Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-09-11
BISHOP OOAA TO CONDUCT SERVICES
Family Services Will Be Held at Ar
den House and Burial Service VIII
Take place at ST. Johns Episcopal
Church. Arden-Rector To Deliver
the Memorial Address.
(By Associated Press).

ARDEN, y. e, Stpt. Al oio
ments for the funeral on Sunday oil
Edward II. Hartman were completed
today at a family council.
Family services will be held at Ar
den House at 10 O'Clock Sunday MORN
ing and holy communion will be ceie-
brated at IL o'clock at st. Johns
Episcopal church, Arden. This SER
vice will be open TO employees of the
estate and residents of the neighbor-
hood. Rev. j. Holmes McGuinness,
rector of St. Johns, will deliver a
memorial address.
Bishop to Conduct Service.
The burial service will take place
at st. Johns at 3 p. m This Will De
conducted by Rev. William c. Ros-
well Doan, Episcopal Bishop Of AL
bany, and Archdeacon Nielsen. OF st.
John the Divine. of New York, assist
ed by Dr. McGuinness. Interment
will follow in the Hartman private
burying ground, stones throw
southeast of the church.
Although it has been announced
that the 3 O'Clock service will be pri-
vate. the members of the family and
the few friends invited TO attend will
fill the little Episcopal church, with
its seating caracity of barely $50.
Half the population of the nearby
villages will attend the public ser
vice. Carriage are all ready being
held at exhorbitant rates for use OF
Sunday.
Blast Grave From Solid Rock.
Seventy men toiled on the Arden
hillside in the pouring rain all day
today. Six were blasting a grave
from the solid rock of the private
graveyard near st. Johns church;
the others were shooting the three
miles Ct road over which the body
will be carried TO its last resting
place.
The grave is being blasted and
quarried out Of the bluestone which
lies but few inches below the sur
face of the ground. After the top
LAYER of earth was scraped away, an
automobile brought drills and pow
der from the top of the hill and the
workmen began their toiiscme pro-
gress through the rock.
The task will net be finished unit
sometime tomorrow.
Never Heard Cancer Mentioned.
A Vienna dispatch Of today deciar-
ing that DR.. Struempel. the distin-
guished Austrian specialist. diagnosed
Mr.. Harr;man's COMPLAINT as cancer
was shown to DR.. McGuinncss tonight
as his rectory.
Il never heard cancer mentioned
by any member of the family" said
the clergyman. Il do not know wheth-
or OF not Dr. Struempel acquainted
Mr.. Hartman with his diagnosis of
cancer
DR. McGuinncss insisted that up
20 the 6ay before Nr Hartman died
his most intimate friends believed he
nigh; get well.
Arden Plans Will be Carried Out.
Partly from Judge Robert 8. LOveti
and partly from Charles T. Fcrd. SUI
perinfcndcnt 81 the Hartman estate.
II was learned today that the cxtcn-
sivc work on the estate planned by Mr..
Hartman during the last two years
would be carried cut according to his
wishes.
4 understand said Judge Jovctt.
that Miss Mary Hartman has been
enic.ing into her fathers plans fcr
tho estate and viii undoubtedly SO
that thcv arc carried to completion. -
messages of coincidence poured Mp
the family all day Among those who
wired their sympathy was Mayer Tied
MAJ. If Savannah. Ca