The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-10
Greatest Railroad Organizer
the World Ever Knew
Passes Away in His Home
on Tower Hill, Arden, n. Y.
LOVED ONES ABOUT HIM
AS DEATH ANGEL COMES
Belief Is General in Gotham
That News of His Death Was
Withheld Until Inc Stock
Market Closed for the Day.
LOSES WAR WITH DISEASE

a RDEN, N. Y, Sept. Edward
~ H. Hartman, the greatest or
ganizer Of railroads the world has
ever known, met the only lasting de-
feat Of his active lie today at the
hands of death.
Secluded in his magnificent home
on Tower Hill, he succlmbed TO an
intestinal disorder this afternoon,
after a fight against disease, which
viii rank for sheer grit with his re
markable struggles in the financial
world.
The exact time Of his death is
known only in that limited circle of
relatives and associates, who had so
effectually shielded Mr. Hartman
from all outside annOyances during
his last illness.
The time was given out as S:35 p. m.
but Mrs. Mary Simons. sister Of the
dead man, said tonight that 1Ir. Har-
riman died at 1870 Whether this ap-
parent discrepancy has any bearing on
the current belief that every effort was
made to lessen the influence Of the
financier's death on The New York
stock market, is problematicaL But 1t
is significant that the time of his death,
as officially announced, was just Jhir-
ty-fiVe minutes after trading had
ceased ON the New York exchange.
Hartman Died Pescefuiiy.
Mi. Hartman died peacefully. and
to the end his brilliant mind retained
its integrity. After d relapse on sun
day he sank slowly, and soon after
noon today there came a relapse, which
marked the approach OF the end. His
wife. two daughters and two sons, who
have been constantly with him, assem-
bled at the bedside, and a carriage was
hastily dispatched for Mrs. SimOns.
whose home is three miles from the
Tower Hill massion.
Mrs. Simons entered the great silent
home in time to be present at her
brothers death. She Joined the wife
and children, who, with DR.. W. C. Lyle
of New York and Orlando Hartman.
a brother, and the nurses formed a
group at the bedside.
No spiritual adviser was at hand.
The sWiftest automobile in the Harri-
man garage had been dispatched for
Rev. DR.. j. Holmes MCGulneSS. EpiS-
cOpaliau rector of Arden parish but he
was not at home. When found later
he hurried to Arden House, but death
had reached there first.
New York Is Informed.
With the secrecy that has been main
tanned at the Hartman residence un-
broken to the very end, news Of Mr.
Harriman's death was conveyed to
New York before it came to Arden and
the valley below. Then. by way of New
York, the report spread quickly, and
confirmation was sought at the resi-
dence by telephone. During the last
ten days rUmOrs have been so persist
ent and variable that little credence
was at first given the report, and il
was a shock when q voice on the hill
replied. Yes, that is correct. Mr. Har-
riman died at 1885 p. m"
Soon afterward the hundreds of
workmen engaged on the uncompleted
estate learned of their employers
death when a page went out and an
nCUnCed simply.
you may all quit work. Mr.. Harri-
man is dead"
A hush fell over the group. and the
workmen, dropping their tools trudged
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