The Washington times., 1909-08-27
Shipment of Oxygen TO Mag
mates Home Gives Rise
to Talk.
STREET NOT MOVED
BY MANY REPORTS
Railroad King Spends Time In
Physician Refuses
TO Be interviewed.

TURNER'S. n. Y, Aug. 27.--That Ed
ward H Hartman IS 70 undergo an op-
Grafton Is the belief or the newspaper
men who have been Stationed here 10
watch the condition Of the railroad mag
nate.
This belief was brought about this
morning when two tanks of oxygen
were brought to the railroad station on
the Erie road by special train. The
tanks were hurried up the inclined rail-
way TO Arden, the magnates home.
DR.. Lyle. Mr. Harriman's physician,
declined TO answer any questions about
the probability Of an operation, which
rlmor says is for cancer. and he did
act act as though he believed Mr.. Har-
riman's condition more serious than in
the past few days.
The tnaccesibility of Mr.. Harrimans
home makes It impossible TO confirm
any OF the hundreds or rumors that
reach here as 10 his condition, and II is
possible that the two tanks Of oxygen
were brought for some other purpose
than 10 be used in ease-cf an operation
on the railroad king.
Ihere seems TO be no response in Wall
Street TO the rumor OF an operation.
Oxygen Arrives.
Shortly before 10 o'clock the oxygen
was unloaded az the Arden station from
special train. consisting of an engine
and baggage car The tanks were i'm
mediately loaded into one of the Har-
Timan automobiles. which made a flying
trip to the incline railroad and thence
up to the Hartman home on Tower
Hill.
At 10:52 two men, who had every ap-
pearance Of being physicians. left the
train at Turner's. they carried med
lcai eass When askey by a reporter
as 20 their mission. one of the men
replied. Don't bCiher US" The two
jumped into auot'le- waiting automobile
and were carried away 10 the inclined
railroad, two miles from Turner'S.
Hartman has not walked 100 steps since
going 10 Alden and his automobile car
ried him TO the irclined railroad which
brought him % the top Of Tower Hill. An
invalid's chair almost a portable couch,
carries him about the Tower Hill when
he is not sleeping Hartman has slept
a great deal. both by day and By night
since his return 10 Arden. His sole oFen
air experience yesterday was g few
moments ne spent on me Verdnda about
$50 IN the afternoon. DR.. LvIe ordered
him indoors as soon as ae found him
there.
Hartman Is guarded in nis home even
more closely than a Russian Gar No
man sees him save when he so wills.
Is An Ideal Retreat.
No one is allowed 10 both
er his rest save the men he
summons. A more ideal place for re-
treat from observing eyes could not be
found HarrIman's estate covers the
entire mountain, about fourteen square
miles. The home is on a crag on Tower.
Hili, 4.6o0 feet high. There are two.
and only two, ways Of getting there
one IS by an automobile road, winding
about the mountain from its base. The
other is by a steep incline railroad
built 10 carry materials up the mountain
Cor the new house.
Owing 10 the stetpness Of the noun
tain and the uncut itndeTbrush, it would
take a hardy mOuntaineer hours to pene-
trate the summit o. the cTag Few of
the hardy Orange county men have ever
attempted the trip even IN the DAYS be-
fore Hartman bought the mountain and
no one Of them would attempt now.
fearful Of the guards who infest the
mountain side The two means of an
proach are efectuaily barred. No man
who is not an employe of the estate
can get on board the incline railroad.
and even should one manage to ride to
the top OF the mountain, that would end
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