The Washington herald., 1907-01-20


riman and Senator ]. P. Dol
liver. Of Iowa.
Twice in the history Of the republic
minister's son was the most prominent
man ia the country. c. A. Arthur Presi-
dent b. reason of Garhelds death, was
clergyman's son, and SO was Grover
Cleveland.
The father Of one Vice President. Levi
P. Morton. was a minister. w. B. Horn
blower the clever New York lawyer,
whom Cleveland vainly tried to make
justice of the Supreme Court. is a minis
ter's son.
Richard Watson Glider, great editor,
and Henry James. famous novelist, are
ministers sons. James B. Dill. the crea-
tor Of great corporations, is another. You
would need TO go q long wav 10 md men
of greater personal force. Of more pro
.nounced achievements, of stronger indi-
viduality, than these prominent sons Of
ministers.
In his way, Mr. Hartman, the railroad
Napoleon. who promised Mr.. Roosevelt
the other day to turn back the rebellious
waters Of the Colorado River. is the Won
der Of his age. When he first appeared
in Wall street. as a boy. a good many
years ago. he was noted, as he is now,
because Of his dislike for too many words,
his self-reliance and his energy His in
dependence went almost 20 the point Of
surliness. At first he did errands-he
didn't run" them, however; according
TO a printed statement by James Still
man. president Of Rockefeller's City Bank.
nobody ever saw Ed Hartman run -
for a small firm Of brokers'
He planned 10 make his own way In
Wall street. Although his father was a
poor minister "over in Jersey" he had
rich relatives. but the boy refused to be
beholden 10 them. From the beginning
he was a speculatOr, and Old-timers OF the
street will tell you that he always won.
He seemed 20 have his own methods Of
making money and IN 1870. thirty-six
years ago. he had enough 20 buy a seat
on the stock exchange He was then
about twenty-five. nobody knows ex-
actly; in fact. nobody but himself knows
just how old Hartman is to-day. and he
won't tell.
He formed a stock brokerage firm with
his brother. and. presently. was a factor
IN the Illinois Central Railroad manage
ment, out Of which he so inconunently
pitched Stuyvesant Fish last fail Mr..
Fish's early friendship for Hartman was
one OF the latter's most valuable assets
In his climbing days. Il was at about
that time that Hartman made HIS first
million. and ne has never had real set
back since. although there were a few
days about fourteen years ago that he
came near going under during the cur
rency famine Of g."
II is often said that no man in finance
is more feared to-day than +. II. Harri-
man, yet IN and about Arden. y. Y. near
Tuxedo. his neighbors' children know him
as Uncle Hank and Pop" Hartman.
Short Of stature. lively in his mC~ements.
curt Of tongue. he is the personal antithe-
sis OF Senator DOliiveT. with whom
have bracketed him.
Dolliver is a giant. He is hearty and
magnetic. He glories in words. His vo-
cabulaFy Is inexhaustible, and his accent
has all the engaging qualities Of the
South. where ne was born and OF the
Western prairies, where he has made
good
"Jonty" DoIIiver, ''the Minister'S
Boy"
Dolliver is probably the most engaging
story-teller OF all the ministers sons now
prominent Forty years ago. among the
mountain boys Of what is now West Vir-
ginia, where his chief distinctions were
his good nature. and the fact that he was
the minister's boy" he was "Jonty''
| Doniver in everybodys mouth. and
/ "Jonty" he remained even after he had
| entered the University Of West Virginia
and become famous for his readiness in
/ debate and his love for the classics.
/ he was still only a boy, however. He
/ was graduated when only seventeen, and
| couldn't have been more than thirteen OF
/ fourteen when he entered. As an under
| graduate he won reputation for more
/ than a silver tongue and studiOusness.
/ Everybody who knew him at all knew
I him 10 be about the best fisherman and
/ the most daring swimmer in the whole
student body. Whenever he tells his
/ friends how much he enjoyed fishing and
/ swimming in the waters Of the Mononga-
/ hela as a college boy, he does the story
so well that you can almost hear the
swish Of the stream he swan in and see
4 the glisteniug scales Of the fish he drew
out of It. He is still as fond of fishing as
| ever. but his angling is now done mostly
upon the Des Moines instead Of the Mo-
| nongahela. they say" he can catch as
many bass with a fish pole and old-fash-
I ioned tackle as most any other man can
] with the finest jointed rod and the most
! elaborate book Of flies.
Jonathan Prentiss Delivers father was
/ a Methodist circuit rider. This means. as
| some Of my younger readers will need TO
/ have explained 10 them. that although a
| regularly ordained minister Of his church,
| his preaching was not confined to one
place; he had several appointments" for
! every Sunday, mostly in schOOlhOUses-
! some OF them in the log cabin homes OF
| his people that were scattered over a
rather wide area.
| He was constantly on the go over his
circuit" In the middle of the last cen
| tury. when Dolliver pere was at the
/ height of his activity, the roads in the
mountain regions Of the MOnongahela
| Valley were pretty bad and he had to go
/ from appointment to appointment on
| horseback. hence the term circuit rider.
| His horseback excursions were not con-
/ fined to Sundays; he had the sick 10 visit
| the dying TO speed on their last long
| Journeys. the bereaved to console. and
the families Of his various little cOngTega-
/ tiuns to call upon in order.
| That he was in the saddle more than
| half the time is by no means improbable,
and he must have had great physical en-
| durance lie never shrank from the
/ SHOWS Of winter or the toTrential rains
of spring and fall: storms often delayed
/ but they never stopped him. This fine
| specimen of an American type that has
now all but disappeared died only two or
| three years ago. as proud of his eloquent
son as he had a right to be.
When in Washington during the ses-
/ sions, Father" Dolliver often went to
/ hear the Senator speak. While the latter
was in the House of Representatives it
was said that you could always tell when
/ Dolliver was about to cut loose on the