Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1914 — Page 2

GOLDEN WEDDING IS CELEBRATED BY THE ROCKEFELLERS

Wife of Oil King, at Seventy-Five, Realizes Life’s Ambition. SOME GLIMPSES OF HER LIFE Point* in.the Career of a Woman Never Before Given to the Public -—Family Waa Alwaye Her First Consideration. New York.—ln a secluded corner of the state of New York, a quiet little old woman of seventy-flve years enjoyed the realization of her her life’s ambition on Tuesday, September 8. On that morning she attained her golden wedding anniversary—the goal of her existence. Surrounded by all the luxuries that belong to the wife of the richest man in the world, she cares only for the pleasures of the thrifty housewife and the bestowing of little charities that might be the pride of a prosperous business man. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, one of the principals in a golden wedding anniversary that is golden in every sense, Is the personification of simplicity in dress thought and manner. Thete are plenty of 50-year wedding anniversaries in these days. But seldom do the very rich and less often do the very richest dwell together in peace and companionship through half a century of nuptial experience, resisting the onslaught of time and the wear and tear incident to the amass-

John D. Rockefeller.

Ing of fortune and all the burdens that money brings until they reach an age sufficiently ripe to plan for golden weddings. So the Rockefeller anniversary, which fell on September 8, was unique in many ways. It was in Cleveland, 0., on a bright autumn day In 1864 that Laura Celestla Spelman and John D. Rockefeller took their nuptial vows. The bridegroom was twenty-five and the bride was almost the same age; her birthday succeding her wedding day. Their romance had its foundation in an acquaintanceship when both were in grammar school at and ripened after Miss Spelman had finished her education at a boarding school in Worcester, Mass., and returned in 1859 to Cleveland to teach. Mr. Rockefeller had been a clerk in a Cleveland commission house, but about this time he entered Into the partnership of Clark & Rockefeller In the commission business, and laid the foundation for hfs fortune in furnishing food supplies to the Union army at the outset of the Civil war. His sweetheart agreed to wait for him until he had firmly established himself, and their wedding was deferred until John, with the fruits of his commission business invested, launched into the oil industry with Andrews, Clark & Co., in 1862. The story of how Rockefeller rose to fortune subsequently by the formation of the successive concerns of William Rockefeller & Co., and the various Standard Oil companies, culminating in the Standard trust, is familiar to almost every schoolboy. But what of his wife, this little woman of today? Never a strong girl and of less than average physical size, she was always of the sweetest disposition and most kindly thought. She was the daughter of Harvey Buel Spelman, who emigrated from his native Massachusetts to Akron, 0., where he became a successful dry, goods merchant. He was an educator and' a member of the Ohio legislature, an ardent Congregationalist and aboli-

tionist. He removed to Cleveland when Laura was a child. In Cleveland she attended grammar school, and after a course In the East taught In Cleveland for five years, giving up pedagogy for matrimony. Her mother was an active W. C. T. U. worker, and the daughter followed in her footsteps. She was Indefatigable In her work for temperance, for the poor, for those ill. She “went about doing good." > Despite her long residence in New York city and her immense wealth, she never figured in the society of the metropolis. She sought, rather,, the hospitals to visit, comfort and give financial help to those ill. And when her children were large enough they made tieir regular visits to the sick,

