The San Francisco call., 1909-09-10

workmen engaged on the uncompleted
estate learned of their employers s
death when a page went out and an 7
nounced simply:
You may all quit work. Mr.. Harri- |
man is dead
A hush fell over the group and the
workmen, dropping their tools, trudged
silently to the fatcars and descended
on the private incline railway.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENT
Orlando Hartman discussed the
funeral arrangements briefly tonight.
He said Hartman would be buried in
the family plot in the little graveyard
behind st. Johns Episcopal church at
Arden. He will rest beside his oldest
son, Edward H Hartman Jr., who
died % wears ago, soon after the family
first came to Arden. The services will
be held at $3.50 o'clock on Sunday aft
ernoon next. and it is understood VIII
be strictly private.
Doctor Lyle. who had been Harri-
mans physician throughout his last
Illness has issued no statement con-
cerning the cause of death, but the
general understanding is that there
was no operation. Four persons are
authority for this belief. They are
Mrs. Simons his sister; Charles T. Ford,
superintendent of the Hartman estate;
William Mcclellan, superintendent of
the Arden-F Farms dairy company, and
Thomas B. Price. Harriman's personal
secretary in the Union Pacific offices.
SISTER TELLS OF DEATH
Mrs. Simons discussed his death this
evening with more freedom than any
one else, but even she preferred not to
know the exact nature OF her brothers
ailment.
You have heard the sad news?" she
said. MY dear brother passed away
peacefully in the presence of all the
members of our family
What time did Mr.. Hartman die?"
she was asked.
About 1870 o'clock this afternoon"
was the unexpected answer.
She said emphatically that there had
been no operation. Her husband
Charles d. Simons, said he had not ar
rived at Arden in time to see Hartman
before he died. He said that Hartman
died at 3:35 .. m.
Then Mrs. Simons was wrong when
she said 1870 p. nl.?
Mr.. Simons hesitated and then said:
We'll, was not there when he died.
LovETT Is RETICENT>
Former Judge Lovett, chief counsel |
for the Union and Southern Pacific rail- |
roads, the best known of the Hartman |
lines, did not reach Tower hill in time |
for last farewell to his chief. 1t was |
5:25 this evening when he reached |
Arden, and he declined to say anything |
regarding the time, the cause or any |
other circumstances surrounding Har- |
rimans death.
Earlier in the day, however, before |
the crisis was at hand, Hartman talked |
with Thomas B. Price.
This was one of the StronOesf evil |
dences that Harriman's master mind |
was alert to the end, for it is believed |
that Price was summoned to enable the |
dying financier to give some instruc- |
tions concerning his vast affairs.
Price returned TO New York at 1:45 |
If Harrimans death had occurred be- |
fore he left the house his words did not |
indicate it.
Mr.. Harriman's condition. he said |
"is fairly encouraging.
NEWS is UNEXPECTED
He had been sent for, he said, to |
transact some business. Although his !
family and perhaps two or three asso- |
ciates had known that Hartman might |
die at any time since his relapse last |
Saturday. the news of his death was
comparatively unexpected in the vicin- |
ity of Arden. And in some respects
there are Indications that 1T was unex-
pected in New York so early. The best
proof of this was that Judge Lovett |
who has passed practically every night
at the house since Sunday last, returned
to New York this morning as usual and
was not at hand when the man whose
mantle he may wear-for he is spoken
of by some as Harriman's SUCCESSOR
breathed his last.
In keeping with the simple arrange
ments for the funeral an undertaken
from Turner, the nearest railroad sta
tion to Arden, was pressed into service
tonight. "A man who assisted the en-
balmers said that the body bore no
sign of any recent operation.
The family decision in selecting the
little country graveyard on the hillside
near here is the first evidence that they
intend to maintain Arden as their
home. The unfinished palace that COW
ers Tower hill and the great estate that