The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
CONDITIONS JUST BEFORE DEATH
Statements Were Given Out That Har-
riman Was Better.

Statements Were Given Out That Har-
riman Was Better.
Arden, N. Y, Sept 9.-Dr. w. G. Lyle
issued the following bulletin concern
Ing the condition of E. H. Hartman
at 9:15 a. m. today:
Condition unchanged-W. G. Lyle"
DR.. Lyle's bulletin indicated a dis
position on the part of the house.
hold on Tower Hill to abandon the
policy of silence hitherto maintained
Harriman's condition. The wild ru-
mors of the past 48 hours during
which the master of Arden house has
been reported dead dozen times. it
Is believed have convinced those
about him that official information
alone can prevent the circulation of
such rumors by irresponsible persons
Tor the purpose of influencing the
financial market
DR.. Lyle's bulletin is significant in
that 1t is the first statement vol
unteered by him since his patient re-
turned from Europe. Hitherto he
has broken his silence only upon ur-
gent request and only when it was
pointed out that further refusal to
speak would encourage the most
alarming inference. He sent his re-
port to the newspaper men at the
telegraphic headquarters here shortly
after 9 o'clock
Dr. LyIe's statement leaves the
situation here one of anxious wait
ing. for it is the general belief that
the f1nancier's condition IS critical.
Gives a Wedding Present.
Two young employees of the Arden
house were married today. They
were Thomas Murphy an engineer
and a pretty parlor maid. Both have
worked for the Hartman family for |
several wears. When Mr.. Harriman's |
condition took a critical turn last
Sunday it was suggested that the |
he
woman told Mrs. Hartman that she !
and Tom felt that out of respect to |
Mr.. Hartman they should not be |
married at this time. but the million
aires wife. it is said. told them that |
Mr.. Hartman would not wish to have
his illness interfere with their hap
piness They were married by
Father McAran in the little Catholic |
wedding gift was a check for $500.
Was Reported Better.
Turner, N Y, Sept. Edward H.
Hartman is better. This statement is
based on the assertion of the two men
closest to him outside of his immediate
family His medical adviser, DR.. Will
liam G. Lyle, said so yesterday. His
spiritual adviser, the Rev. j. Holmes
McGuiness, made the assertion in al
most the same language after visiting
the sick man personally. How far Mr..
Hartman has improved and the pre-
else state of his health is still a mat
ter of conjecture and the subject of 4
succession of alarming rumors. The
official information from the Hartman
residence utterly failed to quiet these
reports and there seems to be some
ground for the persistent, # uncon-
hrmed report, that he suffered a sec
ond slight attack of indigestion, and
that DR.. Lyles reassuring statement
at midnight referred to his improve
ment from this second seizure
There is no doubt that Mr.. Harri-
perate.s Evidence of this was furnish
ed by two empty oxygen tanks that
were sent down from Tower Hill to be
returned to New York. That these at
must grow increasinly ominous is the l.
general belief.
In the afternoon alarming rumors
poured In on the newspaper men at
when DIR. Lyle was called on the tele-
phone. The most startling report of
them all was then repeated to him: /
''1t is said in New York that Mr..
Hartman is dead"
Those reports are not true" re-
better today
DR.. McGuiness drove to Arden
house from his home at Chester. He
spent two hours with the Hartman
family. The signed statement of Dr.
Lyle was repeated to him.
WELL he replied, you can quote
me dlSO as saying lndC MI. Hartman
Is better"
Stocks Slump Again.
New York, Sept 9.-Active selling
of stocks developed about noon owing
to renewed apprehension that bad
news was to be expected from MI
The Hartman stocks were
not particularly conspicuous in the
as the whole list was quite
acutely weak. The Gould stock and
the corn grangers shared the weakness
of the Harrimans
The drop in prices came after a dull
morning which was charaot erized bv q
waiting attitude on the part of stock
operators. A bulletin from Mr.. Har-
riman's home that his condition was
unchanged conduced to the quiet tone
during the morning. A gradual sag
in prices, however, gathered momen-
tum, and by noon support seemed to
be withdrawn.
Wabash preferred was carried down
8 ", Illinois Central 8, New York Cen
trail "a, Union Pacific, Reading and
American Smelling 2, and Southern
Pacific l e. Before liquidation gave
any sign of a pause, Wabash preferred |
had dropped 5 and the Hartman and
Gould stock and Reading 8 or more
below last night A rally Of a fraction
from that point left the market with
out any demand.