The daily sentinel., 1909-09-11
His Greatest Monument.

Hartman has often been compared
to Jay Gould. In my own opinion,
he was a bigger man than Gould and
better one. With all the abuse that
has been heaped upon him he is en-
titled to that which his own deeds
carved out. He was not as shrewd
man on the Stock Exchange as
Gould. not as foxy" perhaps. if you
like the term, but he had infinitely
bigger ideals and more audacity to
plan and execute great undertakings.
Gould was essentially financier.
Hartman was that and more, and it
is the more" that will redeem him.
The romance of the Pacific railroads
and steamship lines and of his other
great railroad deals cannot be wiped
off the slate. Whatever we may think
of Hartman in Wall street or Harri-
man in politics or Hartman in in
surance or Hartman in Chicago and
Alton, his work on the Pacific en-
pire, both this side and on the seas.
will fire the imagination and compel
respect. Good and evil mingle in all
men, This is the good of Hartman.
1t is his greatest monument.
II was recently stated that Harri-
man controlled $4,000 miles of rail-
way, or six times across the CONT
nent: that these lines employ 10000
men; that. in addition. he directed
"a 900 miles of steamship lines. max
ing 1000 miles of transportation in
all l:.that one could 20 from New York
to Hongkong without ever leaving
the Hartman lines and that he could
return by another route on Hartman
lines nearly all the way.
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great activities, the mere corporations
of which he was the head or with
which he was officially connected may
give a hint. although little more than
hint. He had been a member of
the New York Stock Exchange since
1870. He was president of the Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation com
pany, president of the Oregon Short
Line, president of the Southern Pa
cific president of the Texas and New
Orleans Railroad company, president
of the Southern Pacific Coast rail-
way. president of the Oregon and
California Railroad company, presi-
dent of the Central Pacific Railroad
company. president of the Louisiana
and Western Railroad company, pres
ident of Morgan's Louisiana and Tex,
as Railroad and Steamship company,
president of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company president of the Rail-
road Securities company, president of
the Southern Pacific Terminal com
pany. president of the Portland and
.Asiatic Steamship company, president
of the Union Pacific. chairman of The
executive committee of the Wells Far
go company. director of the Illinois
Central Railroad company director
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company. director of the Erie Rail-
road company, director of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company, director
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany. director of the National City
Bank of New York, director of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad com
pany. director of the Pere Marquette
Railroad company. director of The
San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake
Railroad company, director of the
Susquehanna and Western Railroad
company. director of the New York
Central Railroad company and many
more to say nothing of the Equitable
Assurance society. of which he was
once director, but from which he
| resigned during the Hughes investi-
CATION.
Controlled Whatever He Touched.
After reading all that list one can
wonder mot only that ha dia1 ca eoNp