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A MILLIONAIRE & HIS REPUBLIC.

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`Rockefeller Estate a City in' Itself.

STATE WITHIN A STATE.

A beneficent, paternal republic within a republic, a' state within a state or a city in itself-any of these terms would describe the great 8,000-acre estate

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dollar for dollar, every dollar issued by the district,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1930.

So the Rockefellers arranged to Rockefeller has agreed to match, IN BRITAIN AFTER BOLSHEVIK SECRET BUSINESS DIRECTORY have the roadbed, the calls, signals, everything connected with the line moved off to a sufficient distance to remove the cause of discomfort.

The cost made no difference to the Rockefellers, the relief was worth it.

Buys Up Village. Since John D. Rockefeller Jr., came into ownership of the estate The has added acres to it. One such tract was the village of East- view, which disappeared from the map a short time ago.

Rockefellers at Perantico Hills in Westchester. It is without ques-weekly tion unique among the communi- blams

ties of man,

Recreation is one of the biggest items of the Rockefeller budget.

51 YEARS.

REVEALED.

Prior to this year there was an Penniless Boy Returns a British Liberal's £3,000 to

on the eighteen-hole golf course' estate. It has been cut to nine the senior holes at the wish of Rockefeller. Young Rockefeller is no golf-fan.

garbage:wagon.

Rich Man.

AMBITION FULFILLED.

Pay for Revolution.

TROTSKY'S STORY.

Who is the rich British Liberal who financed the Russian Bolshevik revolution, and got his money back after, it succeeded?-

As he passed through London on An amusing story about him is his way to Australia he said, to told by Trotsky in his new book, himself: "One day, when I am rich,y life the Rise and Fall of a don's wonders." I will come back and see all Lon Dictator."

Trotsky came, to London in 1907 for the congress of the Russian So- cini Democrats, in which the Bol- sheviks were the driving power.

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The Police.. The only thing' oa the estate

Fifty-one years ago John Hooten," that lacks the modern touch is the,

Five years ago aged 18, left Northampton almost In the matter of the government, Rockefeller wanted to substitute penniless-to seek his fortune in

for the one-horse waggon a motor- of the estate, Mr. Rockefeller, as

car. The old estate employee who some far, corner of the world; of the Mayor, one may say, and the heads

of his various departments meet drove the horse for years. pleaded to distuss estate pro to keep the horse, and he won his and plan budgets for point.Collections are made not The only on the estate but throughout improvement. pkeep of matter is going on all the time.. Pocantico Hills at no cost to the

Recently, John Hooton, aged 69, Rockefeller bé residents. Though Mr..

The Department of Roads. main-fulfilled that ambition. monarch of all he surveys, he must

He is wealthy: he has founded yield in one thing, and that is to tains a Beet of motor-vans, oilers,

"The party congress of 1907," he family in Australia and has seven rollers and the assessments fixed by, the asses sprinklers, steam

grand-children out there, he has reveals, "held its meetings in a sors of the municipalities in which graders, while the Department of the estate is situated, those of Parks keeps the estate in general come "home" to enjoy the longül Socialist church in London. It was a protracted, crowded, stromy, and flowering and the lawns cut with for leisure.

John Horton, aged 69, sees Lon-chaotic.congrèss. The second Duma a fleet of power mowers." Tree doctoring continues throughout don through the eyes of John was still alive in St. Petersburg.

The revolution was subsiding, but SA, Wyndham Street. TeL 20022 the year not only on the estate Hooton, aged 18.

The Wonderful Tree.

it was still Arousing great proper but in the several thou-

When I talked to him at the hotel interest, even in British, political

·BOOTS & SHOES. sands of acres of woodland which

near Hyde Park in which he is clicles:

"Prominent Liberala invited the Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$4.50 comprise the estate to the north.

staying his bright blue eyes were

houses to show them off to their Crepa Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 beaming (writes an Evening News better-known delegates to their Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas shoes $6.00 correspondent).

guests..

