The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 3

THE DAILY ALAbKA EMPIRE, M()\I)AY MAY 24, |93/ THE LAZIEST MAN in the WORLD! WALLACE BEERY with OLD HUTCH SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU TODAY oo YET LADY LUCK HANDED HIM $100,000 ON A SILVER PLATTER! ERIC LINDEN Cecilia PARKER Elizab Robert An M-G:M Picture . EXTRA! MARCH OF TIME —ALSO— t Moving a Empire News : BRGANIZER 0F STANDARD OIL DIES iN SOUTH d Man Answers Last Summons Early on Sunday Morning (Continued from Page Two) In July, 1925, he sold the Po- tico Hills estate, near Tai town, N. Y.—8,000 acres, cove 12'; square miles, it eventually grew to be—his place at Lake- wood, N. J., his town house in New York, where he had not lived for many years, and his winter home it Ormond Beach (Fla.) to his L ity. atterson cWade Avenue, was still kepk seldom went there. Life Story D. Rockefeller’s life story | Richford, Tioga Coun- where he was born on Snly 1839. Frequently in his advanced age he used to motor up i there and visit his boyhood haunts. He was of the fifth generation in descent from Johann Peter Rockefeller, who came with his sons to America from near Coblenz on the Rhine in 1720 and settled |in New Jersey. The family was ginally French, named “Roche- | feuille” or “Rocqueville,” meaning “Rockleaf,” and they had lived for up, John started at N. Y, a long time in France, whence they { when the Huguenots were be- persecuted in 1685. ing | Shrewd Father } Mr. Rockefeller’s father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a shrewd farmer and doctor, who often went away from home on long trading |trips. His mother was Eliza Davi- daughter of John Davison, of {men in arousing Indians to attack | front s in the latter part of the t-nghu.nlh' out in historic but he 1y WHITE RENEGADE Carradine bklllfully Enacts Role of Historic Villain in Daniel Boone The part played by renegade white smen - and their fam century is brought mant in “Daniel Boon,” which IS DEPICTED IN FRONTIER DRAMA, with George O'Brien starred, is now at the Coliseum Theatre. the leading characters depicted in gade—a man who makes a thou- sandfold more perilous and difficult the task of leading some odd families from their old homes in North Carolina to new ones in a fertile Kentucky valley, beyond . This renegade, Girty, is played with great skill by John Carradine O’Brien, as Boone, the farsighted, courageous frontiersman, is nearly constant conflict with Girt of Kentucky. The cast of “Daniel Boon” cludes Heather Angel, George Re- gas, Ralph Forbes, Huntley Gordon Crawford Kent and others. wood from the men who sold it. It was good training for me." First Business Deal John completed his first business | | transaction when he was 8 years, |oid, on the farm near Moravi I'md ‘The boy's | brood of little turkeys if he could find them. He found the nest, |raised the turkeys and sold them. After several frugal years he ac- Icumulated $50, which he loaned out at 7 per cent. At the age of 14 hidden her mest. | three days of 10 hours each and |received $1.12 for his labor. This | made him think. The pay for three days of hot, back-breaking toil was less -than a third of a year's in- terest on his $50. He resolved to make more savings work for him. The family moved to Cleveland, O, in 1853. John spent a year and a half in high school, only to (find that he could not afford to 0 to college. So he paid for a; three months’ course in a commer- cial school and managed to absorb in six weeks all that they could teach about bookkeeping and busi- ness theory. Looks for Work In the middle of August, 1855, he began to look for work. From 8 a.m. until 6 pm. every day for a One of}{ the photoplay is that of su¢h a rene-! thirty-| trackless forests and the great bar-! rier of the Cumberland mountains. | seen in! in this sereen epic of the settlement in- | A turkey hen had wandered away ther told him he could have the |he dug potatoes for a meighbor-for | | { | | marvied, was a tea at which Jans: ony, ‘feller” long before he was 21. ° ;A bank president warned him lone day that he had borrowed I nearly all the money in the bank. “Our directors \nm to see you and talk with you,” he said. { “I'll come right down,” Mr. Rockefeller replied. “IIl come right away, for I want to borrow a great deal more.” | During these early years he be- 'came