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F. 1. HARRINAN DEAD
End Comes to Noted Railway
Magnate at Arden, N. Y.
Greatest Achievment of Mr, Harriman
Was the Re-organization of the ~
Union Pacific Ralroad.
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A EPITOME OF EDWARD H. -
a HARRIMAN'S CAREER. A
A Born February 25, 1348, One &
Aof six chidren of a country &
A clprgyman, wnose gsalary was A
A ‘J;‘.\ii?‘u year, v B
A Afler two years spent in a A
A& churth school poverty ‘cut short A
A his gducatlcn. A
A At the age of fourteen he be: &
A came an errand boy in a Wwall &
A sureet broker's office. A
A Four vears later he was ap- A
A pointed a clerk, sharing in (he &
A nrm’s profits, A
A At twenty-two he bought a seat a
A on the New York Stock Exchange A
A with money he made in specula- &
A tion, A
A At forty he became vice pres- a
A ident of the Illinois Central. A
A At fifty he reorganized the A
A Union Pacific, A
A Now he has realized his dream A
A of an ocean-to-ocean railroad sys- &
A tem under his absolute control. A
A Died september 9, 1909, @
Arden, N. Y.—Edwara H. Harr
man, the greatest organizer of rail
roads the world has ever known, met
the only lasting defeat of his active
life at the hands of death.
Secluded in his magnificent home
on Tower Hill, surrounded by mem
“bers of his family, physicians and
nurses, he succumbed to an intestinal
disorder, after a fight against disease
which will rank for sheer grit with
his remarkable struggles in the finan
cia] world.
Mr. Hariman died peacefully, and
almost to the end his brilliant mind
retained its integrity. ’
Mrs. Harriman was completely pros
trated from the shock of her hus
band’s death. Unconsolable in her
deep grief, she was under the care
of Dr. W. G.-Lyle and for a time
it was thought that the sudden shock
might result seriously.
The announcement of Mr. Harri
man’s death caused an immense sen
sation “ throughout New York city,
particularly in Wall street and in
financial circles, where Harriman had
been a dominating personality.
With the knowledge that Mr. Har
riman could not long continue his
active career Wall street had prepar
% itself for his death. There was
no’ feeling of shock or alarm when
the announcement came, beyond the
sentiment of . universal personal sor
row, and it was evident that there
was a general feeling of security and
even of'serenity as to the future,
It is believed by Mr. Harriman's as
sociates that the railroad system
which' he carried forward to such a
degree of success will be continued
~with practically no change of policy,
‘and that plans to that end were per
fected by Mr. Harriman long before
his death, |
J. Pierpont Morgan told Wall
.street how to interpret E. H. Harri
~man’s death by opening Union Pa
.Cific stock nearly 3 points above the
previcns closing and making all other
issues strong and active. |
Jor maony years the figure of Ed
wizrd Harriman has loomed large be
fore the American public as the col
- o'¢.us of American railroads, and his
name has been connected with road
+building and combining projects oi
se¥er increasing magnitude and ambi
&on. His mind, a veritable human
dyramo, conceived the idea of unit
ing all the great railroads of America
into omne gigantic system, and he
seemed to be in a fair way to carry
wut his idea when illness cried hait
‘doo bim. Mr. Harriman’s intense
Americanism and belief in the future
wof the United States have frequently
been ciied by his friends, He himself
asserted that the immense fortune
that came to him as a by-product of
his plans was not in any sense the
goal of his ambition, but merely an
dindirect result of his successful plans
for developing the railroad resousces
of his country,
He was not a constructive railroad
man, like James J., Hill, nor yet a
railroad wrecker, like Jay Gould, but
he knew how to use the vast resourc
es of Wall street tp weld together
the great isolated r:!ilroad properties
of the country into a homogeneous
“whole, .
Estimates of Mr. Harriman’s estate
vary widely.
There is a consensus of opinion that,
NEW GERMAN LABOR RULE.
Labor May Quit and Employer May
Discharge Without Nctice.
