Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-09-10
Some Personal RecOllectiOnS OF
Americas Greatest Financial Org
aniZer

! %ave the writer an interview t%at was
J his first announcement OF the Sigan-
i TIC plans that have Sncc been carried
ont on tAe southern Pacific and Union
Pacific roads.
Every moment or TWO he would ask
kruttschith ii he was right i'll his
statemeat OF ). +. affairs. and krutt-
schnitt always confirmed his state
ments.
One got the impression that he
deferred - kruttschnitt in order that
ruttschnitt should not get the idea
that he, hartman, knew more about
tile road than did kruttscnnitt. which
was absolutely true, he aid; but he
was that considerate, he would not
give kruIISchnitt a chance to be Of
Tended, or hurt, by ignoring him on
any point. He said that ne regarded
kruttschnitt as the greateSt railroad
manager and operator in the country,
and this judgment has since been
confirmed
Before the girls and Mrs. Harri-
man came into the room hartman
made some significant statements.
statements that throw much light on
his character and aims.
Some were: when there were no
facilities for ..auling freight, there WAS
no freight to haul"
More roaus make more business.
Il want TO make frieds with every
man in the country and the real rea-
son for my trip IS 10 get acquainted.
to see what the country is anG where
it is. The Pacific Coast is ne"
country. The ume viii soon come
roads from the Mississippi river to
The Pacific ocean. on the north. south
and middle routes
Business makes business. and The
better We are fixed To do business, the
more business We will do.
"Concentration is the lever OF prog
ress, and in combining my GiTereent
enterprises We have reduced costs and
increased efficiency.
He talked like this for hours. Next
day he took a horseback ride with
the girls and came back feeling poor
ly. He talked very little for publ
cation that afternoon and the writer
left tae train the next morning al
Pasadena.
Both he and Mrs. Hartman loved TO
recall the days when they were very
poor She described a trip she took
along the Pacific Coast by steamer
and Hartman sat and listened, his
eyes glowing as she compared the
hardships of early day travel with the
train on which They We're riding, the
most luxurious ever assembled Tor
transcontinental trip.
AS fast as it entered division ter
minal new division superintendent
would board ii, loaded down with re-
ports and statistics. He and krutt-
ScnUlll, WOulu IIlih'uidtNis 'SNoi'N
targets for fire of questions from
Hartman that continued as long a.
the train was on that division. The
train travelled at % miles an hour
only ard by daylight.
Wnen time to say good bye came,
Hartman stuck out his hand and
bade the writer good bye with re-
quest to nunt him up in New York
some day. He said that to every one
AS he said, he wanted to make
friends and he made friends all his
life, friends that would loan him ON
request from $1,000, 900 to $500 0,0os,Ooo
any time he wanted il, because he al
ways made good.
He said, speaking OF his ability to
raise money and his reorganizations:
It's worth $l00.0O0.000 to a railroad
for me to take hold OF il.
And he had to borrow four bits
from Kruttschnitt to- buy cigars with
in Rediands.