The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12
Financiers, Physicians, Law
-yers and Businessmen TO At
tend Funeral at Arden
Five Hundred WOrkmen EN-
ployed on Estate Will View
Body of Magnate
Family Chaplain Will Conduct
Communion Service for the
Widow and Children
DR.. McGuiness Will Deliver a
Eulogy at Public Memorial
Exercises i'm Church


A RDEN, N Y. Sept. lib
~ tween 90 and 90 of the coun-
try's most prominent men, in
Guiding 6nanciers, lawyers. physi-
clans and men well known in the
business world will attend the funeral
of Edward Fl. Hartman tomorrow.
They will come from New York on a
special train, leaving Jersey City at
o'clock p. m. At St. Johns Epis-
copal church, little stone chapel
near the foot of Tower hill. they will
join the group of mourners who will
have accompanied the funeral process
sion from Arden house
Procession of Workmen
Several hours before the arrival of
the New York visitors procession of
500 workmen employed on the Harri-
man estate will march slowly over
the road leading TO the uncompleted
palace on the hill AT 9 o'clock in
the morning employees will be permit
ted to file through the room where
hes the body of the man of whom
one OF them said today:
AT times he seemed a workman
like ourselves, just an older workman
whom we cared good deal about.
No precautions have been omitted
to protect the funeral car on its way
down the hill Sixteen of the most
stalwart workmen Will act as a guard
of honor The ceremony at the house
at 10 O'Clock a. m. will be a communion
service conducted by the family chap
lain, Rev. DIR. ]. Holmes McGuiness.
None will be present but Mrs Harri-
man and her children.
Public Memorial Service
At IL o'cloei- the public memorial
service will be held at ST. Johns
church. at which Doctor McGuiness will
deliver the only eulogy. No pains have
been spared to make the funeral it,
self. at o'clock. as private as pos
sible
To prevent the intrusion OF persons
not specially hidden. so men will guard
all the approaches to the church and
the three miles of road over which the
funeral eortege will wind. The town
boards of Woodbury. and Tuxedo voted
today to close the roads in those town
ships leading to St. Johns church.
OF all the tokens OF respect none is
more striking than that OF the Erie
railroad that runs through Arden
Every train on that system will stand
still between s:so and s:s2 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, while the funeral
services are in progress.
Steel Casket for Body
The steel casket in which Harrimans
body will rest arrived this afternoon
from New York. In this all that re-
mains of the great railroadman will
be Theoretically sealed before it IL low
cred into the brick lined vault hewn
in the rock of the hillside
1t is estimated that the flowers al
ready received and yet to come will nil
four freight cars. There was steady
all day bringing the tributes up to
Arden hill. Mrs Hartman tonight or
dered that all additional flowers be
sent direct to the church.
Floral Tributes Fill Cars
Floral tributes have accumulated at
the Erie station in Jersey City in such
quantities that two special cars will
be used to bring them to Arden to-
morrow morning
The telegraph Office has received
more than 900 MESA ges expressing
condolences. Messages from Mrs. Mich ,
oias Longworth. J. P. Morgan Thomas
RYAN and Charles p Taft We're 9nonz
those that came to-day.
d. 5. Spendleton. acting town clerk
at Highland Mills. with whom the death
certificate must be fled before the fu-
neral. said today that he might insist
upon a more specific description OF the
cause of Harriman's death than that
which was given in the certificate 20
the undertaken.
Fatal Diseases Complicated
In that certificate DR.. W. G. Lyle
merely stated:
Heart failure. superindnced by In
ternal complications.
No hitch in the ceremony is expected.
Rev. DR.. William Crosswell Doane.
IEDiscopal rishep Of Albany. who bad