. Little journeys to the homes of the great . Rockefeller from Cleveland, withhis plans of co-operation and consolidation. Pratttalked it over with Rogers, and they decided that thecombination would steady the commercial sails andgive ballast to the ship. They named their own Rockefellers sneezed, and then coughed. The nextday John D. Rockefeller came back and quietly acceptedthe offer exactly as Rogers had formulated terms were stiff, but Rockefeller, a few years later,got even with the slightly arrogant Rogers by passinghim this: I would have paid you and Pratt twice asmuch
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . Rockefeller from Cleveland, withhis plans of co-operation and consolidation. Pratttalked it over with Rogers, and they decided that thecombination would steady the commercial sails andgive ballast to the ship. They named their own Rockefellers sneezed, and then coughed. The nextday John D. Rockefeller came back and quietly acceptedthe offer exactly as Rogers had formulated terms were stiff, but Rockefeller, a few years later,got even with the slightly arrogant Rogers by passinghim this: I would have paid you and Pratt twice asmuch if you had demanded it. Which you are per-fectly safe in saying now—since the past is a dry they shook hands solemnly. Rockefeller ordereda glass of milk and Rogers took was only one year older than Rogers, butseemed twenty. John D. Rockefeller was always oldand always discreet; he never lost his temper; he waswarranted non-explosive from childhood. Henry Rogersat times was spiritual H. H. ROGERS. N Eighteen Hundred Seventy-two there weretwenty-six separate oil-refineries in Cleve-land. Refined oil sold to the consumer fortwenty cents a gallon; and much of it wasof an unsafe and uncertain quality—it was what youmight call erratic. Some of the refineries were poorlyequipped, and fire was a factor that made the ownerssit up nights when they should have been asleep. Insur-ance was out of the question. One of these concerns was the Acme Oil Company,of which John D. Archbold was President. Its capitalwas forty thousand dollars, some of which had beenpaid in, in cash. William Rockefeller was at the headof still another company; and John D. Rockefeller,brother of William, and two years older, had an interestin three more concerns. Outbidding each other for supplies, hiring each othersmen, with a production made up of a multiplicity ofgrades, made the business one of chaotic rule was dog eat dog. Then it was that John D. R
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