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Show MAGNATE'S FUNERAL OF SIMPLE CHARACTER ARDRN, N. Y Sept. TO. Arrange-mcnl.s Arrange-mcnl.s for the funeral on Sunday of Edward IL Tlarrinian were, completed todny. First his faini3', then tho aim-plo aim-plo folk of tho valley and hillside, who for twenty years regarded him as their friend and benefactor, will pay their tributes of respect. The day's ceremonies cere-monies will end with a burial service and interment which will be attended only by relatives and personal friends. l-aimly services will be held at Arden Ar-den house at 10 o'clock Sunday morning morn-ing and ho3- communion will bo celebrated cele-brated al 11 o'clock at St. .John's Episcopal Epis-copal chinch, Arden. The burial service will take place at SI. John's at, .1 p. ni. The interment will follow in the Harriman private burial ground, a stono's throw south-easst south-easst ot the church. Music will bo furnished at the main service by tho choir of Grace church, New York. Judging by tho preparations being made throughout the neighborhood, it is evident that half the population of the nenrby villages will attend the public pub-lic services. Carriages are already being be-ing held at exorbitant rates for use on Sunday. Preparing for Obsequies. Seventy men toiled on the Arden hillside hill-side in the pouring rain today, preparing prepar-ing for (he funeral of their late em-plo3'or. em-plo3'or. Six were blasting a grave from tho solid rock of the private graveyard near St. .John's church; the others were smoothing the three miles of road ovr which the bodv will be carried to its last resting place. All afternoon the stillness of the green hillside was broken 1)3' the noise of explosions. The grave is being blasted and quarried out of the bliiestone which lies but a few inches below I he surface of the ground. Until the death certificate is filed with E, P. Fitch, the town clerk at Highland Mills, there is no way of ascertaining as-certaining the verdict of Mr. Harriman Harri-man 's physician. Dr. W. (!. Lyle. A Vienna dispatch declaring that Dr. Struempel diagnosed Mr. llarrimaii.'" complain) as cancer, was shown to Lir. McGuincss tonighr at his reclorv. ' t "J never heard cancer' mentioned by any member of the family," said tho clerg3'iiiaii. "I do not know whether or not Dr. Sfrucnipel acquainted Mr. Harriman with his diagnosis of cancer." Tli- Are: :. i. n. ij i iiiTrt inninctu i.uut. lift i-it iiji day before Mr. Harriman died his most intimate friends believed he might get well. Lovctt's Explanation. Judge Robert S. Lovott, considered Mr. Harriman 's chief business and legal adviser, explained todav his policy of silence which baffled ah seekers after continual inn regarding Mr. Hurrimau's condition. He said; "Mr. Tlarrinian 's life was so interwoven inter-woven with Wall street and financial affairs that any change in his condition would have affected the financial world. I thought it advisablo not to run the danger of misrepresentation and so said nothing about his condition. Anv statement state-ment one wa' or the other would have been misunderstood. ' ' Partly from Judge Lovott and partly from Charles T. Ford, superintendent of the Harriiiia.ii estate, it was learned to-da3' to-da3' that the extensive work on the estate planned 13' Mr. Harriman during tho last two years will be carried out according lo his wishes. The active pallbearers will be (ho six men in charge of the various departments de-partments of iMr. Hnrriman 's estate at Arden and Turner. They are Charles T. Ford, his general superintendent ; William Vinor, manager of the farm at Anion; William Robbins, superintendent superinten-dent of Mr. Harriman 's stock farm and iu general charge of his trotting horses at Goshen; P. W. Mandigo, his master carpenter; E. P. Schultz, master mason, and William A. McClellan, superintendent superinten-dent of tho Arden Farms Dairy com-pan3'. com-pan3'. The list of honorary pallbearers has not yet boon announced. Tomb of Solid Rock. The millionaire's body will rest in a grave blasted from the solid rock of the hillside. This method of burial was adopted when his eldest son, Edward 11. Harriman, Jr., was buried twont.y-two twont.y-two years ago. The TIarrimau plot is in a far corner of the graveyard, and the only spot in the enclosuro where the blue stone of Tower Tlill rises to tho surface. Men began work today quarrying put the grave. A drizzling rain began this morning nnd the laudscape presented a scene in consonance with the sorrow that hangs over litis portion of the Ramapo-val-oy. Little or no work was done today jn the villages' of Turner aud Ardcn. The 200 or more workmen on the Harriman Harri-man estate have been laid off until Monday. Few of them know or not if th 03' ever will be allowed to return to their work, but anxiety regarding their own future is for the time being overshadowed by griof over the death of their employer. Work Likely to Go On. A. McCMlan. superintendent of the Harriman dairies, told a group of workmen work-men at tho Turner station thnt he believed be-lieved the work of completing Ardeiv house and la3ing out the grounds would go on after the funeral, according to Mr. Harriman 's plans. "That was his wish," ho said, "and T believe it will be carried out." "I havo lost the best friend I ever had," declared Mr. MoOlellnn, "nnd the best friend of every man. here." "Yes; that's so," sa'id several of the listeners. "There'll never be another boss like him." Daughter May Take Management. The belief hero is lhat the active management of the Tower Hill improvements improve-ments will devolve upon his eldest daughter. Mary Harriman had ulwaj's been her father's companion in 'his walks and drives about the estate. The men sa.v that in mental make up she approaches her father nearer than an3' of the other children. Mrs, Harriman, it is said, would be glad to return to the old Hnrriman farm home at the foot of the hill which the family occupied when they first came to Arden, twenty-two 3en"rs ago. This spot is hallowed for her 1)3' the death of her first-born son and tho birth of the ihreo 3'onnger children. In spite of all its castled magnificence, Arden house to her will always recall the last dn.ys of her husband. Palaco Abodo of Death. Whon the financier came there on August 23 he was alread3' a (tying man. The house has not a cheerful association. associa-tion. Its broad hallf, its rows of guest chambers, have never been used to en- tertaiu any guests other than pli3'sicians who flocked to (he house Nto Ifelp the owner in his last fight, and two or Ihree of his closest business associates, whoso presence was required 1)3' the d3'ing man's wish to have no detail unsettled un-settled of the vast interests he felt slipping from his grasp. The Harriman family has shut itself up alone in its grief. Superintendent McClellan on their be half asked the newspaper men at Tur i ncr lodaj' to make no attempt to reach tho house, lie said that for a dn.y or two tho dead man 's nearest relatives whb are gntherod at Arden house preferred pre-ferred to rccctvo no visits of either condolcnco or business. Messages of Sympathy. The telegraph station at Ardcn has boon kept bus3' since yesterdnj' receiving re-ceiving messages of sympathy from all parts of tho world. Tho telegrams aro being sent up the hill iu baskets, with hundreds of letters that, begun to pour iu this morning. The ono secretary at the house is kept bus3' opening and an Hwering these messages. Tt is probable that none of the family now on the hill will leave Arden until after the funeral. |