime j a great thing." V.'-8,1 do J0U m-n by that, Mr. Rockefeller? Rocke-feller? ' asked the :iffent. 'Just that a little time is a great thing. ' As winter came on it- began to look as thougn Mr. Rockefeller .did not want the Dueey tract and the old lumberman kept Ins mill running. On one of the coldest and stormiest cays of March a city man step ed from ine tram at the Brandon depot and made his way along: the drifted highway to I'at Ducey's office. He located the lumberman in the great mill, where lie was -superintending repairs re-pairs to a gang mw. They returned to the otfice and then the visitor told his errand. "Mr. Duccy." said ho. "I want to purchase pur-chase this tract. I don't want vour mill or the machinery. You can move them away off and bejrirr- all ov-?r again scmewhere if yon wish. You have done j pretty well here, stripped the land of about all the timber you can get at easily, eas-ily, and it seems to me that it is a good time for you to mjv?." He handed the old lumberman a slip of paper which was a check for $50 (KM) and certified by. a New York bank. "There's your money. All you have to do is to pull up stakes and go." "Well. I don't know " began Mr. Dueey. "I havpn f any time to monkey." put in the stranger, and he reached for the check. Dueey, however, concluded to trade. "Who's the buyer-'" asked Duccy, as they began to draw up the papers. "Willhun' Rockefeller." w:is Ihi renHr "Gosh! if I'd known that I'd" and he gave way to a lot of extravagant expressions. ex-pressions. - The force of the millionaire's remark that "a little time is a-great thing" now became apparent. . for he had saved $27,-000 $27,-000 m purchasing the Dueey tract, which vas a good value at the figures the lumberman had originally placed upon it. The Rockefeller camp has sine grown up at Bay Pond, and it was here that John D. Rockefeller, jr.. broufeht -lis tride, the daughter of Senator Aldrich, scon after their mirriage. One day John got his bride interested in piling wood in the great handsome woodshed and they kept at it . for about two hours, when she wanted to stop. "Oh. irn. on! it won't hurt vn;i nnv." j John D.. jr., exclaimed, and she kept at it a little longer. |