.Washington, D. C.—The right of
the laborer to quit- work and of the
exé\.ployer to discharge without ad
vance notice, is a-.unique principle
Wutlined in a recent agreement reach
£¢ after a 12 weeks ’strike of car
penters and joiners in Nuremburg,
German,
. Tnis introduces a new rule in the
German labor world, declares Ameri
can Consul G. N. Ifft, at Nuremburg,
as heretofore in every trade, protes
.sion, busginess and employment, due
mnotice é""“fi* been : requir e% ..b,.fi;'for.?r,. an
employee "could quit work of Be é;lg‘,«;:
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it is in excess of $50,000,000, while
oue authority places it as high as
$500,000,000, He was president of
sixteen great corporations and a di
rector or trustee c¢f twenty-seven oth
ers,
His home at Arden represents an
outlay of over $2,000,000.
The great achievement of Mr, Harrj
man’s career as a financier and rail
road manager was the rehabiljtation
of the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cifie railway systems,
Mr. Harriman undertook this Her
culean to:k when he was nearly fifty
years old, and atter he had once prac
tically retired from business. Other
financiers had failed signally to put
these properties on a paying basis,
but Mr. Harriman, following the or
ganization of the Union Pacific in
1897, began a systematic plan to place
the properties in the best condition
for their maintenance at a high stand
ard of efficiency.
It was his policy to keep his rail
reads in the best workable condition,
confident that sooner or later the
question of dividends would take care
of itself.
To the task he had undertaken, Mr.
Harriman gave unfagging industry.
and it was his constant work that
brought on the final breakdown in his
health, Stomach trouble developec
more than a year ago, and medical
treatment gave no relief,
This summer he went to Europe to
consult the greatest specialists there,
but he was not henefitted. On his re
turn to this country he went at once
to his magnificent country home at
Arden, where death occurred.
With the simplicity which marked
him as a living man, even while he
held the reins of the greatest rail
road system in the world and was
hailed as “king,” the funeral of E. H.
Harriman was held from the Harri
man home, and interment was made
in the little, unpretentious cemetery
at Arden. Mr. Harriman' was
to rest beside the grave of his eldest
son,
" The funeral cortege consisted of a
few personal friends of the dead rail
way wizard and members of the
family,
Mr. Harriman is survived by a wid
ow, two sons, Avery and Roland Har
riman, and three daughters, Mrs. Rcb
ert L. Gerry, Miss Mary and Miss
Carol Harriman,
WORK FOR ROUSEVELT.
Ex-President to Take Hold of Canal
" Problem,
New Orleans, La.—“ Roosevelt isto
take hold of the Panama eanal prob
lem as commander-in-chief on the
isthmus and rush the work to com
pletion.”
This is the message that comes di
rect from the zone, and, furthermore,
comes semi-officially.
T. W. Harris of Columbus, Ohio,
one of the government engineers, di
recting the.“canal work, arrived here
from the zone with the news,
*“lt is generally understood on the
isthmus,” said Mr, Harris, that Mr.
Roosevelt will take active charge of
the canal construction as soon as he
returns from his African hunt and
cleans up the most pressing of his
liteiary engagements, There is no
dissatisfaction with the present man
agement, but the general peliet among
tne men who are building the big
ditch, officials and workmen, is that
with Colonel Roosevelt’s energy and
leadership brought to bear._on the
task, work would progress faster than
it possibly could under any other
man, The wish may prove to have
been father to the thought; neverthe.
lesst the declaration that the former
president is coming to us as our chiet
is reiterated with such insistenceé 'by
canal men of high degree that it has
come to be accepted down there as
a -settled fact. .
“Work c¢n the canal is progressing
smoothly now, and the army engi
neers are measuring squarely up to
their great responsibilities.” «
Curtiss Wins Grand Prize.
Brescia. — Glenn H. Curtiss, ‘the
American aviator who won the inter
national cup at Rheims, captured the
grand prize in the aviation meet Here,
Curtiss made his flight for the g'randl
prize covering 50 kilometers (31.05
miles), in 49 minutes 24 seconds. His
share of the SIO,OOO prize is $6,000.
