Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-27

can be seen In the daily newspapers. and only the other night he kept dinner party waiting whi4 a news paper photographer cans to his rooms in the Auditorium Annex and took picture, filling the rooms with smoke.
 Of Harriman's greatness there can be no doubt. as there cannot be of the
 fact that he has the qualities which
 attract men if he chooses to take time
 to exercise those qualities. He is one of those anomalies who are ter rA ITS in business and delightful com nam ons cut of office. The man has = s.--.sn that ls saherasaaaaI and 4tAs gafcke.ss brains cannot keen pace with him. In directors meetings and in conversation he grasps great prob lems with which he is not Familiar even before ts1e men who have stud jed them for a lifetime get well into the explanation. This fact has caused him to cultivate ursconsciouslY an i'm patiefS attitude when in conyersation or when in business xelatSon8
 Yes, yes" be is wout to sxclaim when talking over important Affairs, T understand that thoroughly :, go on to something else. Let us set along and make progress" This habit is somewhat disc0ncertinR to many Hartman himself recognizes hk i'm patience and he says of himself. 'It Is impossible for me to say thing over. When it's gone the concfntra- ton of thought which brought t has snapped, and am on to something else" This fact makes Hartman the difficult man of his time to inter view successfully. He realizes this. and 1t makes him diffSdent in talking 10 reporters and as shy as a woman.
 Hartman is exceedingly fond of horses and loves all animals. Itlhas been said of a man that if he loves animals he cannot be bad at heart. and the love of animals and of ehfl- dren is one of the distinguishing char 1 acteristics of his makeup. That he Is great railway builder, the great est in his time, there is 10 disrute.
 He has done things in the i,as of railway construction which engineers
 have secuted and have said were i'm possible, but which have proved the greatest successes. He has given ta the western world the best transp1r.
 tation system the world has ever
 seen- In doing this he has been ths victim of conditions and of environ ] ment rather that oT desire and prir- pose
 | There is a third and lesser light | which has been sandwiched between
 Fish and Hartman in the Illinois Central fight. Reference is made to J. T, Harahan, president of the road and successor to Stuyvesant Fish. Harahan is true Celt, and tine pride | in his nationality is seen by the fact | that he has caused all of his stations and buildings between Chicago and New Orleans to be painted a vivid green. It is also signalized by the fact that the Illinois Central is laugh ingly called the Irish Central" He IS distinctfvely a self-made man, hay ing had no education except that which is gotten by hard knocks with construction gangs and in the ma | chine shop His lack of what the world pleases to call educational ad- Vantages and education makes Eara- han clothe himself with a crust of l dlffldence which is sometimes pain Iul. By this it is not meant to sig nffy that he is difficult ot access On the contrary, his door is always open ana any one may walk into the pres ident's office almost unannounced. Regarding Harahan the railway world differs. Some declare that he should have remained true to Fish, while others insist that there was no reason why he should have sacrificed himself and his future for a man who he believed did not keep his pledged
 word. Work is Harahan's diversion.
 He travels more upon his line than
 any other railway president, and
 there isn't detail of any department
 with which he is not familiar. He
 has the qualities. rough and ready
 though they be. which bind men to
 him. With educational advantages
 Harahan would have been a Harri-
 man. Without them he is one of the
 most efficient railway operating men
 in the world today