Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-08
HARTMAN BETTER"
Doctors Brief Message to Re-
p0rterS at Arden.
DECLINES TO SAY MORE
Gives Notice That Further Requests
for News Will Be Ignored.
WORK ON ESTATE IS RESUMED
No External Evidence at Mansion
That Financier Is Gravely Ill.
Stock Market Firmer

ARDEN, N. Y, September S.-A signed
statement as to E. H Harriman's condi-
tion was obtained from Dr. Lyle at Arden
house this morning. 1t read simply:
''Mr. Hartman is better today.
DIR w. G. LYLE"
This statement was in reply to note
sent to DIR. Lyle by several newspaper
men who drove to Arden house during
the forenoon. This note pointed out the
fact that wild rumors regarding Mr.. Har-
vious statements from the house and the
offices of the Union Pacific have been
unable to set them at rest. For this
reason the newspaper men said that
they would appreciate still another di-
rect and authoritative word from the
physician DR.. Lyle returned this note
with his reply penciled and signed on
the back. At the same time he sent
word by the messenger that he would
receive no more written communications
and that If any more were sent they
Work Resumed on Estate.
Mr.. Harriman's condition was not so
grave today as to demand absolute quiet.
Work was resumed this morning by the
200 men engaged in completing his mag
nificent estate at Tower Hill. The
whistle of the steam engine. about 200
yards from the sick mans chamber,
4, TIT,
blew a more welcome blast than that
which sounded over the Ramapo valley
at 6.1O am
This engine operates the steel cables
that haul the cars of the incline railway
connecting the house with the foot of the
hill and the railroad. At 6:10, 6:25 and
6:47 it let off three long blasts, and short
ly after the fiat cars were seen creeping
up the steep grade. The. stone masons
resumed work on the masonry wall at it's
base. The carpenters, masons and dec
orators at work on the house itself were
laid off Sunday for the Labor day holi-
day and on account of Mr.. Harriman's
relapse Sunday night did not get back
to work yesterday. 1t is said that this
order is still In force.
Believe Him Gravely Ill.
There were few within sight of the
lights that shone out over the valley from
Arden house last night who did not be-
lieve that the master of all its magnifi-
cence lay gravely Ill.
While DR., Lyle did not talk with visit
ors late last night himself, he sent word
that there was no occasion for a fresh
bulletin, because there had been no
change in Mr.. Harriman's condition
since the announcement of his relapse
Sunday night. That statement included
the assertion that Mr.. Hartman was re-
covering and In no immediate danger.
No one, however, contradicted the belief
that Mr.. Hartman is a very sick man.
Every employe on the estate who would
talk today said that his condition is re-
garded by those about him as extremely
critical. Even If Mr.. Hartman had not
suffered the second relapse reported yes
terday this condition can easily be ac-
counted for by the general state of his
health and the attack of Sunday. There
is no doubt that his vitality is very low
This fact in itself is enough to account
for the anxiety displayed by all of Mr.
Harriman's friends.