New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-03

words. Besides. Hartman was not arguing; he
telling US.
Senator w. said that he hoped 10 avoid the
importunGte interviewers in san Francisco be-
cause he did not want any newspaper glory"
When he arrived he sraciously distributed a
long typewriter statement and called the
pOrters boys" He said that he would wait
over day instead OF taking the next mornings
Overland Limited l found af5erward that he
had gone the Pacific Express. because passes
are not honored on the Overland.
Meanwhile the king-nO fat. overfed, SNUG,
vulgar, easygons king but a seif-made, intense.
Argus eyed, little, efficient kng-had gone
aboard the tug waiting for him. and was being
shot across the country by the mighty organi-
zation he controlled and controlled abso-
lutely. perhaps. because Senators are cheap SO
cheap were these two that you could not with
hold your admiration from Hartman as thor
oughbred fighting man
The contrast made me understand the point
OF view OF the japanese. who. being foreigners
can see Us In the large. They looked Harri-
man as one Of the really great men of America
a commander who is the counterpart OF a Togo
an oyama, or a KuroGi a type Of creative
Sanlzer VINO has brought to America the indus
trial power which they 50 desire 10 emulate
and in the country whore the civilian is sup
POSED To- be OF "a lower breed than the official
they gave the man who had never held office az
home more honors than they have ever paid 10
any visiting American since Grant
But one night in the steamer smoking room
Hartman did talk. With soldiers tcrseness
he spoke OF his work. II was one of the rare
moments when q builder is in the mood il
iuinlne with MS own words the essentials of his
own career.
1t was like having Won Motke tell how he had
made the Prussian army As Won Noltl,e woJId
nave begun with the soldiers belly and the
soldiers rifle, 50 Hartman began with the road
bed on which the train travels and with the
freboX in which the steam To propcl the train
IS generated. He dealt in the units which made
the sum total and we saw how he fitted the
units together into great policy For the mo-
ment Re IS far from Wall Street as the
management OF a Dakota ranch is from the
wheat pit in Chicago.
With no thought Of the press or the public
q
SIS except the Hash Of his black eyes through
his big speCtacles he was speaking of his real
passion: Of the curves he had cut the grades
ne h2d lowered, the distances he had shortened.
The minutes saved on train schedules al every
station, which mounted into DAVIS every t,veDtV-
four hours: the pounds of coal saved every dav
on every locomotive; the direction of material
and labor toward economical output The man
of a! the railroads he controlled and the Law
OF the tracks in every yard seemed to he en-
graVed ON ms glasses. and YOU fanCied there was
a click in his head In answer to the fall of every
block signal his lines
1t was easy 10 guess his real attitude toward
the Senators. 1t was the attitude Of the gen
erals In the Civil War toward the politicians
who came to the front TO tell them how to run
the army. These fellows bothered him: they
interfered with his work; they broke the sched-
ule of that through express mentality of his m
the main line of results. For he knew everything
about the subject and they knew little
He struck me man who could be 2 diIet-
tante In nothing; who could he Indifferent about
nothing 1t was plain that the thing which
most appealed To him unremittng hard
work along n single line This was illustrated
by an incident which occurred in japan An
eaborately carved miniature temple was
offered for sale. He was not interested until
he was told that one man had spent sixteen
years OF his life from daylight to dark in con-
structing II. That capttVated him
The news that he took the temple and maid
the sum asked travelled to China where curio
dealers made combination to double prices on
the king OF combinations. with the result that
he bought nothing in China-which is also char
acteristic or his matter-of- factness.