Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-12
SEPULCHFR.
HEWN FOR
HARTMAN
Rock Tomb Awaits Body
of Financier
MAGNATE'S FUNERAL TO BE AT
ARDEN TODAY
TRAINS AND SHIPS TO STAND
STILL ONE MINUTE
Not Wheel Will Move During Period
of Interment-Natlon Sends Con-
doIence to FSmiIy-Mar-
kets Fluctuating
TRAINS AND SHIPS TO STAND
STILL ONE MINUTE

a iNDAS4N, N. sept. IL
n anaemia and oedema of the
lungs" was the chief cause of
Edward H. Harriman's death as Off
cially stated tonight by Dr. w. G. Lyle
of New York, his physician, in the
death certificate filed with the town
clerks office at Highland Mills.
There was no mention of cancer, but
it was noted that the word chief was
inserted in the printed form after the
question Cause of death?"
Popularity interpreted, anaemia is an
impoverished condition of the blood;
"pernicious anaemia," therefore, is a
severe form of the disease.
Oedema of the lungs, or water in the
lungs, the Interpretation generally ac-
cepted, might have resulted from va
riety of causes.
Immediately after the death certifi-
cate was filed burial permit was
granted.
During the day DIR. Lyle had filed a
certificate with the undertaken, in
which he said simply that Mr.. Harrl-
mans death had resulted from heart
failure, superinduced by internal COM
plications."
Death Came at 3:35 P. M.
DR.. Lyle also states positively in the
certificate filed with the town clerk
that Mr.. Harriman's death occurred at
1886 p. m. on September 8.
The certificate, which is attested by
Walter A. Hartman, Mr.. Harriman's
eldest son, reads in part as follows:
Il hereby certify that | attended the
deceased from August A. 1909, to Sep
tember 8. 1909; that I last saw him
alive September g. 1909, and that death
occurred on the date stated above at
3:35 D. M
Following the foregoing the cause of
~. II o,,1 he ell tTIr on
pended, ''Wiliam Gordon Lyle, M. D."
Mr.. Harriman's age at the time of
his death was given as 81 years, 6
months and 15 days and it was set forth
that he had lived in Arden for twenty
two years.
Dr. Lyles action in amplfying on the
certificate filed with the undertaken
smoothed out what might have devel->I
oped into hitch at the funeral
Statement insufficient
d. Spendleton, acting town clerk at |
Highland Mills, had said previously to
the filing of the certificate that he did |
not feel that DR.. Lyle's statement to
the undertaken was sufficient.
DIR. Lyle in putting into writing the |
time of Mr.. Harriman's death at 1886 |
seems to have dissipated the report |
which was accepted for while that
he died at 1870 p. M, but that the news
was held back until after the close of |
the New York stock exchange.
The fact that cancer Is not mentioned
also comedies with what DR.. Lyle said |
when he denied the truth of a state
ment credited to a Viennese specialist,
that he had diagnosed the financier's
ailment while abroad as cancer.
"Pernicious anaemia," which DIR. Lyle
assigns as the primary cause of Mr.. !
Harriman's death, is a disease which
in nearly all recorded cases has re-
suited fatally.
The patient is usually middle aged
and there is nothing to account for the
disease.
Medical Treatment
The line of treatment generally fol-
lowed includes the administration of
oxygen and limiting the diet to milk,
eggs, meat juices and other simple
foods. In this respect it will be re
called that there were several reports
that oxygen was given to Mr.. Harri-
man on various occasions.
His appearance and manner also on
the day. of his return from Europe
seemed to agree with ts-e appearance
of one suffering from the disease.
Between fifty and sixty of the coun-
trys most prominent men. including
financiers, lawyers, physicians and men
we'll known in the business world, will
attend the funeral of Edward H. Har-
riman tomorrow. They will come from
New York on a special train, leaving
Jersey City at 2 p. m. At st. Johns
Episcopal church, a little stone chapel
near the foot of Tower HILL they will
join the group of nourners who Will
have accompanied the funeral process
sion from Arden house.
Several hours before the arrival of
the New York visitors, a procession
of 500 workmen employed on the Har-
riman property will march slowly over
the road leading to the uncompleted
palace on the hill At 8 O'Clock in the I
employees will be permitted
to file through the room where lies
the body of the man of whom one or ,
them said today:
"At times he seemed a workman
like ourselves. just an older workman !
whom we cared good deal about"
Ceremony at House
The ceremony at the house at 10 a.
m. will be communion service con-
Quoted by the family physician the
Rev. DR.. ]. Holmes McGuiness. None 1
viii be present but Mrs. Hartman ana
her children, At IL O'Clock the pub
lie memorial service viii be held at !
ST. Johns church. at which DR.. NC
will deliver the only eulogy
No pains have been spared to make
the funeral itself at o'clock as pri- a
vate as possible.
OF ali the tokens of respect none is +
more striking than that of the Erie &
that runs through Arden.
Every train on this system will stand !
still between $3.50 and 1882 tomorrow
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