known to the business com- fmunn.,\' as a self-contained, frugal jyoung man, free from bad habits, |reliable and a steady attendant at ‘church and Sunday school. In his fifteenth he had | {joined the Erie set Baptist Chureh in Cleveland, now the' ‘Eumd Avenue Baptist Church. It |was then a poor, struggling mis- \onn with a $2,000 mortgage on In.s building. Aids Church | When the pastor annvunced one | Sunday that the house was to be sold to pay the debt, young Rocke- feller stood at the door and begged !a contribution from everyone who passed. Some could give only 10 lcents a week, few as much as $1, ‘but he begged for months until . he raised the $2000 and Saved “theé’ itendent of the Sunday school, a position he held for more than 30 ! years. | A Bible class for men which he Ichurch. Later he became superin-/ n, for $3,088,000. So he actually | Niles Township, near Moravia, N. d not own any home. Y. She was noted for her deep piety and her firm, though gentle, Buys Village week he tramped the hot streets. fcrganized and led became one of The only answer he got was “no,”|the largest of its kind in the eoun- It attracted young and old of Much of the enlargement of the tico Hills estate was done P after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., took it over. age—paid the individual prop- owners for their land and re- imbursed them for their expenses in moving away. As Mr. Rocke- feller’s grandchildren married homes were built for them at Pocantico Hills. Nelson A feller, his grandson, brought his bride there to live in a new house on their return from a round-trde- world honeymoon in 1931. For many years after uis retire- | ament, Mr. Rockefeller’s life hardly varied. Summers were spent at Pocantico Hills, autumn and each spring at Lake- wood, N. J, noted for its mild climate, and winters at Crmond Jeach, Fla. His town house on West 54th Street, just off Fifth/ He even bought an entire | Rocke- | rule of her children. They all had to work hard and study hard, though they had plen- ty of time for play, too. The fam- {ily lived five years near Moravia and later moved to Owego, N. Y., where John and William, a broth- er, attended for two years the fa- mous Owego Academy. “I had a peculiar training in my home,” Mr. Rockefeller said. “I annot remember when hard work was new or strange to me. We were taught to work, to save, and { to give. | “Ours seemed to be a business training from the beginning. We | were encouraged to be self-reliant. | I was taught to do as much busi- a few weeks each ness at the age of 10 and 11 as | it was possible for me to do. I was sent over the hills to buy cord- | wood, and I did not require the presence of anyone to enable me to obtain good measure of good It Pays to Buy a HARDWOOD FLOCR with a GUARANTEE Your floors.are too important a part of the home to intrust their installation to not sufficiently anyone who is experienced or properly equipped to bring out the Beauty and Natural Oak ar loveliness of the nd to so guaran- tee the conditions under which they are installed that their Beauty will not be marred by unsightly cracks. GARLANP pOGGAN Phone 582 FLOORING CONTRACTOR Our Floors Are Guaranteed | next Monday morning and kept at it for six weeks. On September 26 Hewitt and Tuttle hired him to be assistant bookkeeeper in their produce ware- house on the lake front. He cele- brated the anniversary all the rest of his life. He did not know what his pay would be when he took the job. At the end of the year he was handed $50 for a little more than three months’ work. The next year he drew $25 a month, and the fol- lowing year $50. From the day he drew his first pay he kept an exact record of every cent received and paid out. The famous Rockefeller *“ledger A an account book kept by the future multimillionaire at about that time, revealed his early habit to distribute wealth as well as to such items as “50 cents to a poor woman” and “25 cents to a poor man.” Hard Worker For his employers he worked hard, audited scrupulously every bill that was paid or collected and succeeded in collecting some old balances that had been regarded as hopeless. When he was 18 years old his pay was raised to $700 a year. He asked for $800, but could not get it. He had saved nearly $1,000, so, after a careful look around, he invested his savings, plus $1,000 borrowed from