Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-16
HARTMAN LOSES
TO GRIM REAPER
Worlds Greatest Railroad King Sue.
CumbS TO Disease.
His Mind Clear to Last, He Passes
Away Surrounded by Family-Se-
crecy Preserved Until Stock ex-
change Closed for the Day and
Time Msstated.

Arden, Sept. 10.-Edward H. Harri-
man, the greatest organizer of rail-
roads the world has ever known, met
the only lasting defeat of his active
life at the hands of death. Secluded
in his magnificent home on Tower
Hill. he succumbed to an intestinal
disorder yesterday after fight against
disease that will rank for sheer grit
with his remarkable struggles in the
financial world.
The exact time of his death is known
only in that limited circle of relatives
and associates who had shielded Mr..
Hartman from all outside annoyance
during his last illness. The time was
given out as 8 :35 p. M, but Mrs. Mary
Simonds, sister of the dead man, said
last night that Mr.. sHarriman died at
l 80 .. m. Whether this apparent
discrepancy has any bearing on the
current belief that every effort was
made to lessen the influence of the
fnancier's death on the New York
stock market is problematical. But it
is significant that the time of his
death, IS officially announced, was just
35 minutes after trading had ceased on
the New York exchange.
Mr.. Hartman died peacefully and
to the end his brilliant mind retained
its clearness. After relapse OIL Sun
day he sank slowly and soon after noon
yesterday there came a relapse that
marked the approach of the end. His
wife, two daughters and two sons, who
have been constantly with him, assem-
bled at the bedside and carriage was
hastily dispatched for Mrs. Simonds,
whose home is three miles from the
Tower Hill home. Mrs. Simonds en-
tered the great silent home in time to
be present at her brothers death. She
joinec the wife and children, who,
with DR.. W. G. Lyle, of New York,
and Orlando Hartman, brother, and
the nurses, formed group at the bed
side.
Mr.. Hartman will be placed at
rest in the family plot at the little
graveyard behind St. Johns Episcopal
church at Arden. He will rest beside
his eldest son, Edward H. Hartman.
Jr., who died % years ago, soon after
the family first came to Arden. The
services will be held at $3.50 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, and, it is under
stood, will be strictly private.
Edward Henry Hartman will 60
down in history as one OF the most
spectacular financial geniuses, most
daring stock spectators and greatest
railroad magnates Of his time. He
was born at Hampstead, L. l., Febru-
ary 25, 1848, the son of Rev. Orlando
Hartman, Jr., rector of an Episcopal
church in that town, founded in 1902.
The early life of the future man of
millions was one of great poverty. His
father was a cultured but poor man,
his mother came from an old aristo-
cratic, but equally impecunious family
of New Brunswick, N. j.
Edward H. Hartman received his
early education at the district school
and supplemented it by a two years
course in a boys school under church
auspices, where the sons of clergymen
paid practically nothing for their edu-
cation.
Edward Henry Hartman began his
career as clerk in brokers' office on
Wall street. He showed no unusual
ability and for many years gave no
promise of his later brilliant develop
ment. Socially he was we'll liked and
those who knew him at that time des-
cribed him as a sociable young rnan,
always full of fun. He was noted,
however, for mind of his own. What
he wanted he generally obtained, but
his desires and ambitions were, at that
time, at least, neither very sweeping
nor particularly important.
How he obtained his start and the
funds which enabled him to buy seat
on the New York stock exchange, have
never been clearly explained. The
most widely accepted explanation,
however was to the effect that during
the famous "gold corner" engineered
by Gould, Fisk, Kimber and others,
Edward H. Hartman plunged with all
his own money and some borrowed from
Coal Land Thieves Arrested.
New York. Sept. 10.-Rufus Ireland,
George Daily, Frank T. Wells and Will