Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-11
Employees Of Estate Will Attend This
Ceremony at Church.
BURIAL IN THE AFTERNOON
Workmen Are Blasting Grave Out of
Solid Rock.
FUTURE OF THE BIG ESTATE
Probability that Work Outlined by
Late MaEnate VIII BE Completed
Under Direction of Miss
Mary Hartman.

ARDEN N. Y, Sept. 1O-Arrangements
for the funeral on Sunday Of Edward H.
Hartman were concluded at a family coun-
Gil in the silent library of the great house
on Tower Hill. First his family, then the
simple folk of the valley and hillside, who
for twenty years regarded him as their
friend and benefactor, will pay their trib-
ute of respect. The days ceremonies will
end with a burial service and interment,
which will be attended only by relatives
and personal friends
Family services will be held at Arden
House at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and
holy communion will be celebrated at IL
o'clock at st. Johns Episcopal church.
Arden. This service will be open to en-
ployes of the estate and residents of the
neighborhood. Rev. ]. Holmes McGuiness,
rector Of st. Johns, will deliver a memoir
ial address.
The burial service will take place at St.
Johns at D. m. This will be conducted
by Rev. William Creswen Doane, Episcopal
bishop of Albany, and Archdeacon Nelson
of ST. John the Divine, of New York, as
sisted by DR.. McGuiness The interment
will follow in the Hartman private bury
ing ground, stones throw southeast of
the church.
Services at Church.
Although It has been announced that the
3 O'Clock services will be private, the MEM
bers of the family and the friends invited
to attend win fill the little Episcopal
chapel, with it's seating capacity of barely
$50. Twenty-Five carriages have been en-
gagged by the family to convey the party
from the house to the church. These are
in addition to the many vehicles belonging
to the Arden House establishment. Music
will be furnished at the main service by
the choir OF Grace church, New York DR..
McGuiness who gave out these details to-
night, said that the funeral program had
been arranged with no desire for ostenta-
ton. Both Bishop Doane ana Archdeacon
Nelson were asked to officiate because they
were close personal friends Of Mr.. Harri-
man.
Judging by the preparations which are
being made throughout the neighborhood,
it is evident that half the population of
the nearby villages will attend the public
service. Carriages are already being held
at exorbitant rates for use on Sunday.
Grave in Solid Rock.
Seventy men toiled on the Arden hillsides
! in the pouring rain all day today preparing
| for the funeral OF their late master. Six
were blasting a grave from the solid rock
Of the private graveyard near st. Johns
church, the others we're smoothing the
three miles of road over which the body
will be carried to it's last resting place.
All afternoon the Sabbathlike stiffness OF
the green hillsides was broken by the noise
OF explosions.
J The grave Is being blasted and quarried
out Of the blue stone which lies but a
few inches below the surface OF the ground
After the top layer of earth was scraped
away, an automobile brought drills and
| powder from the top of the hill and the
workmen began their toilsome progress
through the rock.
With a majority Of the 500 men employed
on the Hartman estate idle, Arden. Turner
and vicinity had little to do today but dis
cuss Mr.. Harriman's death and the ques-
tions It raises. Until the death certificate
is filed with r. P. Fitch the town clerk
of Highland Mills, there is no way OF as
certaining the verdict of his physician
DR.. w. G. Lyle.
! Cancer Theory Doubted.
The Vienna dispatch of today declaring
that DR.. Struempel the distinguished Aus
trian specialist, diagnosed Mr.. Hartmann
complaint as cancer, was shown DR.. Nc
Guinness tonight at his rectory.
II never heard cancer mentioned by any