The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-03

House," says Mr.. Ford, "I will say
that all of Mr.. Harriman's plans for
Its completion will be carried out by
his widow. There is still SO much
to be done that the work will doubt
less take two or three years more"
The announcement of Mrs. Harri-
mans desire to finish the task be-
gun by her husband, which will en-
tail an additional expenditure of
$2,00O,000 or $3,000,00O, will be
joyously received by the country
folk of the Ramapo Valley. The
payroll of Hartman employees liv-
ing in that section averages $4,000
a week. Upon Mr.. Harriman's death
the report was persistently circu-
lated that the army of workmen
would be discharged, or at least cur
tailed to such a degree that it would
amount to a veritable catastrophe
to their families.
The town of Turner, on the main
line of the Erie Railroad, about a
mile from the incline tramway to
the Hartman mountain mansion,
also will be rejoiced by the news
that Mrs. Hartman intends to make
Turner, instead of Arden, the sta
tion which will be ordinarily used
by the Hartman household. A
special roadway, almost as straight
as ruler, is to be built from Tur-
ner to the foot of the incline.
When Mrs. Hartman or any other
members of the family journey from
Arden House they will take an au-
tomobile at the doorway of the man
sion and have the machine rolled up
on a tram car, which will lower it
to the bottom of the mountain
Thence the automobile will speed
over the straight, level private road
to Turner. There new station is to
be built, which promises to be by far
the handsomest on the Erie.
In addition Mrs. Hartman is hav-
ing large force of workmen plotting
sunken gardens around a private sta
tion only few rods from the foot
of the incline. This is on the New
burgh branch of the Erie, and has
been named Arden House. All the
grounds surrounding it are being
planted with trees and shrubs, with
labyrinth of walks and glades with
in this artificial forest. The private
station will only be used when the
family or its guests come or go by
special train.
One of the most striking architec-
tural ideas of the dead financier,
which his widow will see is carried
out in the fullest detail, is the castle
like lodge at the foot of the incline.
1t will be the largest and most i'm
posing structure of it's kind in this
country. 1t is to be built of granite
blasted out of the mountain, with a
great bastion on each side of the en-
trance, which will be closed by a
gigantic porcullis.
Through this doorway will run a
narrow gauge railroad, by which a
private car can be taken from the pri-
vate station on the Erie right on to
the tramcar, which will hoist it up
the mountain to Arden House.
Mrs. Hartman also has become
deeply interested in the management
of the $4,000 acres included in Ar
den Farms, over which her daughter
May, has assumed immediate super
vision. 1t is the mothers desire that
the work of extending the farm i'm
provements begun by her husband
be continued until Arden Farms will
become the greatest agricultural en-
terprise of it's kind in the United
States.
Plans are accordingly being per-
fected for the draining of vast areas
of swamp land, formerly thought to
be worthless by the Ramapo Valley
farmers. This land Mr.. Hartman
bought at low figures, and began
turning it into the richest sort OF
soil for the raising of vegetables.
Already 800 acres have been re-
claimed. From these the finest gar
den truck to be bought in the market
is shipped, along with the milk from
the Hartman dairies, to Tuxedo and
other towns along the Erie. Even
tually Mrs. Hartman and her daugh-
ter hope their farms will produce
enough milk and vegetables to sup.
ply the more exclusive establishments
of the New York market.
This year, because of the unread
ness of the Hartman city home, the
Hartman family will remain at Ar.
den House later into the Fall than is
their custom. OF the delay, however
Mrs. Hartman has expressed no dis.
appointment. She says it only gives
her greater opportunity to supervise
the work of construction and i'm
provement left to her by her hus'
bands death.-Newburgh Journal.
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