his father, in a partnership with Maurice B. Clark, an Englishman 10 years his senior, and they opened a commission business. J “We were prosperous from the beginning,” Mr. Rockefeller said later. “We did a business of $45,- 000 the first year. Our profit was Inot large—I think $4,400.” | Although he was the junior part- ner and under age, he thoroughly organized the "business. He prac- ticed the most rigid economy, drove close bargains and lived as frugally las ever, putting most of his profits back into the business, “to grow.” “Mister” Before 21 Young Rockefeller daringly as- sumed large financial obligations to carry the firm through business deals. He borrowed all his father could lend, needed more and, sum- moning up all his courage, asked a banker for a loan of $2,000. The banker let him have it on his own warehouse receipts. The lad -of 18 walked out of the bank elated. He felt that he was a man, full grown. Indeed, his fellow mer- chants called him “Mister Rocke- but he began the same round the |try. accumulate wealth. Entries showed | every degree of affluence. “The religion of man is his most “There is nothing in the world ythat can compare with Christian fellowship; nothing that can sat- isfy but Christ.” When Drake struck oil in Penn- sylvania, in 1859, there was a rush jto the new field of wealth from iall parts of the country. But the young merchant stayed out, ques- tioning and studying, for more than two years. Then he his part- ner joined with Samual Andrews, who had learned the art of cleans- ing and refining petroleum. Under the title of Andrews, Clark and Company they organized a separ- ate firm to refine oil and built a small refinery on the bank of Kingsbury Run, near Cleveland. S. 0. Company This business, by mutual con- sent, was put up at auction in 1865, and Mr. Rockefeller bought it in at $72/500. Thus began the firm of Rockefeller and Andrews, the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, incorporated in January, 1870, with a capital of $1,000,000—a vast sum in those days. In the meantime Mr. Rockefeller’s brothers, William and Frank, besides Henry M. Flag- ler, Stephen V. Harkness and sev- prise. Less than 10 years had pass- ed since Mr. Rockefeller entered the oil" business. The year before Mr. Rockefeller bought up the assets of Andrews, ed to last half a century. In the Cleveland High School in 1853 one of his class mates was Laura Cel- estia Spelman, daughter of a mer- ried ‘September 8, 1864, and for important possession,” he said.| Clark and Company he had en- | tered another partnership, destin-;then, chant of Akron, O. They were mar-! W dusband Oneof the first socidl cvenits on thé schedule of Ann Harding, screep star. and her new husband, Wers when they returned to Hollywood from Europe where they were ner Janssen, orchestra conductor sen was introduced to the film col- ahove. . i Ita, who became Mrs. E, Parmalee ( Prentice of New York; Edith, who married Harold McCormick of Chi- cego in 1895 and divorced him in 19: John D. Jr, of New York, who married Abby Greene Aldrich, daughter of the late Nelson W. Aldrich, U. 8, Senator from Rhode Island, and Bessie, who died a number of years ago. She was the wife of Charles A. Strong, a professor of psychology of Co- lumbia University. Two Celebrations 1’ T'wo d each year he cele- | brated. “his birthday and Septem- | ber 26, anniversary of the day he got that first job out in Cleveland. was the biggest day of my he used to say. The celeprations were always the same—a game of golf with friends {in the morning and guests at din- ner at night. For his birthday there would be a cake, and his | grandchildren while they -were lit- Mlp and later his great-grandchil- lif dren used to help him blow out | the candles. | As he grew older — approaching ! jand passing his ninetith birthddy | 4r-Mr. Rockefeller saw:less and less {of the public. At one time newspapermen were mitted to Pocantico Hills on his birthday, and a band would play er, the band disappeared and autumn of 1930 he left for the south ahead of schedule to avoid the interviewers and the flash- lights. Different Celebration | His ninety-first birthday, on July 8, 1930, was made a little different | Hrom the others by receipt of a congratulatory message from the late “Mother” Jones, This was a return gesture of amity from a onetime bitter