The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-09-16
E. H. HARRIMAN'S
VALUE TO COUNTRY
NOT APPRECIATED.
Asserts 40 Years Will Pass Be
fore He is Understood.

Chicago, Sept-'It will take forty
years for the people of this country
to understand Edward H. Hartman.
Like the history Of the civil war, his
life cannot be written until time has
removed the blots that now stand in
the way of the peoples appreciation
of his value to the country"
This is an estimate of Mr.. Harri-
man made here by a man who had
been in close touch with him for
many years and who had looked be-
hind the curtain of Mr.. Harriman's
public life into the secret springs
many times.
"The time was at hand for my
chief" he continued. HE had been
working and burrowing in the dark
ness of Wall street for many years
before the big opportunity-the
Union Pacific Observation-Disclosures
at his door. And he was ready with
all the genius of one gifted by God.
''He was a man of auto-dynamic
energy, sharp and irritable at times,
so that he became almost offensive
to some men. But not after they
came to know him. We know now
that it was his disease.
"Mr. Hartman was practical in all
things-even in his charities. No one
knew of the little things that he did,
such as the support of the newsboys'
home in New York. He did not
think much of namby-pamby charity.
Knew He Was Doomed.
"Those who were close to Mr..
Hartman have known for long
time that he was doomed man. His
death was very sudden, nevertheless.
No attempt was made to deceive the
public, 1t appears that even the doc
tors did not know. In New York
Thursday the word was given out to
his close friends that he was better.
An eminent physician told Judge
Lovett only a few days ago that he
thought Mr.. Hartman had no serious
cancerous growth.
There never was an operation.
Mr.. Hartman thought that he was
going to get well and even Mrs. Har-
riman did not know the worst
There are many things might
tell to give the public an idea of this
great mans real character. He never
has been understood and perhaps the
people have been educated not to I'M
derstand him.
HE was man of wonderful cour-
age. H came up out of Wall street
and he showed the men of that street
that he could play their game better
than they. When the Erie was in
trouble the National City group want
ed to let it go into the hands of a
receiver, but Mr.. Hartman objected.
He was afraid of a panic. He went
home that night and stayed awake
until 2 o'clock in the morning. When
he went to sleep that night he had
made up his mind that the other men
were wrong. In the morning he call
ed his men in and told them to hustle
out and get something like $4,000
600 of securities. He called up Van
derlip and told him what he had done.
He borrowed the money to pay off
the notes on his own responsibility.
Some people call that foolhardy,
but he won out.
Force in Illinois Central.
HE was the live force in Illinois
Central long before the figurehead,
Fish, tried to oppose him. know
that he handled the negotiations re-
sulting in the purchase of the Missis-
sippi Valley road.
TN the Alton matter you will find
that he was only banking on the
future of the road. There was no
water.
81 do not know upon whose Shout
ders the mantle of Mr.. Hartman will |
fall. ] assure that Judge Lovett will
take the Craftsmanship of the boards.
Mr.. Hartman picked him out of Tex
as as he picked many another man.