The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-10
Hartman as Seen By One
of COuntry's Great Writers

which still survives, Of having been
the worst boy and the Smartest OF his
class At tho age OF fourteen be quit
school altogether and entered bro
kers office The FIRST year he earned
the magnificent salary OF 50 a week,
and even this plttance he turned over
TO his fOthcr
Friend of Children.
i Perhaps the only beings with whom
{ Edward II. HarTiman the man ever
entirely unbent were children. In New
York he was the head of a great boys
institution, sort Of combined gym
Dasium, club and debating society, for
more than a quarter Of n century.
At Arden he was never so happy as
when he had an automobile load OF
little ones and was spinning about the
countryside. To them he was not the
cold business machine known TO the
world. He was Pop" Hartman, their
comrade and friend Perhaps he was
so unreserved 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 differ
ence here. one that will appear greater
the more 1t Is contemplated.
Great Constructive Genius.
The best two things about Mr. Har-
riman were that be was constructive
and he'd & national view of things. He
was not alone a stock manipulation,
but builder. History must give him
this credit, 1t is questionable If we
have had any greater railroad build
ers than he. The manner IN which lie
took the rundown and bankrupt Unloa
Pacific. went over the ground and saw
the business there was for the line,
coupled with tho subsequent courage
and energy he displayed In pouring
hundreds of millions into straightcn-
Ing and improving the road, showed a
constructive genius OF the first order.
Ruthless he might have been. yet the
fact that he did things. and big things
at that, must be told to his praise.
The story OF bridging Great Salt lake
and draining the Salton sea is not one
that could be told Of every man. not
even of every railroad king. He touched
most OF the properties that came un-
der his control only 20 build them up.
OyercapitOlize he probably did, al
though be called 1t capltallZing the fu-
turc Used Wall street methods, some
of them OF a doubtful klnd-with this
his enemies charged him. And Harrl-
man had enemies. bitter and big ones.
with Theodore Roosevelt. ex-president
of the United States. at their head 1t
is perfectly true that I'm the world Of
men he had more foes that hated him
than friends that loved him Yet when
this is said we cannot forget those
east sIGe boys In New York nor those
shouting children at Arden. y man
that loves a child and IS loved by 1t in,
return cannot be all bad
Uarrlman's national vision was
shown In manifold ways Though
born near New York city and living
In or about It all bis life, he did not
have the New York viewpoint. He
snw 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 1t us q most
important factor 10 all his business
enterprises, He could see the deSir-I
ability of buying steamship lines
across the Pacific, Of planning u rail-