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The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Edward H. Hartman,
Master of Railroads

he was a genial lover Of nature. as
was evidenced by the purchase and
development Of hts immense wooded
estate az Arden. in Orange county:
and his interest in science was 50
strong as 10 lead him TO combine
genuine scientific research with rec
reation in the expedition to Alaska.
which was his vacation In 1888, and
Is described In the seventh chapter
Of this memoir. The narrative Of
this Alaskan trip shows how much
he resembied Roosevelt in his taste
FOR outdoor life and sport. and makes
II easy to understand the original
friendliness between them which
ended so unfortunately. John Muir,
who was one OF his guests on this
expedition. quotes Mr.. Hartman as
having said to him one evening when
the use OF great wealth had been a
subject at dinner:
/ never cared for money except
as power for work. 1 was always
lucky and my friends and neigh
bors. observing my luck, brought
their money to me to invest, and
in this way / have come to handle
large sums. What 1 most enjoy
is the power of creation, getting
into partnership with Nature in
doing good. helping to feed man
and Beast and making everybody
and everything little better and
happier.
Mr.. Kennan's two volumes furnish
convincing proof Of the truth of this
explanation by Mr.. Hartman of his
purpose in amassing wealth. 1t is to
be regretted that he neglected to
make that purpose more clearly and
widely known during his lifetime.
Otherwise more than ten years
would not have elapsed before JUS
tice was done him by the recognition
of what he did for those whom he
served.
Only a portion OF the interesting
matter in an interesting memorial of
an interesting man has been indi-
Gated in this article,
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gained and perfected at the turkey
shoots" upon the hillsides near his
home. The first warming up"
matches were shot at $50 yards, but
then we read:
"The second turkey shoot was held
at the forty yard range. The bird
was tethered behind a log, so that
only his head and red wattles could
appear. Here, too, the turkey had
freedom of motion, and had self de-
termination as to how he should turn
his head in wonder at the assemblage
Of men before him; or. il he should
elect, he could disappear entirely
behind the log if he found something
that interested him on the ground
near by, and the marksmen must
wait for the untimed~ appearance of
his bobbing head. 1t took prompt
action and quick hand to score
hit.
"And 1t was years afterward, after
Alvin York had become the most ex-
pert rifle shot that those mountains
had ever held, that he sat in the
brush at the slope of a hill in the
Forest of Argonne and watched for
German helmets and German heads
to bob above their pits and around
trees-just forty yards away"
In another part of his book the
historian recounts how Alvin York
watched his chance:
more cautiously German heads
began to rise above their pits. York
moved his rifle deliberately along
the line. knocking back those heads
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SEfGENAT YORK AND Ills PEO-
PIE. BY Sam K cowan- Funk &
wagnalls Company.
|"HE author Of this prose epic of
the Tennessee mountains has
been at great pains not to
make a war story, but "the tale Of
the making of a man."
The single handed exploit of Sergt.
Alvin c.. York of Pail Mall in the
Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee
in silencing thirty-five German ma
chine guns and making 132 prisoners,
three of them officers. besides killing
twenty-five Germans. that morning
in the Argonne forest, is one of those
vivid patches of color which stand
out in bold relief against the, smoke
stained and lurid Background of the
great war. When Marshal Foch
pinned upon his breast the Croix de
Guerre with palm, he said to him:
What you did was the greatest
thing accomplished by any private
soldier of all the armies of Europe" !"
Gen. Pershing, decorating him with
the Congressional Medal of Honor
which is the highest award for valor
the United States bestows-called
him "the greatest civilian soldier Of
the war;"
This young mountaineer came of a
line of woodsmen who, as the author
says, are "the transplanted colonists
Of the eighteenth century; the back
woodsmen of the days Of Andrew
Jackson; their life has the genuine
ness and simplicity of the pioneers.
1t has been said of the residents Of
the Cumberland Mountains that they
are the purest Anglo-Saxons to be
found to-day and not even England
can produce so clear strain.
"The mountain families have in
termarried and. because Of the in
accessibility Of their homes, have re-
mained marooned in the mountain
Businesses. They are Anglo-Saxons
in their blood and customs: they are
Colonial Americans in their speech
and credences.