The estate is conducted as a; municipality is conducted, by de- partments amply appropriated for. like with department heads, Cabinet Ministors, one might say, and with John D. Rockefeller Jr., as President, Mayor r kindly overlord. His father turned the Greensburgh, estite over to him in 1926.

In the increase, improvement- and maintenance of such a vast tract of land it was necessary that the Rockefellers should treat their estate as an entity and thoroughly equip it as such. Therefore its own water system was created, its own Fire Department organised, a Police Department established, churches, schools, und play

grounds provided, so that those upon the incredibly long pay-roll of the estate might be served with- in the boundaries of their dwelling plot.

Traffic System Too.

Mount Pleasant, Tarrytown and North Tarrytown.

When it was decided to build a water system for the estate the Rockefellers installed the system not only in the estate but through the public streets of Pocantico. Hills, giving all tax-payers the privilege of tapping for service and providing fire protection as well without the creation of fire district. There was no access- ment against the district thereby benefited:

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But few of his police are in uniform. The largest is. on duty at nights. They patrol with Ger- man police dogs, and no one is allowed to enter the estate save by the main entrances, which are heavily guarded.

The same is true of domestic The Rockefeller "City Hall" is lighting, garbage collections, dis on the estate proper. It is massive tribution of coal, education, re-fireproof two-and-one-half story, creational facilities and religion. native stone building topped with Everywhere the Rockefeller hand a big clock that chimes every Also there is a traffic; system seen atriving to bring down quarter hour and strikes the hour with speed regulations, a light costs, with the result Pocantico It is here that Dyson De LAB ing aystem and, with the police, a fills is the district in the Town of estate auperintendent, gives out corps of police dogs to patrol the Mount Pleasant, where most of the the orders to the various depart spacious grounds and keep under-estate is located, that is free from ments of the ostate. sirables on the outside. It is as special tax districts, with but one difficult to get into the estate with exception that of street lighting. out credentials as it would be to get into the vaults of the United States Treasury.

Not only have the Rockefellers done all these things, they have

Speed-Limit..

Traffic rules are rigidly enforced. speed limit of fifteen miles an hour is imposed. Violation of the rules means a summons to the office. Usually one warning is

Education is another big item of Education is another big item of cost. Early in the year Rockefel In consolidating er succeeded three small school districts into the Pocantico Hills district. Plans for the new school will shortly be submitted to the State DepartmentIt

gono even ther towards insur- ing cumfort for those on the estate by eliminating all unnecessary noises about the place. In one of Education. instance it cost them $5,000,000 to do this, but it is being done.

This instance concerns the traffic on the Putnam Division of] the New York Central Railway. The noise was à disturbance, especially when locomotives puffed loudly by as they drew their heavy loads up-grade. Furthermore, the cindera from their stacks were wafted over the private golf course and this was a discomfort.

NOW ON. SALE.

THE

Golf Course Cut. *With an eight acre athletic field and playground fully equipped, a modél domestic science room plan- ned by. Mrs. Rockefeller, gym nasium and swimming pool and a community centre auditorium seat ing 500, it will be, it is predicted, the model rural schoql of the State. But instead of the cost being spread over the district for thirty years

sufficient.

"Just look at that tree," he ex- claimed. "Isn't that beautiful? It's worth a visit to London just to see

that."

And that is how Mr. Hooton feels about everything,

the unlimited enthualasm.

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Depleted Funds.