carrylng flowers. She has taken a deep interest in the welfare of colored girls in the South, in which work her father was interested before her. In fact, Spelman pater established the Spelman seminary at Atlanta, Ga., for negro girls, and since his death this institution has been supported by Mrs. Rockefeller. Mrs. Rockefeller’s chief occupation in life has been the rearing of her four children. Another child died in infancy. Society never claimed her from her children and she never has had any interest that was considered as approaching her family in importance. Mrs. Rockefeller trained her children in the ways of thrift just as she might have done if she bad expected that they would be compelled to make their own way in life. She set them an example in this respect in her manner of dress and in the direction of her household, even when this involved the great home and grounds at Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, N. Y. Her social circles always included only the old friends of the family—friends made during the early days when nobody suspected that John Rockefeller, commission merchant,ever would be the richest man in the world. Even this limited number of friends often was neglected in order that the mother might devote all of her time to her children. During recent years when Mrs. Rockefeller appeared in public she always was clad in the same simple style. She wore a black silk gown with white lace trimmings at the throat and cuffs, with a neat black coat to match. # a . Nobody ever discovered that Mrs. Rockefeller was greatly interested in the wealth that her husband spent his life in amassing. She suffered much because of it. She suffered when her husband faced numerous attacks in newspapers and magazines that had to do with his methods of making money and she suffered when he was the defendant in several government prosecutions that were brought on for the same reason. But that practically was the only interest she had in the money credited to her husband’s account at the bank —or his numerous banks, to be exact. Any business man with an income of $5,000 a year could have provided his wife with the same luxuries that Mrs. Rockefeller enjoyed. Most of the charities of the Rockefeller family were left to the husband or his aids to handle. Mrs. Rockefeller, however, enjoyed bestowing funds in certain directions herself. A needy distant relative was incapacitated! A home was built And given -to him free of aH cost by Mrs. Rockefeller. The church interests of this richest wife have always been important in her eyes. She was originally a Congregationalism but upon her marriage transferred her allegiance to the Baptist denomination of her husband, and is now a member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church in Cleveland. As long as her health permitted, she was never absent from her pew on Sunday. But it is in her home that she shows to her best advantage. To her guests she is a hostess royal. Always she talks of those subjects which are closest to the hearts of those she entertains —YEfe rare secret of a successful hostess. She makes all feel at ease at once. There is nothing of the snob in her. Lovable and companionable at all times, jshe is a woman to whom wealth has brought no change of character save to emphasize its highest qualities. In recent years she has been in very inflrm health. But for the tender and persistent care which she has received at the hands of her husband she would probably not have lived until now. The best of everything has been given her. She never sought to buy titles for her children, though she might easily have done so. And she never aspires to the title of “oil queen" or any other queen, though she has some excuse, for the blood of royalty actually flows in the veins of her “oil king” husband. Such is the fact, for though not many know of it, John D. Rockefeller is a direct descendant of the reigning house of England, a'lineal heir of Edward Ironsides, once king, and of all the succeeding rulers down to Edward 111. Through the third Edward’s son, the earl of Leicester, he traces

FRENCH IN A FRONTIER TOWN

Cavalrymen partaking of refreshtfeiitr while watering their mounts at the village pump in a frontier town.

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his ancestry rto the daughter of the third earl of Lincoln, who married John Humphrey, early magistrate of Massachusetts Bay colony. And whose granddaughter, Susanna Palmes, wed Samuel Avery, progenitor of Lucy Avery, who married Godfrey Rockefeller, the grandsire of John D.

FRICK’S FRENCH CHEF TO WAR

Millionaire’s Noted Cook Causes Dismay By Going Home to Fight for Country. Boston. —Inspired by patriotism of so an order that he willing gave up his highly paid position, the famous" French chef employed by Henry Clay Frick at his North Shore summer home resigned his place and announced his intention of returning to France to fight. The consternation in the Frick family at this unexpected move, however, was duplicated in several other homes, where nearly all the men servants have either gone or have announced their intention of leaving.

Henry C. Frick.

' The Frick chef is the highest salaried servant of the lot, receiving a salary that is said to rival that of some bank presidents and many business men who are considered in’ comfortable circumstances. Many of those, however, who are going back to Europe are well paid, and in addition live in quarters that will make life in the army seem especially miserable. The fashionable residents of the North shore are in a quandary as to what to do without their servants. The maids are left, but in few instances do these know how to cook, and more than one society woman, it is rumored, is making experimental trips into the kitchen. The French predominate among the North shore servants, but some are German and a few Italian and English. The war has been responsible for no little wrangling among them.

Miners Sentenced to Jail.

