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Grim Effort to Reach 100 Marked John D's Last Years

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Rigidly Regimented Days Helped Him to Stretch His Life; Music Was Aged Man's Great Joy.

By JOHN K. WINKLER Oowritht, 1937, by Burmo JBnmm Niw».

NEW YORK, Jun« 8.--John D. Rockefeller cam* to be looked upon a.i a symbol of longevity and he took great care to preserve himself as such.

The oil king's later life was rigid­ly regimented, even to the ten-min­ute rest periods he took at frequent intervals. The system held good until his final weaknes* made It im­possible.

At least two hours a day wer* occupied with motoring. John D. loyed big, powerful cars and he didn't like his chauffeur to dawdle, either. He set 35 miles an hour as the minimum and in the open country preferred to go consider­ably faster.

Breakfast was always served promptly at 8 A. M. Unless there was illness, breakfast trays never were taken to rooms in John D's household.

Blblt Read Daily. ttuestj were- expected to appear

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Th« meal over, John D.'s aecra-tary would Invariably enter the dining room with three volumes: the Bible; a compendium of poems and prayers containing an "uplift" message for each day, and a volume of the sermons of the Rev. Dr. Jow-ett, former pastor of the Fifth Ave­nue Baptist church. It was from the compendium, principally, that John D. drew the cheery bit* of prose and poetry which h« occa­sionally released .to the public.

Short selections were read from each of the three volumes. The reading was generally done by the secretary or a guest. John D. would focus his entire attention upon these daily lessons and sometimes have a passage repeated.

Then he would retire to his study for the first of his rest periods.

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This over, he would call for a digest of the news of th« world. Though he gave up reading news­papers after his 90th year, ha fol­lowed world events In which he was interested with grqat care. k, In addition to the newspapers, he had uriexcelled personal contacts and. through Standard Oil and his son's office, direct wires leading from Pocantico and Ormond Beach, Fla., to remote places of the earth.

There were more than 100 tele­phones at Pocantico, 40 of them lo­cal, suburban and long-distance lines. Even while playing on his private golf course, John D. could keep in touch with any part of the world.

John D. dined at 7:30 o'clock, and

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always wore formal dinner clothes Indeed, he was something of a dandy about his clothes. His Swiss valet, John Yordl, watched over a wardrobe that contained, among other items, 60 suits and 300 neck­ties.

Played Cards In Evening. The evening's chief amusement

usually was a card game called numerica. This is played with four ordinary poker decks, colored red, blue, yellow and green. Tht object of the game is to build four stacks of consecutive numbers from 1 to 18. A moderately good player makes the maximum count of 52 one time out of three. John D. often made sev­eral perfect scores in a row.

Then, with a Joyous titter, he would transfer a shining nickel from the right pocket of his waistcoat to the left

The left pocket held his "win­nings." Though no gambling ever was tolerated in trie Rockefeller household, John D. always be­stowed a 5-cent reward upon the winner!

The oil king \was intensely fond of organ music. Many evenings, and often during the day, he would sit wrapped in delight as old-fash­ioned songs and hymns caressed his ears. He encouraged the musical am­bitions of his valet and was over­joyed when the latter developed into an excellent organist.

Had to Drop Golf / John D. enjoyed family gather­

ings. Sometimes he was aflow with reminiscence. Then his younger grandchildren would listen, wide-eyed, when he described how boys in his childhood days were awak­ened by the sound of woodchoppers' axes at 4 o'clock of Winter morn­ings.

But in his 94th year his strength began to fail and departures from routine to accommodate his ebbing resources became more and more frequent. His golf had been cut down to two holes daily, but after a siege of illness in 1933, It was eliminated entirely. However, he did not lose .interest in the game. He had himself driven to the golf course almost daily and watched others play.,

Believed In God. The old man's determination to

reach 100 remained fixed and the later years of his life were devoted to grim attempts to stave off the in­roads on his physical resources.

As coids came more and more frequently to plagUe him, his world narrowed, to Lakewood, N. J., and Florida. He left earlier and earlier each Fall for Florida, being wheeled to and from his private car. He left last Fall on Oct. 8. ' >

All this time his daily sessions with the newspapers and the Bible continued.

John D. believed very firmly in a personal God.

He was quietly positive at the end when the roll is called up yonder, he'll be there.

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Rockefeller Rented Hornet From Son, Friends Reveal

NEW YORK, June 8 (/P).—Like the average American citizen upon whom the landlord calls once a month, John D. Rockefeller Sr., was a tenant during the last 12 years of his life.

Associates of the aged financier, builder of one of the world's larg­est fortunes, who died in Florida last morUh, said today he sold all his estates in 1925 to his son, John D. Jr.

They said Mr. Rockefeller kept a life tenancy on his Pocantico hills estate (but paid rent on the Case­ments at Ormond Beach, Fla., and the Lakewood, N. J., home.

The amount of rent he paid was not disclosed.

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