The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-01-08

to his wife.
Appears In Wall Street.
Henry at this time is described by
men and women who knew him as a
boy of pleasant nature. who liked to
do most of the things other boys dII,
but with a view of life hat was much
broader and deeper than most of his
associates of his age. He reas;zej
that his. way in the world deepened
upon himself and whether by chance
or through somebody's aid, he chose
Wall street as a beginning. He ap.
peared in the street not long after his
family moved from West Hoboken 10
Jersey City. He was a clerk in q
small brokerage office. and he was a
good n He used to go running
around down town In those days just
as the army Of youngsters, with wal.
lets in hand, are running around down
there o from the time the banks
open and the ticker tape begins to run
until the market closes for the day.
Yet Henry Hartman was an uncom.
NOR young "a Where youths doing
the same work would take an hour to
get something through their heads he
took Ave minutes. Time Is money IN
Wall street, and this ability to save
time was the foundation of his for.
tune. If he watched things for his
for himself. which is evident from the
fact hat in less than four years after
his advent in the financial district
Henry Hartman had become E. ".
Hartman. with a seat in the New
York Stock Exchange. He bought
this seat on August 10, 1870, and he
could not have done 1t on a shoe.
string. T%hereuopn he quit working for
others and became a trader on the
floor. with an open eye for the best
he could do for those who gave him
commissions, and with one open for
the best bargains he could drive for
his own account.
His Meeting With Fish.
"aS "HAIe ne Wan On the HOOr
doing this kind of work that he met
Stuyvesant Fish. then n young man
like Hartman, with his way to make
in the world. Fish had wealth and
the influence of a high social position
behind him. Hartman was going It
Alone but there was something I'm
his makeup that Fish liked, and the
two became great friends. Accord
ing to the stories told in Wall street
today, and which have been turned
over and over again Of late on account
of Harriman's ousting OF Fish from the
Illinois Central. & was Fish who gave
Hartman most Of his best commits
sions in those days; commissions
which brought him in touch with men
that he would probably have never
met otherwise. anyway, when these
moguls OF finance who belonged to
Fish's crowd won In the market HarrI-
also Invariably added to the size
OF his bank account.
With a competence assured E. II.
Hartman sought him a wife; a wo-
man of the elect. It has been said
that poverty-stcicken though his fam
lily had been they had never permit
ted themselves nor the Children to for
get the pride Of good breeding. He
did not forget. He married Miss Mary
Averell. of Rochester. Her father was
a capitalist, and she brought to Har.
riman sinews that count in the bat
tie of dollars ttat is waged in Wall
street. This Averell money came
from a railroad source. Mrs. Harri.
mans father is roputcd to have made
the most of It In the Rome, Water.
town and osdensbusr Company, out
of which so many others have become
enriched.
Five years after 7. II. Hartman
went on the floor OF the New York
Stock Exchange he was recognized as
n factor in the game with whom other
players must always count. He was
N quick as a ishhawk He was ev-
erywhere at once. and he took his
chance with men who he knew we're
playing with cold decks. The times
were good to scalp" the market, and
he took small profits unto himself in
this way sometimes. and sometimes
he took large ones, but he kept TAX
ing them. He was a good trader.
AS a Sehemer.
Before he was 80 years old Harrl-
man had seen the greatest nnanciers
of the time come their troopers one
by one. He had seen some of them
get on their feet again. but they were
few. He was always where the fray
was hottest, but he was never wound
ed. Yet he never came back from the
firing line without a scalp" He took
profits even when the historic anthra-
cite corner brought Jersey Central