foe, for “Mother Jones,” who two decades fearlier had fought the Rockefeller interests in the mines of Colorado, had herself received a message of cheer from John D. Rockefeller, {Jr, when she achieved her hun- {dredth birthday on May 1, 1930. At times Mr. Rockefeller would emerge from his seclusion, always in the best of humors, Twice he posed for the talking newsreels. Once, after having ‘taxied around | Florida, he ended his little talking | picture speech with a chuckle and {“God bless Standard Oil!” Aud- few days later in' movie theatres all -over the country. | Once while he was playing golf |~ at Pocantico Hills, a newspaper | phuwgrapher climbed the 15-foot |wall surrounding the estate and ;suddenly appeared, camera in hand, | before Mr. Rockefeller. eral others, had joined the enter-| Got Picture First “Where did you come from?” Mr. Rockefeller demanded. The photigrapher silently pointed the wall. “Out,” said Mr. Rockefeller. And with a twinkle: “Out the {same way.” But the photographer was per- mitted to take his picture first, nd then Mr. Rockefeller watched him make his exit over the wall. Mr. Rockefeller attributed his [to formerly | nally the newspapermen. In "he:gmup of friends today at & lunch-| labor leader. | the field irplane, | RGRAM in a0 atmiang, down ln‘, The anti-dueling provision is an |iences laughed and applauded 'a| which grew within five years into| nearly 51 years shared an ideal long life to his temperate ' habits. life. {No one ever saw him-in a hurry. His Wife {The chief of American business Mrs. Rockefeller cared little for!men, so noted as hustlers, he never |socal - activities outside the circle hustled. of family friends. She gave much| He had a pulse well below 60, attention to rearing and Lraimng and no one can remember having her children, to the work of the, seen him in a state of excitement. church and the Sunday school and| He never used tobacco or 'alco- to charities. | holic beverages, ate moderately and She died suddenly of heart dis-| very slowly and took care to linger ease on March 12, 1915, at Pocan- awhile at the table by playing tico Hills, while her husband was With his household a game of in the south. For several years numerica, a simple puzzle of num- cshe had been unable to go to bers, somewhat like solitaire. |church, and it was Mr. Rockefel-| Daily Nap ler's custom to bring her notes of| The daily nap after luncheon the sermons, {and several hours of outdoor ac- Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller were the parents of five children. One of 34 years. He took up golf in died in infancy. The others were 1899 and became a constant player. . tivity were his rule after the age' BACK TROUBLE, FISHING ALIBI FUR ‘0LD HUTGH' balurday [zvemng Post| | Story of Laziest Man | Enacted by Beery | Filmed in the colorful farm coun-| |try of Santa Cruz, “Old Hutch,” which opened at the Capitol Thea- ltre yesterday, deals with a man who hasn't worked for twenty yéars be- leause of “back trouble.” While fish- ing one day he accidentally stum- {bles onto a box of hidden loot, $100,~ 1000 in all. “Old Huteh” is portrayed by the 1 |inimitable Wallace Beery. Because he hasn’'t worked in years }lw realizes that it would be impos- {sible for him to cash any $1,000 bills {money to start using the stolen bills |without arousing suspicion. | Harry Rapf’s production was ta- {k('n from an original story by Gar- 'n(t Smith, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Eric Lin- nd Cecilia Parker have the {romtantic leads and Elizabeth Pat- terson portrays the wife of “Old Huteh.” J. Walter Ruben directed. | den | | When well past 80 he played nine holes in from 40 to 45. Mr. Rockefeller established his residence in New York in 1884, at 4 West 54th Street. Later he bought a home for his son next door. In the last years of his life, | however, he was seldom there. | “Kijkuit"—an old Dutch word for “Lookout"—his home on a high | hilltop at Pocantico Hills, back ‘of Tarrytown on the Hudson, was built at a cost of more than $2,- 000,000. It was said that it cost about $500,000 a year to maintain the estate. Some 530 men and 30 teams were constantly employed on {the place. For many years he had a sum- [mer place called “Forest Hills, near Cleveland, surrounded by 640 }Tho house buned in 1918 and was | At the celebration of his