The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
STORIES ABOUT HARTMAN

i, keen visioned little passenger lost his patience.
 What makes this delayf'' he demand
 ed with characteristic abruptness.
 Engine taking wAter, sir,' replied the
 division superintendent
 "Why not make the feed pipe bigger?"
 snapped Hartman.
 Cant be done, sir; the engine wouldn't take any larger feed pipe," the division superintendent faltered.
 Then we'll get some bigger engines" Hartman snapped out again, and he did. That he should have been able to build up such personal organization as the one headed by Judge Robert 8. Lovett, his presumptive successor; J. c. Stubbs, director of traffic on all the Hartman
 systems, who can tell you off-hand how
 many cars can be moved out of Ogden over the cutoff between and o'clock
 tomorrow morning; Julius Krutteschnit
 directors of maintenance and operation on the entire system; William H. Herrin, general counsel for the Southern Pacific and Hartman boss of California, and William Hood, chief engineer of the
 Southern Pacifo.. goes without saying. Had he been unable to develop such an organization he could not have accom- I plished what he has done. That Harri- | man should have worked with an in l tensity of energy that made him the most crochety, snappish and sudden of men in everything he said and did out of | play time is quite as natural Yet he | had a keen relish for joke Ono day. when the Sidney Webster incident was on, he ran across newspaper man he knew well. Hartman approached from behind. The newspaper man felt a sud- den tug at his arm and looked around Say" said the master of the Union Pacific 'if that fellow in Washington had | my job and had his job. I wonder if would make as big a mess of his as he would of mine.'
 On another occasion a reporter from a paper that had published the most scath- his railroad financing was sent to ask who were the two greatest railroad men in the world.
 "Im one of them," came as quick as a flash, land the other, in his own esti- nation, Is the editor of your newspaper" As Hartman lived to see his great am- bition almost in his grasp, so he saw the accomplishment of his play-tirne dreams, tho creation of wonderful estate in the Ramapo mountains, where he might real
 ize what Carnegie has declared 1t to be impossible to realize-that he really owned 8 mountain. How the $2.0O0,0OO which went to prepare that estate for his home looming and death belongs to an other narrative than this one. It has. n fact. been generously written already. of the north pole, and that there was located the true Garden of Eden Geolo- gists hold that he earth was originally huge molten mass, and that the cooling process was more rapid at the poles than anywhere else. Hence the two extremi- ties would have been the first parts of the earth's surface to sustain animal life. It was argued that as the surface gradu- ally cooled and became habitable man migrated southward, and that after the lapse of many centuries the cold at he poles was too extreme for man. Dr. War ren, at one time president of Boston uni versity, wrote an interesting volume based on this theory.
 As far north as man has been able to make any research the bones of prehis- toric mammals have been found. Tho remains of mastodons have been found
 imbedded in the ice in Siberia and Alas