The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
GOSSIP OF RAILWAYMEN
Old Timer Tells How Eddie
HaWley Began Life
Buying Eggs

Nj roadman as he held aIoft a
brimming glass and thanked
Joe McKilljoy for his liberality, al
ways had a great admiration for the
ability of Uncle Ed Hartman as a
financier. but he isn't in it with Eddie
Haw1ey Hawley began life by buying
eggs, and he has been getting golden
ones every time since while some Oh
his competitors have been getting golo
bricks.
What, you don't think Hawley such
great financier? Well, / guess you
don't know him as do, and have not
been watching him as closely as nave
been for the last few years
why, he can give Hartman cards
and spades in finance, and then some.
Hartman is a plain, good business
man, but Hawley is f1nancier.
financier, my boy, is a chap who gets
conveniences and other things with
out costing him a cent. If he carries
this out successfully, why, he Is the
greatest financier the world has ever
seen. That is what makes financler.
Uncle Hartman goes through lie
paying for everything. Just look at
that Flood building. He pays rent Tor
the Southern Pacific, the Pacific Mail
and the Union Pacific. And does Haw-
ley pay rent for his offices in this city!
Not much. And he uses the Flood
building, too. That's finance.
"How's that, you want to know?
Well, doesn't his representative have his
cards marked Flood building and also
a telephone number, and no one ever
saw any Hawley money for rent nor
for telephone service, did TREY?
Isn't that what 1 call high finance?
Who else but a financier could escape
paying rent? 1 have known good
| m fin in n railroad
ness who would not pay rent but they
kept moving. Hawley doesn't move his
Office. He has 1t in the Flood build
ing without once moving.
What, the Iowa Central not big
road? Well, like that.
IF any one told Hawley that his road
wasn't a topnotcher he would be hop
ping mad. Why. Hawley is cutting
new road in the finance way. Other
lines have found out how Hawley can
keep an agency in this city without
having to pay rent or stenographer
or telephone, and so the Pere Mar
quette has started an agency, too, with
the office under the agents hat, but
| the agent has his cards marked Flood
building and the telephone number,
too. That is going some.
Who answers the calls? oh. that's
| easy. Snyder of the Mexican Central
is generous and ready to work for
anybody and all his bountiful remuner-
alton is bright smile. If Hawley can
do this sort of work all over the coun-
| try it is no wonder he can buy rail-
roads and be doomed as the coming
Hartman.
What chance has Hartman against
this sort of competition. What does 1t
matter to any one?
i guess it doesn't. But honest now
don't you admire a fnancier who can
work the thing as Hawley does? Why,
even Colonel Bradley of the telephone
company does not get any revenue out
of Hawley, and / guess that is the only
| corporation in the state that escapes
| paying toll to the telephone company.
1T is so different with any one
working for Uncle Hartman. Why,
there 1t is a picnic all day long. At
least, In some of the departments
Horrors. no. Not in the accounting de-
partment. But some of the nice ones
l would not mind going back in the
railroad business if 1 could get back
in one 1 know
Why, the head of that department is
one of the incest little men l know Oh,
yes, he looks very fierce with that big
mustache, but the girls say that is the
only fierce thing about him.
One sweet young miss told me:
Why, you don't know him, you cross
old bear. He's a real gentleman, and
oh. so nice. Every afternoon he says,
l..
and then, Sadie-You know Sadie? oh,
she's real swell and has such a figure in
tailor made dress. She makes the
tea and we all sit around just as If we
were in real swell drawing room, and
have tea. Oh, yes; he takes his tea
along with the girls
Real Oolong with a dash of forget
what, but it's real swell, anyway
| Now what do you think of that?o
Is there any other Office in the coun-
try where they do things in that nice
ladylike way? It's just taking a dose
of electricity to have that tea guess
I'm somewhat differently made, for /
would rather have dose of whisky any
day in the week. Tea is all right. but
when 1t comes to drinking it in the
afternoon, in an office, / draw the line
"Oh, yes, it's real soeiable and the
young ladies like it. and then-What's
the use? This is the day for the lady,
and II poor man doesn't like it all he
has to do is to get out of the way and
off the earth, for the girls are fast
showing him off
II asked Clyde Colby if he didn't
think tea serving was good idea, but
Colby is never real serious, and he says:
Good idea that, but the silver tea
Kettles they keep in saloons are too ex-
pensive; I'd rather take mine out of the
| bottle. You never can tell what they
might ring in on you even in your own
| office. Booth sets his face against aft
ernoon tea in the office, and Henry
Avila says, why, what's the matter
with a. restaurant" Henry amt a bit
poetica1. 1 told Henry it's for the So
ciable side of the thing
"A nice dish of tea in the afternoon
acts just as dose of electricity to
keep one awake. But you can't get
Henry to take the poetical side of the
case on anything.
! Il asked Joe Young. and the Ian
guage that Joe used was something
| llorrid.
Co. says he. 'perfidious creaturev
Only it was something worse than that.
Co. bawls he, louder than ever, and
ask William Hood what he thinks of
having tea served in the afternoon, and
also ask Blumenthal.'
Look here. Joe Young l said se-
veTely, I know I'm on1yga poor old rail-
roadman, and amt worth whoop in
Kingdom come; but l want to die
peaceably. and | don't go asking Hood
any questions about tea. l came to
you because you have a tender heart
and can spare even the fish of the