Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-13
was the matter with him they could
do nothing for him.

n ninety minutes OF HIS death. Early
N the morning he talked personally
,ver the telephone to one OF his sec
-etaries in his New York office, In
,tructing him ts proceed to Arden.
rhe secretary reached Arden at 10:4O
A m. and for one hour and twenty
minutes there Hartman dictated let
ters and instructions to subordinates
to the secretary. At noon Mr.. Har-
riman still had mass OF work before
him but his physician ordered him
10 rest. A few minutes later, 1t Is
the financier suffered
stroke which affected MS
heart and dissolution quickly followed
Edward Henry Hartman was born
in Hampstead, Long Island. Feb. Z5'
I84s, and was the third son OF Kew.
Orlando Hartman, Jr. He knew no
l,xuries and worked hard for the lit
tie education he received. At sixteen
he found employment as errand boy
In brokers' office In Wall street
and before he was twenty-three mad
bought seat in the New York STOCK
exchange. paying for 1t with 100000
he had made in speculation.
He learned his first lessons OF IL
nance In The school of jim FISK, Jay
.ould and Commodore Vanderbilt and
emerged devoid of any sentiment In
business. This was shown when he
ousted from the presidency OF the
Illinois Central Stuyvesant Fish,
man who had probably done as much
to help Hartman as any other one
living.
Hartman made his debut rs rail
road man In '83, when he became
director in the Illinois Central. and
was then worth a million. His In
fluence In Wall street grew rapidly. In
'94 he attempted to reorganiZe the
Erie railroad, but was soundly whip
ped in the fight with the Morgan In
terests. In '97 Hartman gained a
foothold by which he lifted himself
from the numerous company OF mod
erately successful financiers. to
place among the half dozen financial
giants of the country. Union Pacific
stock was going a-begging. Hartman,
backed by Kuhn. Loeb & Co., and
Standard OIL, reorganized It's manage
ment and converted bankrupt line
Into one of the best of dividend pay
ers.
Most of his spectacular perform
ances were In 1901. when he struggled
with the Morgan-Hill interests for the
control of the Northern Pacific. His
historic corner resulted in the stock
going to $1,000 a share. The Hill peo-
pie held the whip hand by retiring
preferred stock but Hartman obtain
ed a compromise.
Hartman was 61 years. months
and IA days old. He Ia survived by
his wife and five children, three girls
and two boys.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-The first
prices of stock showed wide gains over
the closing prices yesterday when the
market was under the influence of ru-
mors of e. III, Harriman's death. Har-
riman stocks themselves were lead
ers in the advance and centers of
activity. There were sales OF 5000
shares of Union Pacific at 1877 and
1856, as compared with 194h last night,
of $1,000 shares of Southern Pacific at
125 and 125 3-4 compared with 1923
last night and of 5000 shares of Unit
compared with 76 3-S last night I'm
ion Pacific preferred also was up "a
Emmett Smith. who is in the gov.
ernment service on the Vallecito was
in town yesterday. Mr.. Smith says
he was waterbound at the Kirkpatrick
place from Saturday to Tuesday noon
On Sunday the water was up over the
bridge near Mr.. Kirkpatrlck's and the
current was SO strong that 1t was i'm
possible to get across. Tuesday noon
Mr.. Smith forded the river. the water
running over the saddle. 1t was not
till Wednesday that the water was
low enough to get across the bridge,
The water was higher d Kirkpatrick's
that 1t had been for thirty-one years.
On Sunday there was cloud burst
on the Vallecito which broke the dam
and most of the water ran out of the
lakes, there being very little left in
them now. On Upper Pine river there
was water spout which covered the
valley and all the lower flats. and took
out three of the bridges.
Sunday Bayfield, people were pretty
badly scared. They telephoned to the
ranger at the mouth of the Vallecito
and he told them the water had raised
four inches since noon. In some man.
Ter they understood II four feet, and
as the water was already streaming
ovsr the town. they were badly fright
ened
MIR Smith said that fourteen miles
below where he lives there were a
lot OF hogs floating down stream. AT
bayfield, the people had to move off
the island. The water spread all
around the new hospital.
This morning he returned to the