Fort Smith, Ark. —Seven miners, including Peter R. Stewart, former president of the Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas district of the U. M. W. of A., were found guilty of contempt of court at Fort Smith and sentenced to serve from thirty days to four months in jail. The men were charged with being implicated in riots in the coal fields several months ago, after the operators had obtained an injunction to prevent their interference with ths operation of the mines.

Shot Bull to Save Children.

Logtown, Ark. —Mrs. J. L. Roberts of Logtown saved her two sons, four and six years old, from death by shooting a large bull that had attacked them. The animal knocked down the oldest boy and was viciously pawing him when the younger child bravely ran to his assistance. Then Mrs. Roberts appeared and shot the bull to death.

Dapper Private Was a Girl.

Quebec, Canada. —Determined to gc to war with the Canadian troops, a young woman was discovered ir. the full uniform of a prlvatq.-ln the Valcartier camp, near Quebec. A sentry became suspicious of the dapper looking private and challenged him. The suspect was taken to headquarters and later placed on a train for Quebec.

BUILT TO DEFY THE SAND STORM

ENGINE BUILT TO CUT THROUGH SAND STORMS ON SAHARA DESERT LINE.

For use on the Sahara desert line of ope of the French railroads, a peculiar type of engine, designed for cutting through the terrific sand and windstorms characteristic of ' the region, has been built. The farther railroads have been pushed into the desert the greater has been the difficulty encountered from storms, these being at times sufficiently strong to bring heavy trains to a complete standstill or even topple them over. To facilitate driving into head-on blasts a lo-

WAS IMAGINARY HORSE

BUT IT MADE MUCH TROUBLE FOR THE ENGINEER. Incident That Proves the Human Equation Cannot Be Ignored, Though Scientific Efficiency May May Be at Its Highest Eugene Field’s poem about the little ,boy who “ain’t afraid of snakes and worms and bugs and toads and mice” would be applicable to engineers. But when it comes to horses and cows there is fear, and a justifiable one, for there is little that can do so much havoc with a moving engine as a cow or a horse that stands in its way. The body of the animal is liable to get wedged between the track and the engine and derail it. “I was fireman with an engineer on a Western road who nearly Iqst his. job because he thought he saw a hohse on the track,” related a veteran recently. “We were making an afternoon run over a level stretch at a pretty fast clip, when the engineer, John Malone, a man of 14 years’ driving on that road, tooted his whistle and told me that he saw a horse on the track, but, said he, it would not move or even prick up its ears, although he three, times in fast succession. “I rushed to the window of the cab, looked out and then took some waste and started rubbing the windows of the pilot cab. And my reason for all this was that I didn’t see any horse at all. And after I had finished cleaning the window he didn’t either. “The horse had been an imaginary horse, a speck on the window that I had just cleaned had taken the form, in his mind, but it was quite a while before I could convince him of i£. “In his desire for safety he had only thought of stopping his train in time, and had not thought of the horse after the first impression he had received from the speck. “The joke was on the engineer, and they kidded him about it until it reached the ears of the traffic superintendent, and then he was dismissed. But when a certificate from an optician was shown to the powers that be stating that his eyes were in perfect condition he was re-instated. “It’s just one of those little incidents that shows that even though we get most everything down to a state of scientific efficiency the human equation cannot be Ignored.”

Clear Windshield.

A doctor living in a rainy climate, whose calls took him out often in wet weather, undertook the problem of maintaining clear vision through the windshield of his automobile regardless of rain, and he succeeded in making a prescription that would do the work. The prescription calls for one ounce of water, two ounces of glycerine and one dram of salt. This is poured on a piece of gauze and then wiped over the glass, care being taken to have all the strokes downward. The effect of the treatment is to prevent raindrops from clinging to the glass.

Electricity Helps Sun.

