The times., 1901-04-29
HARTMAN A RAILWAY KING.
He Controls More Miles of Track
Than JAY GouEd Ever Did


NEW YORK, April 2S-E,dward H.
Hartman Is today recognized as a great
| er railway king than ever jay Gould was
controlling more railroads and possessed
of as many millions.
Morgan has the Midas touch that can
summon gold from every contact: James
J. Hill Is the great builder who sees op-
| poStunity and never allows a day of sun
shine to pass without making some hay;
| the Rockefellers arethe incarnation of mo-
nOpoly, who have had the courage to grow
rich by killing competition; but Hartman
| is the creator, the schemer, the man with
the great and accurate imagination. He
is not, in his simple office in the Equit-
able Building, surrounded by waiting
brokers' clerks, or the clustering centre
of men gathered about a ticker. He is
not the burly, willful banker. chest-out
meeting all comers. He is not the blood
less soul of calm, fanatically crushing
down all competition in the jealous quest
! for gold. He is secretive saturnine. and
peculiar. Few know where to find him;
few see him who know where he is. He
delights in the solitude of great thinkers
He communes with himself
His BRAIN by reason of it's long con-
cord with rails and routes. is wide Amer
lea, and trains troop through it; traffic
| is swung here and there. and great sys-
tens lie along its gangIia; and out of it's
conyolutions new railway combinations
spring.
Hartman has that Napoleonic quality
which first constructs a castle of air,
then turns II into stone. Dreamer he is,
but once awake he sets a boundless
energy to work in realizing what his
Imagination has wrought.
Harriman's people lived in New Jersey,
and when he came to New York, in his
teens. he entered the world that had al
ways lived in his fancy-Wall Street. He
was a very young man when he became
q broker His temperament was ideal for
the brokerage business. He had the clear
judgment of men and things that made
him a real prophet in the speculative
world; and he soon had as large a follow
ing as any man in the street" He mas
tered the difficult art of stock speculation.
His restless nature craved new worlds.
He was not satisfied with the excellent
returns of stock commissions He opened
bankers office, and then hung out a
sign which commanded the respect of Wall
Street bearing the legend Edward II.
Hartman, Banker and Broker"
As a banker Mr.. Hartman became in
terested in the Illinois Central with Stuy-
vesant Fish who had long been power
in that railroad corporation. Mr.. Harri
man soon became the leading power in
the affairs of the Illinois Central. He
showed by patient industry that he had
the constructive as we'll as the imagina
tive faculty He went to work to make
the Illinois Central the greatest railroad
entering Chicago.
1t was during his operations with the
Illinois Central that Mr. Hartman formed
a lasting friendship and alliance with
James J. Hill. 1t has stood him in good
stead for in the West he could not have
had a more powerful friend.
Mr.. Harrimans rise dates from 1898. He
came out unscathed in the memorable
stress of that year, although more than
once he was pressed TO the verge of
ruin. He saw among the first the inevita-
Bile drift toward consolidation of railway
interests. and he has spent most Of the
time since the panic of 1893 in figuring out
those schemes which have been consum-
mated in the last two or three years j.
Pierpont Morgan and Mr.. Hartman saw
that they would be of mutual benefit. The
banker desired to put out vast sums of
money in gigantic deals, and Mr.. Harri-
man was always in the need of a great
banking firm 10 carry through the inanc-
ing part of his remarkable projects. For
several years Messrs. Morgan, HILL and
Hartman have been working in concert.
Messrs. Hill and Hartman, with the
Great Northern and the Northern Pa
cinc, were dominant factors. even before
the death of Coils p. Huntington, in the
railway situation OF the Far West. Mr.
Morgan controlled the coal roads of the
East and the great plexus of railways
covering the Southern States. the South
ern Railway. In order completely to
dominate the situation Messrs Hill and
Hartman needed but one great system,
the Southern Pacific, which controlled
also the Central Pacific from Ogden to
San Francisco. Mr.. Hartman in the
meantime had secured the Union Pacific,
which ran from Omaha to ogden.
The coup of a few months ago by which
Messrs. Hill and Hartman secured the
Southern Pacific settled the supremacy of
Hartman in the railroad world.
The systems in which he and his friends
are interested belt the nation. The Great
Northern, the Southern Pacific and the
| Mon Pacific, to say nothing of the Bur
llngton just acquired by Mr.. HILL make
Mr.. HarTiman's clique absolute dictators
Of all traffic west of the Mississippi River
What they do not own George JAY Gould
owns or controls, aud he has added his
strength TO the pool, having accepted a
ulrectorShlp IN the Southern Pacific.
If the Government should ever decide
to take over the railroads of the nation,
the President could have fifteen min
utes talk with Mr.. Hartman with Mr.
Morgan and Mr.. Hill present and the
matter could be arranged in short order
Like many of Americas rich men, Mr.
Hartmann tastes and manner Of life are
simple His fad is fine stock and fast
horses, particularly if the latter be
PAGERS. MIR. Hartman has bred some Of
the finest horses in the country at Arden
Farms, in Orange County. He has owned
the great ''side-wheeler'' John r. Gentry.
He has taken great delight in improving
the stock Of Jersey and incidentally has
built some Of the finest roads in the
country.
He organized. among other enterprises
for improving the type of horses. the
Orange County Horse Show Association,
and its recent exhibitions have brought
forward some of the best trotting stock
ever seen in the East. Mr.. Hartman has
an extensive country place at Tuxedo
and his Jerseys there are noted. He is
very fond of these pretty, gentle-eyed
cattle and has spent many hours of his
recreation with them.
A TRIUMPH IN TRANSMISSION.