The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-28
CONSULTATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR HARRIMAN To Cut or Not to Cut, that Is the Distressing Prob
 lem Now EXHAUSTIVE TEST
 WAS MADE TODAY Said that Operation Is I'm perative, But Patient
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 Turner. Orange County. N. Y..s Aug. 28.-Despite semi official deniadS from the Hartman home on top of Tower Hill. unofficial information Is to the effect that E. H. Hartman to-day un- derwent an extended physical exami- nation by group of specialists. among them Dr. G. W. Grille. of Cleveland. O.. the noted surgeon.
 While every effort was made to avoid tiring Hartman. the magnate is said to have been greatly fatigued at the conclusion of the examination. The result of the examination. it is an operation will be necessary to re- ieve the.railroad magnate. Hartman was too weak now to withstand the shock. Dr. Grille. it is said, decided that a delay of a few days or a week would not prejudice Harriman's s chances of recovery and would give Harrimou chance to build up his shattered strength.
 Nothing official regarding this exam inatfon could be learned at the Harri- man home but there is a firm belief here that the examination has been made, the operation declared neces- sary and then postponed until Harrf- man can grow stronger.
 Four miles of almost impossible mountain roads, guarded by heavily armed men, separate the stricken rail- road king from the nearest place in touch with the world. Every attempt to elicit direct information from this Hartman household has failed. The army of newspapermen here have to rely for their information upon the retainers and even these have been ordered not to talk.
 Doctors. personal representatives. su- perintendentS of construction and the hundreds of employees about the place become silent when the name of liar riman is mentioned. An attempt made last night to pierce the cordon of arm ed guards and secure an authoritative statement was met with a rebun on the part of the armed men who seem- ed nothing 1oath to send a charge of buckshot after the too jealous seeker after information.
 It was learned to-day from authority as nearly authentic as the conditions allow. that three noted physicians in addition to MT. Harriman's private doctor. Dr. Lyle. have been ordered to the home on Tower Hill and that they are engaged to-day in making a com plete diagnosis of MT. Harriman's ill., ness to determine the advisa bility of an operation.
 Two of these physicians. it is said. arrived at Arden yesterday afternoon and the one. it is declared, is Dr.
  noted surgeon who arrived OH a special train last night. He was met with, an automobile by George T. Gerry. MT. Harriman's son-in-law and rushed to the home on Tower Hill.
 The nature of MT. Harriman's ill., ness has been variously stated as malignant cancer. acute stomach trou- blue and other affections. Whatever it may be. an operation has been ad- vised since MT. Harriman's examina- tion by Dr. Struempel in Vienna liar riman. it is said. fought against an operation and demanded that he be brought back to America before he would even consider the matter. His weakened physical condition. too. has rendered an operation hazardous and it was hoped to build up his strength by few weeks of rest at Arden be- fore going under the surgeons knife.
 To-day's examination. it is declared, is expected to settle definitely whether the operation can be delayed even a week. Dr. Grille. an eminent surgeon. is to settle this question. Against the reports that Hartman is to be opera ted upon are the stateInents of Super intendent Ford of the estate and Rob- could be reached to-day. Both strenu- ously deny the fnancier's condition is as serious as reported. Neither. how ever, was willing to arrange for. daily bulletins on the magnate's condition.
 Despite the fact that the two tanks arriving yesterday at Arden were marked Oxygen" it was declared to- day that they were filled with ann monia gas to be used in disinfecting the plant at the Tower home.
 The New York News Bureau. a Wall street agency, to-day declares it has been advised on authority that no operation is to be performed on MT. Hartman.
 Absolute silence from the Hartman home marks the main development to- day in efforts to ascertain the true state of the f1nancier's health. Be- yond a denial that Dr. G. W. Grille of Cleveland. is in the Hartman home. nothing could be learned. Dr. Lyle, to answer the telephone to-day.
 Some excitement among the half hundred newSpapermen who gathered at the foot of Tower Hill was caused the Erie at Arden to-day. single passenger. a medical looking man with a Van Dyke beard. was bundled into the waiting Hartman automobile and whisked up the hill before his identity could be learned.
 absolutely forbidden to think about any of his great interests. Judge Lovette, and his other aides. are all of his cares and all the for running the great railroad system.
 Much mystery is being thrown about the comings and goings of the people at Tower Hill. This afternoon re- port reached Turner Station that a physician would be brought on a west bound train to Arden. A number of men boarded the train at looking man with a surgeons hand bag. He refused to talk to the news papermen but called the conductor and ordered the train rushed on