The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-13
Delegates to Anti Amendment Conference Here Being Named

with her two unmarried daughters. station wagon. carried Mrs. Hartman Mary and Carol. and her sons, Walter Averell and Roland. Mrs. Robert L.. Gerry, the married daughter, drove In the next carriage. Mrs. Gerry came to the church earlier to superintend arrangements. Others in the party were Mir. and Mrs. Simons and their children; MT. and Mrs. oliver Harri- man pr. VI. Seward Webb, Mfr. and Mra II. W, Hartman. Charles Pea body and his two daughters; pr. Charles Trudeau and Mrs. Trudeau. Judge Robert Lovett and pr. W. c. Lyle, the family physician.
 Two carriages in the rear brought
 eight of the oldest and most trusted
 family servants, some of whom have
 been in the Hartman employ since the family came to Arden, twenty-two
 years ago. These were given seats in the church nearer their dead masters coffin than any of the miilionaires and captains of industry from New York. Those who came by special train had been in their seats half an hour be-
 fore the funeral procession reached the church at p. m. The caskct, one solid mass of lilies of the valley and green vines. with an immense bunch of crimson roses on top. was carried to the altar by eight bearers clad In black and wearing black skull caps. The regular funeral service of the Episcopal Church was conducted by pr. McGuiness. assisted by the Rev. c. Nelson. archdeacon of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York 4 male quartette and the choir of Grace Church. New York, sang. Abide With Me-" and There is a Land of Pure Delight" Mir. Harriman's favortte hymns.
 Casket Carried to Grave. The service lasted but twenty min- utes. Then the stalwart bearers car- ried the casket to the burial plot. 100 yards up the road.
 Mir. Hartman Hes in a little clear ing not ten feet from the roadway. His grave. hewn from the rock of the steep hillside, will always be fragrant with the balsam and hemlock that hem it in on every side except that toward the road.
 There was not room inside the burial ground for more than fifteen or twen- ty besides the mourners and the two officiating clergymen. Others stood ir the road outside and looked over the stone wall The surpfcedN choir took it's stand in another small clearing. ten yards away. where. hidden from view. they sang the hymns that accom-. panied the burial-Goss's T heard . Voice From Heaven" and "Hark. Hark. My Soul"
 Several hundred of the Hartman employees and their families stood with
 barred heads outside the church during the service and gathered at a respect full distance from the grave during the interment.
 It was o'clock when Archdeacon Nelson took a handful of earth. and sprinkiing over the bed of lilies that hid the metal casket, consigned the
 body of Edward H. Hartman to the earth of the spot he loved best. Mrs. Hartman and her children drove home immediately after the ceremony.
 Every one of Mrs. Harriman's legion of friends in Arden and Turner reg ceived a remembrance of the day. when the flowers that have been arriving on every train for the past twenty-fouT hours were distributed. Altogether, the flowers would have filled three express cars. Flowers literally covered the
 grass outside of the church. Inside they were banked about the altar un- til the fragrance in the little sanctuary was almost overpowering. It was at Mrs. Harriman's request that these gifts of great men and organizations from all parts of the country were dis tributed about the neighborhood. She told her messengers that she knew this was the way her husband would have wished 1t.