Warren sheaf., 1909-09-16
HARTMAN IS DEAD
RAILROAD WORLDS GREATEST
FINANcIER SUccUMBS TO
LINGERING ILLNESS.
NO STATEMENT OF CAUSE
Nation Shocked by News and Friends
and Rivals Pay Tribute to "RaiI'
road king"-His Fortune May
Amount to $1o0,o0o,o00.

Arden, N. Y, Sept. 10.-Edward H
Hartman, the greatest organizer Of
railroads the world has ever known.
met the only lasting defeat Of his &C.
tive life at the hands of death.
Recent estimates of Mr.. Harriman's
personal wealth have varied all the
way from $5O,OO0,O00 to 100000, 900.
Secluded in his magnificent home
ON Tower Hill, surrounded by mem
bers of his family, physicians and
nurses, he succumbed to an intestinal
disorder, after fight against disease
which will rank for sheer grit with his
remarkable struggles in the financial
world.
DR.. Lyle, who has been Mr.. Harri-
mans physician throughout this last
illness, has issued no statement con-
cerning his illness or the cause OF
death, but the general understanding
is that there was no operation.
No Operation Say Four.
Four persons are authority for this
belief, among them being Mrs. Simons,
his sister.
While the policy Of reticence that
prevailed during Mr.. Harriman's ILL
ness was maintained by most OF his
relatives and associates after his
death, Orlando Hartman, who is in
New York, discussed the funeral ar
rangements briefly. The services
probably will take place Sunday aft
ernoon. Mr.. Hartman will be buried
in the family plot in the little grave
yard behind st. Johns Episcopal
church at Arden. He will rest beside
his eldest son, Edward H. Hartman,
Jr., who died 20 years ago.
Even Enemies Pay Tribute.
From all parts of the country there
came food of tributes upon Mr.. Har-
riman's career and Nfework-from
railroad presidents, from bankers and
from men prominent in all walks Of
business and financial life.
Friends, former business associates
and even rivals of the great railroad
man spoke as unit of his tremen-
dous power for work. AS to the prob
able effect of his death on the fnan-
cial world, there was variety Of
opinion, but comment was generally
rather guarded.
One of the finest tributes to Mr..
Hartman came from James J. Hill,
another giant among the railroad
builders.
Brief Sketch Of Career.
Mr.. Hartman was born in Hemp
stead, L. l., February 25, 1S49, the
third son of Rev. Orlando Hartman,
Jr., rector of st. Georges Episcopal
church at Hampstead. His mother
came from an old and aristocratic
family of New Brunswick, N. J. At 16
he found employment as an errand
boy in a brokers' office in Wall street
In 1870, before he was % years old,
he had bought seat on the New
York stock exchange and paid for it
with $4,000 he made in speculation.
He learned his elementary lessons in
finance in the school of Jim Fisk, Jay
Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt.
Harriman's most spectacular per-
formance, and which made his name
familiar to all the reading public, was
in May, 1901, when he struggled with
the Morgan and Hill interests for con.
troll of the Northern Pacific. His
quarrel with President Roosevelt was
another important epoch in his career
Mr.. Hartman is survived by a
widow, two sons, Avery and Roland
Hartman, and three daughters, Mrs
Robert l.. Gerry, Miss Mary and Miss