The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-10
Death of Magnate Was
 Expected. MEMBERS OF FAMILY ;.
 PRESENT AT BEDSIDE Wizard Of Railroad Organization Passes Away.
His Rehsbilitaties ef the usson Pa ciae and Other Great Rail sys- tems Amased the Financaers
 of the Entire Money
 World.

World.
 Arden, N. r.. Sept. s.-Edward H. Hartman, the greatest organizer of railroads the world has ever known met the only lasting defeat of his &C., ,sive life today at the hands of death.
 Secluded in his magnificent home on Tower Hili. surrounded by members tof his family. physicians and nurses. he succumbed to an intestinal disor- Mer this afternoon. after 6 fight against the disease which will rank Ror sheer grit with his remarkable etruggies in the financial world. The exact time of his death Is known only in that limited circle of selatives and associates which has so Ieffectively shielded Mir. Harriman krom all outside annoyances during his last illness. The time was given to the world at s:ss p. m,. but Mrs. Mary simons, sister of the dead man. said tonight that the end had come at 1880. more than two hours pre- svious.
 Whether this apparent discrepancy has any bearing On the current belief khat every effort was made to lessen the influence of the financier's death on the New York stock market Is problematical. But it is significant lshat the time of his death. as ofiiciai- sy announced. was just thirty-five sninutes after the trading hsd ceased pn the exchange.
 End Game Peacefully.
 Mir Hartman died peacefully and almost to the end his brilliant mind retained it's integrity. After a relapse on Sunday, he sank steadily and soon after the noon hour today there came h relapse which mark ed the approach IDf the end. Ills wife. two daughters. I4he Misses Mary and Carol and his eons. who have been constantly with him assembled at the bedside and a eourier was hastily dispatched for Mrs. simons. whose home is in Arden, khree miles froni6the Tower Hill man. sion.
 Driving hurriedly up the mountain. side. Mrs. simons entered the great si- bent house in time to De present at her brothers death. She joined the wife and children who. with Dr. W. E. Lyle of New York and Orlando hzarriman, a brother. and the nurses kormed 6 group at the bedside.
 No spiritual adviser was at hand. erhe fastest automobile in the Harri- man garage had been dispatched for khs Rev. Dr. J. Holmes McGuiness. an Episcopal rector of Arden Parish, and Mr. Harriman's personal chaplain. but Dr. McGuiness was not at home. When found later. although rushed up the he did not arrive until death had come So Arden House.
 News Goes to New York. :; With the secrecy that has been maintained at the Hartman residence hnbroken to the very end, news of MT. New York before 1t came to Arden and khe valley below. Then by way of New York the report that death had arrived at the great estate on Tower aInl spread quickly and confirmation was sought at the residence by tele- phone. During the past ten days ru- mors have been So persistent and va- Fiable that little credence was at first given the reports and it was a shock when a voice on the hill replied, "Yes that is correct. MT. Hartman died at b:as p. m." The speaker was evidently hn employe.
 ] Soon afterward the hundreds of workmen engaged on the uncompleted pstate learned of their masters death when @ page came out on the lawn hnd announced simply: "You may all quit work. MT. Hartman is dead"
 While the policy of reticence that prevailed during Mr. Harriman's i'll. ness was maintained by most of his relatives and associates after his Q6Atng OEtAHuO WlObG nome Is in New York, discussed the funeral arrangements briefly tonight He said that Mir. Hartman would be buried in Ghe family plot in the little grave yard behind St. Johns Eplscopal Church at Arden. He will rest beside his eldest son, B. IT. Hartman. Jr.. who sied twenty-two years ago. soon after the family first came to Arden
 A shaft of blue stone. quarried from the steep sides of Tower Hill marks the grave of the baby Edward. and 1t Is probable that a similar stone of moderate ssze will be erected over the last resting place of his distinguished father. The service will be held at S:S0 on Sunday afternoon next and. 1t as understood, will be strictly private.
 pr. Lyle. who has been Mir. Harri- mans physician throughout this last illness, has issued no statement con- eerning his illness or the cause of death, but the general understanding is that there was no operation.
 Mrs. Simons discussed her brothers death this evening with more freedom than any one else, but even she pro- fessed not to know the exact nature of his ailment.
 She saia emphatically that there had