The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-09-10


parishioners let II fall into arrears and
there were no ravens to bring him food
On this promised salary OF less than "a
a week, this eoodiy minister sought TO
bring up family Of six sturdy children
with normal appetites. II was terrible
burden, and most Of IL fell upon HE
wife. the mother Of the flock, OFTEN
times bread and water made mp the
meal 81 the family; prisoners n peni-
tentiaries mutiny when offered 50 little.
Today the little church is replaced
BY a magnificent edifiee, richly endowed
1T is Edward Henry Harriman's monu-
ment TO his pious father, and his hard
working mother.
Ii was a sore struggle for existence
with the country minister and his wife
and children. They were literally a.
poor as church mice, and they knew
what hunger -rea hunger--was
When Edward II Che was always cali
ed Henry by the members OF bis fam
iIvi was 3 years I'D, and q pinched faced,
hurry logging youth he was, Pastor Har
riman moved over to Jersey City and
with him went his wife, his four boys,
Nelson, Orlando III, Edward i. and
William, and his daughters, Lily and An.
ME.
Up to the year 1859, Rev Hartman
had hard row to hoe" as Edward H.
declared, but ID that year he was given
better paying parish in New Jersey,
whose parishioners were literally better
paving and the burdens Of the mother,
who found life struggle even theps
we're hghtened considerably
The four bows attended school for two
years at various intervals, and when
their old father showed signs Of falling
health. the boys struck sut into the
world to make fortunes for themselves.
Young Edward secured q position AZ q
messenger iii tie office Oh a small broker
Ii Wall street He was an undersized,
weak looking, near sighted, bespectacled
vounester. repelling confidence, even as he
did in later years, and making few, i
any real friends.
But the youth was as sbYewd and
bright as be was repellent. Despite his
weak looking physique, he was indefatl.
gable: lie seemed never 70 tire. And
behind those big glasses shone big eyes,
deep set, calculating. penetrating hard.
In four years this messenger had made
himself So invaluable to the little hrok-
erage office that he was made 3 clerk
and give a small share ia the profits.
Hartman spent little; he lived meag-
erly. He set about 70 learn the Wall
street game This was in the early
seventies, and his teachers and precep-
tors were old Jay Gould, eJim" Mske
and JAY Cooke. truly trio of financial
names 10 coniure with. II was a hard
game to learn but the weak looking
clerk learned it well. He learned all
these big flnanciers could teach him. and
then drew on bis Imagination for more.
IN short, he learned more than his tutors
knew.
He speculated wisely as a young man
At ~ he had enough to buy seat in
the New York stock exchange They
we're not worth then the 100000 they
bring to-day. but it took nearly every
csnt young Hartman had accumulated
to close the deal.
50 young Hartman went on the floor
Of the exchange as a trader--trading TOY
his clients and for himself II the big
traders on the floor noticed him at all,
It was simply as shrewd nervous
young man, quick on his fet, with every
change in the market, quick as flash
to recognize the trend Of the market,
and quick to reverse his own opinion i
he found himself on the wrong side
When he left the floor Of the exchange
each day IL wasn't to 90 to play, to
relax from the nerve rackinC events Of
i strenuous dag. as the other traders
did. Ii was hack to his Office. where
he immersed himself in a great moss
Of figures and stayed there until the mid
night hour.
p. H Hartman was studying rail
roads; studying them as no man had
studied them before Morgan knew the
financial manifestations Of every railroad
III the land Jim Hill knew more
about operating railroads than almost
any other living man Edward Harri
man knew more about the financial end
than Morgan, and knew more about the
operating end than Hill Therein lay has
success. No detsil was too minor for
the young banker to master; for BY
this time he had opened his own broker