The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
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peculiar movement of the one Harri-
man stock that has positively no
speculative chance.
How the Plotters Worked.
Some of his ssociates-names need
not be used-decided when he went
abroad for his health that he was a
dying man. Frankly, they did not ex-
pect him to return from the baths and
tors. They decided that his death or
even his retirement would offer an
opportunity to liquidate the Union Pa
cif1c company, which is princely rich.
particularly in its holdings of stocks
and bonds of other railroad corpora
tons. Union Pacific, common, was
already too high in the market TO
Union Pacific, preferred, was going
begging just under par, owing to that
charter per cent deadline. Tne
conspirators, as the real friends or
Hartman call the clique, thought they
had found a way around this deadline.
The plan was to liquidate the Union
Pacific company. The investment hold
poration. the real railroad investment
Segregation" The word was passed
in Wall street that Union Pacific pre-
men who passed the tip were men who
ought to know They were buying
heavily on their personal accounts.
The insiders fell in, and In the week
limit went up twelve points to 11S.
Share after share was gobbled up
eagerly and the melon was ripe for
cutting. Benjamin B. Oden, ex-gover-
steamer for Europe shortly after the
Union Pacific preferred syndicate got
under way.
Then Oden Got Into 1t.
An inspired interview from his own
town of Newburg, offered to all the
newspapers and printed by some, held
that he had gone to see Mr.. Hartman
about New Yor'- politics. The next
they heard was that Hartman had
changed his mind about after-curing IN
Europe and that he had booked passage
on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, which ar
rived Tuesday, according to schedule.
This decision took the knife out of the
hands Of the melon cutters and the real
Even before there had been a hint THAI
Mr.. Harriman's return would be
fastened there were sales or STOCK IN
the open market that troubled the
not even suspect that the little Wizard
of Arden was using the cables to I'M
dermine them.
When they knew he was on the way
home they still had hope that the melon
which was to have amounted to some
$25 a share, would still be cut. They
banked on a much sicker Mr.. Harri-
man than the big North German Lloyd
boat brought. They thought he would
have to be carried from the ship on
stretcher and that his days in retire.
ment at Arden were numbered.
Seeing Was Believing.
Not until a representative of the pool
actually met him at quarantine did
they absolutely give up hope of carry
ing out the segregation plan. The little
spell of sea sickness which Mr.. Harri-
man had while the Kaiser Wilhelm II
was disabled at quarantine gave the
pool another breath. His quick recov-
cry and the spirit he showed in his late
interview with newspaper
men took it away again.
2 1t is even declared that the Unfo.:
Pacific preferred melon cutters had de-
cided on the man who was to step int
Mr.. Harriman's shoes. Edwin HawleJ
was the man on the slate and he is no
friend of Hartman. Mr.. Hawley is a
native New Yorker. but he gained rail-
road fame in the west under the late
Coils P. Huntington. 1t was Hawley
who engineered the sale of the South
ern Pacific to the Union Pacific.
He worked with Hartman a few
years, but in 1892 they had a quarrel
over a problem in Colorado Fuel and
IRON Hawley became head of the C~
to the Burlington.
Hawley His Enemy.
In the financial district he is now
credited with the practical control of
the Chicago & Alton. the Toledo, st.
Louis & Western, the Clover Leaf
route, the Iowa Central. the Minneapo-
lis & st. Louis. and most important of
all, perhaps, the Chesapeake & Ohio.
He is now organizing a line or combi-
nation of lines from the seaboard at
Norfolk Va, to the wheat belt of the
Among the men who are
supposed to be backing him are Frank
A. Vanderlip, Henry Clay Prick. John
Castles, William Rockefeller and 9TH
Of Hawley's hackers are directors in
one or another OF the Hartman roads.
There is no question of Hawley's knowl-
edge of the Hartman lines. He was
right hand man In the
vest for years and knows every foot
Of the territory which the 'Pacifics''
reach. The feeling between Hartman
and Hawley has been exceedingly bitter
for a number of years. The most posi-
tive confirmation that it was Hartman
from the little financier himself. At
least twice in his interview with the
newspaper men on his private car at
the Erie terminal Tuesday he dropped
hints. They were not recognized at the
time, as no one present knew the story
of the strange alignment of Union Pa
cif1c directors.
In his car Mr.. Hartman was talking
about his treatment abroad and the
after cure which he came home to take.
THE doctors wanted me to take the
after cure over there he said, as he
ratified out his interview.
Then He Corrected Himself.
Almost instantly he corrected him
self
Eat first they did, he corrected.
'"Then they decided I had better come
home AS matter of fact, Mr..
Hartman himself decided it when
Ex-Governor Odell or some equally
trusted friend brought him the real
details of the alignment against him
and the fact that. his associates had
discounted his death. 1t was the
strongest and most effective pre-
NJ I7n vet ha6