The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1907, Page 3

| Tells Nixola Greeley-Smith That the Scope Is Wider and the Field Bigger, and That Trusts Don’t Interfere. FLASHLIGHT CHARACTER ‘Encouraging Enough So Far as Young Men) Are Concerned, but (Only Think!) He Declares’ a Woman Could Not Be ~ a Railroad President. BY NIXOLA GREELEY -SMITH. r¢ pees Mr. Harriman, a°tinge of sarcasm in his muffled but sharply de-/ tonating voice, ‘a few minutes of my time 'may_not-be worth very much to you, but they are to | me, for 1 want to get away just now!” He was’standing up, his shoulders bent forward, his hands resting on a railing which separated us: “There was a smull black seal ring on the little finger | of the left tand. Each of the Harriman words came r~ like a separate rifle shot, but a rifle shot heard in the distance, for the great financier’s voice is not loud at all. “= not-blame him for wanting to get away, It was 4 o'clock. amd the close of the market had halted Union Pacific in the middle of | the 25-point drop which the ticker registered. the next days é The slump in the Harriman_stocks had not apparently worried the Union Pacific Executive offices, the suite on the fourth floor of the Equitable Building, whence the man who controls 25,000 miles of Ameri- can railroads and $150,000,000 issues his ofders. This great finan¢ier-is a little ‘man, 1 noticed. Moreover, he is a Ittle man that has the grace to look like a great little man without look- ing-in the least like Napoleon. His dark, near-sighted eyes peering through wide, rimless glasses suggested, indeed, Rudyard Kipling, though his somewhat bald forehead —with its tittle -furrows-between-the-full-brows is-very_much-higher than ; \ Kipling’s. The eyes were twinkling wher I looked at them, for Mr. » Harriman was conscidus of playing a joke on me. | HARRIMAN HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF HER.| “When my note had run the gantlet of secretaries—two plain secre- ___ brought him out to see me instead of taking me in to see him, which y ° Mr. Harriman a distinct advantage; of which he was ‘fully aware. He who is interviewed and runs away may live to be interviewed another day—without regret. And that is just what Mr. Harriman did. You enter the Union Pacific offices through a narrow’ aisle, with doors on either side, (il you come to a wooden railing with a swinging gateway watched by an outer guard in the person of a colored office boy. Tt you are khown and welcome: th tho-oftices-you-push through” the gateway, Ignoring the office boy. If you are not—and I had hever been there before—you give your card to the boy and wait meekly on a hard wooden mourners’ bench without the gate wondering whether you are going to be let in or not. Beyond you see a large room with the two secretaries, nd between them a smlllng, Nulty-halred stenographer, who struck me as the only person about the place who did not seem to me to carry some of the wejght of the Harriman millions except Mr. Harriman himself. ‘ Presently the s{x fect. of polished secretary that had conveyed my card and a reinforcing note to the inner sanctum reappeared and immediately following him was a litte muased-up looking man with a big_head and a wonderfully alert aah ecsion whom IT at once recognized as Mr. Harriman. ~~ ‘They came toward me and Mr. Harriman got in front and stood by the railing, while the secretary halted perhaps six feet away, ike a volunteer Lafdlaw, ready to thrust hims¢tf between his employer and any hidden bomb inthe shape of embarrassing questions that might be asked him,’ WHAT SHE ANTICIPATED. _ = z FP had, of course, thought of what I was going to say to Mr:>-Harriman after the exchange of tho preliminary courtesleg which an interview {s usually invedted with...Mr.Harriman-would-say-te did not care to talk. fe Would mention that {t'was Inconcolvable to him that the public should be interested in him for anything he might say, I would assure him truth- fully that the public was vastly interested, and then Mr. Harriman would talk for ten or fifteen minutes, or, if.he became very much Interested in his subject, for half an hour. This Is what happened. Tt happened in possibly thirty seconds, There were no preliminary courtesles of any sort. I stood up as Mr, ‘Borriman-epprouched-and-he made his opening remark about te possible worthlessness of his time to me, Then he.saldin the