The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-10-04
WHAT KILLED HARTMAN

NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Mr Harri-
man has often been spoken of as a
model, worthy of initiating by all
who believe in simple habits of life,
plalu dset, no fashionable dissipa-
tions, no poker playing, no late
nights, no wines, nor rich foods, no
unhealthful excitement. And this re-
port is substantially correct, and yet
| it is in part to his manner of life
that his fatal condition can be
raced He has in fact lived too sim.
! pie a life.
! When he went into the woods at
the camp in the Adirondacks, having
with him such companions as H. H.
Rogers. James Stillman, William
Rockefeller and others, it was OBJ
served that he ate sparingly and Of
the simplest food. Some of the 9th
ers rejoiced in such an appetite as
would have made it easy for them
thoroughly to digest the fare of a
Maine lumberman. But Mr.. Harri,
man would pick at little piece Of
bread make haste with cup of weak
! tea, find one boiled egg sufficient II
there were a little cereal and the
wonder then was how a man whose
brain was so excessively active should
be able to nourish it upon so simple
fare.
Had Mr.. Hartman been what is
called good eater, taking every day
at each meal an abundance of nour-
ishing food, the chances are that his
oh
oughly well to meet the excessive
demand which was made upon them.
1t was no wonder that man whose
mind had been intensely concentrat-
ed all day upon some important rail
road or financial problem should
find after. he went to bed that he
could not sleep. For Mr.. Hartman
having worked thus all day, at night
ate dinner which frequently was
not much richer Or more plentiful
than the repast given an infant.
/ Therefore what he mistook for sleep
lessness caused by hard work was
really very often the pleading of his
stomach for something upon which
to act.
The doctors did not discover this
condition until Mr.. Hartman went
to Europe. The great diagnostician
of Central Europe perceived what
troubled Mr.. Hartman was lack of
nourishment. If he could have sent
him into the Maine woods, command
ing him to leave every business care
behind him at Bangor, and place him
with the lumbermen of one of the
camps, Mr., Hartman would have
come out in the spring followed by
some 95 pounds of additional flesh
and as unsuspicious of nerves as is
any of the lumbermen who chop
chop down a great pine.
Insurance Agitation an Aggravatlon.
While Mr.. Hartman was thus un-
consciously starving himself there
came the first of the political accusa-
tons which he was compelled to face
He went through the terrific battle
of May, 1901, so easily that his com.
posure, his perfect reaction from that
excitement were the wonder Of
those who were near him. But af
ter the insurance investigation be-
gan in this city Mr.. Hartman for
the first time in his life felt some,
thing like apprehension or worry.
He was not apprehensive that the
investigation would disclose him to
have been engaged in any lawless
act. But it was time when some
thing like hysteria prevailed through
out the United States. So great a
railroad statesman as A. ]. Cassatt
one of the profoundest intellects ever
associated with American develop
ment, had been made one of the vic
Tins of this hysteria.
Mr.. Hartman knew perfectly well
that in it's inception the insurance
investigation was aimed by some Of
his very powerful rivals against him
The public does not yet understand
and probably never will, that this in
surance agitation had its initiative il
an attempt to drive Mr.. Hartman tC
the wall. He had full knowledge Of
the manner in which the enemies Of
the late William c. Whitney attempt
ed to crush him in 1899, even ventur
ing so far as to try to make Theodore
Roosevelt, then Governor of New
York State, an unsuspecting accessory
in that attempt.
All this gave Mr.. Hartman MUCH
Germ. He was also greatly disturbed
by the public and the political agita
ton of three years ago, which seemed
: to have for its purpose the symbol.
izing of him, or the Identifying OF
him with much of the evils of cor
, porate development. He was fearful
doubtless, although he never com
planned, that this attitude might
make it impossible for him to accom-
plish his ultimate railway plans.
This half-starved condition of his
physical body and these apprehen
sions consequent upon the attitude
of the public at that time toward
corporations, and the MISUNDERSTOOD
purpose of some of those high in
financial power to crush him or side
:. track him, undoubtedly combined tC
hiring uDOn him the functional dis