Show f t tj I LifEWORK j OF 01 GREAT RAilROAD BUILDER ENDS I I I Ardon N Y Sept H Harriman the greatest or 01 g of railroads the world has evor known met the only lasting d feat of his active life Jire today at the hands or of death Secluded in home on Tower Hill he succumbed to nn an d this after a fight fht against disease wh which will rank for sheer grit with his remarkable struggles in the financial world time of his death is known only to lo that lint limited circle of relatives md associates who hat had so effectively Mr Har Harriman Harriman riman from all outside during his illness rue rho time times timet t s out as a 2 35 p m in but Mrs Irs Mary Lar Simons sister of the tho dead moil said tonight that h died at J 30 Whether t this is apparent discrepancy has hus an any bearing on the current belief that ever effort was as made mude to lessen the influence of the financiers 6 death the stoe stock market is p But it i is significant that the time of his death as o officially announced was Just 35 mIn mm mInutes utes after trading had 1 ceased n died and to the end cud his brilliant mind iLs integrity Aft r a relapse on Sunday he sank slowly aUl soon after noon today a relapse which marked the approach of the lie end His wife two and two sons who have hac been constantly with him hinl assembled fit at the led hed side awl aud n a carriage was hastily de despatch Cl for 18 Simons whose home is is three miles from the Tower Hill mansion Mrs Simons ent r d great silent house in iii time Lime to tobe tobe be present brothers She joined the wife and I who JY a Lyle of No New York and Orlando do a brother formed a glO group lp at the h le I No al was nt at hand rillie rh swiftest auto fluto ip Jl the I Harriman had been de patched lOP for Dr J 1 McGuiness of Arden Ar n h hut lie Ill was not at atI I Home fo found he do d to had reached there first 1 With the secrecy that hns been nt the c arl manTe g unbroken to the end news of Mr s death was con conI I v e to New York l before it came to Arden and the valle valley below Then b by way of New York the report spread quickly and confirm confirmation confirmation was sought at the residence by telephone During the ten tenI I days rumors have been heen so persistent and variable that little credence I I was at first given the report and it was as a shock when a voice on the hill replied Yes that is correct Mr rr lied died nt at 3 35 p ni m Soon afterward the hundreds of workmen engaged on the un uncompleted uncompleted completed estate learned of their employers death dath hien n n a page Wl went nt out ont and announced simply You mar amy all quit work Ur Mr Harri Harriman Harriman man man is dead deadA A hush fell over the group and the workmen dropped their tools fools trudged silently to the flat car cirs and descended l on the private incline railway Orlando Harriman fic the funeral arrange arrangements ments br en r tonight He said ill Mr would h he buried in inthe inthe the fan family plot in the little grave yard huT St 1 J Johns ohn s Episcopal at Arden He will rest beside his eldest son H Ear Har Harriman riman jr who died 22 years ago soon after the family fi first st came cameto to Arden The services s will be held at and it is understood they will be beDr beDr Dr Lyle Lle who has n Mr lr Harri mans ph physician throughout this last Illness has haG Issued no statement nt con the cause of death but the understanding is that there was no operation Four persons arc authority for this belief They are Mrs Simons his sister Charl Charles s T TF F re superIntendent of the Harriman William superintendent of the Arden Farms Railway company ani and Thomas D B PricE Mr personal secretary In the Union Pacific offices Mrs Simons discussed his death evening with more mOIe freedom than any one else but she professed tt to not know the exact nature or of her brothers ailment You have havo heard the tad Ead news she saId M b dear brother passed away peacefully In the I of all members of our lam ily What time lime did Mr Ir HarrIman die i was as asked About 1 30 this afternoon was as the unexpected answer Sh said emphatically that there had no operation Her husband Charles D