most positive and the choppest (ones-Fever heard: “What do you want?” Thid was sudden! But I preserved the serenity a woman canfot lose when she {s talkihg to a man smaller than herself, and the Mine from her eye fo his 1s a descending one. “The Evening World wants me to ask you .,Qnd‘or two questions on any subject you. may wish to talk about. That is what I want,’ I replied, ““No, you-don't,” volleyed the great little railroad Juggler. "You wish to ask me soimo particular question, What ts it?" H T really had_no particular question to ask him, being there to tell people - ‘who might be interested what Mr, Harriman !n his office—the man, not the maguate—ts like, SUSPECTED CONCEALED MISSION. However, he was entirely too positive of my having a concealed mis- sion, a’two-edged query about me somewhere, for me to dream of coli- tradicting him. ¥} “Very well!" I replied. “Do you think the poor young man of to-day has as great a chance of success as he had when you started tn life?” ; “Greater! Much greater!" answered Mr. Harriman, putting If poesi- ble.even more emphasis Into his voice, “Bigger field! Wider scope- Ip that all?”"-edging away from the railing. He knew very well that it wasn't all, that {¢ wasn’t oven.the beginning, interesting as the assertion was coming from him who had been a very poor boy indeed. For this man who controls $150,000,000 {s the son of an Episcopalian clergyman who foyyears presided over a little church in West Hoboken at an annual salary of $200 and for other years had no charge at all, Moreover, this early poverty was of thé most bitter kind, for {t was oe that of well-bred people who have to keep up appearances and who cannot. devote their meagro incomes to thelr bodily needs, but whose dally problem ig that of facing starvation in a faultless coat. Mr. Harriman rover talks of his carly privations even to his intimate ~ STUDY OF THE FINANCIER taries and one confidential secretry—and reached Mr. Harriman, it}, -Q - : ~ chance torday, equal to that which he found-wiren' he entered Wall street as a clerk in the early sixties.’ But I wanted him to expound it. I wanted / him to explain why in hfs opinion what many peoplo conslder the blight of) monopoly did not Interfere with the chance of the poor young man to-day. Put it ts mc easy matter to look a trust-in-the ere crven when the eye ts awinkling es Mr, Harriman’s was, and ask if {t {t not a public menace. | Howerer—'Lon't you think the trusts interfere with the poor young man's, chances?" I usked. re “Not at all!" sald Mr. Harriman even more decidedly. ‘Not in the least. Anything else?" This timo he backed two feet away from, the railing. “Yes; is there?’—i asked this with inward apologies to Hetty Green, Ela Rawiles Reader and Cassie Chadwick—"Can there be such a thing as a woman financier?” : aie “Plenty of ‘em! You're one of ‘om!" snapped the greatest of rallroad| i500. : ‘ : aay AND HARRIMAN SMILED. Ole smiled slightly as he sald this and his approval of the woman financier from the milllonaires to the $8 a week typewriter earning her own living was conveyed tacitly in, the smile. n (THe EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY LE. H. Harriman Declares Tha Nixola Greeley-Smith’s Chance to Look Down_on | a Big Man, and the Man E. H. Harriman at That. MISS FISH T0 BE THE BRIDE OF JUSTICES SOM Engagement of Society Leader's Daughter to Al- -bert Z Gray ‘Announced. » Chance Than .When He Started Out to Be | | | ) only daughter of nt Fish, will be- |Detective Sheldon Hopes} [the man who wrote he had kidnapped s|old Delaware voy, and who sald that he “MARCH 16, 1907. ae t the Poor Boy of To-Day Has a Greater — a Great Railroad King ner eye to his is a Miss Greeley-Smith Meets Mr. Harriman and His Cyclonic ““W tal preserved the serenity a woman cannot lose whet she is talking to a man smaller than herself, and the line:from descending one.” hat-Do-You-Wzint ?” “BIG W'S” OFFER MAY RESTORE STOLEN CHILD to Find Little Horace Marvin To-Day. After_an—tnterviow with “Hig _W.,”, Horaco N, Marvin, jr. the four-year~ would return him on the payment of $1,000 delivered across the ‘Canadian | border, Samuel Sheldon, head of the New York dptective agency, {a In At- lantio City. to-day, 5 Bheldan ts ald to nave had his tne terview in Windsor,:Canafin, and lest night communicated witn his partner, Charles Tannebaum. In his message he|. paid: © ‘ “It looks ag {f I can