The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
Funeral Will Take Place
 Sunday. DRlzHING, RAIN ADDS
 TO GLOOM OF PLACE Managers of Estate to Act as
 Pallbearers. Death of Railroad Masnate Not se. rieusiy Felt in the Financial Markets--Captains of Indus.
 try Pay Tribute.

Dl H. Hartman wero completed today at family council in the silent library oi tho 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 twenty years regarded nim as their friend and benefactor. will pay their tributes of respect. The days cere- monies 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 II o'clock at St Johns Episcopal Church. Arden. This serv- ice will be open to employees of the ee- l tahlishment and residents of the neigh borhood The Rev. J. Holmes McGuin- ess. rector of St. Johns. will deliver | an address.
 The burial service will take place at | St. Johns at o'clock in the afternoon. | This will be conducted by Rev. William Creswell Doans. Episcopal Bishop of Albany, and Archdeacon Nelson of St < John the Divine. of New York. assisted by Dr. McGuiness. Interment will fol- low in the Hartman private burying the church.
 Funeral To Be Prsvnf~ 1 Although 1t has been announced that the o'clock services will be private. the members of the family and the few i friends invited to attend will nll the little Episcopal Church, with It's seat ing capacity of barely 16O. Twenty 1 two carriages have been engaged By the family to convey the party from the house to the church. These are in addition to the many vehicles belong | ing to the Arden house establishment. Music will be furnished at the main service by the choir of Grace Church. l New York. | pr. McGuiness said tonight that the funeral program had been arranged Doans and Arehdeacon Nelson were asked to oficiate because they were l close friends of Mr. Ha rFfman.ats sg t
 Seventy men toiled on the Arden hiii- side in the pouring rain all day to- day preparing for the funeral of their late master Six were blasting q grave from the solid rock of the private Il graveyard. near St Johns Church. the T 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 I the green hillside was broken by tha noise of explosions. I The grave is being blasted and quaF~ 1 ried out of the blue stone which lies l but few inches below the surface of the ground. After the top layer oG earth was scraped away, an automobil9 brought drills and powder from the top of the hill. and the workmen began | their toilsome progress through the rock. The task will not be finished until some time tomorrow. | Was Unaware of Cancer.
 Regarding the Vienna dispatch that Dr. Struempell. the distIngu gulshed Aus trian specialist, diagnosed Mir. Harrl< mans complaint as cancer, Dr. Me- Guinness said tonight: T never heard cancer mentioned by
 
 know whether pr. Struempeil acc quainted MT. Hartman with his dfag- nosis."
 Dr. McGuiness insisted that up to the day before MT. Hartman died. his most intimate friends believed he might get we'll.
 Judge Robert s. Lovett. considered Mir. Harriman's chief business and le- | gal advisor explained today for the first time his policy of silence. He said:
 MT. Harriman's life was so inter- | woven with Wall Street and financial | affairs that any change in his condi- ton would have affected the financial world. I thought 1t advisable not to run the danger of misrepresentation, and so said nothing about his condi- ton. Any statement one way or the other would have been misunder- stood"
 | yesterday after MT. Harriman's death. did not go to New York until late to- day.
 VIII Improve Estate.
 It was learned today that the exten- sive work on the estate planned by MT. Hartman during the last two years will be carried out according to | his wishes.
 Judge Lovett said today: 'I understand that Miss Mary Har- l riman has been entering into her fa- | ther's plans for the estate and will undoubtedly see that they are carried | to completion"
 Mir Harriman's will. the size of his estate and his probable successor in | control of his railroads. Judge 1ovett declined to discuss. | Che report here has 1t that tho mii- | lionaire bequeathed 2S,000 acres of woodland fin orange County to the | State for a park. provided the State will assist in improving 1t. | Two or three relatives, whose 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 l not a relative. pr. Lyle went to New. York last night.
 Many Send Mesaages.
 Messages of condolence poured into l the family all day.
 1 Among those who wired their sys- pathy was Mayor Tiedeman of Savansf l nah. Ga.
 w. H. AverIl. Mrs. Harriman's brother, wired that he was on his way here from Los Angeles.
 Two more names were added to the list of pall-bearers this afternoon. make ing eight in all. The additions ara J. B. Ford assistant general superin- tendent of the estate, and George w. | Bush, assistant superintendent of the | Arden farms. All those selected are heads of departments in the estate.
 J. S. Murray. in charge of the stock farms at Goshen, received ordef today to withdraw all the Harrimanl entries from the coming trotting meeting at Syracuse.
 As Mary Hartman is extremely fond