The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-09
Friend of Children.

Edward H. Hartman the man ever en-
tireiy unbent We're children. In New
York, he was the head of great boys
institution. a sort of combined gymna
sum, club and debating society for
mere than a quarter OF a century. At
-arden he was never so happy as when
he had an automobile load of little
Cnes and was spinning about the
countryside. To them he was not the
Geld business machine known to the
world He was Pop Hartman, their
ccmrade and friend Perhaps he was
SO unreaerved with the children be-
cause they did not ask him leading
questions and try to take away his
money. In the country he was as God
made him. In business he was as Wall
street made him. There is a difference
here, one that will appear greater the
more it is contemplated
Great Constructive Genius.
The beGt two things about Mr. Har-
r;man were that he was constructive
and had national view of things He
was not alone a stock manipulation,
he was a builder
Harriman's national vision was
shown in manifold ways. Though
born near New York city, and living
| lii or about it all his life, he did not
have the New York viewpoint He
| saw America from the angle of the
Pacific coast and of the central west
as we'll as of the east He had enough
| imagination to forecast the future of
| the country, to count on it as a most
| important factor in all his business en-
| terprises. He could see the desira bility
Pacific, of planning railroad in Mex
leo.
| Few men realized the possibilities Of
i the great empire building on the
shores OF the Pacific ocean with more
| clearness than HERMAN Though small
| in body and even in brain, he was not
small in his grasp of things. He thought !
il terms OF the continent, planned in |
nj lions, built with systems.
1t was recently stated that Hartman |
controlled $4,000 miles of railroad. or
SIX times across the continent; that |
these lines employ $4,000 men; that, in
edition. he directed $4,000 miles Of !
steamship lines, making 10000 miles of
transportation II all; that one could so
from New York to Hongl.ong without |
ever leaving the Hartman lines and /
that he could return by another route
On Hartman lines, nearly all the way. /
His Corporations.
To show something of the mans
great activities, the mere corporations
CT which he was the head or with
which he was officially connected may
give a hint, although little more than
a hint. He had been a member of the
New York stock exchange since 1870.
He was president of the Oregon Rail-
road and Navigation company, presi-
dent of the Oregon Short Line presi-
cent of the Southern Pacific president
OF the Texas & New Orleans railroad
company, president of the Southern
Pacific Coast railway. president OF the
Oregon & California railroad company,
president Of the Central Pacific rail
;oad company. president of the Louis
lara and Western railroad company,
PRESIDENT of Morgan's Louisiana &
Texas railroad and steamship COM
rGny. president of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, president of the
Railroad Securities company, president
o. the Southern Pacific Terminal COM
rany. president of the Portland &
Asiatic Steamship company, president
CT the Union Pacific chairman of the
executive committee of the Wells Far
go company director of the Illinois
Central railroad company. director of
tie Baltimore & Ohio railroad COM
pany, director Of the Erie railroad COM
peny, director of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company. director of the West
ern Union Telegraph company. direc
tor Of the National City Bank of New
Noriz. director of the Chico so & Alton
railroad company, director of the Pere
Marquette railroad company director
of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake railroad company, director of tho
Susquehanna & Western railroad COM
pony, director Of the New York Central
railroad company and many more, to
say nothing of the Equitable Assur-
ance society," of which he was once q
director, Int from which he res; gned
during the Hughes investigation
Controlled Whatever HE Touched.
After reading all that list one car
wonder not only that he died so soon |