Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-09-17

both this side and on the seas, will
fire the Imagination and compel re-
spect. Good and evil mingle in all
men. This is the good Of Hartman.
1t is his greatest monument.
1t was recently stated that Harri-
man controlled $4,000 miles of rail-
way, or six times across the CONT
nent; that these lines employ $4,000
men; that, in addition, he directed 3d.
600 miles Of steamship lines, max
ing 10000 miles of transportation in
all; that one could go from New York
to Hongkong without ever leaving the
Hartman lines and that he could re-
turn by another route on Hartman
lines nearly all the way.
To show something of the mans
great activities, the mere corporations
of which he was the head or with
which he was officially connected may
give hint. although little more than
hint. He had been member of the New
York Stock Exchange since 1870. He
was president of the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation company. president of
the Oregon Short Line, president of the
Southern Pacific, president of the
Texas and New Orleans Railroad COM
pany, president of the Southern Pa
cific Coast railway, president of the
Oregon and California Railroad COM
pany, president of the Central Pacific
Railroad company, president of the
Louisiana and Western Railroad com
.,f r iCio
and Texas Railroad and Steamship
company, president of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, president of the
Railroad Securities company, president
of the Southern Pacific Terminal com
pany, president of the Portland and
Asiatic Steamship company, president
of the Union Pacific, chairman of the
executive committee of the Wells Far
go company, director Of the Illinois
Central Railroad company, director of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
| pany, director of the Erie Railroad
company, director of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company, director of the
Western Union Telegraph company, di-
rector of the National City Bank of
New York, director of the Chicago and
Alton Railroad company, director of
the Pere Marquette Railroad company,
director of the San Pedro, Los Angeles
and Salt Lake Railroad company, di-
rector of the Susquehanna and West
ern Railroad company, director of the
New York Central Railroad company
and many more, to say nothing of the
E9uitable Assurance society, of which
he was once d director, but from which
he resigned during the Hughes investi-
CATION.
Controlled Whatever He Touched.
After reading all that list one can
wonder not only that lie died SO soon,
but that he lived so long. for be it
was no mere perfunctory director
Whatever he touched he controlled
either that or something broke. He
was not dummy. Nor could he have
controlled all these properties, only a
fraction of which he could have owned
personally, unless his business associ-
ates reposed the greatest confidence
III ulS anu tDiiitS. II w us
lis power of organization. of construc-
ton, his intimate knowledge of the
whole country as it related to railroad
ing. his daring methods and Lis sue
cess that won him their allegiance
He became far and away the greatest
railroad power of his day and perhaps
of any day that the country has yet
hf, vol inf
in future that will control more mile
age, but none up to his own time.
His latest dream of making the New
York Central part of his gigantic
system was coming to fruition only
when death snatched him away from
it. Even as it was, the greatest of oul
railroads was listed as Hartman
property, and its stocks moved in sym
pathy with his group. To combine
that old and rich system with his Pa
cific roads into one gigantic whole wa
the work of financial titan. 1t wal
not thing that a small man woult
even have dared to plan.
Another cherished dream Of NOR,
{ intimate nature was on the eve Of &C
pllSLuleul, UuI WIS ucNel W W
realized. For more than score o
years Mr.. Hartman had owned an es
tate of $4,000 acres near Arden over
looking Tuxedo Park. Here, on the tol
/, Of one of the Ramapo mountains, III
5 was finishing great castle that wa
to have been his home in old age
Here he went for the "after cure
t when he returned from his vain healtl
t seeking in Europe, and here. amid TIL
{ sound of hammers as workmen com
! pleted the last wing of the house. h,
! breathed his last. 1t was Il fittin;
, music to toll out the life of one who's
. chief claim to mems regard is that b.
was builder.
Lieut.. Keator, Spanish War.
Eating canned food and leading tn
rough life of soldier, with its har
work and deprivations, often result il
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