The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-25
Railroad Czar Was Aide I at the Start ty Young Stay Uesant F.sh, Whom Later He De.pcssd from High Pc sition.
GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE
 OF FINANCIAL KING
Selfishness Is the Trait That Seems to Stand Out Boldest in the Man For Hartman First and All the Time-one Charity That May Be Said to Be Near His Heart.


 New York-Fifty-nine years ago this time St Georges church was looking out on Hampstead and the rolling acres of Long Island for miles around, as it had been doing since a day nearly a century and a half be- fore when the first Episcopal services were held there and supplication was made to God to preserve and succor d king of England and "Hys Gouvenor of thtS Colony It stood with that placidness of quaintness amid its sur rounding that 1t wears to-day, and about it's old rectory was an air of peace which boded well for those it sheltered.
 But in this month of January, 1S4S, there was one within the shelter of St Georges rectory whose peace was sorely troubled He was St. Georges minister, the Rev. Orlando Hartman, .Jr For seven years he had been buff teted around from one charge to an- other, with a wife and a growing fam fly on his hands, Living had been a
 
 whom he had preached the Gospel the thought never seemed to have ob- truded itself that ministers must eat and have clothes to wear just as other mortals.
 After Four Years at Hampstead.
 Now he found himself beset by the same poyerty-stricken condition that he had known in all his former rector ates. He had expected better from St Georges but in this month of January he awoke to find that his sal ary was far in arrears and also to the unmistakable fact that in a few weeks there would be one more member of the family to feed and clothe and al ways take into consideration.
 The Rev. Orlando Hartman had not iong to wait for the addition to his family. On February 25 son was born to him and he named him Ed ward Henry Hartman.
 Edward Henry Hartman could not have entered the world at a more in- opportune time in his fathers affairs, but if he had been born earlier or later, as the records would indicate, he would not have found the family any better off in the things of the earth. A year after Edward Henry's birth the Rev. Orlando Hartman Jr., unable to make the vestry of St. Georges see the absolute necessity of paying it's rector his salary, turned his back upon Hampstead forever. The year after that found him and his family in Castleton, Staten Island He became the assistant rector of St. Pauls there and twelvemonth later he was moving again.
 A Noble Woman.
 Mrs. Hartman was woman of sterling character and the pride that was in her was bulwark against the worlds unkindness. She was patient and she bore it all without word to any beyond her threshold. She could not hide it from the children. The children, too, must have drunk deeply at the family well of self-restraint, but none of them more than the boy called Edward Henry Hartman, the third son. Besides him there were two elder brothers, Nelson and Orlando, and younger named William. There were two sisters to make up the cir cle, Lily and Annie.
 It was when Edward Henry Harri- man had just turned into his eleventh year that the Rev. Orlando Hartman and his family set themselves and their few household goods down in West Hoboken N. J., and the minis ter entered upon the rectorate of St. Johns church. It was his first per manent charge since leaving Hemp stead. and he engaged himself at the muEificent salary of S200 year. Most of the six years which lay be- tween the beginning of the residence in Hoboken and the departure from Castleton, Staten Island. had been spent in Jersey City, with the head of the family going here and there wher ever he could be a rectors assistant or fill a pulpit.
 It is said that while he was at West Hoboken-seven years. all .old-the Rev. Orlando filled other pulpits when ever the opportunity offered to add mite to his meager income. All the while, however, he was doing the best he could, giving the boys and girls the education that his poor purse could