The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-28
!; HARTMAN Ill.
THAT SURGEONS HAS
TENED TO ARDEN.


Arden, N. Y, Aug. .27.--Whatever
may be z. II. Harriman's ailment.
whatever his true condition. the pub
lie Is not to know until he and his
family decide that such an announce
ment is opportune. He Is an Isolated
ton a mystery to those outside his
mountain retreat
At the Top of Tower Hill. whore the
funicular railroad stops. with roads
picketed by guards and all but one
telephone wire--and that q private one
severed. he spends his days and
nights In a seclusion that is almost
absolute.
Scraps of news dropped from the
lips OF relatives. an associate. and an
employee Indicate that he spent q quiet
day. part of II out of doors, but there
were other incidents which led those
who are draining the meagre channels
Of Information to believe that all was
not so well. There was the arrival at
the station at Turner of two tanks
something which may have had no
bearing on Mr.. Harriman's illness. but
which appeared significant In that
they were recorded on the bill of lad
ing>as oxygen" shortly afterward
there came a small collapsible cot.
such as IL used in hospitals to move
patients between. wards. Both were
sent up the incline to the estate.
Coincident with the arrivals Of these
requisites to an operation, came two
men from New York. one Of them car
rying what appeared to be the black
hand bag of surgeon. They were
taken up the incline to the house and
rumors that Mr.. Hartman was to be
operated upon spread broadcast. ,One
of the men, according to popular ru-
NOR. 10 DIR George w. Grille. Of Cleve-
land. o., an eminent specialist in abb
domfnal surgery.
According to report he was summon
ed from Breton Woods. N. H. to assist
DR.. W. q. Lyle. of New York. who has
been Mr.. Harriman's physician
Throughout his illness.
All this gave strong color to the re-
port that there was to be an opera.
tion on Tower HILL but of this no con-
firmation Is to be had tonight. On
the other hand, those who spoke of
Mr. Hartman today were inclined to-
wards optimism. Dr. Lyle declined to
make any comment whatever, as did
former Judge r. IS. Lovett. general
counsel for the Hartman lines. who
has been with his chief daily. but when
Robert L. Gerry. of New York, Mr..
Harriman's son-in-law. descended the
incline railway on a flat car this af-
ternoon, he talked at some length.
'T have just left Mr.. Hartman sit
ting on the porch" he said. talking
to some of his workmen. He has spent
a good part of the day out there in
a chair"
Mr.. Gerry denied that an operation
was to be performed and said that DIR.
Lyle was the only physician in at
tendance.
C. T. Ford. superintendent OF the
estate confirmed Mr.. Gerry's state
ment about Mr.. Harriman's sitting on
the porch. At intervals throughout
he said, and had talked with the head
mason and others at work on an un,
finished part Of the house.
Ford, the superintendent deprecated
the significance of the arrival of the
tanks supposed to contain oxygen.
There Is an Ice plant on the place. he
explained, and there was a possibility
that the contents of the tanks was
carbonic acid gas used in the manufac-
ture of ice. He was not sure of this,
however. The cot, he said. might have
been taken to a camp near the house
where some workmen are living. But
of this he was not sure, either. On
the whole. the impression grows that
an operation OF some character Is to
be performed on Mr.. Hartman, but
further details are well-nigh impossi-
BILE to obtain.
The correspondents on the scene are
divided into three groups. standing
guard day and night. One camp has
been established here at Arden, an
other at Turner. the railroad station.
and another at the base on the incline
railway. No one enters or leaves the
estate without being subjected to in
quiry.
No word came from the house and
no one descended either to Turner or to
Arden. If the two men who assembled
the mountain to the house during the
day were physicians, none but the
family knows, for neither would tell
who they were. About o'clock a
special train, consisting of an engine.
with a combination baggage and smok-
err. and one passenger coach. rushed
through Turner and 1t was afterward
learned, stopped at Goshen. fifteen
miles west OF here.
About the same time Mr.. Gerry came
| down the mountain in his automobile
and was last seen headed toward Gosh
| en-, In about an hour he returned with
| three men in the car. The machine
assembled the steep winding road to the
Hartman residence without stopping
| and the identity of Mr.. Gerry's passen-
| gers could not be learned. These
| three strangers, besides the two who
| arrived earlier in the day. makes five
who were brought to the Hartman
house with every evidence of haste
whether or not they were surgeons oil
| nurses, could not be ascertained, but
everything points to the fact that the
worlds greatest railroad man is about