The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-09-17
HARRIMAN'S END
WAS PEACEFUL
Remains Now Rest in CGIlls.
terry Near Arden.
FINANCiERS AT THE FUNERAL

Hartman Consulted in Vienna, Say1
He Diagnosed the Complaint as Car
cer-Sister Declares There Was Nc
Observation-Disclosures Vast Wealth
The remains of E. H. Hartman, ths
railway magnate, now rest in the lit.
tie country cemetery at st. Johns
church, near Arden, N. Y, the late
home of the deceased. The funeral
ceremonies were simple, but were at
tended by many financiers Of note and
friends of the family.
For five minutes during the progress
of the funeral procession not wheel
was turned on any part of the $4,000
miles of the Union and Southern Pa
cific systems. The last time such q
mark of respect was shown by the
transportation systems of the country
was on the occasion of the funeral oil
President Mckinley.
1t is the consensus of opinion among
leaders in the stock market that the
suppression of the news of the death
of e. III. Hartman until after the close
of trading on the previous afternoon
had prevented all sensational varia
tions in the stock lists and was reSpon
sible for the fact that Hartman hold
ings felt only a slight decline. Mr.
Hartman died at 1870 and the news
was not given out until 1885.
Cause of Death Kept Secret.
There was much speculation as &c
the cause of Mr.. Harriman's death.
The rumor was current and purport
ed to come from an authoritative
source that the railroad king was q
victim of cancer of the stomach.
Many said, however, ''it was simply
the end of a WORKOUT man."
The only information as to the
causes that produced death was tele
phone statement of DR.. Lyle.
"Mr. Harriman's death was due &c
heart exhaustion, superinduced by 9th
err physical complications, it said.
A dispatch from Vienna says that
Professor Adolf Struempell, the Wen
Use specialist, whom the late e. Fl
hartman went to Europe to consult
now admits that when he saw MIR. Har
riman in July he diagnosed his com
plant as cancer.
Hartman died peacefully and to the
end his brilliant mind retained its in
tegrity After a relapse on Sunday he
sank slowly and soon after the moor
hour Thursday there came relapse
which marked the approach of the end
His wife, his two daughters, the Misses
Mary and Carol, and his sons, Walter
and Roland who have been constantly
with him, assembled at the bedside
and a carriage was hastily dispatched
for Mrs. Simons, whose home is here
in Arden, three miles from the Tower
Hill mansion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Gerry also
were present. Mrs. Gerry is Har.
riman's daughter.
Gerry said the cause of Harrimans
death probably will never be known.
New York Gets News First.
With the secrecy that has been main.
tanned at the Hartman residence I'm
broken to the very end, news of Harri
mans death was conveyed to New
York before it came to Arden and the
valley below. Then by way of New
York, the report that death had arrived
at the great estate on Tower Hill:
spread quickly and confirmation was
sought at the residence by telephone
A voice on the hill replied: Eyes
that is correct. Mr.. Hartman died al
1886 p. m"
The understanding is that there
was no operation. Four persons are
authority for this belief. They ar:
Mrs. Simons, his sister; Charles 4
Ford, superintendent of the Hartman
estate William A. Mcclellan, superin
tendent of the Arden farms, anj
Thomas B. Price, Harriman's persona
secretary in the Union Pacific offices
All four made such a declaration aftel
Harriman's death.
Mrs. Simons discussed his deatf
with more freedom than any one else
but even she professed not to know
the exact nature of her brothers all
ment.
Deny There Was an Operation.
She said emphatically that there haC
been no operation, then became Sc
overcome by her feelings that she beg
ged to be excused and said she coul(
not describe the scenes at the hous,
during the last hours. Her husband
Charles d. Simons, said he had not ar
rived at Arden in time to see Hartman
before he died.
Recent estimates of Harriman's per
sonal wealth have varied all the wa.
from $4,000, 900 to 100000, 900. H,
was, of course, large holder of securi
ties of the various corporations witt
which he was identified, Including il
addition to the Union Pacific and tn,
Southern Pacific systems, over scor
of smaller or tributary properties, no
only in this country but in Mexico a
well. Report credited him with larg
personal holdings in the Atchison, TIC
peka and Santa Fe road, Baltimore an,
Ohio, Delaware and Hudson, Erie, Ill
nois Central, New York Central, an
Pacific Mail Steamship company. Hi