"When this sad news re-echoed

"The ebbing tide of the revalu- tion was already evident in the lessening of the party funds. There was not enough money for the re- London is a new world, a magle] turn journey, or even to carry the world, to this young-old man with congress to its conclusion,s

He had the lean, hard frame of under the arches of the church, cut- man from the Bush, and snow-ting into the discussion on armed white hair.

uprisings as it did, the delegates "I am enjoying everything in looked at one another in alarm, London," he told me. "What won-

"We could not stay in the church, derful parks--rich and green. What of course. Rut's way out was an immensity everywhere and yet found, and in quite an unexpected how compact.

form. A British Liberal agreed to "Why, overy street in London la lend the Russian, revolution £3,000, city in itself!

as nearly 28 can remember the “Now, where my sister lives,out | figure. in Australia she can get ordinary

"He insisted, however, on the re- commodities in the village-town-volutionary promissory note being Pocantico has one of the finest ship we call it seven miles away, signed by all the delegates at the community churches in the State. But if she wants some nails or a congress, and so the Briton was financed by Rockefeller en-hairbrush she has to go a hundred received a document bearing several tirely. Next door is the Catholic | illes.

hundred signatures, in the charac- Church of the Magdalene, to the "London is a new and a thrilling teristle signs of all the races of maintenance of which Rockefeller experience.

Russia. is a generous contributor.

"They won't belleve me out there "He had to wait a long time, Continent marka all Rockefeller when I tell them about the tubes however, for the payment of the employees. Turnovers are small and the trains. I shall never get note. Most of the employees have been tired of the Underground. It is "It was the Soviet Government

on the estate more than twenty really a wonderful aystem-all over that bought back the promissory years. Almost all live in homes London in a few minutes for a few note of the London congress." bought or erected by Rockefeller.

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As to controlling their personal In Australia took me two habits,, Rockefeller never inter-hours to go ten miles to see my son'

hy bond Jague, feres.

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Contentment shows on the face of Mr. Tupman after his puri chase of the Handbook. His note book is the result of, a survey of this book." He is genuinely satisfied, and does not regret buying this book of reference.

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"My boyhood impression of Lon-] to the title is being disputed by a don la very vague—just a confused baker and a retired optician, is picture of buildings and business living a life of almost complete and smoke.

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"Now I find that the buildings Since he arrived from Canada and the businéas are great-im- with his 16-years-old son, Vlacount, mense. Yet everything is so calm. Percival, early last year, he has It is as quiet as the country here been with all the vast amount of traffic 30 bear."

Mr. Hooton does not think Lon- don's policemen are wonderful.

But he couldn't help saying that they are "a treat.” --

He intends to atay in England a year or two, with winter visita to the Continent.

Enjoying Life.

Been outside the castle grounds only on one or two oc casions. His only companions in the partly furnished castle are his

son and a manservant.

He rises each morning at 5 o'clock. Every day he goes for a walk along the shady, firlined avenues and might easily be mia-| taken for a gardener in‘his rough suit, heavy boots, and check cap.

The Earl hardly ever receivés a visitor. He has given orders that "I'm going to see every inch of he is not to be disturbed, and the England I can," he said. "Then 1great iron gates of the drive bad to be unlocked for a pressman to shall return to my family and tell make his way to the castle. them all about the home.

This Summer he is starting a walking, tour on his own from Northampton.

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A grey-haired workman on the "One of my sons is a barrister estate told how different things earning five thousand a year Low, were from the days of the last

"Do you know I nearly missed my earl. He said: life's ambition. I nearly "dled on the boat. There's years of life in

Then society people were always

me yet, though-and what a great calling in beautiful cars and there life-it is if you know how to enjoy Now the place is allent and wild, was a lot of show and magnificence. and the present Earl likes being alone and has neither car nor car- riage.

Mr. Hooton told me he told every thing from toothpicks to locomotives until be retired ten years ago..

May do a spot of business again over here, he confessed with a laugh.

Most of the day he is indoors, but in the early morning you will see him wandering -round the estate. He often tells me how he would like to go back to his ranch in Canada,

- A* RIDING REGIMENT. American newspaper men are "I do not like society ways," he famous for their imagination and says, "or being waited on and pan the picturesque vigour of their dered to as though I were made of descriptions. An American. agency china. In Canada. I worked and correspondent, cabling from Bom had plenty to do, and I prefer that bay, has excelled himself, to leading a life of idleness." "Cavalry forces ride upon Shola

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