Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-07

do not think he would have retired At
sixty-five by any possible chance.
He was one OF those peculiar men who
never could retire. who have got to work.
and who II they could not work would die
anyway. Nevertheless, Mr.. Hartman did
not die from worrying over his vast bust
ness interests.
Mr. Hartman never worried. He be-
lieved in himself as much as did Napo-
leon. lie had q right to believe in him
self, IN my judgment. for he did things
and big things at that Hartman lived
as long as could reasonably be expected,
considering the manner in which he
worked.
Il owe a great deal to my association
with Coils p. Huntington and e. II. Har-
riman," said Mr.. Stubs, reminiscently.
What wonderful workers we're they!
Huntington always was in his office be-
fore any of his employes-simply tire
less worker. Hartman too.
Thinking in BED.
Hartman used to work all day and
think all night What was what killed
him. He used to think in bed. One Of
his most daring schemes he told me was
thought out after he went home one night.
The Erie railroad was in distress. II It
went into the hands OF a receiver 1t
meant that the stock market would be
affected disastrously and that the Harri-
man securities would necessarily suffer.
"All that night he thought It over. until
6 o'clock in the morning. when he had his
plan matured. He rose at o'clock and
gave Instructions over the telephone.
when the bank was open at 10 o'clock
Hartman was there with the necessary
securities and paid 100000 for the notes
and securities. 1t was a daring thing TO
do, but he had planned in the night how
he would bring that great property through
the crisis, and he knew that he could not
fail It can readily be understood that
It would be useless to talk to such a man
about retiring at sixty-five.
Again some Of the most able men this
country has produced have died long be-
fore attaining the age of g. Jay Gould
died at Sc, If remember correctly. Thomas
A. Scott died at Sc and Devereaux of the
Lake Shore system, a very promising man
died at Sc or along about those years.
Retiring at 65 from the particular pur-
suit which has engaged his activities of a
man all through his working career, does
not, in my judgment, mean idleness fol
leisure, opportunity to pursue an avoca-
ton, to round out one who has been
warped somewhat by following one idea
to the exclusion of all other considerations
OF inestimable value to the man himself
as we'll as to his fellows.
II am not going to stagnate simply be.
cause I am going to relinquish the reins
Of office in the Hartman system All my
life have been working for the road
that was the deaI est ambition of my life
I told Mr.. Hartman once that l be-
lieved 1 thought a good deal more of II
than he did, and 1 meant it. 1 am not
going to stagnate.
World Wants Younger Men.
THE world is full of things want tc
know am simply going to step aside
because the world wants younger men
and the world belongs to young men.
THE tendency of the times is to crowd
out the older men and give the young mar
chance. Take our universities, for in
stance. We find that when a great genius
like Charles w. Eliot resigns, his place
is filled by a very much younger man; the
trustees do not seek man of approx
mately the same age as the retiring presi.
dent This Is true of all educational in