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Show HARRIMAN IN SILENT TOMB Services Held in Private, Only Intimate In-timate Friends of the Family Being Present. Arden, N. Y. With only the intimate inti-mate friends of the family present, services over the body of Edward H. Harriman, the railway king, wero held on Sunday in the mansion he had never lived to see finished, after which the body was tenderly laid in its last resting place on the Arden hillside. Ffee rulers of Wall street came from New York to pay their last tribute, but the most prominent part in the ceremonies was taken by the men who knew him best as a country squire and master of the great estate, which covers 43,000 acres of hill and valley. His general superintendent, his master carpenter, his master mason ma-son and the managers-, and assistant managers of his dairies, his farms and his trotting stables bore his coffin. The funeral was private, and only those who were personal frends of the family and had received invita-tons invita-tons from Mrs. Harrman were admitted. ad-mitted. The out-of-town party arrived at Arden at 3:15 o'clock on a special train. The first service was holy communion, commun-ion, celebrated at 10 a. m. by the Rev. J. Holmes McGuiness, for Mrs. Harriman Harri-man and her children at their home on Tower Hill. At 11 o'clock came a public memorial service at St John's church for the employes of the farm and parishioners, who, on account of lack of space, were unable to attend the funeral service later. Elaborate precautions were taken to preserve the privacy of the afternoon after-noon service. Several score of employes em-ployes aided by a number of policemen police-men guarded all roads over which the funeral procession passed, and kept watch at intervals of twenty yards around the patch of woods which includes in-cludes the Harriman burial plot., Eight carriages followed the hearse from Arden house. The regular funeral service of the Episcopal church was conducted by Dr. Guiness, assisted by the Rev. G. Nelson, archdeacon of the cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. A male quartette and the choir of Grace church. New York, sang "Abide with Me," and "There Is a Land of Pure Delight," Mr. Harriman's favorite fa-vorite hymns. The service lasted but twenty minutes. min-utes. Then the bearers carried the casket to the burial plot, one hundred yards up the hill. It was 5 o'clock when Archdeacon Nelson took a handful of earth and, Sprinkling it over the bed of lilies that hid the metal casket, consigned the body of Edward H. Harriman to the earth on the spot he loved best. |