The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

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into new lines in territory we already
serve and into new territory. Of
/ course these new lines may not pay
at first, but they will later
| Mr.. Hartman said that attention is
| gong to be paid to existing and new
| properties.
ssTime and attention" he said. "are
| going to be spent in developing our
lines and serving the people in the
| territory tributary to those lines
working for the best interest of all, to
| give them the best a the cheapest
| price. 1t is just as if you were going
| to buy suit of clothes. You'd want
the best you could get for the money.
That is what we are giving to our
people.
'.It is my idea that we should clinch
the per cent Southern Pacific is pay
ing and make it absolutely safe and
sure. 1 believe the newspapers and
the public are now convinced that this
was not speculative move.
Our new lines? They will be in
1 the irrigated territory in Idaho and in
tend to tell about now"
s'Didn't Get All My Thoughts"
"Are you satisfied with the result of
your trip?" a reporter asked.
Yes, my trip was success. 1 have
| now come home to complete the cure.
my, but what the physicians did to
| me! They took ten pounds off me.
Why, the reception the cameras gave
me today was nothing. They. put the
X-ray on me; they put me through
everything they could think of. They
made cinematograph pictures of my
stomach. That was funny-those six
teen pictures-but the operation took
three pounds off me. They got every
thing except what I have in here
laughingly tapping his forehead.
'They didn't get all my thoughts
''It was interesting and a bit funny
about those cinematograph pictures.
There were sixteen of them, which
have. First they fed me rice and bis
muth, SO that food moving around in
me would give shadow that could
be photographed. The machine was
insulated and paper placed over it,
against which I stood In fixing the
paper they forgot to remove a tack,
and every time plate dropped 1 got
/ didn't mind it much, after a1l.''
"Just one question" cut in young,
serious appearing man, who had gone
on the car with the newspaper men,
but whom none of the reporters
knew; Just a moment. There is one
question" striking an attitude. IT'D
like to ask if in hiring men you hire
them because of their clothes or
Mr.. Hartman led the roar. of laugh
ter that went up.
Hardly he said 'I pay atten-
ton to their heads"
Millar's Estimate of Hartman
''The biggest, brainiest and most
patriotic American we have today is
Edward Henry Hartman. He is al
ways interested in everything that in
This is the estimate of Alexander
Millar, secretary of the. Hartman
lines, who for the last seven years
has been in close an dalmost con-
and at a time. too. when all of his
biggest financial and railroad coups
were planned and executed.
Mr.. Millar. when interviewed the
other day at his home in Plainfie1d,
N J., at first was. loath to discuss his
chief.
When told it was the purpose of
the interviewer to present a pen pic
ture of the railroad magnate at work
and at play as seen by and intimately
Tented, saying:
s.That is a different matter. and 1
am only too glad to do my part
toward correcting the impression that
magazine articles that have been
spread broadcast in which Mr.. Har-
rirnan was pictured as an ogre, a
monster or else huge spider or
octopus reaching out his tendrils and
enmeshing in his web all that comes
within his grasp"
Mr.. Miller said that he would not at
tempt to tell of Mr.. Harriman's youth.
'That has been written hundreds OF
times" he said, land 1 shall only tell
you of those traits 1 personally have
observed.
"a little more than twelve years ago
I was called from the Boston office of
the Union Pacific and told to report to
Mr. Hartman in New York. 1 had
never seen Mr.. Hartman up to that
time and, in fact, had heard very little
of him did not know whether 1 was
to hold myself subject to his orders for
a day, week or a month, but I am
still with him. and I look back upon
those eleven years with the keenest |
pleasure, for no man could have been