Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-10
HARTMAN
SUCCUMBS
TO DEATH
Famous Railroad Magnate
Dies at Arden
END COMES WHILE FAMILY IS
AT BEDSIDE
HISTORIC CAREER CLOSES AFTER
MUCH SUFFERING
Business and Speculative World Pros
foundly Affected by Demise-Eiis-
tory of Deceased Full of
Life Lessons
END COMES WHILE FAMILY is
AT BEDSIDE
HISTORIC CAREER CLOSES AFTER
MUCH SUFFERING
A RDEN, Sept. 9.-Edward H.
"A Hartman, king of the rail-
rnnd rrrnr1d l. dnnd

q Hartman, king of the rail-
IA road world, is dead.
Secluded in his magnificent
home on Tower Hill, Arden, he
succumbed to an intestinal dis
order at about 3:35 o'clock this
afternoon, after a fight that will
rank for sheer grit with his re-
markable struggles in the finan-
cial world.
The exact time of his death is
known only in that limited cir
Gle of relatives and associates
who had so effectually shielded
Mr.. Hartman from all outside
annoyances during his last i'll
ness.
The time was first given out
as 3:35 p. m, but Mrs. Mary
Simonds, sister of the dead man,
said tonight that Mr.. Hartman
died at 1:30.
Whether this apparent dis
crepancy has any bearing on the
current belief that every effort
was made to lessen the influence
of the fnancier's death on the
New York stock market, IS
problematical.
Time Significant
It is significant that the time of his
death. as officially announced, was
inst thirty-five minutes after tradlng
had ceased on the New York exchange.
Mr. Hartman died peacefully and to
the end his brilliant mind retained ITS
After a relapse Sunday, he sank
slowly, and soon after noon touay
there came a relapse that marked the
approach of the end -
His wife, two daughters ana tWo
sons. who have been constantly with
him. assembled at the bedside and a
carriage was hastily dispatched Tor
Mrs Simonds, whose home is three
miles from the Tower Hill mansion.
Mrs. simonds entered the great
silent home in time to be present at
her brothers death. She Joined the
Irjfe IJ ana children. who with DIR. Lyle
of New York and Orlando HERMAN,
a brother, and the nurses, formed
group at the BEDSIDE.
No Minister There
No spiritual adviser was at hand.
The swiftest automobile IN tne t1artd- ~.
man garage had been dispatched Tor
Rev. Dr. J. Holmes McGuiness, Epls-
copalian rector of Arden parish, but
he was not at home
When found later he hurried TO
Arden house, but death had reached
there first.
To- residence.
unbroken to the very end, news OF
Mr, Harriman's death was conveyed
to New York before 1t came to Arden
and the valley below
Then, by way of New York. the re-
port spread quickly, and confirmation
was sought at the residence by teie-
nhone During the last ten days
rumors have been so persistent and
variable that little credence was at
first given the report, and It was a
shock when voice on the hill replied:
Gives Corrected Time
Eyes. that is correct. Mr.. Hartman
died at 1886 p. M"
Soon afterward the hundreds OF
workmen engaged on the uncompieteu
estate learned of their employers
death when a page went out and an
nounced simply: ''You may all quit
work. Mr.. Hartman is dead.
workmen, dropping their tools, trudged
silently to the fiat cars and descended
on the private incline railway.
Orlando Hartman discussed the
funeral arrangements briefly tonight.
He said Mr.. Hartman would be buried
in the family plot in the little grave
yard behind St. Johns EpiscopaI
church at Arden.
He will rest beside his eldest son,
Edward H. Hartman, Jr., who died
twenty-five years ago, soon after the
family first came to Arden.
Services Sunday
The services will be held at $3.50
o'clock Sunday afternoon, and 1t is
understood will be strictly private DR..
LYLE, who has been Mr.. Harriman's
physician throughout his last Illness
has issued statement concerning the
cause Of death, but the general un-
derstanding is that there was no opera
tion. Four persons are authority for
this belief.
They are Mrs. Simonds, his sisterf
Charles T. Ford, superintendent OF the
Hartman estate; William Mcclellan
superintendent of the Arden Farms
Dairy company, and Thomas B. Price,
Mr.. Harriman's personal secretary III
the Union Pacific offices.
Mrs Simonds discussed his death this
evening with more freedom than any
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