The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06
! GIRLS HUGE ESTATE
Mics Mary Hartman Personally
MANAGES $4,000 Acre Farm.
Marry HAS HER SPECIAL CARE

49,, Three Hundred and Fifty Reg
.orod Cows 1t Already Is Pay
Concern. Directs Work With
o,,oracteristic Energy and Skill.
,,.o,v TO Become Greatest Woman
Farmer
when an arrangement for the
.noqoment of the late Edward e.
8-Isnrir7an estate has been completed
Nice Mary Hartman, the dead rail
"a magnate's eldest unmarried
INA will become the greatest wo-
NON farmer in the United States, if
1o+ in the world. She now virtually
hos control of Arden farm, consist
inc of $4,000 acres.
Close by Arden, N. Y, her father
.niot,v ACQUIRED before his death
a4bor tracts amounting to $4,000
ooros The exact locations of these
+rocts is not now publicly known, as
.;+1o IN them passed in the name of
cornoration with which Mr.. Harri-
mon was not known to have been
.orrected. For reasons of their own
members of the family do not care
Of this time to reveal the holdings.
This information, however, will nee
ossarily be made public with the APP
nraisal of the estate.
There are now under actual cult
walton at Arden approximately 81
400 acres. The bulk of the huge
\ farm is waste land. Most of this,
h or about 10000 acres, will be do
mated by Mrs. Hartman, as was the
wish of her husband, to the state of
New York for a great public park.
Park Lands Heavily Wooded.
These acres are heavily wooded,
and contain several lakes of marked
natural beauty. This will leave Miss
Mary Hartman at Arden alone a
farm of $4,000 acres to care for.
4 altogether she will have supervision
! of farm of $4,000 acres.
Already she has taken hold of the
\ task with characteristic Hartman
energy and skill. She is directing
personally the unfinished work of
road-making, the terracing of hills,
4 landscape gardening, etc., just as
had been planned by herself and
Father jointly. In a smart trap
drawn by a high stepping cob she
daily drives over the farm, giving
Instructions in detail to the foremen
Of nearly 400 men now at work.
A dairy company, a corporation
with a capitalization of 100000,
has her special care. 1t is now a pay
ing concern, and it is Miss Harri-
mans desire to increase it's dividends
for the coming year. The dairy
products are derived from $50 reg
Stered cows. The butter is sold
every day in bulk in New York city
under contract.
Never Cared Much For Society.
On the 5000 acres now under Gull
ovation variety of crops are raised.
Inc principal ones are corn, oats,
wheat and rye. Considerable truck
gardening is done, too, onions being
"a speciality of this branch of the
arden farm productions. 1t is said
10 be Miss Harriman's intention to
OfIhg at least another thousand acres
ID Arden under cultivation this year.
MISS Hartman from early girlhood
has been extremely fond of country
ne She has never cared particu-
IdIly Tor society. Although reared in
ue circle of the Four Hundred, she
Las preferred to devote herself to
d more serious career. For several
'earS she has actively participated
N settlement work in New York
0'y Among her most notable chart
ueS Is the ferryboat in the East
''er' New York, for consumptives.
III lace and form she is a really
beautiful young woman. Her com
ple4loh CLOVIS with robust health.
iier accomplishments are many. She
Is both a musician and a linguist.
1t is said that she even has learned
" converse in Japanese. She is
twenty-five years old.