The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-04

New York-Fifty-nine years ago
this time st. Georges church was
looking out on Hampstead and the
rolling acres Of Long Island for miles
around. as IL had been doing since
day nearly a century and half be-
fore when the first Episcopal services
were held there and supplicatiOn was
made to God TO preserve and succor
a king of England and 'Hys Gouvenor
of thys Colony" 1t stood with that
ulacidness of quaintness amid its sur
rounding that il wears today, and
about its old rectory was an air of
peace which boded well for those it
sheltered.
But in this month Of January, 1S4S,
there was one within the shelter Of
St Georges rectory whose peace was
sorely troubled lie was st. Georges
minister, the Rev. Orlando Hartman,
Jr. For seven years he had been buff
feted around from one charge to an
other, with a wife and a growing fam
ily on his hands. Living had been
serious problem. Among those to
whom he had preached the Gospel the
thought never seemed to have OBJ
truded itself that ministers must eat
and have clothes to wear just as other
mortals.
After -Four Years at Hampstead.
Now he found himself beset by the
same poverty-stricken condition that
he had known in all his former rector
ates He had expected better from
st. Georges, but in this month of
January he awoke to find that his sal
ary was far in arrears and also to the
unmistakable fact that in few weeks
there would be one more member Of
the family to feed and clothe and al
ways take into consideration.
The Rev. Orlando Hartman had not
long to wait for the addition to his
family. On February 20 a son was
born to him and he named him Ed
ward Henry Hartman.
Edward Henry Hartman could not
have entered the world at a more in
,opportune time in his fathers affairs,
but if he had been born earlier or
later, a. the records would indicate.
he would not have found the family
any better off in the things of the
earth. A year after Edward Henrys
birth the Rev. Orlando Hartman Jr.,
unable to make the vestry of St.
Georges 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 became the assistant rector of st.
n 81. 1,N.
he was moving again.
A Noble Woman.
Mrs. Hartman was 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 a 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-restraint, but
none 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, Lily and Annie.
It 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 rectorate of st.
Johns church. 1t was his first per-
manent charge since leaving Hemp
stead, and he engaged himself at the
munifcent salary OF 5000 year.
Most of the six years which lay be-
tween the beginning of the residence
in Hoboken and the departure from
Castleton, Staten Island, had been
spent in Jersey City, with the head of
the family going here and there wher-
ever he could be a rector's assistant
or fill a pulpit.
1t is said that while he was at West
Hoboken-seven years, all told-the
Rev. Orlando filled other pulpits when
ever the opportunity offered to add a
mite to his meager income. All the
while, however, he was doing the best
he could, giving the boys and girls the
education 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 bitterness
and poverty passed away, but not
their discipline AS they had been
sufficient unto themselves when they
had little, so the Harrlmans were suf-
ficient unto themselves when the tide
turned. 1t was not much that Mrs
Harriman's ship brought in; abou. as
q dollar bill woulI bS 10 the wealth OF