Electricity Is being employed to help out the sun In California and Arizona. Date growers have discovered that the natural temperature in the desert districts Is not warm enough to ripen dates properly. Now this process Is accomplished artificially by means of electric ovens. The unripe dates are put into these ovens and allowed to regain three days at a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit. At the expiration of this period they are fully ripe and ready for market. —Edison Monthly..

Foundation Must Be in Mind.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his life will spend It in fruitless efforts and multiply griefs which he purposes to remove.—S. Johnson.

comotive with a sharp V-shaped hood has been constructed. All its surface lines are made so as to offer the least possible resistance to the wind, while the wheels are built as nearly open as is practical, furnishing a minimum surface for the wind-driven sand to wear upon. This pattern of wheel is also to be adopted for use on the cars, as solid wheels, under incessant sand blasts have been found to wear so thin within a year’s time as to be unsafe for further use.—Popular Mechanics.

MAKING BUSINESS FOR ROAD

New Creative Policy of Enlightened Traffic Men Replace* Old System. It has been said of Darius Miller, the late president of the Burlington, that his success as a traffic man was due mainly to hip clear-headed recognition of the fact that a railroad’s profits are derived chiefly not from the business which it wrests from its competitors, but from business which it develops on its own lines. It was as a creator of traffic that he first established himself with the greatest, of all traffic creators, James J. Hill. The characteristic of creating traffic rather than Outbidding a rival was marked in Mr. Miller because he was raised in a school where the methods used by traffic men to get business were quite different. As a result of legislation and concerted action on the part of railroad men themselves, however, there are now many traffic men of the Darius Miller type. In this day and generation a railroad tells the farmers along its line what crops to plant, when and how to plant them, when fruits and vegetables should be picked, how they should be packed, and where a market can be .found. Nowadays if the highways used by the farmers in getting crops to the station are in such bad shape that horse power is being wasted, the railroad '■ sends men with a specially equipped car to tear out and rebuild a section of the turnpike to show how the average wagon load- can be increased. Other men, graduates from agricultural colleges, are sent out to show how land should be fertilized and cultivated. Then there is the dairy car that travels about to illustrate the most approved butter and milk-making methods. Prize hogs, cattle and sheep from James J. Hill’s farm are scattered from St. Paul to the Pacific coast, and each gift or sale is expected to do its part in raising the general standard. These and many similar methods of securing freight have been substituted by the railroads for rate cutting and /ebating.—New York Evening Post.

Illuminated Signal Targets.

With the recent developments in lenses for signal purposes, according to Mr. Thomas S. Stevens, signal engineer for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, it is now practicable to illuminate signal targets sufficiently for the different colors to be readily distinguished in daylight at a distance of 2,000 feet. All the complicated mechanisms necessary for the mechanical operation of signal arms are eliminated and replaced by simple electrical circuits which are far more efficient and economical to maintain. In the majority of cases two 25-watt lamps are used behind an eight-incb lens. Indeed, it appears that the problem with this type of signaling is to provide a light signal sufficiently visible in bright sunlight which will not make the signal too promient at night—Electrical World.

Motor Ambulances in Lancashire.

“The increasing use of the motor ambulance in this district,” says the United States Consul at Manchester, England, “is confirmed by the action of the Burnley, Lancashire, town council, which at its meeting on July 1 passed a resolution to purchase a vehicle for the town’s use at a cost of >2,956. Tim numerous and largely populated towns of Lancashire have all, sooner or later, to consider the Question of the use of the motor, both for fire and ambulance work, and I would therefore call the attention of American manufacturers to this special branch of the auto trade.” , \ a.

Fastest Train.

The fastest railroad train in the world Is the one-between London and Edinburgh, also it has been claimed that the best time known Is made on the line between Berlin and Hamburg. The fadtest time made In America is between New York and Washington, and between New York and Chicago, although they make pretty fast time between Chicago and Minneapolis.

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Nothing to Fear.

Ethel—Oh, Jack, be careful tonight. Papa’s brought home a bulldog. ~~ Jack —That’s all right. The dog used 'to belong to me and I got the dealer to sell him to your father. —

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