The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-10
PROPERTIES IN GOOD SHAPE.
Harriman's Death VIII Not Affect the
General Public.

General Public.
Chicago, Sept lott Will take 40
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.. Hartman
made here by man who had been in
close touch with him for many years
and who had looked behind the curtain
of Mr.. Harriman's public life in to the
cret springs many times.
The time was at hand for my
Chief he continued. He had been
working and burrowing in the darkness
of Wall street for many years before
c:fic reorgan1zed. tapped at his door
and he was ready with all the genius
of one gifted by God.a
He was a man of auto-dynamic en-
ergy, 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 1t
was his disease.
things-even in his charities. No one
knew Of the little things that he did,
much as the support of the newsboys'
home in New York. He did not think
much of Mandy pamby- charity
Public Was Not Deceived.
rinan have known for a long time
that he was a doomed man. His death
was very sudden nevertheless. No at
tempt was made to deceive the public
1; appears that even the doctors did
not know. In New York yesterday the
word was given out to his close friends
that he was better. An eminent physi-
clan told Judge Lovett only a few days
ago that he thought Mr.. Hartman had
no serious cancerous growth.
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Hartman thought that he was going
to get well and even Mrs. Hartman
did not know the worst.
There are many things I might tell
to give the public an idea of the great
mans real character. He never has
been understood and perhaps the peo-
pie have been educated not to under
stand him.
He was a man of wonderful cour-
age. He came out of Wall street and
he showed the men of that street that
he could play their game better than
they. When Erie was ir trouble the
go into the hands of a receiver but
Mr.. Hartman objected. He was afraid
Of panic He went home that night
and stayed awake until 8 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 called his men in and
told them to hustle out and get some
LnlnG ike $lO,OOO,OOO or securities. he
called up Vanderlip and told him what
he had done. He borrowed the money
tC pay off the notes on his own re-
spcnsibility.
His Winning Fights.
Some people called that foolhardy
but he won out.
HE was the live force in Illinois
Central long before the figurehead,
Fish, tried to oppose him. 1 know that
he handled the negotiations resulting
in the purchase of the Mississippi Val
ley. In the Alton matter you will find
he. was Only banking on the future of
the road. There was no water.
Il do mot know upon whose shoulders
the mantle of Mr.. Hartman will fall.
assume that Judge Lovett will take
the Craftsmanship of the boards. Mr..
Hartman picked him out of Texas as
he picked many another man.
You will find that he left his pro-
perties in such shape that they cannot
get at them. Stocks may tumble but
the real values of the properties will
not be hurt and the ordinary man will
never feel Mr.. Harriman's death. There
is an organization for every one of the
Hartman lines and the great System
will go on"