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Show OIL KING A PATRON SAINT A patron saint on a large scale is Charles Page, the Oklahoma oil millionaire, mil-lionaire, who has adopted 300 waifs and is planning to make the number a thousand before he relinquishes his interest. Being a patron saint on a large scale is not an unusual undertaking under-taking for Mr. Page; he is accustomed to doing things on a large scale. He has made money on a large scale, built up business on a large scale, built a city on a large scale and now he proposes to father on a large scale all the helpless, needy children who come his way. It was some fifteen years ago that he made a lucky strike in gold up in Colorado. When they struck oil in Oklahoma he was on the spot and was one of the first to develop that resource. re-source. He was lucky again and today to-day he is probably the richest man in Oklahoma, having piled up some $5,000,000. f - And he is having a lot of fun with that money. He has a tract of 6,000 acres near Tulsa, on which he has developed a park where all the children of the city are welcome these hot days of summer. He owns the railroad and every morning a car goes to the city to convey the little ones to the park at Sand Spriegs, where a deaconess and paid attendants care for them during the day. The car takes them home again at night |