The age-herald., 1901-05-20
THE MAN WHO DARED LEAD
 A FIGHT AGAINST MORGAN
From the New York world.

l
 man who had the timerity to lead fight
 of millions against J. Pierpont Morgan.
 Whether he wins or not in the control
 of Northern Pacific, MT. Hartman has
 proved to every financial center in the
 world that he is a fighter who is to be
 feared
 But for him the corner in Northern Pa
 cific 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 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 fight against Wall
 streets .'big fellows"
 Harriamn is small and slight. the phys
 ical duplicate of Jay Gould. He has other
 qualities which liken him to the wizard
 He is feet inches in height and weighs |
 black eyes that would make the fortune
 of professional hypnotist.
 Harrimans eyes are famous in Wall
 street. Laughingly men say that he can
 look through the steel side of a battle
 ship.
 He has another peculiarity. It Is his
 hat. It is always 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 tanned down on the back of his head
 so that his ears stick out like school
 boys.
 He doesn't dress well. He isn't ac- tually shabby, as he gets his clothes at | a good tailor's, who charges him fancy prices, but he doesn't know how to wear them. They get out of gear just as his l 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 to another with never-ceasing restless | ness. How he manages to buckle down to
 one thing long enough to complete 1t is
 a mystery to those who do not know him.
 | 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 flash. almost intui- | lively.
 | He reaches a decision in momentous
 matters almost before a person talking to him has finished laying the problem be- fore him.
 Hartman, 1t is said, carries a pefect
 map of the railroad systems. big and lit tie, in the United States in his head. It
 is always before him.
 | It 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 financier. Above all. he is strat l egist. In the latter respect Morgan is | said to be his inferior by capable judges. And he is ambitious; ambitious to sur pass Margan in the railroad world and perhaps if the real truth were known, jealous of Morgan's great supremacy. Long ago partisans of Morgan said that he could crush Hartman with a blow if he deemed it worth while. Since last Monday those opinions have changed. Hartman is not nearly as rich individ- ually as Morgan. perhaps not one-fourth as rich
 VA& It ,a4 11 tx, 41.o fight with Morgan he has limitless mill 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 from7 Not from Hartman alone, nor from Kuhn, Loeb & Co. alone, though that concern is far richer and more powerful in the finances of the world than most people think. Behind 1t is the Deutscher bank, ] of Berlin, an institution with tremendous resources.
 The secret of where Hartman got all of the money may rest in this fact: Hartman is the closest personal friend that James stilman, president of the National City bank. has. Every after noon Hartman can be found in the office of MT. Stillman. Often they come down town together In the morning More of- ten they go uptown together in the af- ternoon Here Is another fact: Stillman is ambitious to become su- preme 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 oversteps him and blocks the way of his ambition is J. Pierpont Nor gan. The one man who blocks the ambition of Edward H. Hartman to become the greatest single railroad power in Ameri- can railroading is J. Pferpont Morgan. Stillman has the hundreds of millions of
 the Rockefellers behind him. One of the wheels within wheels of the Northern Pacific panic was the part that James Stillman took in it. The money broker that his bank always employs loaned money at 30 per cent. at the height of the panic.
 Stillman's bank did not join with the other banks in the raising of the $20.OOo.- 900 fund that brought the rate down to 40 per cent and kept 1t from soaring to 16o or 200 per cent, a rate which would have knocked a dozen of the biggest concerns in the street to the wall and made end ,.-. ..a,,hto Cor Mar0an 2 On which had