The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-02

permitted no argument, bluntly sald
 That is all wrong; do it this way Then he went on to completely reverse Cromwell's policy. Hartman never
 studied law. but how that fight turned
 out Is matter of record.
 D. H. Hartman was one of a large
 number of children of a very poor struggling clergyman, spending part of
 his early life over on Long Island and part across the river at Jersey City. He
 won his way to the top through sheer
 ability, giving orders long before he died to such men as Jacob H. Schiff H. H, Rogers, William Rockefeller, II O. Prick.
 But his fight was no harder than the one that has been made by his
 oldest son, who has just signed con- tract with the government for building large fleet of steel freight steam ships, That it Is extremely difficult
 Tor the son of rich and powerful Wall street man to succeed is plainly
 evident from the very limited few who
 nave been able to earn their salt. From
 the day they are born, the sons of rich
 and powerful Wall street men are sur
 rounded by friends and acquaintances
 ready to serve. To learn independence
 of thought and action under such con
 ditions Is no easy task
 Today only 27 years of age, Averill
 Hartman is vice president of the
 union Pacific in charge of purchases. that Is, he does all of the buying of cars, locomotives, rails fuel, supplies, etc, for the entire Union Pacific sys tenn. For man either 27 or 72 years old that is a big job. But, besides, young Hartman finds time to serve as active director in the Union Pacific. the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tho Hartman National ha t- Central railroad, the Railroad Securi ties company, Wells Fargo In all of those companies young Hartman rep- resents the large holdings of his ia ther's estate Now he is branching out on his own hook Men who have been watching him closely ever since he left Yale and went to work at the very bottom In the Union Pacific shops, say ne Is chip off the old block. Certainly he is doing things and doing them in a quiet but workmanlike way.
 oung Hartman, however, is not the only son Of a rich and powerful Wall street man of our time who has not turned out a mollycoddle or nonenity It Is fact that the list of hopeless incom- petents In the younger generation is long; nevertheless there are such men as the present J. P. Morgan, Louis W. Hill. George F. Baker, Jr. The present head or the Morgan firm, never will have the powerful, domineering personality of his father; yet, in many respects he Is q great improvement; in many ways he is more human and a far better citizen.
 Louis Hill would be the last to say he hoped to outshine his father. At home, however, as we'll as in this part of the world, the present executive head of the Great Northern Is looked upon as a hign- class able citizen, trying hard, like his dad to make the world a better place for himself and others.
 George F. Baker, Jr.. seldom appears in public print for, like the head of the First National bank, he has an inborn dread of publicity He Is on the job, nevertheless, morning, noon and night. sometimes, as in the recent Red Cross s100o0O.0oo campaign giving the credit of his success to others. Just now, although the fact is known by only a very few, George F. Baker, Jr., Is in Italy as the head of the commission sent over there with a message of encouragenfent That he has been successful is apparent from the daily cables now being received showing what the Italian army is. doing to Austria. R: l.. E.