The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-29
HARTMAN A RAILWAY KING.
He Controls More Miles of Track
Than jay Could Ever Did.

Than jay Could Ever Did.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Edward IL
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 car
summon gold from every contact: James
j. Hill is the great builder who sees op-
portunity and never allows a day of sun
shine to pass without making some hay;
the Rockefellers are the 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 Corners. 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 its 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 ganglia; and out of it's
cOnvolutions new railway combinations
spring
Hartman has that Napoleonic quality
which first constructs a castle of air,
then turns 1t into stone Dreamer ne is,
but once awake he sets 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 lin 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.
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As banker Mr.. Hartman became in
terested in the Illinois Central with Stuy-
vesant Fish, who had long been a 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
9 Illinois Central no 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.. Harriman's 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-
bic 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 ].
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 TO carry through the financ-
ng 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
life, were dominant factors even before
he death of Coils p. Huntington, in the
-ailway 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
'rn Railway. In order completely to
dominate the situation Messrs Hill and
Hartman needed but one great system,
he southern Pacific, which controlled
iiso 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 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
ire Interested belt the nation. The Great
Northern, the Southern Pacific and the
Mon Pacific, to say nothing of the Bur
lngton, Just acquired by Mr.. Hill. make
II all traffic west of the mississippi River
" nat they do not own George Jay Gould
WINS or controls, and he has added his
itrength 10 the pool. having accepted a !
Irectorship in the Southern Pacific
II the Government should ever decide !
o take over the railroads of the nation,
he President could have fifteen min
ties talk with Mr.. Hartman. with Mr..
Morgan and Mr. Hill present. and the
natter could be arranged in short order
Like many of America 5 rich men Mr.
Iarriman's tastes and manner of life are |
simple His fad is fine stock and fast |
lorses, particularly If the latter be |
jacers. Mr.. Hartman has bred some of |
he finest horses in the country at Arden |
earns. in Orange County He has owned |
he great "side-wheeler' John r. Gentry. |
lie has taken great delight in improving |
he stock Of Jersey and incidentally has |
,uilt some Of the finest roads in the |
He organized, among other enterprises
or improving the type of horses. the |
orange County Horse Show Association, |
md its recent exhibitions have brought |
Onward some of the best trotting stock |
Yer seen in the East. Mr.. Hartman has |
n extensive country place at Tuxedo |
md his Jerseys there are noted. He is |
cry fond of these pretty. gentle-eyed |
attic and has spent many hours of his /
ecreation with them.
\ TRIUMPH IN TRANSMISSION.