eighty- |first birthday, at which a band played his favorite songs for hours, he said he hoped to live for 100 years. “And then,” he said, {gin to really live.” PR -6 SIS | FAIRBANKS PRIZE WINNERS HONORED “I shall be- | Mrs. G. V. Goss entertained a (eon at Percy’s honoring Miss Char- nes of Fairbanks. |were the guests of the Fairbanks |Daily News-Miner and Fairbanks merchants on an all-expeme-paid Itrip to Old Mexico and return. Miss |Wehner will leave on the Aleutian tomorrow for her héme in Fair- lin Juneau for an indefinite stay® e ; Texas to Reconsider ' Ban Against Duelists AUSTIN, Tex., May 24—Before |the next office-taking time in Texas, {the people will have an opportunity to vote on abolition of that section of the constitutional oath in which the person inaugurated swears he | weapons, |afLermath of the days when ques- tled with pistols or swords. recent solmn inaugurnl ceremonies, | f %fli‘ CLEAN TASTE? * ‘A rare and lpeclll type of natural brew- | ing water, combined with skill and fine | ingredients, has made certain European | | beers world famous for quality . . » Likewise, in America, our.subterrancan Beer internationally recognized for fine flavor, clean taste, cone stant purity and re freshing goodness, GREEN TOP CABS PHONE 6178 land is known to be without a cent,| of the| Hutch gets a job run-| Ining a farm in order to save enough | {acres of lawns, gardens and groves. | not rebuilt. After the fire Mr. | Rockefeller never went back to| | Cleveland. i HERE BY MRS. GOSS| his favorite tunes. Eventually, how- | lotte Wehner and Miss Helen Ju-| The Misses Wehner and Junes! banks, while Miss Junas will remain | has never fought a duel with deadly | {tions of honor frequently were set-| Its use has caused snickers at| GIVES OLYMPIA ITS “Its the Water” | wells at Tumwater have made Olympia | HEATIIER ANGEI. John CARRADINE An RKO Radio Picture ALSO Dumb Luck Going Places The Sailors’ Home News parades in which the boys participate and also displayed at all gatherings of the Boy Scouts on this trip which will |will be carried in all take them ta Seattle, Vancauver, | Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, New HALLIE RICE York, Philadelphia, Washington, {Harpers’ Feiry, Chicago, Minne- npnlls and way points. | 3 -+ Norlitemen Represenlahve Starts for Jamboree WESDAHL IN SUNDAY Making - her regular week-end |trip into Juneau, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey tender es- . {4 dahl, Lieut. H. Arnold Karo, ctom- | m WaShmg‘on mander, arrived in port yesterday | e morning and left again this morn= | Hallie Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs.[ing to return to Taku Inlet where George B, Rice, representing theshe is er 1 in chart preparation "Norlitemen Troop of the Boy Scouts this summer. She moored hefe at {of America, left on the steamer|the Lower Government Float.. -~ | Aleutian this morning to attend the, National Boy Scouts Jamboree to |be held in Washington, D. C., from June 29 to July 10th inclusive. Hallie will proceed to the Na- !tional encampment in easy stages, as will also Lee Lucas, son of Mr. jand Mrs, Harry Lucas, who is now NOTICE . Second annual meeting of the stockholders and board of direetors of Jack Wade Dredging Company will be held Tuesday, June 8, in Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. (Signed) CHARLES A. WHITNEY, lin Portland, and together they will|adv. Secretary. visit ‘friends and relatives In ThE| =—s———mrmmmiimaaeres Dalles, Oregon, Portland and Seat- |7 RSURAR s o !tle until time to entrain for their big trip leaving Vancouver, B. C, P NE 36 | June 18. On the trip from the Pa- v |cific Coast, the Alaska party, which For very pron“ b will be made up of Hallie Rice, Lee Lucas and Bobby Scott, will be joined at Vancouver, B. C., by hun- dreds of Boy Scouts from Pacific Coast points and Hawaii. | Hayes Donates Flag | Jack Hayes, always on the look- | out for favorable Alaska publicity, i presented the Juneau boys with a | silk Alaska flag and staff which’gs UQUOR DELIVERY ity 3 HOTEL JUNEAU 1[ Formerly Hotel Zynda , CLARENCE WISE Manager [ SEE THE NEW UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS STANDARD, NOISELESS and PORTABLES CASH REGISTERS and ADDING MACHINES WE CAN REPAIR ALL MAKES ROSCOE TOWNSEND, Alaska Agent 149 S. 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