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The Washington times., 1909-09-26

TO Mr. Hill to remember something
else II he had sold his stock he could
have cleared S10OO0.O0O. But he did not
and when the smoke cleared away
and Mr. Hartman lunped back to his
Southwestern roads. AR. Hill was left
free TO buy outright the last link ne
needed between Chicago and Puget
Sound-the Burlington. Mr. Hartman
countered by driving Mr. Fish from the
control Of the Illinois Central and link
ing that road with another system that
likewise entered New Orleans, thereby
shipping the thread of Mr.. Hiu's Cuff
to-Sound route. but yielding the South
ern Pacific a connection which IT could
not possibly use.
Mr.. Hartman then began a campaign
Of DarailelinE. Through his New York
banking connections ne took over the
Chlcdi o. Milwaukee and St Paul and
began an extension 10 Puget Sound.
making the third road to Seattle and
breaking the Hill monopoly. Mr. Eth
took over the Colorado and Southern
from Galveston 10 Denver and develop
ed the Burlington from Denver TO Bill
iugs. where II Joined the Northern Pc
cl0c. In the meanwhile Mr.. Hartman
had taken over the Santa Fe. So that
on the day Of his death he had created
large city of Mr. HuFs map (even
though in Seattle he had 20 accept MIR
Hills own terms before he could fnd
a terminaO but d d not anywhere touch
the sources of Mr. Hills rich local
freiEhts. Both men had established Inn
pOrtant Eastern connections, but neither
rad taken over any Eastern roads. and
now that Mr.. Hartman is dead we
have IL on the word OF his sole success
ful competitor that the making Of West
ern systems cannot go beyond the
Mississippi
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In the eight years Of his clerkship ne
had learned more Of the Northwest than
most Of us know today. more q naviga-
tiou oy stern-wheeI steamer. Red River
cart and sledge, than most CT us know
by rairoading. more of the power OF
MONEY than most OF those who have
since given him their money to invest
There is a paragraph in the file OF the
old St. Paul Pioneer and Democrat
which tells us something Of Hills spirit
in those DAYS II was published in July,
1865. and it saws:
James J. Hill has secured the con-
tract for furnishing the Government
with 1900 bushels Of oats at IS cents a
bushel As We have remarked before.
Jim Hill has habit OF securing things
when he goes after them"
Among the other things that ne 'se-
cured" at this time was the privilege OF
going into business for himself In 1865
he became a commission. steamboat,
and railway agent" and soon afterwa I'd
was buying the first clean drewOOd and
the first hard coal for St Paul Gus
toners. busy during the winter months
in New York executing commissions,
sledging over the Northwestern w.lds
like a breed" and sleeping with his
dogs. driving of a treacherous Indian
guide with his rife, and turning alone
70 a trip Of four days and nights across
the Arctic prairie to Fort Garry.
Trade of the Great
Northwest Then Booming
The trade OF what is now Minnesota
and the Dakotas was booming. The
Hudson Bay CompHnys two small
steamers were overloaded. Hill saw the
opportunity-he had his eye along the
gun barrel-hastily formed a transports
ton company. and builded himself a
steamer on his own plans The Red
River was sometimes a Tow and van
ishiug stream says one historian. but
the new boat was so great a marvel
that Mississippi captains commonly be-
lieved that the Selkirk could run in d
light dew" a line Of stages was made
to feed the steamboat system. And this
was the first regular communication be-
tween winnipeg and he world outside
The Hudson Bay Company did moi
look on supinely. A war started The
result was that Of such wars today
Rates were slashed GntH the two cor
porations saw the fuiiIity OF 10 all, came
together. COZ lpromised and consolidated
/ and there is no record that Jim HI
lost anything In the operation.
1t has been noted that Hll advertised
himself as a railway agent The only
railway he could possibly represent al
| that time was the rather oppTessively
named st Paul and Pacific" Five
years mad been required 20 bullE ten
miles of track from St Paul 10 ST An
/ thongs Falls, and ten years more had
| drag ged out before 70 rad rawIed uI
! the Mississippi and across the State O.
| the Red river. Nobody believed in e.
Even Hill had shipped thousan,
! times as much freight by water as by
rail. I'm spite OF nine mortgages. Stat,
/ grant and re-grant, and long suffering
/ on the part Of the Dutch capitalist.
! who had projected it, tho st Paul Ins
1 Pacific was bankrupt in 1873.
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Future of RailrOading

