Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11

partments of Mr.. Harrimans estate at
Arden and Turner.
They are: Charles T. Ford, his gem
eral superintendent: William Viner.
manager of the farm at Arden; William
Robbins, superintendent of Mr.. Harri-
mans stock farm and in general charge
of his trotting horses at Goshen; p. w.
Mandigo, his master carpenter; e. p.
Schultz, master mason, and William A.
Mcclellan, superintendent of the Arden
Farms Dairy company.
The list of honorary pail bearers has
not yet been announced.
The quarry-rock method OF burial
was adopted when his eldest son, Ed
ward H. Hartman, Jr., was buried
twenty-five years ago.
The Hartman plot is in far corner
of the graveyard and the only spot In
the enclosure where the blue stone of
Tower Hill rises to the surface.
A drizzling rain began this morning
and the landscape presented a scene in
consonance with the sorrow that hangs
over this portion of the Ramapo val
ley. Little or no work was done today
in the villages of Turner and Arden.
TWO Hundred Are Idle
The 200 or more workmen on the Har-
riman estate have been laid off until
Monday. Few of them know whether
or not they will be allowed 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.
William A. Mcclellan, superintendent
of the Hartman dairies told group
of workmen that he believed the work
of completing Arden house and laying
out the grounds would go on after the
funeral, according to Mr.. Hartman s
plans.
"That was his WISH" he said, "and 1
believe 1t will be carried out.
'I have lost the best friend l ever
had" added Mr.. Mcclellan, 'and the
best friend of every man here"
Eyes, that's So" said several of the
listeners. "There'll never be another
boss like him."
The belief here is that the active
management of the Tower hill I'M
prov -.nents will devolve upon his eldest
daughter. Mary Hartman had always
been her fathers companion in his
walks and drives about the estate.
The men say that in mental makeup
she approaches her father nearer than
any of the other children.
Mrs. Hartman, it is said, would be
GLAD to return to the old Hartman
UOlIt dI IIl6 IOOJ OL llIG lllllt WiiiSh SAAO
family occupied when they first came
to Arden twenty-five years ago.
Spot Is HalIowed
This spot is hallowed for her by~ the
death OF her first born son, and the
birth of her three younger children.
In spite of all it's castled magnif-
cence, Arden house to her Will always
recall the last days of her husband.
Wban fba fnanoier cane here On
August % he was already dying man.
The house has not cheerful associa-
ton. It's broad halls, its great dining
room and its rows of guest chambers
have never been used to entertain any
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 associates, whose
presence was required by the dying
of the vast interests he felt slipping
from his grasp.
The Hartman family has shut itself
up alone in it's grief.
Superintendent 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 rel
aitves 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 after
noon receiving messages of sympathy
from all parts of the world The tele-
grams are being sent up the hill in
baskets, with hundreds of letters which
began to pour in this morning.
The secretary at the house is kept
busy opening and answering these
messages. 1t is probable that none Of
the family now on the hill will leave
Arden until after the funeral.