The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-04
HARTMAN AS A TRAVELLER.

His Appreance on a Voyage From
 Yokohama to San Francisco.
 My first glimpse of the real man
 was on a voyage, says Frederick Pal
 mer, in Golfers Weekly When the
 ocean is the Pacific, and there are few people aboard you learn your fellow passengers pretty well so you did on this occasion, including two United States Senators Hartman spent more | time with the engineer than with
 them. We started from Yokohama with the idea of beating the record
 to San Francisco. A smooth sea all the way meant an even chance of sue
 cess. This disappeared for every body except Hartman when the first three days were entirely unpropitious. think that he though We must suc- ceed because he himself was aboard.
 When some one offered him a bet of
 $2,OO0 to $l000 that he would fail he took it. Then he started out to win
 the bet with all the zest that ne has shown in obtaining control over a new railroad. Fair weather broke the next day and continued. We began to feel that the quiet little man was nutting demoniacal energy into the stQkers and into the very engines. By the dra-
 matic space of a few minutes he won.
 Hartman never advertised the fact
 that he gave the $2,0OO to the engine room crew. Winning was the point in mind.
 On the whole, he was the least ob- trusive of any great millionaire with
 whom I have ever come in contact.
 Whether he is doing kindness or doing business, he never uses words where though or action will take their place.. I noticed that when he told a
 steward to move a lady's chair to
 better position it was in an undertone of brevity. The lady did not know of his thoughfulness. She would if James J. Hill had been in Harriman's place. Pierpont Morgans politeness would have had the aplomb of above. The two Senators were always ready
 to pick up Harriman's handkerchief, although they are on record as trust
 busters. When you cut away their egoism and glad-handism the skeleton that remained consisted merely of rubber backbone and floating ribs. On one occasion Senator N., looking around for an audience, engaged
 Hartman in discussion of the rate problem. It was the encounter of napier and pillow full of words. Be- sides, Hartman was not arguing it
 he was telling us.
 Senator w. said that he hoped to avoid the importunate interviewers in San Francisco because he did not want
 any newspaper glory" When he ar
 rived he graciously distributed long l typewriter statement and called the reporters boys" He said that he
 would wait over a day instead of talk | ing the next mornings Overland Linn ited. I found afterward that he had gone on the Pacific Express, because passes are not honored on the Over land.
 Meanwhile the king-no fat, over-
 fed, snug, vulgar, easy going king, but a self-made intense, Argus-eyed, little, efficient king had gone aboard l the tug waiting for him, and was being
 shot across the country by the mighty organization he controlled, and con- trolled so absolutely, perhaps, because Senators are cheap. So cheap were these two that you could not withhold lyour admiration from Hartman as a thoroughbred fighting man, The con- trast made me understand the point of view of the Japanese. who, being foreigners, can see us in the large.
 They looked on Hartman as one of the really great men of America, commander, who is the counterpart of of a Togo, an Oyama, or a Kurok; a
 type of creative organizer, who has brought to America the industrial power which they so desire to emu late; and in the country where the civilian is supposed to be of a lower breed than the official they gave the man who had never held office at home more honors than they had ever paid to any visiting American since Grant.