The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-01-08

la Fish, Who Gave Him Hi.
Frat Big Commissioned Napo
ieonic Finaneier.
NEW YORK, Jan. s.-Edward Hen.
ry Hartman could not have entered
the world at a more inopportune time
in his fathre's affairs. but II he had
been born earlier or later. al the rec
ords would indicate, he would no;
have found the family any better oil
in the things of the earth. A year
after Edward Henry's birth his faith.
er, the Rev. Orlando Hartman, Jr.,
unable to make the vestry OF st.
Georges, at Hampstead, Long Island.
see the absolute necessity of paying
its rector his salary, turned his back
upon Hampstead forever. The year
after that found him and his family
in Castleton. Staten Island. He be-
came the assistant rector of ST. Paul's
there, a twelvemonth later he was
moving again.
1t was a bitter poverty that this
man and his wife were suffering. They
were well bred. and the pride within
them made their lot keenly hard. Mrs.
Hartman belonged to one Of the best
families in New Jersey, and many
and many a time she must have felt
the sting of the thinking that she
could have done better in her match.
making than she had.
Mrs. Hartman was a woman OF
sterling character, and the pride that
was in her was a bulwark against the
worlds unkindness. She was patient
and she bore 1t all without n word to
any beyond her threshold. She could
not hide 1t from the children. The
children, too, must have drunk deeply
at the family well of self-retsraint,
but o of them more than the boy
called Edward Henry Hartman, the
third son Besides him there were two
elder brothers, Nelson and Orlando,
and a younger. named William. There
were two sisters. to make up the cir
Gle. Lilly and Annie.
1t 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 re%ctorate of st.
Johns Church. 1t was his first per-
manent charge since leaving Hemp.
stead. and he engaged himself at the
muniicent salary of $500 a year. Most
Of the six ears which lay between
the beginning of the residence in Ho-
boken and the departure from Castle
ton, Staten Island. had been spent in
family going here and there wherever
he could be a rector's assistant or fill
a pulpit.
Dawn Of Better Days.
Henry, as the boys and girls with
whom he played and the members of
his own family called the future Wall
street prince and railroad magnate.
got only small training in the pub.
lie schools. Later, when good times
came, he received a two-year finishing
in an institution where clergymen's
sons were accepted without a cent as
a matter of course.
1t is said that while he was Mt West
Hoboken-seven years, all told-the
Eev. Orlando filed to her pulpits when.
ever the opportunity offered to add a
mite to his meager income. At any
rate. he was doing the best he could,
giving the boys and girls the educa-
tion that his poor purse could buy. 1t
was a time that must. have put iron
into the souls Of the boys: a time
when they were driven to make a god
OF self-denial.
The good times came to The family
through Mrs. Hartman. A legacy
was left her. and the old days Of biz
~terness AMI poverty passed away, but
not their discipline. AS they had
been sufficient unto themselves when
they had little, so the Harrimans
were sufficient unto themselves when
the tide turned. 1t was not much
that Mrs. Harriman's ship brought in
about as n dollar bill would be 10
the wealth of her son, Edward Henry.
1t was enough to lift the burden from
her husbands shoulders and TO buy a
home at Eighth and Erie streets, in
Jersey City, where the family lived
comfortably for many years. 1t was
enough, too, to ave the minister from
yestries which would not pay. The