One of the most terrible tragedies
Of what the Indians called ''the dark
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for life." For the attendant Of
automatic tools docs not live while
he is on the job: but in the leisure
provided him by the automatic tool
he has ample opportunity for liv-
ing, and It is for education to say
whether he shall make his spare
time an asset to the community and
to himself or q liability tending to
drag down the path of degrada-
tion.
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pears to have been the awakening
cause of his interest IN this field of
human endeavor. The more he
studied the construction and opera
ton q railroads the more clearly he
realized that improvements beneficial
&C their owners must also be advan-
tageous 20 the great public whom
the railroads are designed 10 serve.
and this view aheolves him from
purely selfish purposes In his amhi-
ton to become a master Of railroads.
for In serving himself he also served
the whole world Of travel and trans
portation. His success in devising
and carrying out great works OF re-
construction and Improvement on
his railroads is all the more remark
able when We consider his lack of
any special education or experience
TO develop such natural aptitude as
he may have possessed for engineer
ing enterprises. So far from there
being any element of selfishness dis
esrnible in his later works, II would
seem that in the damming of the
Colorado River he spent millions OF
dollars, the expenditure of which was
beneficial to his corporations only in
the sense that it was beneficial to
the public generally.
Edward H. Hartman was an in
tensive thinker rather than a great
reader Of books. He pondered long
upon the problems which interested
him; he observed and studied with
extreme care the facts necessary to
a correct conclusion. and having
reached that conclusion he was so
confident of its correctness that he
pursued the course which it indi-
Gated regardless of the doubts or OBJ
jections of others. This habit gave
him a reputation for austerity of
manner and intellectual arrogance
at variance with the kindly charac-
ter known to his more intimate
frieDds. In his social relations with
them he was anything but austere;
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~ writing and publishing of the
- memoirs Of Gen. Grant is
given by Albert Bigelow Paine in
his biography OF Mark Twain: The
Success Of Huck Finn though suf-
ficiently important in itself. pre-
pared tbe way for publishing ven-
ture by the side of which it dwindled
to small proportions. One night tit
was early in November, 1880 when
Cable and Clemens had finished a
reading at Chickering Hall, Clemens,
coming out into the wet blackness,
happened to hear Richard Watson
elders voice say to some unseen
companion: DO you know Gen.
Grant has actually determined to
write his memoirs and publish them.
He has said so to-day. in so many
words OF course Clemens was i'm
mediately interested. 1t was the
thing he had proposed to Grant
some three years previously, during
his call that day with Howells con-
cerning the Toronto consulship :. :.
Clemens was in the habit of call
ing on Grant, now and then, to
smoke cigar with him, and he
dropped in next morning to find out
just how far the book idea had de-
veloped and what were the plans of
publication. He found the General
and his son. Col. Fred Grant. dis
cussing some memoranda, which
turned out to be q proposition from
the company for the book publica-
tion of his memoirs. Clemens asked
to be allowed to look over the pro-
posed terms. and when he had done
so he said: General, it is clear that
the people do not realize the impor-
tance-the commercial magnitude of
your book. 1t is not strange that
this Is true, for they are compara-
lively new publishers and have had
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believes that the only solution lies
in the direction-of a more thorough
going education, of an education for
leisure" a cultural development more
or less in accordance with early Vic
torian ideals. Such education for
leisure. under the conditions Of
automatic production, is education
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vve and to propagate his kind. with
consequences that may be seriously
detrimental to the race as a whole.
In the case Of the moron Mr..
Pound sees no remedy except in
measures tending toward family
Limitation. But with regard to the
man Of normal intellect the author
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The Iron Man in Industry

- IN
fifn iho.s MAN IN INDUSTRY. b,
Arthur Pound Bos1ss: he Allan.
Do Monthly frssa
YER s.nns the publication Of
Samuel Buffers famous satire
on naehinss writers have
been busy pointing out that the me-
ehanieai development OF society Is
BY no means an unmitlgated blessing.
and that the very contrivances which
make for Industrial efficiency may
harbor germs that threaten the de-
struciion Of civilization itself. For
several generations the problem has
been growing In scope and impor-
lance and Of late years It has been
greatly complicated by the rise Of
the automatic machine. a device that
has tended to make the worker a
dose cousin to the aatomaton.
1hs menace Of he automatic ma
chine. as well as its boundless poten-
halities for good. are discussed with
breadth and discernment In Arthur
Pounds volume "Thc Iron Man."
Tho automatic tool" predicts Mr..