turn It O. K,” and then he ordered that two of his/ men be hurried to- Philadelphia, It ts now beleved the letter was writ- ten from Canada for a blind and that the kddnapped child is probably in Philadelphia. Several clues have fed/% there aince the boy was kidnapped from Kitt's Hammock, two waeks ago. One letter: recetved by Gov, Lea, of Dela- ware, who ls now in Dover directing the nearch fot the lost boy, sald the child would bo turned dyer to hia father in Broad street station, Philadelphia, upon the payment of tha ransom de- manded. ‘The Phitadelphta police also learned that a negro woman was seen dragging a boy ,anawering the stolen child's de- scription along the streety two days after the kidnapping. It has been shown ajsq that? wher the boy was seized near hia home he waa put on board the sloop and taken up Delaware Bay, and he was traced to Wilming- ton, then to Philadelphia, and on to New York, where it is belleved the kidnappers turned on their tracks to throw followers off the scent. Despatches recelyed from Dover to- day acy the Pinkerton agents, who-have|- all along been of the opinion that the boy-was-nelther-kidhapped -nor-lost, but that his whereabouts were known to some person interested In keeping him in~ntding, are now convinced he was kidnapped, and are fearful he has been put to death, his kidnappers fearing de- tection. 5 Dr, Marvin son has been fares the fecr that hin rdered. SS } WON HIS BRIDE OVER AN OPERATING TABLE, | | | G40 Falton St, Brooklyn, a eee eae Dr. F. H. Wiggin, Surgeon, and Miss Orr, Head Nurse of City Hospital, Wed, Dr. F. H. Wiggin, visiting surgeon at ! “What about Hetty Green?” The ‘Harriman smile faded. | come the bride early in the summer of | Aibert % Gray, son of Justice John +Cliaton—-Gray,-of -the-Court-ot-appents, “Nothing about her!" snapped the Harriman jaw, And then, encouraged by his favorable view of woman's outlook! in’ finance, I-asked the Fatal Question: ‘ould a woman be a Fallroad president?” |- demanded. if thought the Harriman jaw would lock with the exclamation, ty x ay And on the Instant the Mttle wiry Harriman figure turned, and still trailed by six feet of secretary faded into+he middle distance before I could ask what, of course, you want to know—what I am dying to know—namely, why’ she can't. Only a lariat could have recalled Mr. Harriman and I didn't baye one. Moreover, had T possessed one Tam not sure It would have been altogether wise to swing {t even could it have brought him back, ‘The “whole thing was so pre-eminently characteriatic—the interview | lasting scarcely thirty seconds—the absenco of elther greeting or good-by, the suspicion that thore lurked somewhere about mo lke a concealud | weapon a deep and direful question that he wouldn't answer and to which all other questions were mere gulleful introductories—tho directness and} brevity of his remarks, the snappy vernacular which clothed them, tho air of watchfulness and restraint and tired patience suddenly snapping—all revealed Harriman as Wall street knows him—the altert, suspicious, strong Individualist, who can accomplish.in two minutes what other men tot! and consult) over for-twérs. EXPLANATION FOR THE:RUDENESS. } “= Rudey Of course. But tf you gettin’ the way of @ cyclone yau don't! expect a }lac-freighted zephyr to fan your cheek. i Mr, Harriman let me intervtow him just ax {¢ T bad been man, S| It was a rellef to find he was notof the kind that says playtull: Tho} idea of a little girl ke you writing for a great bls newspaper!” He was} not the Kind, This is wholly dn Imported yarlety—that thinks you have really called because!you have fallen in loye with him, and are using tho! interview as a blind. | He {a Indeed a kind all by himself to interview, as well as to consider as the poor boy who worked himself up to_soverelgn power in the rall-/ road world. I saw Harriman in the afternoon,’ T saw ‘Mansfleld eon Cyne’ In the evening of thy same day, and in the fantastle symbolism’ of the Ibsen poem I found what secms to me the complete expression of Harriman. It is the ecane where the stage {s-1n heavy darkness and the voice of emphasis of the! } eccording to-announcement niade to the |couple. The ‘engagement was « sur-|{ | prise to society folic; = day immediate Tecenth friendshy wedding | will the Crosswa of been a» Though Fish te said to Uttle for rly, ahe, haa been very popular since made_her entrance, weveral