The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-29
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jority to sec things as the few think they should be seen, and they are aid ed by institutions of education, but the stubborn old world insists in ever re- turning to it's own methods and pur- suing It's own way. It is we'll that this is so for after all the measure ment of the great majority, while crude may be, is usually accurate and enduring in the long run.
 We are led to make this observation on account of the Hartman incident at the boat race Thursday between Yale and Harvard So important has it become to keep the course clear for the shells and the officials that the Treasury department of the United States has taken the responsibility. It sends to New London every year a revenue cutter. It sent one this year l by the suggestive name of Gresham" As the race was about to be started B. H. Hartman, the railroad magnate, deliberately and insolently brought his powerful motor boat along side of the motor boat used by the race officials. He was repeatedly warned to go away , but paid no attention to the directions. He not only made no reply to the or
 ders of the United States officers, though he must have known who they were and what their authority Is, but he moved his boat nearer the line to indicate his intention of following the racing crews up the course. It was at this moment that Lieutenant Bill lard, with fine indifference to the superiority of King Hartman, placed him under arrest and sent him aboard the cutter a prisoner Says the As- sociated Press correspondent laeonic- ally; MT. Hartman saw no more of the race, but was detained as an or dinary prisoner aboard the government cutter Gresham until after the race was over when Lieutenant Billiard went aboard the Gresham and released MT. Hartman but ordered his boat tied up at the navy Yard"
 Now the old world will put Its own 1 Interpretation upon this incident and it will be an intelligent interpretation. The few will argue that MT. Harri- man took his chances as any other boat owner might have done and in failing failed as another might have done; that after all the best way IS 1 to drop such incidents of an exciting i day and let ones sense of hun1or wipe them from the slate of recollection. The world will, however do nothing of the kind. They will see in the Incident ] just the direct light 1t needed to H. illuminate the insolence of the Harrl- man kind of man. Essentially lawless in temperament, he undertook to do what he must have known was con- trary to the orders of the treasury de- partment. He took flyer at the pos sible expense of a lost life, for If he could follow the crews up the river others could do the same thing and it was because when all who wished to do so were allowed to follow that the discovery was made that life was un- necessarily put in jeopardy and then came the orders from the government to keep the course clear. If MT Har- riman says, as we fully believe him capable of saying, that he did not know of the regulation then he ought never again to be permitted to sit in a motor boat. He did know and in or der to gratify his own pleasure he was willing to take the risk of arrest, at the same time believing that his name would scare the race officials.
 So much for the incident itself which can be easily dismissed as of no great importance, except as it en- i llghtens the country as to his real character If he would disturb the dignifed sport of two of the oldest universities in the country In order to gratify himself he would disturb the laws of finance or the rules of corr porate organization if they got in his way when the object there was to benefit himself. The Hartman who refused to move when ordered to move 1 by the revenue officer was the same Hartman who was sauey as a witness in the insurance investigation. It was the Hartman who juggled with the Union Pacific and issued millions of bonds on the name of railroad not one mile of whose trackage has ever been built. It was the Hartman who on account of the millions at his con- 1 trol believes himself immune from or dinary restrictions which the rest of us must obey ali of the time, The stubborn old world does not under stand his financial transactions, and lwhile it has instinctively concluded that they were sharp and shady in character, it has remained confused as to details. It sees clearly what the ] ,,nrfo r,,, q r,.nn of Nnw Inndn., ,,nnn nn