Pound. will be the force behind most
OF our legislation for the next fifty
years. just as 1t will be the main
spring Of our educational program
once its significance is understood by
educators still fumbling for the key
TO modern life." For whether we
realize il or not the automatic tool
has revolutionized industry; it has
virtually abolished the system of ap-
premiership and has enabled our
youths to earn a substantial wage
with but a day or two of training;
1t has tended to equalize the pay of
factory workers and to facilitate
@eRAo At46A estlOAo VI ioDOi lfOui COQu-
try to town and from town to coun-
try: 1t has standardized and system
atized the task Of the individual
worker to an extent never before
known and by the modesty of its
demands upon the intellect it has
tended to encourage dullness and
even to place a premium upon men,
tai deficiency.
Indeed, as Mr.. Pound observes.
modern industry presents the phe-
nomenon of the dullipg OF the mind
~on a scale unequaled in extent and
10 a degree unequaled in intensity
by anything on record in history"
Moreover. the automatic machine has
interrupted the normal course of
evolution by making the moron or
even the imbecile better fitted for
instead OF being eliminated In the
factory work than the man OF nor
NAL intellect. and the result Is that.
struggle. the defective Is aided TO sur
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have heard Capt Carpenter.
who commanded the v,ndi-
cative in the famous attack on the
Mole at zeebrugge on the night of
April 22-23. 1918. deliver his enter
tanning lecture on that enterprise
when he made a tour OF this coun-
try few years since. with its al
ways thrilling moment when he
shook out the British ensign that
few from the indicative In that
operation. And most OF them win
recall his joke about the Mole be-
Ing the biggest thing Of its kind in
the world and that about the differ
ence between the American and
British pronunciation Of the word
.schedule."
His spoken narrative went big"
In the phrase Of the theater. and
It's success emboidened Capt. Car
penter 10 write il out. at somewhat
greater length and his text is now
published I'm book form where II is
just as entertaining as IL was when
this reviewer heard him deliver it
before a wildly enthusiastic audience
one night at the Century Theater.
In its essentials the text is the same
as that in his speech. with some of
its details amplified and the 'sched-
ule" joke deleted. The work. is di-
vided into two parts, the first de-
failing the strategical reasons for
attempting the blocking of Zee
brugge, the inception of the plan
which was conceived and worked
out in the British Admiralty, as he
explains in justice to that much
abused institution-and the extraor-
binary mass of detail that had to
be worked out to make the operation
work according to a program more
accurately timed than any railway
train running schedule. The second
part tells the actual carrying out of
the operation, after two attempts
that had to be called off-a narra-
tive that thrilled the allied world
when it learned of the success of
the enterprise on the following day.
1t is not for new material that
this volume win be read and remem-
bered. 1t is for its personal interest
and the simple, sailorlike fashion
with which it is told that this mar
rative will be enjoyed and treasured.
One fact is brought out by Capt.
Carpenter, however, that we do not
recall seeing before in any book de-
scribing this blocking operation.
This is that it is the first attempt
of it's kind known to naval history
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The Blocking of Zeebrugge

TILE BLOCKING OF zEEBRUGGE.
By Capt Alfred +. b. Carpenter.
". c.. r. N. Houghton Mifiin
Company.
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a N intimate account OF the
~ writing and publishing of the
- - memoirs of Gen. Grant is
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-07

1.lazp, eIsdsd. AndfsEouis
ssaM ~ SURPRISE fIpDls ossr her
faes, taking with Il some q hsr
color, leaving her Tor : moment
breathleaS.
And then the vuice-the well-
remembered rich, musical voice
richer and deeper now than ct
yore, repeated his name.
"AndreLouis!"
Her manner Of uttering It sug-
9ested that It awakened memories,
memories perhaps Of the departed
youth with which it was associate
ed.
"But of course l remember him,
she said at last, and came toward
him. putting ont her hand. He
kissed it dutifully, submissively, in
, stinctiyely. And this is what you
have grown into! She appraised
him. and he flushed with pride al
the satisfaction in her tone. He
seemed to have gone back Is years
and to be again the little Breton
lad at Gavrillac. She turned te
| Aline. How mistaken Quintin wa
in his assumptions He was pleased
to see him again, was he not
$50 pleased, madame, that he has
shown me the door," said Andre
Louis.