fETHE problem of finding railroad
equipment today is not what il
was ten years ago. There are plenty
Of cars and engines. What is needed
now is terminals. and they are the hard
est things 10 get The only way. II the
road has the money. is TO by. improved
property in desirable locations, tear
down the buildings. and erect terminals
on the sites. That's dreadfuHy expsn-
sive Also it may destroy whole bust
ness sections. But where it can be done
1t may not prove A simple business prop
ositioR TO get the money.
THE demand is everywhere for moro
service. The railroads have met that
demand as far as they could by increaS
ing the efficiency OF their eQuipmnt But
there is a limit 20 that kind or develop
ment. 1 think that limit has been prac-
ticaIy resrhed in the large Centers.
CONTINUED on Fifth PaEe)
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WAHPETON. y. n. Sept. Our
great public domain is practically all
gone and the time has come when We
must make better use Of the land we
occupy"
This is James j. HHTs message Of
warning TO the farmers of the North
west. The empire builder expouHtied his
facts before 300 persons who had gath
cred here for the WahpetOn fair.
II am sure that the enterprise and
the intelligence of the American people
will bc equal 20 the task. but n All mcii
select their own direction and move
independently vi all their neighboIs their
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Enter E. H. Hartman

At this point entered Mr.. Hartman
"a The story OF their struggle Is still
new. Blue Thursday IS still hor-
rible dream to bankers all over the
United States with a genius as great
as Mr.. Hits for pcrsuading other men
10 out their capital into his hands.
the new .omer had taken over the I'm
ION Pacific. on the death Of Coils T..
Huntington he was near to catch tbs
Southern Pacific from that old man s
yyithered hands He made cOnnec-
pecfions for both roads by buying the
Chicago and Alton. Now he undertook
to invade Mr.. Hnrs own territory by
engaging I'm a struggle for the control
IF the Northern Pacific
Mr. Hill was no Wall Street expert
He was so far from it that on that por-
teutous MAY Q. 1901. ne spent his time
buyiue engines MT. Hartman. on ehe
contrary. ntted his hands by hstinct 20
the tools OF stock manipulation. He
was fighting. ne said. i'm his own de-
fense.t In that brief twenty-four hours
he bid Che selling price of a share of
Northern Pacific common stock. which
had sold AT - cents share nm 1896.
To "a thousand dollars. Some one found
Mr.. Hin in his hotel al the close of the
DAVIS operations and this is what Mr..
Harrimau's opponent had To say
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abroad seeking practical farmers to
take up the land along the tracks.
WashinEtons timber was soon being
loaded into cars Fruit growers from
the first trains crowded into the fertile
valleys Though it was as true In 1885
as it had been in 1875 when he was
seeking the money to build the Great
Northern that there were no large
cities along the route, yet rsilroad-made
towns sprang up along the line like the
crops and his cars bore dividend paying
freight both ways.
Buying the Northern Pacific 10 the
south would be equivalent TO double
tracking his road. Already 1t was be-
ing said:
He can command more money in a
blind pool than any other man in the
verdi which was only another way
Of saying he could make men believe
him when he proposed:
y et me have your money and I will
gsve Il back with profits"
4 group OF bankers had found this
out before 1885 and in that year ne quiet
~ took over his rival to the south. the
Northern Pacific. by a series Of we'll
organized minority holdings.
New Orleans to Seattle
And Thence to the Orient
Whether or not Mr.. Hill had a dream
Of railroad monopoly from the Lakes
to Puget Sound, he was 10y this time
rapidly working toward II. Every ton
OF freight shipped TO the growing cit
les between Portland and Voncouver
from Duluth. Minneapolis. or ST. Paul
paid toll ~ his system. But he had a
worldwide as that OF Columbus wnen
the great explorer set out 10 find a
new trade route from Europe to India
He would gather up In New Orleans
the cotton destined for the great en-
pires OF Asia. bring it North to Chi
cage, carry IT over the far three-quar-
tiers of the circle 20 Seattle, and load
fl there aboard HIS own steamers at
terminals over which he ana ne alone
had control. He did SO oy entering
/ into an agreement rea ching forward in
10 a fun decade of the future with
Stuyvesant Fish. then president Of the
( only through route from the Gulf to
the Lakes. the Illinois Central, and Ly
/ framing through rates from New Or
Z leans 10 Seattle with the Burlington
and Milwaukee roads to connect ms
( terminals in St Paul with those OF
Mr.. Fish ina Chicago. All this was ac-
compIizhed with an almost incredibly
I low through charge 10 the shipper.
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member that wheat in North Dakota
sold for 90 cents, sometimes less. a
buSheL The day has passed for cheap
wheat My own judgement is that
wheat viii sell FOR SI.25 "a bushei be-
lore il ever sells for 50 cents or e
cents a bushel / never expect to see
u sell foP 75 cents again and 1 DO ex-
pect 20 see # sell for N.25. and 1t may
be that IT viii sell very much higher.
Let tine farmers Of the country turn
Ihelr minds as the manufacturers have
turned theirs. To- most intelligent i'm
EesuEation Of the work they have Ia
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We Must Make Better Use of Our Land
Hills Counsel to the Dakota Farmers

