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Show WtlK LAST TALK Willi In Face of Death Railroad King Laid Plans for Carrying " On His Work. " STRONGEST MONEY POWER .TO SUPPORT MARKET Not-Alone for Sake of Harriman Interests hut for Country at Large. ARDEN, N. Y Sept. 11. One of the last men to talk with Edward-H. Harriman Har-riman before tho relapse of .last Sun-iny, Sun-iny, that ended in his death, was J. P. Morgan. The; financier came to Arden bouse Thursday 'of last week, when' the -encouraging improvement noted. in Mr. Harriman 's condition was at its' height, and in spite of his bodily weakness the head of the Union Pacific system was as well fitted to discuss business as at any time in his life. For ncarl.y two hours the two leader? of American finance rat on the porch in the sun. It is believed that at this conference plans were laid to support the financial market in the cent of Mr. Harriman 's death, or in case his health forced him to abandon all business busi-ness activit3. Mr. Morgan's county estate es-tate on the west bank of the Hudson joins that of Mr. Harriman. . Knew He WaB Dying. When this conference occurred. Mr. Harriman knew he was a, d3-ing maij, although he kept this information from his hamily and stoadil.y encouraged their helief that he would get well. No one saw more clearJj' than Mr. Harriman Harri-man what would probabh happen whou he died. For the sako of thousands of railroad stockholders, as well as for hi? own interests, ho knew that unless the strongest money nower in the country "got under" the "market the effect 01 his death would be disastrous. This, without doubt, is why ho called in Mr. Morgan. The Harriman funeral continued to be the main topic of conversation in this vicinity todui. The little church at Arden with its seating capacity of onlv 150 cannot begin to accommodate the" crowd that will attend the public memorial services, or even tho so-called "private" ceremouy at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Messages Pouring In. Messages of condolence continue to pour iu. The mail of the little post-oftice post-oftice at Arden today swelled a. dozen times bevond its usual size. For the first time since Sunday Judge Robert S. Lovett did not spend the night at Arden house last .night. Dr. Lyle also was awaj- and the group in tlie house was made up 'entirely of members mem-bers of the family. Little clue to the cause of Mr. Harriman 's death is given bv the certificate prepared b- Dr. Eylc. 1'h is certificate was received by T. D. Smith, the undertaker, who will file it with the town clerk at Highland Mills. It gives the cause of death as "heart failure, superinduced by internal complications." com-plications." This certificate probably will be filed tomorrow morning, since this formali-ty formali-ty is necessar' before the burial. Stated Cause of Death. "Pernicious anaemia and oedema of the lungs" was the chief cause of Edward Ed-ward II. Harriman 's death as officially stated tonight 1)3' Dr. W. G. Lyle of Now York, his physician, in the death certificate filed with the town clerk's office at Highland Mills. There was no mention of cancer, but it was noted that the word "chief" was inserted in tho printed form after the question, "cause of death." Popularly interpreted anaemia is an impoverished condition of the blood; pernicious anaemia, therefore, is a severe se-vere form of disease. Oedema of tho lungs or water in the lungs, tho interpretation inter-pretation goueralh- accepted, . might have resulted froiii a variety of nb-seesscs. nb-seesscs. Immediately after the death certificate uas filed a burial permit was ( 'ont 1 nued on Page Three. IIARRIMANSS TAST TALK WITH MORGAN Continued From Page One. graulod. During the day Dr. Jjylo had filed a certificate with tho undertaker in which he said simply that Mr. llarri-mun's llarri-mun's death had resulted from " heart .failure superinduced by internal complications. com-plications. Time of Dissolution. Dr. Lyle also states positively in the certificate filed with tho town dork that. Idr. Jlarriniiin's dentil occurred at ":35 p. m.. on September f). The certificate, which is attested by "Walter Avcrill Ilarrimau, Mr. JIarrinian's eldest son, reads in part : "L hereby certify that I attended the deceased from August -l, I'JOD, fo September Sep-tember fl, 100J); that I last saw him alive September 0, IDOi), and that, death occurred on the dale stated above at '6:'.i p. m." Following the foregoing the cause of death as given and the signature appended. ap-pended. "William Gordon lyle, M. DM (50 West Fifty-eighth street, Now York." Details All Set Out. Mr. Ilarrimau 's ago at the timo of his death was given as sixty-one years six months and fifteen days, and it was set forth that ho had lived in Arden for twenty-two years. Dr. Lylc's action in amplifying on tho certificate filed with the undertaker smoothed out; what might have developed into a