WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE RICH ?

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 689, 2 December 1921, Page 5

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE RICH ?

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST MAN.

People who live on comparatively small incomes often wonder what it fees like to have unlimited wealth at one’s disposal. _ ■Mr* John D. Rockefeller is one ol these luckv individuals, • yet it ,is doubtful if he would agree that ne is lucky, although it takes him all his’ time to discover the total of his vast wealth, which the,most recent, estimate pqts at- £480,000,000. , So far as money is concerned, this famous oil magnate is virtually an emperor. H;is money has brought him power unlimited ; everything that one would imagine would make lit® happy is at his command. By writing his signature l at the foot _of a cheque he could sign away sufficient money to buy a. country. Would it not seem as }if his life should foe fil - ed with pleasure? Although he has this great power to wield to his heart’s content, Air Rockefeller uses it but little on his own account, except to shield himself from the outside World. Night and day the financier is guarded by his specially trained, staff of detectives ; and the fact that re cently one of these men shot ,at a o-uest of the Oil King shows . how great ana the precautions taken against every eventuality. Even he goes to church his guards follow him 1 ~ , ' . i ■ +l„ The Rockefeller mansion in tne Pocantico Hills was built specially with a view (to ensuring the millionaire’s safety. The buildiog is a maze of secret;. tunnels and passages, rthe atmroaches are concealed by hign wills, and two private roads enable the owner to leave borne without cn ing observers a chance of finding out hl Just as are the Precautions In this magnificent yet mysterious house is nrobablv the most complete in tl - world It is tested nightly, and if defect is found an expert is sumsatisfied The millionaire always ieflses lto sit With Ms back to awinln„ i 1 Even bis letters are opened by detectives in . case bombs or poison should be sent to him. HAUNTED BY PRYING PEOPLE. Apart from his impecunious and jealous visitors the Senei'al pnh always inquisitive as to the met. o life of the world’s richest man , and Rockefeller has been caused lo - tion on many occasions by the pry . habits of various ind,ivic.ua.s. uuwn.ii bao-o-age room. it sure it is m tne i, n . nco is the only place where he finds pea - “with his vast fortune, many might think SStf, £Ss Tor ; RocWeherJs S while he brinks practically nothing but water. For manyr years past bfs health has , not per ™’f2f cf anything but isuch simple repasts. But what does he do with his money if he does not Uy for himself and others? Like 1 late Mr Andrew Carnegie, .the'old magnate seems to be endeavouring to get rid of most of it. to chanty. The total of his gifts in this is so vaqt as to be almost incalcal able.