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Show WORK OF MAGNATE WILL GO FORWARD NEW YORK, Sept 0, Though Mr. Harriman is dead, his tremendous interests in-terests will ha carried on without interruption. in-terruption. So firm is the foundation of his great constructive work in the railroad world and so thoroughly organized or-ganized are his varied interests' that no fear is felt in the financial 'world. It is in the west that Mr. Harriman leaves his greatest monument of railroad rail-road construction work, but here in New York, from where he directed his great enterprises, his death was perhaps per-haps most keenly felt. First word tliat his end had come did not reach the financial distriei and the stock exchange until long after 3 o'clock, a time when trading on the exchange had ceased for the day. New York l.ad watched with syni-. pathetic interest Mr.. Harriman's long fight against his last illness. From June I. when lie sailed to take the cure at Bad Gastein in Austria, reports began be-gan to circulate that the master of Union Pacific was in a serious way. From abroad came daily accounts of his treatment and his cheerful and oft-repeated statemeut that he was improving improv-ing and would be soon himself again. This optimism was eliaraeteristie of the man of whose grit and determination to get well and resume work on the vast plans he had laid out was remarkable. remark-able. But Mr. Harriman did not improve abroad as his physicians had expected, and ho returned to New York on August 15, as he announced to "take un after cure." Cheerful to the End. Mr. Harriman arrived in New York weak and einaiiciated. but brave and cheerful in his determination to overcome over-come his ailment. An interview he gave the newspapers upon his' return from Europe was under most dramatic circumstances. cir-cumstances. Surrounded by more than a score of reporters as he lay upon a conch in his private car in Jersey City. Mr. Harrinian, against the advice of 1 his family and physician, talkcS'lfON11 J fully and freely of his cxpefre,.w,t abroad and of his plans for tho Iff Ln when he should return to duty. $f,JP 1 " I haven 't. anything on niv mii jf Wi'c now except tho after cure,'' sajwf.wi'15 .Harriman, "and I want you 4' to help me do that. I've leSj" pounds on the other side and I tn-.i't I could better get it bach oniH' . cooking. Ten pounds off a littleUljO like mo is a good deal." 'ns Mr. Ilarrimau was taken at oiy', ( 'e 0 Arden, where for a tune it ipM'(;r3J' that ho was on tho road to rcQthrtOoni No longer ago than Monday 6$s ' p)Io. ; week, Mr. Ilarriinan in requesting rJ?, newspaper men be withdrawn f rdter'if; f den. dictated a characteristic statn' p. declaring that lie was getting P i S. nicely and that if there was anv ftp- "jjr in his condition he would iniorrjjJ "Jf.-jji newspapers. vi'&y t "If there was or should be anjtlf serious, 1 will let. the press kno';rtJit ay I have never deceived them,';5" that the press now withdraw thej rescntatives and rely on mc.",i . This roqnest was ' readily coij!0'.' ' with and not until Mr. IIarrimarQ&ripf lapse on Sunday last, was the vif jtMi newed. The feeling among theVyjilc" cial men of New York on the effK'i Mr. Harriman ' death on the firit fill f world is one of confidence. jt th |