HARRIMAN MILLIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 10

HARRIMAN MILLIONS.

:; <Uβ •« o&,; ;■ I! MIGHT BE TEN ; AND MGfiTffi FORTY (Rw.Soptember- 17, 9:35 - p ; m .) v <;•..■ : : New/Yorkj: September 17. T •• Mr...E;- H.vHarriman,:, th. o ; : later'railway magnato, has'bequeathed; to his!-wifo' ; his entire .estate,.variously estimated at .between ten millions;ana'fqrty.m^ionsystCTiiiig;,;./- ' V GREAT BORROWER AND RAIDER, .■Mγ. Harriman'has been described'as a'ajah' about. Mt. ;4iii.-_hi|fh.-. According • to tWf'Svdnojr- Morning Herald/'..students of financing lute made tho tliscovnry that Mr.HarrimaU'! chief • source of power from .the very outset of lus , career ropoied in. fiis ability to ° bTrro" • mjmejr.and.then.m, it for oTthe strength in it..Long before.ho was'rated as a industry- with lUurockoned millions at his back, he was abloto-go out into the highways::and byways'■ of^ ; Wall Street, .and - gather: lii- enough capital' & caixy' to ; completion', ahy/pel project he-'had in 'hand. : ' hveli capitalists .wh'tf.w.cra"fir' f,roni''bein» in accotd with, his' schemes liover had , the courago to • deny; him when, Kβ called ■ for' capital. 'At the'time-of his momorablo'raid on the Nbrtheni Pacific,: on May. 9, iOOI, Mr, Harrinian is said to have:.borrowed ahugo sum of money from''the City National Bank, the.'sfprehouso of the Standard Oil Company. ' And yet this very, bank was allied with .Ml , . J. P. Morgan at the time of his war ofi defonco against Mr Harrimaus attack on tho Northern Pacific. ■ .''• ' ' ■■' ••' •'• •' '• '' v ■ ' •