Show I HARRIMAN WAS VAS A FRIEND OF THE WESTERN PEOPLE N New w York Sept I t tIThe biggest t and most patriotic American we had W was 8 Henry Harriman lie He wa always alas interested in overy thing that interests America I Ta tile e tI or of r lmar lIe r t r or the Harriman lines who for foT ut years yearl has been In dose close and almost continuous outs ous contact with Mr Harriman and a aa aa a time Iliac too when all or of his financial and railroad coups were plan planned tied ned and executed Mr 1011 Millar when at al his home in N J at fist first wa was loath to discuss his chief Mr 11 Millar Mid suid that thal he be would not attempt to tell off tIr Mr youth That hiss has been written hun bun hundreds of times he Eald ald and I shall onI only tell you OU of oC th those c traits I person nil ally observed I A little nore than twelve years ago aso I was called front Crom the Boston office ot of the Union Pacific and Ind told to report to Mr 11 Harriman in New e York I had bad never seen Mi 1 Harriman up to that time Ume and in fact ha had heard very eQ little I of him I did not know whether I was i ito to hold myself subject to his orders Cora fora day a week or a month I look 1 back upon thiO eleven eleen ears eai with the tho keenest pleasure for no man nian could f have been treated with more and kindness than I had been beeD Ii If I should be asked to express a ar opinion as to Mr 11 chief eble or those which ha have 6 had a direct bearing upon his success I would sa say his head for fi fig ures ittes his quicK grasp or of facts laid be before before fore hint him and his faculty for getting at atthe atthe the very eJ kernel of them his estimate of men and his insight into I the future At figures he as a veritable ard Lay before him a ma maze e of figures II antI and estimates and auth In a flash he will have solved the knottIest ot ol problems and anI shown 1 h where oer every pen penny ny fly of the sum estimated Mn can be ox ex to the vory best advantage I Just take for instance what ho he has f done for the west t antI and northwest A his direction mor than has been spent In the countr |