Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-16

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where from sj0,OoO,OOO to $200,OO0O00.
Doesn't Look Like Wizard.
| Well. he doesn't look it. He hasn't a
| piece of ice on his finger ring, which is
| An old bit of gold with a dim ruby set
| ting; his watch chain is thin, running
both ways over the vest front, and it has
dinky charm that bush league ball
player wouldn't wear.
| His clothes aren't near as good as John
! McGraW wears, and he's a heap easier to
get an interview from.
The gate tender at the Equitable Life
grounds is a dark-looking lad of West
| Indian type, who tipped his INIT when
! the boss was ready to get in the game.
The reporters team filed in soemnly and
! lifted their feet high off q tWo-inch- deep
red plush carpet. They all sat down
around long mahogany table that looked
! like a copy readers layout in a news
paper Office. For two and one-quarter
minutes nobody said word.
! The champion batsman of the Railroad
/ League looked tired at first. His tanned
masculine hands lay on his knees lie
| looked up at the high ceiling through a
! double pair of glasses and grinned
| through a faded broWniSh mustache that
| 1uts out like the roof over the home bench
| at the Polo Grounds.
ASK me something" he said YEARLY.
Watched to See the Curves.
You could see he was willing to hit
out a few, but wanted TO sec the way
they were curving.
The newspaper team lighted on him with
plenty Of speed but they didn't have
much control. They wanted to know
whether he going to become president
of the Rock Island road: whether there
was anything to be said about the Union
Pacific, what he thought about Taft and
BRYAN. why Union Pacific stocks We're
high. and sixty other things in railroad
finances.
For about three innings he batted these
questions to his veteran ShortStOp and
neither side scored. Shortstop would do
a little coaching. then reach down and
get his man at first.
What people We're saying and writing
about him seemed to bore Capt Harri-
man.
Il haven't quit my present job he
said in answer to the first question
Nothing new in Union Pacific, but
might be in Mexicans' (whatever that
means). he ripped off TO the second.
Country is apathetic, don't know what
are the issues and YOU can't blame en-
he returned to the third. Il don't know
myself"
..Our stocks are high" he shot back to
the thir.. question. because they should
never have been weak
You could he was getting Fingered
up now. When one of the Wall street
sharps sneaked one over the plate he d
wake up crane his neck to spot the lad
and then lean back and fade him with a
slow ball
"Mr f. f. Clark of the interstate COM
MERGE commission put in one said the
other day in ST. Louis that no law was
so much violated as the interstate COM
merce law"
Lines Hard One Out.
Zowie! the captain took notice. He has
brown eyes and not the penetrating"
gray or blue which is supposed to char
acterize all genius. Napoleon Bonaparte
Cecil Rhodes and Il few other big leaguers
spit or otherwise cut up, but they some
times have deeper meaning than the
other kind
II want you to get this right" hit out
Capt Hartman, as he raised his right
hand Significantly. Quote me as saying
that the government is itself responsible
for all this railroad trouble and depre-
citation in railroad values. Railroad men
never did. and do not now, want secret
rates or special privileges.
They were urgent in their demand upon
the interstate commerce commission to
enforce the Sherman law as 1t stood be-
fore the amendments were made Why. 1
can show you my own letter, written
from Japan, this day three years ago,
September Is. 1905. to Secretary Taft,
proving my statement.
Capt-Manager Hartman was aroused
but not ratified. The Wall street fan mar
rated that Hartman had once flashed his
fist under ]. Pierpont Morgans nose, TAX
ing awful chance, but he was in no
such pugnacious pood yesterday. He
merely pressed button and told clerk
to make copies of the following letter to
Secretary Taft:
Railroads Need Protection"
Our transportation interests both on