Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-08-06
HIS START in LIFE.
aDocn HARTMAN AND HIS WONDER
Full GREASE ERADlcAToR.

with Soap Candies ana Bottles or
Rainwater He Fooled the Public
and LaidsSths Foundations OF q
substantiaa Fortune.
Talk about your self made men,"
said an old timer among q party OF
horsemen gathered In one OF the speed
way inns, II don think any Of 's e,n
can equal the early experiences of Tim
Hartman. who died in ST. Louis many
years ago. leaving nearly a million dol
lars to be fought over by his heirs. He
made his first good sized pile on pat
ent medicines. then lie picked. up A
great deal more on real estate. and, at
last he rounded out with speculation III
Montana copper, but he was known as
Doc Hartman to the time of his death
by his few intimate friends.
'tBut 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. He
kicked around as a barefooted boy
and a pretty e one. too-ln a little
town in Connecticut until he was Is
years old. and at that time he had be-
come SO fresh and so 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
a picayune. The old gentleman. Just
to carry out the bluff, told Tim that; he
had a good mind to cut him off with a
dollar and make him ear his own fiv-
inf. 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 a crisp 81 bill and
told him that he'd be glad to see him
make a fortune with 1t. D. (,
1.-THE first thing that cuss did wasi to
go about in, a few back yards that he
knew Of and gather together a lot jof
empty bottles which were of no usetto
anybody. Then, for 10 cents, he bought
a large cake of a 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
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 chuckla-
luck and shell game Snen use outside
the circus, and struck out on foot for a
county fair: that was being held about
70 miles. away: 5y&,, /, e T..
"When"he got there, he PITT 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 'Dr.: Hartman's Famd us,
Grease "Eradicator:' contained in the,
bottles set before him. >" ~ :.
Nov, ladies and gentlemen he
would shout IN 9 stentorf;ap but plausi.
bic Voice, this marvellous. liquid, $50
harmless thafsit,can be drunk with i'm
punity by the smallest infant and vet
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: Tits colorless. ybu
see, as the waters from heaven, and
yet observe the effects Of its startling
properties!p' f..
"At this point. Tim would reach for
his soap'candle and, inverting it. would
smear a lot of the grease Y the
sleeve of his coat.
":Now. every n Of you knows, la
dies and gentlemen he, would continue
reaching v and uncorking d bottle
Of his rainwater. that there is nothing
so penetrating and ~ineffaceable as the
grease from a candle. and yet it Isl 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 will OBJ
serve that my sleeve Is smeared with
the annoying substance. Behold
"HereAthat country bred fakir would
spill a couple OF drops Of his rainwater
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 a trace.
"'Now. we make this famous eradi-
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 s cents. a nickel
a bottle. Step right up! Step, right
up! ~
; 'Then. when the public was surging
forward to purchase the rainwater,
Tim would pause occasionally to drink
"a bottle of it, just to show that it was
absolutely harmless. -.
well, the stuff went like hot cakes.
When Tins bottles were ali exhausted.
he bought more. and when the fair was
over he went to another and another
until he had Travelled all over the coun-
try. Then. In some way or other; !
don't know bow. he got hold of some
3oidsspatent medicine. and. being a gen
gius,,3 of course he made a big go of it.
So that's the way Tim Hartman almost
became a millionaire New York
Times. se@~T. a. -IEn 3 -. r.