hitch at the funeral. D. Spendleton, acting town clerk at Highland .Mills had said previously pre-viously to the tiling of the certificate that lie did not, feel that Dr. Lyle's statement to tho undertaker was" sufficient. suf-ficient. Dr. Lyle. in putting into writing tho lime of Mr. JIarrinian's death at .".:H5 seems to have dissipated tho report which was accepted for a while that he died at 1:30 p. m.. but that the news was held back until after the close of the Now Vork stock exchauge. Tho fact that cancer is not mentioned also coincides with what Dr. Lylo said when lie denied the truth of a. statement credited cred-ited to a Viennese specialist that ho had diagnosed the financier's aibuout while abroad as cancer. "Pernicious anaemia," which Dr. Lyle assigns as the primary cause of Mr. riarriman'p death, is :i disease which nearly all recorded cases have resulted fatally. Tho patient is usually middle-aged, and there is nothing to account for the disease. i No Treatment Curos. The lino of treatment generally followed fol-lowed includes tho administration of oxygen and limiting tho diet to milk, oggs, meat juices and other simple foods. In this respect it will be recalled re-called that there were several reports that oxygen was given to Mr. Ilarrimau on various occasions. His appearance and manner also upon the dale of his return from Tluropc seemed to agree with the appearance of one suffering from tho disease. Between fifty Jind sixty of the country's coun-try's most prominent liien, including financiers, lawyers, physicians and men well known in the business world, will attend the funeral of Kdward II. Ilarri-inan Ilarri-inan tomorrow. Thev will come from New York on a special train leaving Jersey City at 2 p. m. At St. John's Episcopal church, a little stone chapel, near the foot of Tower Hill, they will join the group of mourners who will xhave accompanied the funeral proces sion from Arden house. Several hours beforo tiro arrival of the New York visitors a procession of 500 workmen emplrrycd on the Ilarrimau estate will march slowly over tho road leading to the uncompleted palace on tho hill. At S) o'clock in the morning employees will bo permitted to tile through the room where lies Iho body of the man of whem one of them said today: , Workman's Tribute. "At times he seemed a workman lik" j ourselves, just an older workman wlium ; we cared a great deal about." I No precautions havo been omitted to; protect the funeral car on its way down j tho hill. Sixteen of the most stalwav workmen will act as a guard of h mor. ' Tho ceremony at the house at 10 a. m. will bo a communion SL-rvico conducted by the family chaplain, the Kcv. Dr. .)'. Holmes Mc.Gniness. None will Del present but Mrs. IJarrimaii and her chil-1 drcn. At 11 o'clock the public ire-j inorial service will be held at St.. John's church, at which Dr. McOuiness will I deliver the only oulogy. No pains have boon spared to make tho funeral itself at 5) o'clock as priva'.c as possible. TA prtirijnt the intrusion of persons not specially bidden, sixty nion will guard all the .upproachcs.to tho church and the U:rej milos of road oyer which tho funeral fu-neral cortege will witfd. Tho town Jioards of "Woodbury and Tuxedo voted todiy to close the "roads in thoso townships town-ships loading to St. John's church. Of all Uie tokens of rospeut nono is more striking than that of the lirie railroad, wiiioh runs through Arden. Ever' train on 'this sYsfom will stand still between ?.i30 nnd:H2 tomorrow afternoon while tar fnueral services aic in progress. Tlio steel casket in which Mr. llnrri-inun llnrri-inun "s body will rest arrived this afternoon after-noon from' Now JYork. In this all that remains Of the groat railroad man will bo hermetically se.ile-l bc-foxo it is lowered into the brick-lined va.uit hewn in the rock of the hill-aide. hill-aide. Carloads of Flowers. Tt is estimated that the flowers al-rjp.dy al-rjp.dy received and yet to come will fill "four freight cars. There was a steady stream of carriages and auiomo-bilus'all auiomo-bilus'all day bringing the tributes to Ardon house. Mrs. Mnrrimau tonight ordered that- all additional flowers bo sent direct to the church. Floral tributes have accumulated at the Erie station in Jerse' City in such quantities that two special car's will bo used to bring them up to Arden tomorrow morning. Tho telegraph o.llice has received mrire than Tour hundred messages expressing ex-pressing condolences. Messages from Mrs. Nicholas Jjongworth, J. P. Morgan, Mor-gan, Thomas Ryan and Charles P. Taft were among those that came today. Thc -I?cv. Dr. "Wil.liam Croswell Doane, Episcopal bishop of Albany, who had boon roquestcd to assist in conducting the funeral services, notified the family that he would bo unable to do so. In view of this J)r. McGuiness will prob ably be assisted only by Archdeacon Nelson of Si. 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