“ PLEASE ” PLEADS THE WORLD’S RICHEST MAN.
JOHN D. ROKEFELLTR BEGS TO BE EXCUSED WHEN CONFRONTED BY REPORTERS.
Bemoaning the fate that made it impossible for him to visit Cleveland without attracting newspaper men to the railway station, John D. Rockefeller arrived at Cleveland recently for his avmial summer stay at Forest Hill, his estate in East Cleveland. He was accompanied by Mrs Rockefeller, and the latter’s sister, Miss Lucy Spellman. The oil king did not leave his private car until the train on which ho pnade the trip from Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was almost ready to pull out. He was immediately surrounded by a flock of" reporters. “Please, please, gentlemen,” pleaded the richest man in the world, “don’t question me. Please, please!” And added: “Why can’t I be allowed to come home like an ordinary man?’ G. A. Rudd. Rockefeller’s brother-in-law, and H. M. Adams, an attache of Forest Hill, met the party at the station. and whirled its members away to Forest Hill in .an automobile.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3282, 29 July 1911, Page 3
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167“ PLEASE ” PLEADS THE WORLD’S RICHEST MAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3282, 29 July 1911, Page 3
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