Rockefeller Receives Felicitations on His 92nd Anniversary

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 8

Rockefeller Receives Felicitations on His 92nd Anniversary

NEW YORK, July 8. Inside the walls of his Poeantico Hills estate, John D Rocke feller to-day observed his 92nd. birJt day in excellent health. . . Messages of congratulations poured m from'the world's leaders in business, finance and philanthropy, but the actual celebration was a family affair. In a birthday message to the worn, Mr. Rockefeller said: “These occasions offer me a very welcome opportunity, first to express my gratitude to the many ,many friends who, not on y a this time but through the year, have shown their kindly regard to me; and secondly, to wish them and theirs and all the world a largo measuie of boaUi and contentment, which are the oasis oi real happiness.” • The programme mapped out for Mr. Rockefeller included his bit of golf, a little work with his secretary, a motor ride in the estate and a dinner in the evening. Only immediate members of the family were invited to the dinner. A birthday cake was baked. There is one anniversary more important to Mr. Rockefeller than his birthday, friends say, the day when he got his first job as an assistant bookkeeper in Cleveland in 1855. He earned £lo*in the first three months. That day is September 26, which he usually' observes by giving away a bushel of snmy dimes. Twenty years ago Mr. Rockefeller turned over £200,000,000.in capital holdings to his son, John D. Rockefeller, junr., who was to spend it ‘‘for the benefit of all mankind.” Since that time the oil king has lived in content and increasing health.