The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-04-02
WALL Streets B0GEY
HARTMAN Held in GREATEST FEAR BY BROKERS
and PATRONS.
(From the New York Globe. J

i (From the New York Globe)
Down in Wall if person makes perfectly innocent
remark like this Edward Henry Hartman seeking
for health those suspicious brokers bankers ask who's
health Edward Henry Hartman seeng And they will be
until they have bulletins bedside
husky hnancer who up himself capable
of lifting bull by the tail For there's lodging the that
Edward Henry is the bogey of the street
If he to buonhoe reporter today and stroke that
agg mustache and say oh the pretty daises stocks would
drop-or unp-1O points Why? Because Hartman said it.
Said What? Whatever Hartman said don't make
any difference He has those strong brave Wall Broad
yepng and beating for the bushes every eye
he doesn't drink coffee breakfast wobb does
drink coffee for breakfast the market firm he switches
to English breakfast look the caacsm Wall
would have the dementia ickeriis n minute
Why should Wall street fear little Edward so? Because Mr.
Hartman has taught Ten years ago practically unknown
outside the limited circle Then became active
railroad matters for which he had waited kept
mouth shut for 80 years He has merely increasingly
When he got line people said
Harman's ambition satisfied Bless you that like grace
before He has been adding line line plng upon
railroad ever since
In years11 the Hartman has secured contrc
Of II great railroad systems summing approximately oneh
of the mileage e United approximately OO0
100000 Get that? Four billions is the number
And the Hartman control goes right the roots 1t
cleaning and building up. His say that he's
stock obber but the breath they admit that he
full railroad He has positive mania for efficiency His
less friction and with less lost than any
world His intention machine of absolute prfec
that when he finally steps aside will quver
Then if Wall have the coywobbe may But
Hartman don't talk about his plans Forty years the
earned for him the sobrquet of the silent isn't any
When he started the messenger with his big head
mounted fra body and his big eyes cleaning through thick
glasses and his thin ankles clad in thick white wooden socks the
dandy bucks of Jim Fsks time made sport OF him. The
poor Hampstead with small charge and big family
boy couldn't afford better clothes He didn't Them anyhow
His eyes something better He did his WE'LL
his way One of his best friends said that Ed walked his
rounds He hurried in his life the dictaton of anyone
cep E H Hartman By and by he he began speculate him
self Then he became member of the stock excangeone the
"$2 brokers' Other brokers learned know him
would pile up higher than back when he got market
game But still he ranked only daring gambler until got
control of Union Pacific Then he took the directors his Office
and showed them OF the system and explained them what
kingdom spread before them Since then he has been power
Look at E H. Hartman from the and thinks of
old co His garments fall loosely about his bony little body
His massive head topped by derby which
large falls forward the chest though heavy
shunken neck But look him from get that of
power of dominion, that radiates from him.
Catch glance those keen eyes that twinkle behind
thick glasses and you realize that this born Then
remembers the other who assured him that you
both practical men, And his declaration that he did think
Thomas Ryan right insurance COM
pany and his world famous that he would play
Ryan soon Observe the imperative brsquerie with
brushes away and man
has patience with the incents of this world One then under
meaning that outbu when dismissed young
Hyde and his blind eyed coterie with Wow Wow Vow!
Boise people enlightened patriotic selfre
pectng permit the longer domination OF the city by machine
which Hal Coffin Harry Leroy Joe Spiege Little Joe Perault
Francis the chief cogs Mayor Haines campaign
legenerated very low plain when has boeed up by
methods employed by the gang If he is in the m himself he
certainly being made the beneficiary very dirty
Mayor Haines is seeking vindcaon will live
ong enough vindcaon hs conscience for the