years ago, tn dovoted °1 animal peta and to books orethers,—Btayverant Fish, Jr, and Sh ney Webster #y 3 Hie was Ham! Wenig tire = dtiitt oF President Grant. hal a nlece—of-Mrau Bldney Webster, Hamilton. Mrs. Samue | Nicoll Benjamin, hope Calle Kogers, ar nent old | d'Hautevilles, G.Anthon {Wiliam Henry Anthon. Gray isa graduate of Harvard, Mr, FOUND: MISSES ‘‘PATRICK,”” kro to- Intimate frlenda of the and “ever te a did not until ye! than a close existed .hatween_them,— ‘The take place probably at the Newport homo. of , but the date hus famil! Moat of her tin to lifoout of doors, to her Shehas twa Willtam Stan. nder and Mrs, William Evans nd js related to many promi. families, amang them the Her’ mother was Matian 1, ‘the daughter of the late clans of 1903. His mother was Juatiee staring you in the Gray's first wife. Mo Ix asmember. of fxco? Do you know | | tho Knickerbocker, Harvard and other what total Deafness | clubs, and has served at many. fashe Tt me: jonable ddings in years as septs usher both hy death. Shut wife of Hobert | Congress. out from all human | man Hitt, and Aust y, one of his’ _Lilte re ou rvo—tne brothers, waa married ple of years ‘wotlda of” business Doston, Jolin, Clinton Gray and tiene Rad pleature, lito be- | 0: mh nton Gray anc , G2'Gray ‘aro his other brothers, comes a foarful blank LING JUST ‘DEAFNESS TREATMENT. the City Hospital on Blackwell's Ialand, and Christina Ferguson Orr, chief nurse there,~are-marrted-mie-lvmg “at No-W Weet ‘Thirty-aixth street, the doctor's city house, as the oulmination of a romance that begun over an ‘operating woven years pmo. hia viskw to the hoopttal the phiystctan met the Young nurse, who ls one of the beat In the'city, and she was often ils assistant. in- operations, “He waa married, but not living with his wife, He was divorced Sast year, and then the nurse and doctor became en- gaged | Tho wedding took | place in Litehfield, Conn., where Dr. Wiegin haa | a fine country place, on Wodnesday, Hen & mecuberof the Union League | Chub. ‘A FINE FREE Do you realize the terrible fate which as Will you suffer this untold misery. and) loneliness when you have your fu Toate ot hearin 1 have rescued tho T can, rescue you come befory It 1s too Inte. wigan have. beea go successful in quick and acute? rands from Deathens it Happens to Be Protestant Christen-} ite Dent wa een Tay beart | j y ’ CC - < nt to ‘roy Deafness % ing Day at Bellevt Accord tment, for Deafness ta | Tho lite yue found ELL OIA ing to Rite. fo stranger brou, ing ward t to Dolle- to-day, after It worth having Out of my | relieve, human suffering, | incleusaesd of my power | S Qontnons. 1 gladly make you tite ‘sy treatment baa cured thousands | Poer Gaye calla repeatedly to the Gregt Boyg: ‘Whd are you?" “Mysel and again In stentorian tones, “Whom do you represent? Myself!" says the Great Boyg, rie finances Morgan had planned. Mr. Harriman answered. Central, came the same questio Whom do you represent?” .. friends. But there ts scarcely a boy In New York to-day with a narrower outlook, with less chafice In life than was presented to this master of men came the Harriman answer, “Myself!"" comes the answer uncompromlalngly again. ‘Who are you?" faipked the Morgan people when, twent: years ngo, E. H. Harriman, then an unknown broker, blocked the read-| Later, in 1593, when he entered*the Board of Directors of the Minota And again} atop of Henry Ll. Marka‘ home, No. 40) West Twenty-socond street, was not named Patrick. It {9 a Protestant day Yat tho houpltal to-day, by the alter nating eme, and the foundiing was {named “Walter Ford’ by the Rev, Dr, the Episcopal Church, In of e The boy, Apparontly nbo olde was ‘found py Mls Edtia Ackerman, of No. 447 two weoks 3 Ruby and vest Tw # fuane becele a Harrimon 0-day 8 Standard Of! man, But in my ty-geeond Airaess mmnent they, Serta) 8 ce . 8 rom h white bundle pinion. i ply faving talked to him thirty seconds, the fa Ayingd on enetidarkened’ Soorevepe Great Hoye of W: street can still answer.to whoever asks “Who are you das yy rang the bell the visitors [had been left lam night on the door- | ty i tne most distressing. wearing and restored thoir full perfect | Write for the treatment to-day, | the opportunity to ehow how © CURED, RIGHT IN YOUR | hesgl-n hetring. and Leas you MAY own HOME. és at Wh ask 1 that yout will act Now. 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