The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-14
EDWARD IN. HARTMAN.
The Only Man who Dared Lead n
Fight Against Morgan.
From the New York World

rom the new Ofk w OTI0.
Edward H. Hartman will live for all
time in the history of Wall street as the
man who had the teperity to lead fight
of millions against j. Pierpont Morgan.
Whether he wins or not in the control
of Northern Pacific Mr.. Hartman has
proved to every financial center in the
world that he is fighter who is to be
feared.
But for him the corner in Northern
Pacific would never have developed and
Wall street, London, Berlin and Paris
would not have been shaken by the dis
astrous happenings of last Thursday.
There is not one man in a thousand In
the financial districts of the world who
would dare fight j. Pierpont Morgan,
though there are thousands who would
like to see him pulled down.
Hartman a Fighter.
Hartman is a fighter. He has courage
and confidence in his own ability He
has ability of the first order, too. Many.
think as great as Morgan's, and they
have given him the sinews of war to
carry on the great tight against Wall
streets big fellows
Hartman is small and slight. the phys
qualities which liken him to the wizard.
He is feet inches in hight and weighs
less than 100 pounds He has glittering
black eyes that would make the fortune
of a professional hypnotist.
Harriman's eyes are famous in Wall
street. Laughingly men say that he can
look through the steel side of battle
ship.
He has another popularity. 1t is his
hat. 1t is always a black derby, rather
dingy and a size too, big for him. He
wears It In two ways either pulled
down forward so that the brim hides his
eyes. or famed down on the back of his
head so that his ears stick out like a
schoolboys.
Not Much ON Dress.
He doesn't dress well. He isn't ac-
tually shabby. as he gets his clothes at
good tsilor's. who charges him fancy
prices, but he doesn't know how to wear
them. They get out of gear Just as his
hat does.
He is as dark as Jay Gould was His
hair is black, his mustache is black, his
skin is dark and his eyes are nearly as
black as eyes can be.
He goes about his work as If he were
on springs He is chockful OF nervous
energy and bounds about from one place
ness. How he manages to buckle down to
one thing long enough to complete IT is
a mystery to those who do not know
him.
A Lightning Mind.
The explanation is that his mind works
with the speed of lightning. What other
men would puzzle out laboriously and
then not be half sure of their conclusions
comes to him in a fash, almost intui-
lively.
He reaches a decision in momentous mat
tiers almost before person talking to him
has finished laying the problem before
him.
Hartman, it is said, carries a perfect
map OF the railroad systems, big and lit
tie, in the United States In his head. H.
Is always before him.
II is said OF him that he knows every
inch of ground in the United States and
just what 1t is worth from a railroad
standpoint and the exact value of every
city, town and village.
Hartman is not only a railroad man,
but a financier Above all. he is a STRAIT
egist. In the latter respect Morgan Is
said to be his inferior by capable judges.
His Ambitious Aims.
And he is ambitious; ambitious to sur
pass Morgan in the railroad world and
perhops II the real truth were known,
jealous of Morgan's great supremacy.
Long ago partisans OF Morgan said that
he could crush Hartman with y blow a
he deemed II worth while Since last
Monday those opinions have changed.
Hartman is not nearly as rich individ-
ualIy as Morgan, perhaps not one-fourth
as rich.
Yet II must be remembered that in the
fight with Morgan he has limitless mil
lions behind him, and he could match dol
lar for dollar every one that the HILL
Morgan syndicate could put up.
Where did this money come from? Not
from Hartman alone. nor from Kuhn.
Loeb e. Co. alone, though that concern is
far. richer and more powerful IN the
finances OF the world than most people
think. Behind II is the Deutscher Bank.
Of Berlin, an institution with tremendous
resources.
Close Friend of StiIIman.
The secret of where Hartman got ell
Of the money may rest In this fact:
Hartman is the closest personal friend
that James Stillman, president of the
National City Bank has. Every after
noon Hartman can be found In the Office
Of Mr.. stillmaD. Often they come down
town together in the morning. More often
they 20 uptown together in the afternoon.
Here is another fact:
StiIiman Is ambitious 10 become supreme
In the banking business Of the United
States. More than once he has said that
he wants to make the National City Bank
In this country what the Bank of England
Is in Great Britain. The one man who
overtops him and blocks the way OF his
ambition is j.. Pierpont Morgan.
The one man who blocks the ambition
OF Edward n. Hartman 10 become the
greatest single railroad power IN Ameri-
can raiiroading f. J. Pierpont Morgan
Stiilman has the hundreds Of Millions OF
the Rockefeliers behind him. One OF the
wheels within wheels Of the Northern
Pacific panic was the part that James
stillman took In II. The money broker
that his bank always employs loaned
money a. % per cent. al the hight OF the
panic.