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Show useful, productive, developing enterprises enter-prises he now Is doing good and a year or ten years from now greater good will com from his mighty commercial com-mercial organization, which demands earnest effort from Its employes, expects ex-pects fair treatment from the outside and extends to the public an equivalent equival-ent for service performed. Thero 13 tho nice balance between the railroad, Its employes and the public. Neither is supposed to have an unralr advantage advan-tage or to exact an unfair tribute, and out of this equitable system Is supposed to come that most deslrablo stability which makes for prosperity and a contented people. E. H. HARRIMAN. E. H. Harrlman Btarted his career as a messenger boy on tho Stock Exchange, Ex-change, New York, receiving for his services $5 a week. Did ever a hero In a novel equal the achievements or this messenger boy, now king o railroad rail-road magnates? No one can estimate Harrl roan's power; few know his wealth, yet tho man dresses In clothes ot the plainest make, crowning his head with a hat that a dudo would laugh at Had wo the opportunity, this Is tho question we would have asked him: "Mr. Harrlman. after you have gained gain-ed such a railroad mastery as will satisfy your ambition in a commercial way, what then?" The great railroad builder and llnan-cler llnan-cler mic;ht have answered that ho contemplated con-templated dividing his wealth in a philanthropic movement such as Carnegie Car-negie has started.' but, after closely reading his interviews during the last lour years, wo believe he would have replied: "My greatest ambition is not purely commercial. My llfe'6 sork is to give to my country a railroad development and a railroad control which shall afford af-ford the greatest possible efficiency ot service and offer to a vast army ot workmen steady employment and lair remuneration." Mr. Harrlman has said that the opening of new fleld3 of employment for willing hands is the source ot his greatest plmsure. He could distribute his millions in a day, and a year from that date he might look for evidence of the phll-unthrophy phll-unthrophy without success, but he knows that by retaining his millions in |