The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-11
Vorkmen Blast Out the GraV3
 In Private Cemetery
SERVICES WILL BE SIMPLE
Family Will Remain at Arden to Carry Out Plans for the Estate as Laid Out by MT.
 Hartman.

Arden, N. r., September 1O-Arrange-
 ments for the funeral on Sunday of Ed
 ward H. Hartman were completed today
 at family council in the silent library
 of the house on Tower Hill, which he
 did not live to see finished First his family, then the simple folk of
 the valley and hillside, who for 20 years
 regarded him as their friend and bene- factor, will pay their tributes of respect
 The days ceremonies will end with a.
 burial service and interment which will be
 attended only by relatives and personal
 friends
 Family services will be held at Arden
 house at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and
 holy communion will be celebrated at Il
 o'clock at St. Johns Episcopal church
 Arden. This service will be open to en-
 ployes of the estate and residents of the
 neighborhood. The Rev. J. Holmes Mo-
 Guiness, rector of St. Johns, will deliver
 a memorial address
 The burial services will take place at
 St. Johns at p. m. This will be con-
 ducted by the Rev. William Creswell
 Doane. Episcopal bishop of Albany. and
 Arch Deacon Nelson of St. John the Di-
 vine of New York, assisted by pr. Mc- Guinness. 1nterment will follow in the hartman private burying ground a stones throw southeast of the church. Services at Church. Although it has been announced that , the 3o'clock services will be private inc members of the family and the few friends Invited to attend will fill the little Episcopal church, with it's seating oo- pacity of barely 150. Twenty-two car- riages have been engaged by the family
 10 convey the party from the house to
 the church. These are in addition to the many vehicles belonging to the Arden
 house establishment Music will be fur nished at the main service by the choir of
 Grace church, New York
 Dr. McGuiness said tonight that the fu- neral programme had been arranged with
 no desire for ostentaton Bishop Doane
 and Arch Deacon Nelson were asked to oniciate because they were close friends Of MT. Hartman.
 seventy men toiled on the Arden hiil-
 sloe In the pouring rain all day today, preparing for the funeral of their late master Six were blasting a grave in the solid rock of the private graveyard near St. Johns chu-ch, the others were smoothing the three miles of road over which the body will be carried to its last resting place. All afternoon the Sabbath
 like stiffness of the green hillside was
 broken by the noise of explosions. Grave In Solid Rock. The grave is being blasted and ouar-
 ried out of the blue stone, which lies but a few inches below the surface of the ground. After the top layer of earth was scraped away an automobile brought drills
 and powder from the top of the hill and the workmen began their toilsome prog ress through the rock. The task will not be finished until some time tomor- row.
 Regarding the Vienna dispatch that pr Struempell, the distinguished Austrian specialist diagnosed MT. Harriman's com plaint as cancer, Dr. McGuiness said to- night:
 T never heard cancer mentioned bv any member of the family. I do not know whether Dr. StruempeIl acouaiptea MT Hartman with his diaEnosis.' pr. McGuiness insisted that up to the day before MT. Hartman died his most intimate friends believed he might get well.
 Judge Robert s. Lovett, considered MT. Harriman's chief business and legal ad- wiser, explained today for the first time his policy of silence. He said: Judge Lovett Explains. "Mr. Harriman's life was so interwoven with Wall street and financial affairs i that any change in his condition would have affected the financial world. thought it advisable not to run the dan- ger of misrepresentation and so said noth- ing about his condition Any statement one way or the other would have been misunderstood"
 Judge Lovett, who came up here yes- terday after MT. Harriman's death, did not go to New York until late today. It was learned today that the extensive work on the estate planned by MT. liar riman during the last two years will be carried out according to his wishes. Judge Lovett said today 'I understand that Miss Mary Harri- man has been entering into her fathers plans for the estate and will undoubtedly see that they are carried to completion" |" MT. Harriman's will, the size of his es- tate and his probable successor in control of his railroads, Judge Lovett decliiiNd to discuss.
 One report here has 1t that the million aire bequeathed 23,000 acres of woodland in Orange county to the state for a park. provided the state will assist in improv- ing 1t.
 TWO or three reidLlVeS, WnOSe names were not ascertained. were the only ar rivals at Arden house today. It Is believed that Judge Lovett was the only person with Mrs. Hartman and her sons and daughters who was not a rela- tive. Dr. Lyle went to New York last night.
 Many Messages Received. Messages of coincidence poured in to the family all day.
 Among those who wired their sympathy was Mayor Tiedeman of Savannah. Ga; i; w. H. Avarill, Mrs Harriman's brother, wired that he was on his way here from Los Angeles
 Two more names were added to the list of pallbearers this afternoon, making eight in all. The additions are J. B.
 Ford, assistant general sunarintandA.t >s