Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1913 — TULSA MAN ADOPTS 300 BOYS AND GIRLS [ARTICLE]

TULSA MAN ADOPTS 300 BOYS AND GIRLS

Millionaire in Oklahoma Oil City Doing Wonderful Thing For Poor Children. Tulsa, Okla., is a rapidly growing city, owing to the oil industries there. Several. Rensselaer people are located there and Rensselaer has heard a great deaf-olTuls^/ during recent years. Attentioh-is called to it now by the fact that Charles Page, a millionaire of that city, has adopted a means of spending his money that is certain to result in much good to society. Mrs.. Blanche Sigler, of Tulsa, who is now visiting her mother, Mrs. WJ S. Coen, has handed The Republican the following clipping, which tells of Mr. Page’s plan. It reads: “Every poor child in Tulsa, Okla., is singing the praises of Charles Page, a local millionaire, through whose generosity they are privileged to enjoy a daily outing during the hot summer months, and who has adopted into a home'lle has founded 300 poor children, and hopes to increase the number to a thousand. Near the village of SAnd Springs, a suburb of Tulsa, Mr. Page owns six thousand acres. He has converted eighty acres of the forest into one of the most complete parks in America, particular attention being paid to a playground for children. An interurban railroad owned by Mr. Page connects the village and park with the city. Every morning a special ear takes every child who cares to go to the park and bringsg them back in the evening free of charge. The larger boys in the permanent home on the estate work on the farm in the summer. The larger girls work a number of hours each day during the fruit season, canning fruit for the home. Mr. Page says that he intends to devote nearly all of his five millions to the perpetuation by endowment of his children’s home, which is to shelter, support, and educate a thousand children of the poor. What a blessed charity. Now and in the centuries to come, he will hear these words of the divine Master: J“‘lnasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matt. 25:40.)”