~ Lindsay-Leaves R. F. D. Carriers,
Atlanta, Ga.—Paul L, Lindsay of
Tucker, Ga., president of thHe 'Nation
'al Assoviaticn of Rural Letter Car
riers, has anngunced that he will not
stand for reelection to that office at
the forthcorfaing convention of that
WN‘Y , on the 21st
T et e R “7;?1?’;;",'-5"» S NIRRT
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Last year a thousand ships or more
were lost; the year before the sea
took nearly the same toll. To the
tourist his assurance of safety lies
In the fact that it Is the salling ves
sel, with its dependence on the fickle
wind, that largely makes up the tre
mendous loss. ;
Frelghting steamers, voyaging on
unfamiliar coasts, nearly complete
the disaster roll; but to the great
liners, with ‘their familiar routes,
their well known lanes of travel,
their guarded and well lighted har
bors, and all their appliances for
_saféty, the man!fold dangers of the
ocein are only the remote possibill
ties that give a touch of adventure
to thelr passage from land to land,
According to a writer in the Cen:
tury, the probabilities of disaster are
trifling.
Every morning brings us some
story of death or accident on land,
while the great passenger ships come
and go in monctonous regularity,
bringing ne reporis more stirring
than those of high seas that have Lkept
them from making new records. With
the present madness for speed and
tts attendant recklessness, our streets
'demand constant alertness if you
would cross them with safety.
‘ Speed at sea has come through
larger and more stoutly constructed
ships. So the famillar old story of
the sailorman at sea in a storm who,
serene in his consciousness of ample
sea room, piously ejaculated: “God
help the poor folks ashore tonight!”
is not wholly fantastic.
" Oil Fuel in tke British Navy.
It is curious that the Brit'sh naval
authorities shculd have abandoned
oil fuel at a moment when in foreign
fleets it has been decided that its
advantages are so considerable as to
make it desirable to abandon coal in
the smaller craft.
it is probable that there is one sim
ple explanation of the change in Ad
miralty policy. The British Empire
has very limited resources of oil
fuel and at present thke supplies of
the navy have to be cbtained from
abroad. These supplies may be cut
off in time of war and therefore the
Admiralty is compelled to sink con
siderabl> capital in reserve stores of
fuel.
The British pavy already possesses
a large number of ships which make
large demands for oil fuel. All the
later capital ships of the navy carry
oil fuel, in addition to coal, and for
some years past all torpedo craft
have been fitted exclusively, for the
use of liguid fuel. :
Apparently the Admiralty has de
oided that in view of the present
limited sources of supply and their
liability to interference it is an act
of statesmanship ‘not to ccminit the
navy further in this direction. There
is every reason to hope that in the
near future additional supplies of 01l
fuel will be available 'within the Brit
ish Empire, and then presumably the
Admiralty will revert once more to
its use in new ships.—Cassler's Maga
zine,
“Aim high” is a good motto, all
right, but the Detroit Free Press
thinks it doesn’t justify a man in
shooting at a balloon.
PRESSED HARD
Coffee's Weight on Old Age.
When prominent men realize the
injurious effects of coffee and the
change in health that Postum can
bring they are glad to lend their tes
timony for the benefit of others.
A superintendent of public schools
in North Carolina says: :
“My mother, since her early child
hood, was an inveterate coffee drink
er, and had been troubled with her
heart for a number of years, and com
plained of that ‘weak all over’ feeling
and sick stomach.
‘“‘Some time ago 1 was making an
official visit to a distant part of the
country and took dinner with one of
the merchants of the place. I noticed
a somewhat peculiar flavour of the
coffee, and asked him concerning fit.
He replied that it was Postum.
“l was so pleased with it, that af
ter the meal was over, I bought a
package to carry home with me, and
had wife prepare some for the next
meal. The whole family liked it 80
well that we discontinued coffee and
used Postum entirely.
“I had really been at times very
anxious concerning my mother’s con
dition, but we noticed that after using
Postum for a short time she felt so
much better than she did prior to its
+use, and had little trouble with her
heart and no sick stomach, that the
headaches were not so frequent, and
her general condition much improved,
This continued until she was as well
an¢ hearty as the rest of us.
“l know Postum has benefited my
self and the other members of the
family, but not in so marked a degree
as in the case of my mother, ag she
was a victim of long standing.”
Read ‘““The Road to Wellville,” in
pkegs.
‘“Thereé’s a Reason.”
| Ever read the aboveletter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of humnan
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During the past 30 years we have published thousands
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