Simons said he had not I arrived at Arden Ardea in time to SOc see Mr Jr Harriman before lie he died He sol said l that Mr lr l died at p m in Then Mrs Simons was wron wrong when she said p ni in Mr Ir Simons hesitated and then said Wen Well I was not flat there thero when ho ha dieth Lovett Comes Come Later For Former Judge Lovett chief chlof co conse lor the Union Pacific c and the tho Southam Pacific railroads the best known ot tho Harriman lines Jines did not roach I Tower Hill in time foi COI a last farewell I to his chief chiet It was 5 52 25 this evening I when ho reached Arden and ho bo do dc to sa say anything regarding the tho i time the cause canse or any other circum circumstances circumstances stances surrounding Nr Mr death in the dew day however before the crisis was at h hand nd Mi Ir Harriman talked reel with Thomas rhomas D B Price This was one ot or the tho strongest evl 3 3 30 on afternoon next Hext I dence that H mater master mind was lINt to the end for It is l believed that Price was w summoned to enable I the he d In lag financier to give Ive sonic in concerning his Mr tr Price returned d to New York at atI I 1 4 If Mr 11 death had OCt oi before he left the lila his w wOrds dill not it IL Mr Ir condition he said is 1 fali encouraging He had been sent for lie he said to I transact sonic some business Although his hi famil family and perhaps two or three associates had that Mr r Harriman might die at an anI any anytime I time since his relapse last Sunday the news flew of his death leath was campara comparatively I unexpected In the vicinity ot of Arden And In some respects there are arc in indications that It was unc unexpected in New York so sa early The Tho befit beet proof of oC this was that Judge whoP who has ha passed oer every n night iSM at atthe atthe the since Sun Sunday ar last returned to New Kew York thIs and was as not on hand when the man whose mantle he ma may now he Is of by some some as Mr 11 HarnIman his last No Sign of Operation In keeping with tho Ilie simple arrange arrangements ments f fOr r the tho funeral an undertaker from Turner the nearest railroad sta ata on t to 0 Arden was pr pressed In into servIce tonight A man who assisted tho he em embalmers said that the hero boro no sIgn of oC nn any recent operation The decision Ini in selecting the little countr country graveyard on tho hillside near ar is the tho first evidence that they ther intend to maintain Ar Arden en as their home honie The Tho J palace that covers Tower HIll HIli and the great grent estate that It was one 0 of Mr fr Itar Har greatest hobbies During the thelast thelast last days of his Illness he took a great personal Interest In the work and in the sunshine on his great verandah often conversed with Ith the tho It Is belled believed that the family carrying out his vIll complete the work nail that the name Of Hor will continue to be e a synonym rz I O J r iJ I i ij eo C j j 1 i I M 4 1 I i t 1 1 iJ d i PcP 54 S J I 4 i q II p 3 i I II II Ii I I J iI Ib T 4 J i 1 Ii 1 or r I IJ p I J O l 7 f r 1 oj I goiny J f fI 01 f i iC k C J J rJ r J 1 I ll 1 I I J r i EDWARD 11 HARRIM N I i tt t tI ll If U 1 r I I l J t ci I t J 11 II Jr L It C o j i t G 1 f tJ die L LIt d it E Pp P p t All ot of the late m ff 1 ploy feted ted by y Jj 1 death Al p f UHn lY f said that aU on J k g tate would Joss employer el both ns a loyal friend and anda n a just master By a strange strang coincidence a wedding party set forth Corth from the Harriman res residence this afternoon while Mr Har Harriman Harriman riman lay las dead George Murphy chief engineer of the state was the bride I groom and d the was Mary IIan I Ing a parlor maid Th r lone alone of all the on till estate wore not apprised ed of oC Mr 1 It death until after the cere mo t Ii hail been performed The wc wed d cling s held helel In St Marys an s Catholic church at Arden and as It was Mrs rs IlI wish that her husbands lentil death should not interfere with the plans and the happiness of the servants they dreve forth from the estate In Mr Jr wa wagon OD ODette cUe ette and did ld not know that there thero w s sI mourning on the until after I the they were man and wife |