"Ah!" she frowned, coming hin
still with those dark, wistful eye:
Of hers. I'VE must change that
Aline. l will plead for you, Andre
Louis. l am = good advocate.
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Wn0 0ce0 - tn c99S1A84, o3CDaS~
Ing Alma Waved y her and issasd
! command.
CHAPTER Nv.
The foo3mAn opened the door,
letting down the steps and proffsr-
ing his arm to his mistress to as
sist her to aiight- She was : wo-1
man Of something more than -.
Who once must have been very
lovely, Who Was very lovely still
with the refining quality that age
brings to some women. Her dress
and carriage alike advertised great
rank.
Il take my leave here, since you
have visitor" said Andre-Louis.
But it is an old acquaintance Of
your own, Andre. You remember
Mime. la Comtesse de Plougastel."
He looked at the approaching
lady and because she was named
to him he recognized her. He must,
he thought, have recognized her
without prompting anywhere at
any time, and this although it was
some is years since last he had
seen her. The sight of her brought
it all back to him-a treasured
memory that had never permitted
itself to be entirely overlaid by
subsequent events.
When he was boy Of 10, on the
eve of being sent to school at Rem
mes, she had come on q visit to his
godfather, who was her cousin. The
great lady, in all the glory then OF
| her youthful beauty, with her gen.
tie, cultured voice-and her ma
jestic air of the great world. had
scared him a little at first. Very
gently had she allayed those fears
of his, and by some mysterious en-
chantment she had completely Ell.
shaved his regard
For three days whilst she had
been at Gavrillac, he had gone
daily to the manor, and SO had
spent hours in her company. A
childless woman with the maternal
| instinct strong within her, she had
taken this precociously intelligent
wide-eyed lad to her heart
Give him to me, Cousin Quin.
tin," he remembered her saying or
the last of those days to his god.
| fa,hor ST or mo taLz h;p, ha ,l> NIT
me to Versailles as my adopted
child"
But the Seigneur had gravely
shaken his head in silent refusal
and there. had been no further
question of such a thing. And then
when she said goodbye to him-th'
thing flooding back to him now
there had been tears in her eyes.
Think of me sometimes, Andre
Louis" had been her last words.
But all was wildly remembers.
now upon beholding her again
after Is years. profoundly change,
and matured, the girl sunk in thi
worldly woman with the air O
calm dignity and complete self
possession. Yet, he insisted. b
must have known her anywher
again. ..-
Aline embraced her affectionate
ly, and then answering the ques
tioning glance with family raise
: eyebrows that madame was direct
ing toward Aline's companion
! This is Andre-Louis," she sale
You remember Andre-Louis, ma
dame?"
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WATCHMAN CAN
KEEP ON THE GO
FOR HOURS NOW
He Is Active As a School
boy Since Tanlac Over
came Serious Stomach
Trouble, Says Joseph
Louis Gains Ten
Pounds.

"Since taking Tanlac I have
fine appetite. have gained ten
pounds and feel spry as a school
boy" said Joseph e. Louis, watch
man for McFarlane & Co.. residing
at sos S. Chiffon St, Chicago, Ill.
For two years indigestion kept
me in misery. My appetite was
gone and what little l did force my
self to eat just filled me up with
gas and l suffered for hours from
sourness and heartburn. was
terribly nervous. had splitting
headaches and was so run down
and weak l could hardly drag
along while making my rounds.
"Tanlac fixed me up so good l
can now keep on the go for hours.
My stomach is in fine shape, l get
plenty of good sleep and my nerves
are steady. Tanlac is the grand
est medicine in the world"
Tanlac is sold by all good drug
Observation-Disclosures
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8 .IJncle,~ Aline sid. leaving An
80 and crossing to n. de Kerca-
~. you make mo ashamed Of
~. 70 allow : feeling Of peev-
;shnese to overwhelm all your az
sertior for Andre!"
4 have no affection for him. I
A.d once. He chose to extinguish
q He can 90 to the devil; and
rIease observe that don't permit
yoa to interfere"
Andre-Louis shrugged his shoul-
ders and hung his head. He had
come there so joyously, in such
warning, merely to receive q final
dismissal. He looked at Aline. Her
face was pale and troubled; but
her wit failed to show her how
she could come to his assistance.
His excessive honesty had burnt all
his boats.
She answered his look by .
glance at her furious uncle. . faint
shrue. and a lift Of the eyebrows.
detection the while in her counte-
nance.
