The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
Rose From $4 A Week Job To Railroad
 King
GOT BETTER OF HARTMAN
Failed To Realize Life'S Ambi- tiOn--R. R. Stocks Drop
 When Death Is Known
ospeeial from unlted Preag.l

New York, Feb. Edwin Hawley, the railroad magnate, died, today. He had been indisposed' for a long time but was recently reported to be re- covering.
 HawIey was the victim of overwork He was frequently warned by his physicians that his strict attention to business was telling on him and that his constitution was being weakened so that he could not stand the strain of an illness. He always insisted that he would take long rest as soon as he had realized his dreamed of trans continental railroad but he, like other American railroad kings, died with the plan still in contemplation
 The announcement of his death had q disturbing effect on all the stocks of the railroads in which he was Known to be interested all of them showing losses after the news of the He died at o'clock, this morning, at his home in East 60th street
 Hawley was taken with a severe at. was believed to be recovering Early today. however, he was taken with pains in the region of his heart and hefore the doctors could do anything to relieve him he was dead.
 The direct cause of death was heart disease.
 Fear of the effect the announce ment of the death would have on the stock market caused the members of the family and the clo 1e business as- sociates of the dead financier to with hold the news until the middle of the morning. As soon as Hawley died his associates were notified and innmedi- sttely arranged to protect all of the Ha wiley railroad stocks from a bear raid. After this had been attended to the bare announcement Of the death was made. All details We're refused at the Hawley offices and at the home it was simply said that heart disease had caused the death.
 Edwin Hawley, recognized for years as a powerful factor in American rail- way world, was born in Chatham, Y. Y in 1859. When he was 16 he crowd ed his personal effects into a trunk and came to New York for job. He got it as messenger at S4 a week and worked until he got a chance to go to the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad at S9 Then he went to the eastern of f1ces of the Rock Island at $14. get ting the position of bill of ladine clerk. Soon afterward, the California Fast Freight line needed contract ing agent in New York and Flaw ley got the place. His work brought him into close contact, with Hunting railroad field. Huntington liked flaw ley because he "could keep his mouth shut" and soon he became assistant traffic manager of the Southern Pa
 When E. H. Hartman got control of the Southern Pacific following
 
 through Hawley's efforts. he was afraid of Hawley and although he made him member of the executive committee. he refrained from taking Magnate HaWley into his confidence. Later when Hawley tried to be made a. director of the Altoona. Hartman turned him down in favor of James StiIlman. Hawley at once declared war and immediately severed rela- tions with all of the Hartman roads. He bought up all the Alton stock he could get and and through an sllanGe alliance got the Altoona away from Hartman. This was the only big railroad defeat Hartman ever sustained during his entire career as a railway king.
 Hawley continued to develop until he finally controlled the Minneapolis & St Louis, the Iowa Central, the Chesapeake & Ohio. the Chicago & Alton, The Toledo. St. Louis & West ern. with a total mileage of 4,S7O. Closely linked with the Hawley roads are the Hooking Valley, Toledo & Ohio Central, the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville. and Hawley had been working for the last few years on the trans-continental death prevented that fnancier carry
 The dead magnate was the strong est advocate of one man power in It was his hobby and he always in Gisted that this was the only way railroads could be run. It was his devotion to business that undermined his health and he refused at all times to take needed rest the doctor demand
 HawIey was probably in more spec ulative deals than any man in Amer l ica- He and the late John W. Gates were great friends and Hawley par ! ticipated in many deals with him:
 He was a member of all of the l prominent clubs but seldom visited | any of them.