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Show SOMETHING- ABOUT HARRIMAN AND THE WAY HE TRAVELS The train in which Mr. Harriman is making his trip is well arrunged for conducting business, and resembles an office on wheels. His complete staff includes in-cludes Privato Secretary Thomas Price and a completo corps of office assistants. Thorc aro two assistant secretaries, two stenographers, a telegraph linemau, locomotive loco-motive engineer, two telegranh oDera-1 tors, a locomotive firoman, three brakomon, a railroad conductor, a chef, four cooks, a steward and a purchasing agent. At any time during his journey Mr. Harriman is prepared to get into touch with the business world as easily as if in his office in New York. Connection may be made with a wire nt any place he happens to slop, and his business is carried 011 h- his assistants with the regularity of "clockwork. The equipment of the four cars which compose tho private train, sleeping accommodations, ac-commodations, cuisino and all appointments, appoint-ments, are of tho best that can bo obtained. ob-tained. Mr. Harriman has his own private car, with special accommodations accommoda-tions for living and with his offices conveniently located. Business and Pleasure. The trip, therefore, which the magnate mag-nate has boon taking has not becu entirely en-tirely a pleasure excursion. Jn many ways the tour has boon one of inspection, inspec-tion, and made to enable the groat railroad rail-road king to see personally all the different dif-ferent sections of country 'by which his railroad linos are crossed. At tho same time, he has had in mind especial consideration con-sideration for his health, and he has with him his privato physician, aud ho has been careful to avail hiinsolf of every opportunity to improve his physical physi-cal condition as far as possible. Mr. Harriman looks as if he had been enjoying himself during tho trip. His choelcs aro bronzed liko a soldier's, and thorc is little or no trace of feebleness in his actions. His manner is quiet and a littlo reserved. Whilo he talks freely, ho evident!' doos not mean to givo his listeners too largo an idea of what ho plans for tho future. Thcro is nothing of the bull dog or bull dozer about Mr. Harriman. Instead, ono finds a small, quiet, unassuming man, of ago rising sixty years, who talks pleasantly and easily, especially to representative's of the press, to whom ho appears al-w.ys al-w.ys willing to give any information desired to the best of his ability. At tho Commercial club Monday morning he granted an interview of fully fifteen minutes to tho reporters whilo tho other people waited. Mr. Harriman does not permit himself him-self to be imposed upon, however, for ho brought tho interview quickly but polite!' to a close as soon as it bbcame apparent that there wns nothing more to be said. He gives one tho impression of being thoroughly familiar with what is going on in the world, of knowing exactly what ho wishes done, and of being be-ing able to carry out whatever he undertakes. Mr. Harriman began business forty-fivo forty-fivo years ago as an office boy in a Wall street firm at a salary of $5 per week; ho has been the central fiuro in tho railroad world for tho pastton years. His general appcarnnco at tho present time reflects in some degree tho early training of the man. for there is nothing of ostentation about him, and if it wero not for his well-known figure ho would bo scarcely noticed in a crowd of business men. Pie 1 ravels in luxury, yet thcro is nothing of display in his manner. He dresses quietly and entirely without the regard for personal appoaranco which might be justified in a man of his wealth. The man who has altered in so few years the ontire point of view of the country in regard to railroading is still too much of a business man to regard re-gard seriously anything but tho details of his groat business. Mild of manner, he speaks with authority and with an onrnestness that carries conviction with every word. Mr. Harriman 's train will return east over the Union Pacific, and ho will reach Now York in a few days. |