Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-05
OF ACTION FOR TRADE
Cooperation, Says Hartman, Will
Make Business Normal.
RAILROADS MUST JOIN HANDS
Head of Vast system says All Terri
tory f. Hartman Territory and
Great improvements Are
Going On.

Going On.
"Au you need to put usine back 70 ~
former state is cooperation and rational
ism" sevs e II. Hartman. president OF
the Union Pacific railroad and other prop
critics and head OF the Hartman system OF
railroads.
Mr.. Hartman spent most Of Tuesday
forenoon IN Omaha. but did not leave his
car. He arrived from the east over the
Northwestern at ESQ and left at IL a. m
for the Pacific coast. Although most OF the
leading officials Of the Union Pacific were
at the station to meet Mr.. Hartman he did
not arise until about $50 and then had his
breakfast in the observation part OF his
private car Arden. eating alone. When MS
secretary. Mr.. Price, told him the news
paper reporters were without he sent for
them and when they approached said:
Come in boys and watch me eat. l will
show you whether I am a sick man or not
AS the waiter was bringing the first
course Of baked apples and boiled rice Mr..
Hartman talked very freely to the report
ers and In fact said he was willing to an
swer any questions. One Of the first ques-
tons asked was as to the possibility Of the
railroads soon resuming building operations
l IN the west 10 THIS ne ItRttAs
why, we have already resumed and no
one In this entire country is more anxious
than I am to see everybody at work. We
are resuming work now"
But you have resumed in only two places
around this section Of the country" ven
tured one Of the reporters.
Cooperation Of Other Lines.
THAT is true and that may pc all you
have heard about. but we are doing a vast
amount OF work. We are working all over
the country. The Union Pacific might be
built Of gold across Nebraska, but it would
be OF no value without the cooperation OF
other roads, and some Of these are yet to
be built. We must take care OF the Others
and provide feeders. In Mexico lines are
being built and in California work is going
on. and in many places Of which you might
not have heard and perhaps might not hav'
been Interested. but they are a part Of tbs
big system"
THE Hartman system3' asked a re
porter.
They all belong to the Hartman sys
tenn" replied Mr.. Hartman. There Is M
Hartman territory and yet IL is all Harri
man territory with a smile). Their inter
ests are all interviewer and they are al
Harriman's or someone's else. The trans
; portation business OF this country Is a grea
interdependent interest and one road has I
| depend upon another. II one road prosper
! they generally all prosper. but II one roa
or system should fall 1t would have a de
pressing effect upon all"
/, Mr.. Hartman said he was reported cor
rectly In respect to his intention OF gein
; to the help of the Gould lines.
at would not do to let a big systeH
cot Tpk1 trrrtHIa ~ NC could hahn ~ - aag
= Mr.. Hartman.
About That Headquarters.
When Mr.. Hartman was asked what III
( prospects were for Omaha getting tha
Union Pacific headquarters building, 70
= which the site was bought over a year ag,
z he said:
E 1--WE hope II will be built some day. bu
n a headquarters building Is not worryin
us now as much ais to build some revenu'
a producing roads We can't make an
4 money from an office building"
/" Mr., Hartman said he did not know niue
q about the detail OF the McKeen Motor Ca
a company, OF which he was reported &
icing the principal stakeholder.
That will be run as part Of the Unto
Pacific shops and the details will be worke
out by Mr.. McKeen." said he.
This remark seems to put aside any n
: NOR Of the McKeen motor car shops b
ing moved to any other city.
To the reporter for The Bee Mr.. Harr
man said he had just finished reading a
interview OF his in The Bee on rates ar
n that It was substantially as he had give
+" It out.
; "I picked up The Bee just as I finish,
dressing and that article was the fir
n thing which caught my eye"
& On the question Of business of the cou.
- try increases Mr.. Hartman said:
m yes. IL is gratifying to me to say tn
business is showing a good increase ov
ID what it was three or four months ag
but II shows no increase over last yes
N Going After n Real Rest.
" II am going to tax my family into 4
Siskiyou mountains and l am going to I
TO take a regular vacation. I will be ba
this way about the middle OF Septemb
and hope to have something to tell you
that time
The special train which left Omaha Tue
~ day morning consisted OF eight cars a
" carried a host Of people. The rear car W
re Mr.. Harriman's private car Arden and I
n next car was a private car from the Il
OF nois Central. with Mrs. Hartman. NJ
Mary Hartman, Miss Coral Hartman a
as Averell and Roland Hartman. the 4
In young sons. Other cars were the priv
rts cars of Julius Kruttschnitt, director
lu- maintenance OF the Hartman lines; ].
he stubbs. traffic director OF the HArrim
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