The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-17
True 70 INSTINCTS
HARTMAN TOILED
IIRTIL DEATHS HOUR
o.sEo sTENoeRAPHER AT
p O'CLOCK AND DIED
AT 1880.
nysrIOUS UNTIL THE LAST
n Demise Will Never Be
Known as Family VIII Not
s...,+ 10 an Autopsy-Stoek
Exchange Closed

consent to an Autopsy-stoek
Exchange closed.
rrRzER. y. Y, Sept 1O.-Edward
Hartman is dead
rso end came at 1870 o'clock Thurs
,f,s-noon' News of his death
= oitbheld until after the closing
!. tho stock exchange and save in the
,s,re of vague rumors the fact was
:, recognized until full two hours
.rsr Mr.. Hartman died.
The immediate cause of Mr.. Harri-
ms death will never be learned.
po,art t. Gerry. Mr.. Harriman's SON
lou said that nobody knew what
-as tbe occasion of Mr.. Harriman's
illness that nothing could be found
.nt short of an autopsy. This he
,.i5 would not be performed. Mr..
,.rriman was conscious up to a few
nirutes before death overlook him.
uis immediate family was at his bed
side.
II mas not realized in the morning
ttat Mr. Hartman was in a worse
condition than the bulletins purported.
nr Tyle sent out a signed statement
., Q o'clock that Mr. Harriman's con-
dition was unchanged. That, coming
in the face of official reports made on
Wednesday. gave the assurance That
Mr. Hartman was holding his own.
Nohody had seen in the optimistic
buletin of Wednesday any more than
note of encouragement.
The acute attack of indigestion
that oyercame him Sunday was fol-
lowed by another of nature equally
severe last Tuesday. He did not re-
cover the ground lost in the one be-
fore the other overlook him and the
slight rally shown on Wednesday was
not sufficient to carry him through the
grievous crisis.
In to noon no untoward signs were
apparent. Mr.. Hartman, true to his
instinct I'D to the last moment or mis-
life received a stenographer from the
Union Pacific Office in New York and
gave him dictations. The stenogra-
pher left Mr.. Hartman about IL
o'clock in the entire confidenc that his
chief was no worse than he was the
day before.
Half an hour later, however. Dr.
Lyle perceived that there was swift
change for the worse. The men work
ing about the estate were told not 10
resume at the end of noon hour. Tne
Rev. ]. Holmes McGuiness, the rector
of the parish which includes the AT
den church. and for years protege
of Mr.. Hartman, was sent for. MT
Harriman's automobile set out at
O'clock for Chester, the Rev. Mr.. NC
Guinness place of residence, and was
pushed to the utmost in an EFFORT te
bring him to Arden house before Ms
patron died,
The family was called into the slct
room in anticipation of the direct out
come. Besides Mrs. Hartman ant
DR.. Lyle there were Orlando H. Harri
man, Mr.. Harriman's brother; his SIS
ter, Mrs. Cornelia Simons, Mrs. ROD
ert l.. Gerry, who was Miss Corneii'
Hartman and Mr.. Gerry, Miss Mar
Hartman and Miss Carol, Waiter "A
Hartman, 13-year-old Roland.
Mr.. Hartman was conscious Amos
to the very last. Those who takes
with the members of the family sa'
that he chung to life with the sam
brilliant tenacity which he sho"e'
throughout his career.
Robert l.. Gerry Thursday evenln'
said over the telephone that noooa
knew the cause of death. Honesty
We don't know" said he, land l al
sure that nobody else knows VIVA
the nature Of the disease was can I D
learned short of an autopsy, and ca
say positively that one won't be pei
formed"
Mr. Gerry added that the intermen
will take place Sunday Afternoon
Probably Mr. Hartman will be burle
in Arden churchyard. His aldest sol
Edward H., Jr., who died in childhoo
soon after Mr.. Hartman moved TO A
dou was buried there twenty year
ago.
Mr.. Harrimans death was al
nounced at the Union Pacific ONCE
soon after half past three ana IN
Aews was soon flashed around tn
1-ancia district by the news ticker
which ordinarily shut down with III
close of the market, but kept ope
in anticipation of news from ArdeI
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