efforts might be liSened 20 the efforts
Of a great mob instead Of thu efforts Of
. trained army led by intelligent lead
crs Your work on the land In the fu-
ture must he done more i'm accord with
what experience has told us, has told
older nations and has saved older ma
lions from destruction.
The history OF the world shows that
the nation that did not raise its own
bread sooner or later ceased 10 exist.
70 raise fts own bread IL must raise %
at a cost that will pat the loaf within
the rea soma bio grasp OF every family
and of every mouth iu re land
- few years ago, not loEB, you re-
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rust. Hll made this equipment an eX-
cursion route for possible investors. The
black earth and rich timber were point
ed out of every window IN almost every
presentable car. Everybody laughed at
the project But. one at time, hank
ers of Montreal and other northern
cities came to see with their host that
the shadow OF the roads failure was
about to vanish before the brightest
sunshine that had ever shoue upon the
Northwest In 1879, Mr. Hin bought
about 27.0oo,oo0 Of St. Paul and Pacific
bonds, at prices ranging from 10 to %
per cent Of their face value
In less than four years new stan
dard had been set for railroad manage
ment beyond the Great Lakes. Engines
lost the names given them after dig
nifed directors. Brass trimmings gave
way to steel utility. One locomotive
was made to do the work Of three and
the other crews were either employed
elsewhere or discharged. Economy be-
came an instinct all along the line. 1T
was either hustle or hell on every di-
vision" one of the road men said
Learns Possibilities
Of Country He Was Tapping
And Mr.. Hill, as manager, found time
not only TO learn the possibilities Of
every county touched by his road. but
10 meet the trains az they entered the
St. Paul station and make friends with
his customers like a stage driver. with
these people he soon made common
interest. He shipped blooded cattle
along the line and gave 1t to the farm
ers for the upbunding or their stock.
Scientific agriculture became mis- hobby
and his patrons found themselves shar-
ing i'm If before they altogether under
stood why.
Against similar opposition he extend
ed his road TO the Missouri and be-
yond. There was another chorus of
ridicule. He had become a heavy stock
holder in the Canadian Pacifc-to the
north short hundred miles. lie ought
to know it was there. The Northern
Pacific, an equal distance 20 the south.
was struggling. as always. against
bankruptcy. lie ought 10 know IL was
there, too. "Jem, my boy you're "A
foOI'-so they quote Alexander Mitchell
president or the old Milwaukee rail
road. "Hm has got his road up into
| the Rockies, but he'll never get il down
This from Henry Willard, of the North
cru Pacific
As the old St. Paul and Pacific had
| been rushed 20 Winnipeg. so now was
/ the Great Northern rushed across a
thousand miles Of desert and mountains
/ 10 Puget Sound. II took ten years 10
! do the planning, the financing, the build
I ing But one winter night i'm January
! 1893, an engines whistle echoed through
the canon Of SkykonIish II was the
! only scream Of triumph Mr.. Hin per.
I mltted himself for having completed
/ the first road across the continent with
( out the help of a cent Of Government
/ money or a quarter-sectiou Of Govern.
/ ment land
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What Hill Thinks About It

