Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-13
HARTMAN LAID
TO FINAL REST
RAILROAD BUILDER PLACED IN
ROCK TOMB
MANY FINANcIERs ATTEND THE
FUNERAL SERVICES
Early Ceremony at Church Is Attended
by Townspeople and Employees of
Dead Magnate - Minister
Extols Deceased
.Cnnt,nusa from pnrs ono,

does not end with yourself, but ex-
tends over those over whom you have
influence.
"'The opportunity is given your chill
dren for religious training at Sunday
school and the church for yourselves
and families.
at is not a favor conferred on any
one else than yourselves and families.
cit is not a favor conferred on any
one else than yourselves if you avail
yourselves of it.
"T hope by next Sunday you will
evidence more interset by attending
the services. Yours faithfully,
EDWARD H. HARTMAN
"His realization of the tremendous
Importance of regular attendance at
divine worship was illustrated not only
in the sending out of that, letter, but
in his constant personal practice when
health permitted.
"He also was a most faithful COM
municant At the time when his
daughter was Frustrated by serious
illness and during the crisis which fol-
lowed he sent me a note in his own
handwriting requesting prayer for her.
Believed in Holy Things
"Tirne and time again he declared to
me his firm belief in the teachings OF
our Holy Father.
1.-THE mighty power which he WELD
ed by his personal influence never OBJ
scured in his own mind the need of
absolute reliance on the hand that gov
erns the universe.
"A distinguished American in speak
ing of him to me recently said:
f" Mr. Hartman has done more for the
development of the resources of the
country and the expansion of its power
than any other individual in the last
hundred years
I'VE are proud to know that he
achieved all this distinction without
violating the minutest principle OF the
great laws of morality.
ITO those who maligned and misrep-
resented him, he showed no resentment;
but was willing always to allow time
to prove his case, and the proof never
failed.
"The pettiness of jealous competition
never for an instant embittered him.
He remained throughout all those try
ing years sweet tempered, amiable,
lovable.
"He was a burning and shining light
God be thanked for such lives!"
Precautions Elaborate
Elaborate precautions were taken to
presenrve the privacy of the afternoon
service. Several score of employees,
aided by a number of policemen, guard
ed all roads over which the funeral
procession passed and kept watch at in
tervals of twenty yards around the path
of woods which includes the Hartman
burial plot.
Eight carriages followed the hearse
from Arden house. The first carried
Mrs. Hartman with her two unmarried
daughters, Mary and Carol, and her
sons, Walter, Averill and Roland.
Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, the married
daughter, drove in the next carriage.
Others in the party were Mr.. and
Mrs. Simons, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Har-
riman, Charles Peabody, Judge Robert
S. Lovett and Dr.. W. G. Lyle.
The casket-one solid mass Of lilies
of the valley and green vines, with an
immense bunch of crimson roses on
top-was carried to the altar by eight
bearers clad in black and wearing
black skull caps.
The funeral service Of the Episcopal
church was conducted by Dr. Nc
Guinness, assisted by the Rev G. Mel
son, archdeacon of the cathedral of st.
John the Divine in New York.
Quartet Sings Hymns
A male quartet and the choir of
Grace church, New York, sang abide
with Me" and There Is a Land of
Pure Delight" Mr.. Harriman's favor
lite hymns.
The service lasted but twenty min
casket to the burial plot, 100 yards up
the hill.
There was room inside the burial
ground only for fifteen or twenty be-
sides the mourners and the two Off
ciating clergymen. Others stood in the
road outside and looked over the stone
wall.
Several hundred Hartman employees
and their families stood with barred
heads outside the church during the
service and gathered at a respectful
distance from the grave during the in
terment.
It was o'clock when Archdeacon
Nelson took a handful of earth and,
sprinkling it over a bed Of lilies that
hid the metal casket, consigned the
body of Erward H. Hartman to the
earth on the spot he loved best.
Mrs. Hartman and her children
drove home Immediately after the GER
emony
Every one Of Mrs. Harriman's
friends in Arden and Turner received
a remembrance of the day when the
flowers that have been arriving by
every train for twentyfOur hours were
distributed.
Altogether, the flowers would have
filled three express cars.