The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-09-18

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geople money TIE arblter III pra I
perties earning 4 800 % Brl,
and employing $50, 900 wage earn:
ers. died Friday afternoon at :40
o'clock in the hal f-compl castle
ne was building on the top Of Tow
er Hill.
/ For two hours and Eve minutes
the death of the man whose illness
had kept the financiers OF America
and Europe on the alert for weeks,
was kept hidden from all the world.
Had the fact of his death become
known on the floor of the Stock Ex-
change Immediately after it occurred
| there would unquestionably have
been something in the nature of a
panic-short and swift, but disas-
trous to many innocent holders Of
securities.
BY Withholding the news of the
death until after the market closed
it gave the captains Of Wall street
nearly nineteen hours in which to
adopt whatever protective measures
they may deem necessary to deal
with the situation.
Overwork killed Mr.. Hartman,
He had a malady of some sort, the
precise nature of which his doctors
never knew, and which never will be
known, unless the family, in the in
nj nj ~
consent to an autopsy. But over
/ work was the Fundamental cause
of his death.
Into the sixty-one years Of his
Life, he had crowded more industry,
nerve-racking application, tireless
calculating. and scheming than dog
en- ordinary, hard-working, success.
full men achieve.
Mr.. Hartman died peacefully and
almost to the end his brilliant mind
retained its integrity. After a re-
lapse on Sunday he sank steadily,
and soon, there came relapse which
marked the approach of the end.
Dr. Lyle, who has been Mr.. Harri-
mans physician throughout his last
illness, has issued no statement con-
cerning his illness or the cause OF
death, but the general understand
ing is that there was no operation.
Mrs. simons discussed her broth
er's death with more freedom than
any one else, but even she professed
not to know the exact nature of his
She said emphatically that
there had been no operation.
Earlier in the day, however, before,
the crisis was at hand, Mr.. Harri-
man talked with Thomas B. Price. {
his personal secretary in the New
York Office of the Union Pacific. This
was one of the strongest evidences
that the railroad mans master mind
was alert to the end, for it is be-
Iievel Mr.. Price was summoned by
the dying financial to give some in
structions concerning his vast af-
fairs.
Recent estimates of Mr.. Harri-
mans personal wealth have varied
Ill the way from $50,00O,000 to
800 100000. He was a large hol-
lier of securities of the various cor
Dorations with which he was identi-
led, including in addition to the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
systems, over score of smaller or
properties, not only In this
country but in Mexico. He was re-
ported to have been the largest In
lividual stockholder III the Wells
Fargo Express Company, which only
'ecently acquired virtual mono
,oly Of the express business ia Mexi-
%.
Harriamn's Life At 4 Glance.
Born Feb. 25, 1s4S, one OF six
,hildren Of country clergyman.
whose salary was only 5000 g year.
IF 81 week.
Poverty cut short his school days,
.fter two years spent in church
chooI
At fourteen he became an errand
10Y in Wall Street brokers' Office. .
At eighteen he was the clerk, with
share in the profits.
At twenty-five he bought a seat In
he New York Stock Exchange with
money he made in specializing with
lis savings.
At forty he became Vice-President
# the Illinois Central.
At sixty he realizes his dream OF
m ocean to ocean railroad system
lnder his absolute control.