Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-09-16

| N11s ou the shores or the Pacific
osean with more clearness than Har-
flnan. Though small in body and
even IN brain, he was not small In
nis grasp Of things. He thought in
.s.lns o. the continent, planned In
millions, built with systems.
His Greatest Monument.
| hartman has often been compared
% Jay Gould. In my own opinion. he
was bigger man than Could and a
pet1ef one. With all the abuse that
mas been heaped upon him he is en-
1tied to that which his own deeds
carved out. He was not as shrewd
man on the Stock Exchange as
could, not as foxy" perhaps, IL you
llke the term, but he had infinitely
Digger ideals and more audacity to
pan and execute great undertakings.
Gould was essentially a. flnancier.
hartman was that and more, and It
- the mere that will redeem him.
Inc romance OF the Pacific railroads
ana steamship lines and Of his other
great railroad deals cannot be wiped
OF Ihe slate. Whatever we may think
o. hartman In Wall street or Harri-
man In politics or Hartman in in
sufance or Hartman in Chicago and
ALTON, MS work on the Pacific empire.
both this side and on the seas. will
nre the imagination and compel re-
spect. Good and evil mingle In all
men. This is the good Of Hartman.
70 IS his greatest monument.
It was recently stated that Harri-
man controlled $4,000 miles OF rail-
way, or six times across the cont
nent; that these lines employ $4,000
men; that, in addition, he directed a.
U0O miles Of steamship lines, MAX
ing 1900 miles of transportation In
all; that one could go from New York
60 Hongkong without ever leaving the
Hartman lines and that he could re-
turn by another route on Hartman
lines nearly all the way.
10 show something Of the mans
great activities, the mere corporations
or which he was the head or with
which he was officially connected may
give hint. although little more than a
mint. He had been a member OF the New
YORK Stock Exchange since 1870. He
was president Of the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation company, president Of
the Oregon Short Line, president OF the
Southern Pacific, president Of the
Texas and New Orleans Railroad COM
pany. president Of the Southern Pa
ctfic Coast railway, president Of the
Oregon and California Railroad COM
pany, president of the Central Pacific
Railroad company, president of the
Louisiana and Western Railroad com
pany. president Of Morgan's Louisiana
and Texas Railroad and Steamship
company, president Of the Pacific Mail |
steamship company, president Of the
Securities company, president
OF the Southern Pacific Terminal com
pany. president Of the Portland and
Asiatic Steamship company president
Of the Union Pacific, chairman of the
executive committee Of the Wells Far
go company, director Of the Illinois
Central Railroad company, director of
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
pany, director Of the Erie Railroad |
company, director Of the Colorado Fuel |
and Iron company, director of the |
Western Union Telegraph company, di-
rector Of the National City Bank Of
New York, director Of the Chicago and
Alton Railroad company, director OF
he Pere Marquette Railroad company,
director OF the San Pedro, Los Angeles
md Salt Lake Railroad company. di-
'ector Of the Susquehanna and West
I'm Railroad company, director Of the
>eW York Central Railroad company
ind many more, to say nothing Of the
Equitable Assurance society, OF which
le was once director, but from which
10 resigned during the Hughes inyesti- I
,ation
Controlled Whatever He Touched.
After reading all that list one can
wonder not only that he died SO soon,
,ut that be lived SO long, for be it
Understood that Edward EEL. Hartman
vas no mere perfunctory director.
Whatever he touched he controlled
ither that or something broke. He
vas not dummy. Nor could he have
ontrolled all these properties, only
raction Of which he could have owned
ersonally, unless his business associ-
ties reposed the greatest confidence
q his Integrity and ability. It was
is power Of organization, Of eonstruc-
ion. his intimate knowledge Of the
whole country as 1t related to railroad
~, his daring methods and his sue
ess that won him their allegiance
lie became far and away the greatest
abroad power OF his day and perhaps
I any day that the country has yet
nown There may be railroad kings
! future that will control more mile
&c. but none up to his own time.
His latest dream Of making the New
,ork Central part Of his gigantic
ystem was coming to fruition only
then death snatched him away from
:. Even as it was, the greatest Of our
ailroads was listed as Hartman
ropertr, and its stocks moved IN SYM
afhy with his group. To combine