Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-10
SIMPLE SERVICES OF PRIVATE
CHARACTER AT CHURCH IN
VILLAGE CT ARDEN.
CANCER CAUSED DEATH,
SAYS WENNEsE SPECIALIST
Or. struempeII Declares Operation
Might Have Been suceessfuI-other
Doctors Disagree in This Diagnosis
Hartman Gave Attention to Rusi.
ness Ono Hour Before Demise.

New York, Sept. 10.-Altho it is an
nounced that the funeral of Edward
II. Hartman will be private, many
noted persons, among them the asso-
ciates Of the railroad organizer, are ar
ranging to attend the simple services
to be held in the church at Arden
Sunday afternoon. Until then the body
will remain in the mansion on Tower
Hill, watched by members of the inn
mediate family.
The active pallN bearers will be six
men in charge Of the various depart
ments Of Harriman's estate ait Arden
and Turner. The honorary pail bearers
ire not yet announced.
According to members of the family
no operation was performed because
the most noted physicians and sur
geons in the world had failed to dag
nose the case. and as they did not
know what was the matter with him.
they could do nothing for him.
A statement was given out at the
Union Pacific headquarters today
denying that Hartman died at 1880
yesterday, and placing the time of
death at 1885.
Cause Of Death Secret.
News of his death with withheld un-
I'll after the closing of the stock ex
change, and save in the shape of vague
rumors the fact was not publicly
known until a full two hours after Mr..
Hartman died.
The immediate cause of Mr. Harri-
mans death never will be learned
Robert l.. Gerry, Mr.. Harriman's SON
in-law, said that nobody knew what
was the occasion Of Mr.. Harriman's
illness and that nothing could be found
out short of am autopsy. This, he said
would not be performed.
From authoritative sources, however.
+ was learned that Mr.. Hartman was
suffering from cancer of the stolna CHI
Mr.. Hartman was conscious up TO
q few minutes before death overroo,s
him. His immediate family was at
his bedside.
it was not realized in the morning
that Mr.. Hartman was in worse con-
dition than the bulletins of yesterday
purrorted.
DR.. Lyle sent out signed state
ment at o'clock that Mr.. Harriman's
condition was unchanged. That. COM
Ing In the face of the official reports
made on Wednesday, gave the seeming
assurance that Mr.. Hartman was
holding his own.
Working Hour Before Death.
Nobody had seen in the optimistic
bulletins OF Wednesday any more than
note OF encouragement The acute
attack OF Indigestion that overcame
him on Sunday was followed with an
other OF q nature equally severe last
Tuesday. He did not recover the
ground he lost in the one before and
the other overlook him ana rne slight
rally shown on Wednesday was MOI
suHfctent to carry him thru the griey-
Gus crisis of yesterday.
Up to noon no untoward signs were
apparent. Mr.. Hartman, true to his
instincts up to the last moment Of his
life, received stenographer from the
Union Pacific Office in New York and
gave him dictations. The stenographer
left MT. Hartman about IL o'clock in
the entire confidence that his chief was
no worse that he was the day before.
Swift Change for Worse.
Haaf an hour later, however, DR..
Lyle perceived that there was a. swift
change for the worse. The men work.
ing about the estate were told NOT to
resume at the end of the noon hour.
The Rev. J. Holmes McGuiness, the
rector Of the parish which includes the
Arden church, and for years a protege
OF Mr. Hartman, was sent for. Mr..
Harriman's automobile set out at
o'clock tor Chester, the Rev. Mr. NC
Guiness' place of residence, and was
pushed to the utmost in an effort to
bring him to Arden house before his
patron died.
The family was called into the sick
room IN anticipation Of the direct out
come.
Family at Deathbed.
Beside Mrs. Hartman and DR.. Lyle
were Orlando III. Hartman, e. II. Har-
rtman's brother, his sister, Mrs. Cor
nelia Simons, Mrs. Robert Livingston
Terry. who was Miss Cornelia Harri-
man, and Mr. Terry, Miss Mary and
Miss Carol Hartman and Walter Av-
ereli Hartman.
Members Of the family say Mr.. Har-
riman clung to life with the same bril-
liant tenacity he showed thruout his
career. The plucky fight ihe waged with
all his energy and determination
against disease the nature of which
he himself DID not know. and which
he could not learn from the best med
ical talent In the world, closed at 1880
O'clock. The hour is fixed by his sister.
Mrs. Simons.
Robert i. Gerry later in the evening
said over the telephone that nobody
knew the cause Of death.
Honestly we don't know" said he
and ann sure that nobody else
knows. What the nature Of the disease
was can't be Learned short of an
autopsy. and ] can say positively that
one won't be performed"
Mr. Gerry added that the interment
will take place Sunday afternoon.
Probably Mr.. Harrimaii will be buried
In Arden church yard. His eldest son,
Edward 81. Hartman, Jr., who died In
ehiidhood soon after Mr. Hartman