The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-09-06
HIS START IN LIFE !
snoc" HARTMAN AND Hts WONDER.
;sess Full GREASE eRAD,cAToR.

HooC" HARTMAN AND Hi6 WOkOER'
..m Full GREASE eRAolcAToR.
''-'a'1s.'- ,R -- ",.e~s' E'%A;st7
with soap Candles and Bottles ii
hainwateF He Fooled the Public
and Laid the Foundations of .
substantial Fortune.
"Talk about your self made men,"
said an old timer among a party Of
horsemen gathered in ono of the speed.
way inns, Il don't think any of 'em
can equal the early experiences Of Tim
Hartman, who died In st. Louis many
years ago. leaving nearly million dol.
lars to be fought over by his heirs. lie
made his first good sized pile on pat.
ent medicines. then he picked up o
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.
But the story that I'm going to tell,
and the one which he often told him.
self, concerns his very earliest expert.
ences in the accumulation of money.
Tim Hartman started life with 81. lie
kicked around as a barefoOted boy
and pretty mean one. too-in a little
town in Connecticut until he was 19
years old. and at that time he had be-
come so fresh and so full Of wind and
general cussedness that his father one
Jnv, A.>II hi t,N
had been and never would amount to
a picayune. The old gentleman just
to carry out the bluY, told Tim that he
had good mind to cut him off with
dollar and make him earn his own liv.
ing. Tim Strengthened up and called
the bluff. He told the old man that h,
would take the dollar and get ont 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 fortune with 1t.
1.-The first thing that cllss did was to
80 about in few back yards that he
knew of and gather together lot of
empty bottles which were Of no use to
anybody. Then. for 10 cents, be bought
q large cake of kind Of white soap
that was then, and still Is. Oh the mar.
ket. He melted this soap and, after
borrowing an ancient pair Of candle
molds from an old granny in the neigh
borhood, made two beautiful looking
candles of soap He next filed 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 game Ilen use outside
the circus, and struck out on foot for a
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 Wss pretty thick, lighted one
Of his soap candles and began to extol
the virtues of DR.. Hartman's Famous
Grease Eradicntor.' contained In the
bottles set before him.
"'Now, ladies and gentlemen he
would shout In Stentorian but plausl-
BILE voice, this marvellous liquid, SO
harmless that 1t can be drunk with I'm.
so penetrating that it will seek out and
destroy stains and discolorations from
the most refractory substance, was dis
covered by accident by the famous sci.
enlist, DR.. Hartman, the eminent schol.
ar, while he was wandering Ger the
wilds Of Patagonia. 1t is colorless, you
see. as the waters from heaven, and
vet observe the effects Of its startling
properties"
"At this point Tim would reach for
his soap candle and. inverting it, would
smear Il lot of the grease over the
sleeve of his coat
"'Now, every one Of you knows, Ia.
dies and gentlemen he would continue,
reaching over and uncorkng bottle
of his rainwater, that there Is nothing
SO penetrating and inetfaccable as the
grease from candle, and yet 1t Is n
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 will OBJ.
serve that my sleeve is smeared with
the annoying substance. Behold
Here that country bred fakir would
spill a couple of drops Of his rainwater
Oh the soup and with a rub or two
would produce beautiful lather. An
other swipe and the soap would have
entirely disappeared from the sleeve,
leaving not trace.
"'N0w, we make this famous eradl.
Gator in such enormous quantities. Tim
would continue, that in order to intro
duce it into every home In this broad
land we will dispense with it at the
absurdly low price Of 5 cents, a nickel
a bottle. Step right up! Step right
up"
"Then, when the public was surging
forward to purchase the ralnwater.
Tim would pause occasionally to drink
a bottle Of 1t, just to show that 1t was
absolutely harmless.
"Well, the stuff went like hot cakes.
When Tins bottles We're all exhausted,
he bought more. and when the fair was
over he went to another aud another
until he had Travelled all over the coun-
try. Then, In some way or other.
don't know how, he got hold Of some
old patent medicine, and. being a gen
ius of course he made big 60 Of it.
So that's the way Tim Hartman almost
became millionaire" - New York
Times.
Evarts and the Author.