OF Harriman's famous railroad
coup IN 1901, he said:
at is the greatest outrage of mod
eTn times. Praise God, have
no pockets in my shroud"
There are plenty of cars and en-
gines. What is needed now is ter
minaIs."
The Washington times., 1909-09-26
Builds on Others Ruins

HEREIN was the beginning Of James
J. Hin. the railroadcr 10 was a
year OF panic. and HiH's profits were
all profits Of the future. But he began
just the same There was not a night
or Sunday train on the line, its right
OF way was marked chiefly by suunow-
ers. and the small, high Widowed cars
jolted over tracks which had shruulS
from nifty pounds TO little more than
The Washington times., 1909-09-26
Blazing the Way

60 he dreamed and talked until tho
- other workers Of the ST. Paul levee
set him down as half crazy. And he
would have been if he had stopped with
dreaming and talking But ne didn't
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Developed the Country,
Did Not Merely Exploit Ii.

What happened? A long siege OF
milking the Government as I'm the case
OF the Union Pacific? A long attack Of
heart weakness I'm the face Of ruin. as
IN the case Of the Northern Pacific
Never IN the world. The only road OF
the three which had paid its own bills
has never once failed to pay interest on
It's bonds and yield dividends on Its
stock
The explanation is simple Mr Hin
used his road as means Of developing
the country. not Of exploiting g. Long
before that whistle sounded agents were
The Washington times., 1909-09-26
Northern Securities

IT is needful to touch upon one point
more in the story OF this man and
then we shall not keep Mr. Hill waiting
longer az his desk in the Great Nort6-
The Washington times., 1909-09-26
His Father an Irishmsn,
Mother Of Stern Scotch Stock.

HIS father was an Irish immigrant. his
mother Scotch. They came 90 the banks
OF the Little Speed Ia Canada and made
2 home near the village Of Rockland.
They were plodding, substantial, worthy
folks, and there was nothing IN the life
they led or offered their boy James TO
indicate that he would life above its
horizon. From small farmer the father
advanced TO be keeper OF small inn,
and when the son was fourteen the
father died and left the tavern for the
boy 10 run. lie would neither work in
the tavern nor 20 10 school 50 an that
axe with only the teaching Of a few
years in a country school and 2 Quaker
Academy, he hired himself ar lad Of al
work in TIC village store. Significant
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Hills Attitude on Public Questions

organization of American railroads
is the determining force of
the third problem of getting
systems
you
resources among
material intangible
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Hartman Coup
"The Greatest Outrage

times Thousands IF people have been
ruined. and needlessiy by the greed 81
a small group Of men who sought to
take our property frcm us. As for me.
I stand exactly where I stood befores
L took no part in that dlsgraceful thing.
I neither bought nor sold "A share OF
Northern Pacific ! held $500 shares OF
the stock when this onslaught began.
and / hold the same number still.
neither more nor less. Nothing could
have tempted me to take part in this
AFFAIR Praise God. I've no pockets in
my shroud"'
As We remember that day We owe it
The Washington times., 1909-09-26

trying to carry load bigger than
he could bear II killed him in a
few years"
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Further Extension of Sys-
TENS Halted by Natural
j Conditions, Hill Says.
DEEP WATERWAYS
HOBBY WITH HIM
Remarkable Interview Obtained by
The Times From Empire Builder
of the Northwest.

CONTINUED from First Page1
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Continued on Fifth Page)
Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-29
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, July 2S.- The republican state convention to name candidates for governor and other state officers to be voted for at the election next November was called to order here shortly after II o'clock this morning. Following the opening addresses. roll call and appointment of the necessary committees a re, cess was taken to give the commit. tees time to complete their work.
 The negro element plays no part in the convention this year and the gath. er.ng promises to be harmonious throughout The party is united in its desire to select the best man avail able to head the ticket. Several can iidates are in the field and the ulti. mate choice cannot be foretold with certainty.
 That the question of prohibition will e made the chief issue of the fall
 ampaign seems certain. The republi. t.an convention isi expected to adopt {; platform advocating statewide pro- hibition iE opposition to the stand which the democrats are expected to take in support of local option. Al lesed extravaganza in the administra- ton of the affairs of the state will be condemned. a demand will be made perintendents by popular vote and other state issues will be dealt with in vigorous fashion. The platform will also include hearty indorsement of the Tatt administration.
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a practice which it is said he has fol. lowed all over the country, and which in one case-that at San Bernardino- earned him six months Imprisonment. It is understood the Baldwin people will prosecute their case vigorously and the other charges will have a hearing later. The evidence collected against Gardner includes dozens of letters from his victims, all telling the same story of i'll gotten gains spent by the swindler in the red light dis. trict and the low dives of the large cities, where he has operated.
 There are four separate charges of abusing children filed against Gardner by Santa Fe people.
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MaEleflll,

