The San Francisco call., 1909-09-15
HARTMAN WILL
KEPT A SECRET
OF THE FAMILY
Widow and Children Hear the
Terms of Document Disp0s-
ing of szOO,Ooo,OOO
Ambitious Plans for Union and
Southern Pacifics and Him
Ois Central Continued
/ ISpeeiqi Dispaich 10 Th CoIII

Special Dispatch to I ne Call
NEW YORK, Sept 1.-THE contents
or the will Of z H. Hartman were dis
closed to his widow and five children
today at their Arden home. 1t dis
poses OF an estate supposedly worth
more than 100000 600 and perhaps
5000 100000. but was not read to the
family after the funeral Sunday, as
Mrs. Hartman was then in no condi-
ton TO undergo the ordeal.
II was the purpose today of Charles
a. Peabody, president OF the Mutual
life insurance company and custodian
OF the will. to file the document at
Goshen, Orange county. for probate to-
morrow. No hint OF the manner in
which Hartman had disposed of his
great fortune could be obtained.
Business associates believe the great
bulk of the estate Will go TO the FIVE
children and the widow and that the
major portion OF the securities have
been placed in trust to prevent their
sale for a period of years and to keep
them. from overhanging the stock
market
GbA1r
1t can be stated positively that Har-
rinlans ambitious plans for the Union
Pacific. Southern Pacific and Illinois
Central will be carried out by his sue
cessor, former Judge Robert S. Lovett,
whose position as master of the Har
'f-iman roads was solidified today by
his election as chairman of the execu-
tive committee Of the Southern Pacific
company. Jacob II. Schiff and William
MADE members of the enlarged execu-
tive committee. No action was taken
in the matter of electing a successor
TO Hartman as president.
J. P. Morgan Jr. was elected today
in Harriman's place as director of the
National City bank Wall street re-
CARDS the election as one of the most
significant of the weeks financial de-
.velOpments. presumably indicating that
harmonious relations exist between the
Morgans and the Kuhn, Loeb b-Standard
oil groups Of financiers.
GREAT INTERESTS COMBINED
Added weight was given the event
because it followed closely upon re-
ports that the Morgan interests were
about TO take an active interest in gov
erning the Hartman roads and that
the younger Morgan was slated as the
ultimate successor of Hartman In
Pacific systems.
=. The National City bank is controlled
by the Kuhn. Loeb-Standard oil inter
ests, which yesterday assumed COM
handing position-for the time being
at least-in the Union Pacific executive
committee. George w. Perkins of the
firm of J. p Morgan & Co. is already
a director of the bank.
. The commanding position which the
National City bank interests now hold
IN. the Hartman railroads is indicated
by the fact that four of the six MEM
. .bers Of the reconstructed executive
committee of the Union Pacific are di-
.rectors in the bank: Jacob II. Schiff
william Rockefeller, Frank A. Wander
LID and Henry c. Frick-
There were meetings today of the df-
+rectors of the Illinois Central railroad
and rhe Wells. Fargo & Co., in both
Of which Hartman had membership.
Neither board took action to I'LL the
vacancy.
TRIBUTES OF ASSOCIATES
The directors of the Union Pacific.
which Hartman organized out of COM
parative chaos. paid him their formal
tribute to-day in resolutions prepared
by Marvin Hughitt, Henry C. Frick and
Charles A Peabody.
1t is impossible" say the resolu-
lions, here to record any adequate ex-
preston Of appreciation of Harriman's
work for the American railway sys-
TEN. for il must form a large and i'm
portant chapter in the history of our
time But we who were intimately as
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