The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-10-28
HARRY GARTLEY
 PASSES AWAY

marry 0s GaELle4s dSeu aOt pEesI- dent of the Wrangell Sumber and Power Company Inc, died in the Wrungell General Hospital al s:s0 Monday morning, following a lin- garing illness.
 The funeral was held at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and was very largely attended. Rev. II. p. Corser read the impressive burial service of the Episcopal church. af- ter which he paid a beautiful trib- ute 10 the deceased. He was fol- lowed by the Rev Robert Joseph Diyen, D. D.. of the Presbyterian church who spoke words of comfort and wisdom. The music in eonnec- tion with the funeral rites was very beautiful and impressive. A wealth of floral offerings of exceptional beauty served as an expression of sympathy. tenderness and love.
 The honorary pail bearers were; Mayor J. c Grant. Postmaster John ". stedman, l. C. Bjorge. s. Gun ningham. Fl. D. Campbell Digby Coehrane.
 The active pail bearers were ehos- en from members of the Masonic fraternity and were as follows Donald Sinclair. A E. Gurr, T. J. Me Bride, + D. Kyle. J W. Pritchett. pr. 0. H. Whaley.
 The funeral service at the grave was conducted by the Petersburg Masonic lodge. At the request of Worshipful Master Loeken the bur ial service was read by Past Master J. L. MeKechnie. a close friend Of MT. Gartley's. The chaplain's part was taken by Past Master o. H Whaley of WrangelI.
 Harry Wilfred Gartley was born in New Brunswick on June 2. 1880. When a small boy his parents came west, settling at Victoria. B. C. where he grew Up. Early in life he became known as a young man who was dependable and worthy of responsibility. When only 19 years of age a wholesale concern in Vic toria sent him north to the Skeena river on an important business er- rand where their interest had to be looked out for in connection with the settlement of an estate. Following the death of Captain John C. Call breath in the Cassiar Mr. Gartley was again sent north on business mission for his employers.
 In 1905 Farquhar Matheson es- tablished himself in the mercantile business in Wrangell with Mir. Gartley as his chief lieutenant Matheson and Gartley were a good team and at the time of Matheson's death twelve years later the store had become a business institution that was a credit to the town.
 Mir. Gartley was married in San Francisco on July 29, 1908, to Miss May Sylvester of Wrangell.
 In the fall of 1917 the Wrangel3 sawmill, owned by the Wilson < Sylvester Mill Company was de stroved by fire. The fire left the affairs of the mill company in an unsatisfactory condition Mr. and Mrs. Gartley were stockholders is the mill, and in order to protect their interest MT. Gartley severed his connection with the Matheson store and became the general mana ger for the Wilson & Sylvester Mil Company which three years age changed it's name to the Wrange. Lumber and Power Company.
 During the nine years that Mir Gartley had charge of the affair of the Wrangell sawmill he worked constantly to improve the mill with view to making it lumber manu- featuring plant that would be rec ognized and receive orders from the lumber markets of the world. With this end in view he succeeded two years ago in convincing the. United States Forest Service that the Wrangell mill was on solid foun- dation with the result that timber area containing twenty years sup ply of timber was set aside for the local mill The timber area reserV- ed for the Wrangell mill contains at least a billion and a quarter board feet, and perhaps consider ably more.
 Three months ago MT. Gartiey and MT. Daly of the Ketchikan Spruce Mill jointly chartered from the Moore-McCormack line the steamship "commercial Guide "