Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-27


 all the strength ana powA>r that hes within me I shall fixat to ssep this property from the clutches O. tne money octopus which fs represes. ted by Edward H. Hartman"
 For years Stuyvesant Ffsfrs person, ality has dominated the great mass s,s <s.s,z,iss. .>iAA-s- the Illfn1iS Gem tral as no other stockholders have been dominated. He has taken more delight in mfngling with the -com- mon people" than sitting in the seats of the mighty. Those who have watched his comings and his goings have remarked the strange coinci- dence that during all the years he ruled the road he has been found among the people along his line upon the occasions when Mrs. Fish has been giving any of her functions" to the 400" In appearance Fish looks like a farmer and he hates show and cant. and society as society is now constituted, aud he has a firm grip upon the nigner Iueais wnIcl have moved men like Martin Luther to create a moral and worldwide re- generation
 It would be difficult to find two men in battle who present a wider contrast. Big and ungainly of stat ure, with a head Ike that of a jungle lion, with a jaw which should have made Hartman pause before he threw down the gauntlet to him Stuyvesaut Fish is man whom men and women turn around to look at when he passes.
 There is no gathering. social, po- IiticaI, financial or railroad, in which the eye of the onlooker would not instinctiveIy turn first of all to Stuy- vesant Fish and ask who he was. He. has one of the most compelling presences that ever man was gifted with and character is written upon every line of his massive face. For years he has been the idol Of the ma jority of Illinois Central stockholders. whom he loved to call his great family" and whose interests he has cared for.
 His annual meetings have been unique events in the railway worId for each year every stockhoIder re cefved an annual pass which entitled him to ride to Chicago for the pur- pose of attending. Consequently a motley crowd of miIlionaires, such as John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Wander bilt and Edward H. Hartman have sat down with the ~BiI1'' Dosiers and the Ferdinand Coles from the interior towns and mingled as equals.
 And these days were the red letter days in Stuyvesant Fish's life as they have been in the lives of the tillers of the soil along the line of the Hi nois Central Mir. Fish's ambition if ambition he possessed, was to make the Illinois Central distinctively the railroad of the people, and his life's work has been devoted to it. And now he sees the crunching car of railway centralization driven by Ed ward H. Hartman ruthlessly as it seems to him, grinding to atoms his life work and dfspe1lfng his Iife's dream. Is is any wonder that there is no cry Tor quarter in the soul of Stuyvesant Fish?
 Hartman is the enigma and the sphinx of the railroad world He is the riddle that has never been guessed and the puzzle that has never been solved. He is a self-made man. compelling success by a genius that is uncanny from a man of so small
 
 insignificant is Edward H. Hartman to look upon that he passes every where where he is known without an inqufrfng glance. His inner soul has never been laid bare to the gaze oi the public as has Stuyvestnt Fish's. If he has sentiment it has been coz cealed. if he has consideration for others it has been we'll hidden, and if he has the good of all mankind at heart, as he says, he has been woe fully misjudged. And yet there is no question that in his private home life there is not a sweeter character than Edward H. Hartman. With home life that is ideal and inspiring in it's love and duty, there may be read a side of Hartman of which the world knows little. It would seem a contradiction too terrible to entertain that man whose home is ruled by love and devotion can have, when it comes to dealing with the ouCSIue~worIu, no seuIIIIJrnt. V iTII0 Fish is naturally Op5IT-fiT6dSiT Ii ca ted ted and frank, Hartman is by nature retiring and retrospective, little given to barring his thought for the vulgar in spection. In the killing struggle which he has had to make Tor him. self a great name Hartman has been forced to regard everyone and every thing as a possible factor of opposi- ton. It has been a rough school, and the difference in the methods of the two men is accounted for by the diff ference of temperament. Men who have worked for Hartman love to tell, in secret, of his many kindnesses and of the many charities which he loves to do in secret. But they tel of it only in whispers. for should Il come to the ears of Hartman 1t would mean instant and severe re buke. A sidelight was thrown upon | Harriman's character early in the Il | linois Central fight. Upon one occa | sion a newspaper man went to Harri man for an interview. He asked the press representative why it was that i the newspapers showed such hostility and antagonism toward him.
 Do you want frank answer?
 'I do," was the reply, flor l think it is undeserved."
 "It is because you have treated the newspaper men throughout the coun' try with contempt and have not even taken the trouble to be courteous to | them"
 i Hartman sank into deep thought | for a few moments. when he replied ; i T presume you will not believe ua then when I tell you that I am very sorry they feel this way. I do not 1 feel unfriendly to the newspapers nor to the newspaper men. simply haven't the time to talk to tNen- This