The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-02
YOUNG HARRIMAN REAL
 CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
Young Man 27 Year d Is Making Remarkable Record and Proving T4at Rich Mans Son Can Think and
 Act on His Own Account

New York, September 1.-(Special)
 This weeks announcement that w. I Ayerill Hartman had signed contracts ton of the largest amount of steel shipping tonnage so far placed, proves what few in Wall street have known 1 for sometime; that Is, young Harri- I man is one of the very few sons of prominent financiers to make good 1 This weeks contracts were executed ] through the newly created Merchant Shipbuilding corporation. Young liar /.
 riman only recently formed that com pany, which, single handed. he con tvols. Several going shipyards have already been purchased and enlarged; others vii be. built immediately.
 Following in his fathers footsteps, young Hartman has gone to the Unit /. ed States navy and elsewhere in hiring
 the best available trained talent for his Merchant Shipbuilding corporation, reserving for himself the position of chairman of the board. or. boss of the job. That was the way of D. H.
 Going into the newly reorganized Union Pacific railroad, back in 1898.
 merely as one of half dozen repre- sentatives of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,, within two years E. H. Hartman was not only chairman or the Union Pacific board of direc
 tors, but chairman of the personally created and conducted executive com
 mittee of the board of directors. That
 executive committee was the real in
 side governing body. By that time,
 too. he had surrounded himself with
 staff of highly trained men from
 whom he quickly learned.
 For example. acting against the ad
 vice of some of the best outside con sulting engineers in the country, E. H.
 Hartman started to extend the Union Pacifics main line straight across the treacherous northern end of Salt Lake. That cutoff not only entirely elimi- mated mountain grade over which all the Union Pacific's business was hauled, but it greatly shortened the distance between Omaha and the Pa cific coast When the Salt Lake cut off after long series of heart break ing experiences, was actually complet- ed and opened. the little chairman of the Union Pacific, in his enthusiasm, threw off his rigid dignity, startling his his invited guests by dancing d jig on cross tie, far out from the lidlHldHQ.
 An untold story of the remarkable leadership of Union Pacific's old chair man dates back to the Fish Hartman fight over control of Illinoic Central out at Chicago in October of 1907 Will liam Nelson Cromwell, the lawyer, with an international reputation, who had long been employed by Hartman, went out to Chicago to attend the tell. tale annual meeting in advance of the Union Pacific forces. This country and Europe had been secured for proxies for the election of directors By the time Hartman arrived the crafty Cromwell had carefully arranged ev- cry detail of the campaign for count ing the proxies and handling the an nual meeting.
 Union Pacific's leader listened quiet ly in his room at the Auditorium An nex hotel to the white haired lawyer who had represented this country in many large affairs, including the pur- chase of the $4o,o00,0oo Panama canal. When Cromwell finished, Hartman, in his characteristic manner. which