Morris tribune., 1901-08-17
HIS STA Ri IN III i 3.
ADoc'' HARTMAN AND His WONDER
Full GREASE ERAplcAToR.

H8tMW9teT He FOOLED the PUBLIC
and Laid the denominations OF 9
substantial 70 rtalne.s a
''Talk. about your self made men,
said an old timer among q party Of
horsemen gathered in enc OF 1.-THE speed
way inns, 81 don't think any of Fem
can equal the early experiences OF Tin
4 Hartman who, died IN st louis many
years ago, leaving neaTlyia milli0n dol.
lars to be fought over. by his heirs He
made his first good sized pile; on pat.
ent medicines, then he picked up a
great deal more on real estate and at
last he rounded out with speculation IN
/ Montana copper, but he was known as
Doc Hartman to the time OF his death
by his few intimate friends.
4But the story that I'm going to tell,
and the one which he often told him
Eself, concerns his very earliest. expert
ences In the aecuaulation Of money.
Tim Hartman started life with 81. He
kicked around as q barefooted boy
and! pretty mean one. too-in 9 little
town In Connecticut until he was 10
years old, and at that time he had be-
come so fresh and 80 full OF wind and
| general cussedness that his father one
day told. him. he was no good, never
had been and never would amount to
q pfcayune. The old gentleman, Just
to carry out the blum; told Tim that he
had a good mind to cut hintef with a
dollar and make him earn his own liv-
Ing Tim Strengthened up and called
the bluff. He told, the old man that he
would take the dollar and get, out then
and there and hustle for himself. The
old man handed him crisp 81, bill and
told him that he'd be glad to. see him
make a fortune with 1t. ~ 81 sa.,ss.
"The first thing that ,cuss did was to
go about In few back yards that he
knew OF and gather together a lot Of
empty bottles which were ofeno use to
anybody. Then, for 10 cents, he bought
q large cake OF q kind OF white soap
that WAS then, and still is, on the mar
ket. He melted this soap and, after
borrowing an ancient pair of candle
molds from an old granny in the neigh
b0rhood, made two beautiful looking
candles of soap. He next filled his bot
ties full of choice rainwater. Then he
made for himself one of those little
three legged tables like; the chuck-a-
luck and, shell ssgame men use outside
the circus, and struck out on foot fora
county fair that was being held about
40 miles away.
when he got there, he put up his lit
tie table outside the grounds, where
the crowd was pretty thick. lighted one
Of his. soap candles and began to- extol
the. virtues of DIR. Hartmans Famous
Grease Eradicator, contained in the
bottles set before him.
/. Now, ladies and gentlemen, he
would shout in stentoFian hut plausi-
bic voice, this marvellous liquid. so
harmless that it can be drunk with i'm
punity by the smallest infant and yet
so penetrating that 1t. will seek. out and
destroy stains and idiscoloratipns from
the most refractory substance was dis
covered by accident by the famous sci
enlist, DIR. Hartman, the eminent schol-
ar, while he was wandering Ger the
Wilds Of Patagonia. It Is colorless, you
see, as the waters from heaven. and
vet observe the effects Of its startling
propertiear s.s.
cat this point Tim would reach for
his. soap candle and, inyerting II, would
smear a lot Of the grease over the
sleeve Of his coat. sa.s
Now, every one OF you knows, la
dies and gentlemen, be. would continue.
reaching over and uneorking q bottle 1
of his rainwater, that. there Is nothing
so penetrating and inefaceable as the
grease from candle. and yet It is "a
stain that we. are all likely to suffer al
most every. evening Of our, lives while
toying with that common article OF the
household, the candle. You viii OBJ
serve that my. sleeve is smeared with |
the annoying substance. Behold.
Here that country bred fak1r would |
spill q couple Of drops Of his gainwater |
on the soap and with. a. rub or two
would produce a beautiful lather. An
other sWipe and the soap would have |
entirely disappeared from the sleeve, /
leaving not trace.
:" Now, we make this famous eradi-
Gator Id such enormous quantities, Tim
would continue, that ii order to intro /
duce 1t into every home In this broad
land we win dispense with it at the
absurdly low price OF cents, a nickel
q bottle. Step right; up! Step right
upg @ sss ..5l-.
"Then, when the public was surging
forward, to purchase the rainWater,
Tim would pause occasionally to drink
q bottle Of il, JUST to show that it was
absolutely harmless.
"Well, the stuff went like hot cakes.
When Tins bottles were ali exhausted.
be bought more; and when the fair was
over he went to another and another
until he had Travelled all over the eoun-
try. Then, in some way or other,
don't know how, he got hold Of some
1ld patent medicine, and, being a gen
las, Of course he made q big GO OF Il
90 that's the way Tim Hartman almost
became millionaire. - New York
Times.