TAs bsss tDs Rssy svss played - e1rO oaou-Iy1oh Yrovoyh
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rAs pss0ksse cNaeoeess.

TAe AfgAsst of eAasaetsrs, h my estimation. 0 his whe c e rsoay ts pardon tAe nosal sFross q mankind e Y he were svsfy day euf1ty c seoe htnsslf: s9d at the sams tins q cautSoas of commitfing . fanlt e q hs never forgAvs oas.-Piiny, tAl Younesr.
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SEATTLE
 

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FIRST CECIL RHODES
 SCHOLAR MARRlES

CHARLESTOWN.W w Va. July 2s.- Many guests of prominence attended
 tre wedding here today of Miss Grace Elizabeth Eugenie Brakeford and Charles Edwin Tucker Brooke The bridegroom is son of Dr. Brooke of West Virginia university. and was the first Cecil Rhodes scholar to go to Ox- ford university from the United States. He is now member of the faculty of Yale university. 2
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BROKE UP PINK TEA AT POINT
 OF GUN

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 2S.-That her husband, Robert L. Gates, secre- tary of the J. L. Gates Land company, came home with a man from the Res cue Mission one afternoon while she was entertaining some women friends at a pink tea, and drove them all out of the house at the point of a pistol, was charge made by Mrs. Gates at the hearing of her divorce suit before Judge Halsey yesterday. Her hus- bands companion stayed at their house with him for the next two months, she testified, and she had to cook his meals for him during that time.
 On other occasions he has chased her out of the house with an Indian war club three feet long, with large stone at the end, Mrs. Gates declared. The club is part of collection of weapons kept in Mir Gates den, Tn. cluding some swords, of which, she said, he has also made use in his at tacks on her. Mir. Gates is the oldest son of James L. Gates, long known as the heaviest owner of land in Wiscon- sin. The elder Gates was recently divorced by his wife, Gertrude Ruel, widow of former partner of Mar shall Field, the papers in that suit be- ing sealed.
 Had Driven Her From Home.
 Mrs. Gates testified that her hus- band has been cruel to her since shortly after their marriage, on Au- gust 2, 1897. He had beaten her on numerous occasions, driven her out of the house at night, and compelled her to seek shelter with neighbors, had been away from home for days at time without letting her know where he was, and leaving her without money, and he has associated with other women, his wife declared.
 "On one occasion he broke my nose with his fist, and I was confined in hospital for four days, and had to be operated on," Mrs. Gakes said.
 'I was confined to the house for two weeks after that, and did not entire ly recover from the injury for six weeks. My husband came home drunk and dragged me out of bed by the hair and beat me. l ran into my maids room and locked the door. He induced me to come out, and struck me on the nose. The maid dragged him away and went to telephone for doctor While she was gone he re newed his attack. and she had to leave the telephone to come again to my assistance.
 Borrowed from Maid. He has driven me out of the house at night many times. and compelled me to seek shelter with neighbors, she said At one time my maid and both left and did not dare to re turn for three days. I had no money I and the maid drew money from . bank and paid for our board at the Blatz hotel.
 "On another occasion he chased me out on a night in November, when the ground was frozen. with nothing on but a night dress. My maid threw a pair of shoes and long coat out oi . window. and went to stay with . neighbor for the night"
 Judge Halsey granted Mrs. Gates the divorce prayed for.
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sioNoa cAaUso,s SALARY.

PARIS. July e8.-Signor Caruso hos coafided to a Parisian journalist th2t he Is paid at the rate of .3300.000 foF hio singing, and thai this remanefa tiou will continue at least for the nWt five years. This is considerably in excess of the estimated earnings Of Adelina Patti or any other singerl of the past or present