The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-10
IN SOLID ROCK.
Grave Of e. HI. Hartman Will
BE Blasted Out.
Six of His Employees Will Act as
Pail Bearers.
OFF UNTIL MONDAY.
Their Future Employment
Matter of Uncertainty.
Mrs. Hartman Would Like to
Occupy Old Home.
OFF UNTIL MONDAY.

I Occupy Old Home.
Arden, N. Y. Sept. 10.-Arrangements
for the funeral of E. H. Hartman,
which is to be held Sunday from St.
Johns Episcopal church. were compile
ted today. The services which are to
be strictly private and attended only
by the immediate family and a few
lifelong friends. will be conducted by
the Rev. ]. Holmes McGuiness, at $3.50
p. m.
| The active pallbearers will be the six
men in charge of the various depart
nents of Mr.. Harrinan's estate at
Arden and Turner. They are Charles
T. Ford his general superintendent;
William Viner manager of the farm
at Arden; William Robbins, superin-
tondent of Mr.. ]1arrimans stock farm
and in general charge of his trotting
horses at Goshen; P. w. Mandtgo, his
ter mason and William A. Mcclellan,
ST perintendent of the Arden Farm
Dairy company. The list of honorary
Eallbearers has not yet been an
nouncad.
The milhonaire's body will rest in a
grave blasted from the solid rock of
the hillside. This method of burial was
adopted when his eldest son, Edward
II. hartman, Jr.. was puTlcQ IL years
ago. The Hartman plot is in a far cor
per of the graveyard and the only spot
in the enclosure were the blue stone
of Tower Hill rises to the surface.
Men began work today quarrying out
the grave.
Raining at Arden.
A drizzling rain began this morning
and the landscape presented scene
in consonance with the sorrow that
hangs over this portion of the Ramapo
today in the villages OF Turner and
arden. The 200 or more workmen on
the Hartman estate have been laid off
until Monday. Few of them know
lowed to return to their work, but
anxiety regarding their own future is
for the time being overshadowed by
grief over the death of their employer.
Harrirnan Gairies. told & group of
workmen at the Turner station that he
believed that the work Of completing
Arden house and laying out the
according TO Mr.. Harriman's plans.
THAT was his wish" he SAID, land
believe it will be carried out
ST have lost the best friend I eve-
had" declared Mr.. Mcclellan, "and the
best friend of every man here"
Yes; that's. So said several of the
listeners. ''There'H never be another
boss like him.
Miss Mary Is Like Him.
The belief here is that the active
provcnents will devolve upon his eld
est daughter. Mary Hartman had al
ways been her fathers companion in
his walks and drives about the es-
tate. The men say that in mental
makeup she approaches her father
CT arer than any of the other children.
Mrs. Hartman. it is said. would be
glad to return to the old Hartman
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family occupied when the family first
came to Arden, % years ago. This
spot is hallowed for her by the death |
of her first born son and the birth of
three younger children. In spite of
all it's castled magnificence Arden
house" to her will ALWAYS recall the
last days of her husband. When the
financier came there on August "a, |
he was already dying man. The
house was not a cheerful association. |
Its broad halls. its great dining room |
and it's rows of guest chambers have !
never been used to entertain other
guests other than physicians who
focked to the house to help the |
owner in his last fight and two or
three of his closest business as
sociates, whose presence was re-
quired by the dying mans wish to
have no detail unsettled of the vast
interests he felt slipping from his
grasp.
kilograms by Baslxetful.
The Hartman family has shut it
self up alone in its grief. Super1n-
tendent Mcclellan on their behalf
asked the newspaper men at Turner
TODAY to make no attempt to reach |
the house. He said that for a day or /
two the dead mans nearest relatives
who are gathered at Arden house !
preferred to receive no visits of either
coincidence or business
The telegraph station at Arden has
been kept busy since yesterday af-
ternoon receiving messages OF
sympathy from all parts of the world.
The kilograms are being sent up the
hill in baskets with hundreds of let
ters that began to pour in this morn
ing. One secretary at the house is
kept busy opening and answering
these MESA ges. 1t is probable that
none of the family now on the hill
will leave Arden until after the
funeral
Signs of Sorrow.
Sipns of sorrow at the death of
Mr. Hartman were numerous in the
financial district today. The flag of
the stock exchange was at half mast
and similar tribute was paid by other
institutions and banking houses.
All the Hartman offices in New
york will be closed until Monday with
the exception of the treasurer's and
the transfer offices of the company