1t was as II she said: you see
his mood. There is nothing to be
done"
He bowed with that singular
grace the fencing room had given
him and went out by the door.
"Oh, it is cruel." cried Alihe, in
A stiied voice. her hands clenched
and she sprang to the window.
"Aline!" her uncle's voice arrest
ed her. Where are you going"
He called after her, imperiously
commanding her return. But Aline
-dutiful child-closed her ears
lest she must disobey him. and sped
light-footed across the lawn to the
avenue. there to intercept the de-
parting Andre-Louis.
As he came forth wrapped il
gloom. she stepped from the Dor.
dering trees into his path.
"Aline!" he cried, joyously al
most.
II did not want you to go like
this she explained herself 81
know that his great soft heart viii
presently melt. He will send fol
you. and he will not know where Il
send
You think that"
"Oh. know it. You arrive in :
bad moment He is peevish ant
cross-grained, poor man, since h
came here. He wearies himsel
away from his beloved Gavrillat
Brittany. you must know, was be
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GIRLS! LEMONS
BLEACH FRECKlES
AND WHITEN SKIN

squeeze the juice OF two lemons
into a bottle containing three
ounces of Orchard White, which any
drug store will supply for a few
cents. shake we'll, and you have a
quarter pint OF the best freckle and
tan bleach. and complexion
whitener.
Massage this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion into the face, neck.
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemishes bleach
out and how clear, soft and rosy
white the skin (Adver-
tisement)
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coming too unsafe. The chateau Of
La Tour d.Axyr was burnt to the
ground some months ago. And for
this and his present discomfort he
blames you and your friends. But
he will come round presently. And
then We shall want to know where
to nnd you"
AT number Is. Rue du Hasard."
tell me, Andre" She paused, as
II in some difficulty, and then went
on, her eyes upon the ground:
Tell me-the truth Of that event
1T the Feydau."
The request fetched>a frown to
his brow. He suspected at once the
thought that prompted it. Quite
simply and briefly he gave her his
version Of the affair.
THAT IL much what I was told
she said. But 1t was added that
NJ. do La Tour d'Axyr had gone to
the theatre expressly for the pur-
pose Of breaking finally with La
Binet. Do you know If that was
so?
II don't; nor Of any reason why
/; It should be so. La Binet provided
him the sort of amusement that he
and his kind are forever craving
"Oh, there was reason" she in
terrupted him. II was the reason
/ spoke to Nine. de Sautron.
told her that l would not continue
to receive one who came to me
contaminated in that fashion" She
spoke of 1t with obvious difficulty
her color rising as he watched her
half-averted face.
J IN. de Sautron conveyed my de-
cision to him, and afterwards rep.
resented him to me as a man in
despair. repentant, ready to give
proofs-any proofs-of his SINGER
ity and devotion to me. He told
me that NJ. de La Tour d'Azyr had
sworn to him that he would Gu,
short that affair, that he would see
La Binet no more. And then, or
the very next day I heard Of his
having all but lost his life in thai
riot at the theatre"
i "Oh, if NJ de La Tour d'Azyr ha:
} sworn ;" Andre-Louis wa;
laughing on a bitter note OF sar
casm.
Il Either she did not hear or die
not heed him.
You do not OF your own knowl
edge know that it was not as NJ dt
:. La Tour d'Azyr asserts-that h,
went to the Feydau that night?'
Il DON'T he admitted 1T is, o
course, possible. But does it ma:
teri
1T might matter. Tell me; wha
became of La Binet after all?'
/; II don't know"
You don't know" She turned /
! consider him. And you can say
with that indifference! l though
-. 1 thought YOU loved hel
Andre"
so did I, for a little while.
was mistaken. 1t required a L
S Tour d'Azyr to disclose the trut
e to me. They have their uses, thes
y gentlemen. They help stupid fe
v lows like myself to perceive in
a portant truths"
y They had reached the wrough
- iron gates at the end Of the avenu
= Through these they beheld III
: waiting yellow chaise which ha
a brought Andre-Louis. From near !;
h hand came the creak OF othe
= wheels. the beat of other hoofs, an
: now another vehicle came in sigh
and drew to a standstill. The lad
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Who cuDied ~ csSFiaea, psscsiy-I
M Alma. waved y her and issued
Z cnarnas1l