. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ch men of thislocality find an opportunity to shine in social lifethrough their ability to trace their ancestry backto the Dutch period, they know next to nothingabout what occurred in their own busy neighbor-hood, and have never concerned themselves aboutthe sacred spot where their ancestors, or the menwho ate and drank with them, were buried andthen ruthlessly hauled up to the light. The Standard Oil Company is called the Octo-puSy^^ because it seizes everything (oily) within thereach of its great tentacles and converts
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ch men of thislocality find an opportunity to shine in social lifethrough their ability to trace their ancestry backto the Dutch period, they know next to nothingabout what occurred in their own busy neighbor-hood, and have never concerned themselves aboutthe sacred spot where their ancestors, or the menwho ate and drank with them, were buried andthen ruthlessly hauled up to the light. The Standard Oil Company is called the Octo-puSy^^ because it seizes everything (oily) within thereach of its great tentacles and converts it into 138 NEW YORK CITY LIFE Standard Oil. The money value of the inter-ests that have been welded, combined, co-ordinated,amalgamated, appropriated (or whatever may be theproper term), is not less than one hundred milliondollars, and includes everything, from oil wells torailroad cars and ships for the transportation oftheir product. Refineries are maintained at Balti-more, Bergen Point, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago,Lima and Philadelphia; at Oswego it runs the larg-. Ko. 2 Broadway, Corner of Marketfield Street. est lumber mill in the world; its cooperage depart-ment uses a hundred million feet of oak every wells are mostly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In-diana, and there are some in New York and WestVirginia. Its crude product is pumped through pipelines many miles long direct to the refineries. Itcontrols vast markets in Europe, having shut outthe Russian producers in many places. While ithas compelled nearly all other oil industries to come 139 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS within its folds, it has attended strictly to owners and directors have resisted the tempta-tion to speculate with its stock after the manner ofthe Wall Street shepherds, and it has benefitedthe pubhc by giving good oil for a reasonableprice; indeed, it has contributed largely to civiliza-tion by bringing cheap and good light into thehomes of the poor in many parts of the
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