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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XTV., No. 256
L H. HUM
LAID TO REST
I PITS
Great Man Carried to Last
Resting Place By Men on
His Country Estate.
PROMINENT MEN
ATTENDED FUNERAL
Leaders of Wall Street
Pay Last Respect to The
Leader of Leaders.
ARDEN, N. T.—E. H. Harriman, the
greatest financial-, was burled Sunday, as
he was known here, a country squire.
He wu carried from the magnificent
house which he didn’t live to see finish
ed, to the hill-side of Arden.
The rulers of Wall Street came from
New York to pay their laat tribute,
but the most prominent part in the
funeral ceremonies was taken by the
men who knew him best as a country
squire, master of the great eetate which
oovers forty-three thousand acres of hill
and valley in this, the most rugged part
of Orange county. His general super
intendent, bis master carpenter, his mas
ter mason and the managers and assist
ants of his dairies, his farms and his
troi.lng stables, were the men who bore
his coffin and the services were led by
his own chaplain.
The pines and oaks that surround the
little Episcopal Church of St. John, half
a mile up the hill from the Arden sta
tion, never before sheltered such a dis
tinguished gathering as stood barehead
ed under their shade by the grave this
afternoon. The funeral wrs private and
only those who were personal friends of
tne family ar.d had received invitations
from Mrs. Harriman were admitted. The
out of town party arrived at Arden at
3:15 on a special tra'in. At Arden they
were met by eight carry-alls which took
them tip the hill to the chapel. A few
neighbors drove over from their country
homes in the Rarnapo valley. The fol
lowing were among those present.
B. B. Odell, Jr., and wife; Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Harriman, Mrs. J. B. H»rrlman, Mr.
and Mrs. Orlando Harriman, A. C. Pea
body and family; 1,. C. Loree, J as. Still
man, Jacob H. Schiff, J. T. Harahan.
Marvin Hughitt, If. A. Van Alstynet
Chauncey Stillman and Robert S. Lovett.
Th* Funeral Service.
The first service was holy communion
celebrated at 10 a. m., by the Rev.
Holmes McGutness for Mrs Harriman an'’
4er children at their home on Torwer Hill.
At 11 o’clock came a public memorial
service at St. John's chapel for the em
ployes of the estate and parishioners of
the church who, on account of lack of
space, were unable to attend the funeral
services later.
The Harriman family pews were left
vacant. Mrs. Chas. D. Simons, Mr. Har
rlman’s sister, her husband, and two
daughters and Orlando H. Harriman, a
brother, were the only relatives present.
They were all in deep mourning. A
special communion was celebrated. Mr.
Harriman’s two nieces, daughters of Mr
Simons, sang In the choir; just about
them behind the small organ, was a
motto on the wall:
“Give alms of thy goods.”
Instead of the usual morning sermon.
Doctor MoGulnees, the pastor delivered
a memorial address In which he dwelt
practically upon those qualities of Mr.
Harriman best known to his family, his
employes, and his neighbors.
The services closed in silent praye
and one by one the country folks filed
out, many of them with tears in their
eyes.
Elaborate precautions were taken to
preserve the privacy of the afternoon
service. Several score of employes
guarded all roads over which the fun
eral procession passed, from the house
to the church, and kept watch around
the patch of woods which Includes the
Harriman burial plot.
The Private Procession,
Eight carriages followed the hearafl
from Arden mouse. The flrsL a large
station wagon, carried Mrs. Harriman,
with her two unmarried daughters,
Mary and Carol, and her sons, Walter,
Averill and Roland. Mr 3. Robert L.
Gerry, the married daughter drove In
the next carriage. Mr. Gerry came to
the church earlier to superintend the ar
rangements.
Two carriages Jn the rear brought
eight of the oldest and most trusted fam
ily servants, some of whom have been
In the Harriman employ sinco the fam
ily came to Arden, 22 years ago. These
were given seats in the church, nearer
their dead master's coffin than any of
the millionaires and captains of indus
try.
The funeral procession reached the
church at 4 p. m. The casket, one
solid mass of lilies of the valley and
green vines, with an Immense bunch
of crimson roses otf top—was carried to
the altar by eight bearers clad In black
and wearing skull caps. The regular
funeral services of the Episcopal churoh
was conducted by Dr. McQuiness, assist
ed by the Rev. G. Nelson, arch-deacon
of the cathedral of St. John the Divine,
In. New York. A male quartette and
the choir of Grace Church, New York,
gang "Abide With Me,” and “There Is
a Land of Pure Delight," Mr. Harrlman’s
favorite hymns.
The services lasted but 20 minutes.
Then the stalwart bearers carried the
casket to the burial plot, 100 yards up
the road.
A Buried in Rock.
, W Ih.rriman lies In i little clearing
not ten feet from the roadway. His
grave, hewn from the rock of the steep
FULL DETAILS OF GAME IN CHATTANOOGA IN HERALD EXTRA TODAY—WATCH FOR IT
SUCCESSORS TO
TWO MAGNATES
HIKED MOIST
William Rockefeller 3 nil
Jacob H. Schiff Take the
Place of Rogers and Har
riman in Union Pacific.
LOVETT CHAIRMAN
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Board of Dii'ectors Named
Ex-Jwdge to Head the
Executive Committee to
Succeed Harriman.
NEW YORK.—William Rockefeller
and Jacob H. Schiff were elected di
rectors of the Union Pacific Railroad
company, succeeding Henry H. Rog
ers and Edward H. Harriman. They
were also appointed members of the
executive committee.
The board of directors elected ex-
Judge Robert S. Lovett chairman of
the executive committee to succeed
Mr. Harriman.
The membership of the executive
committee was increased from five to
six members. The directors appoint
ed a committee consisting of Harr
Hughitt, Charles A. PeaboJv and
Henry C. Frick, lo draw up suitable
resolutions on the death of Mr. Har
riman.
The matter of elect;.... the presi
dent of the Union Pacific system was
not discussed at the meeting, but it is
expected that he next head of the
road will be an operating man.
WEAVERS STRIKE
FOR MORE MONEY
One Thowasnd at Fall
River Fail to Report for
Work Monday.
FALL RIVER, Mass.—The 1,000 wear,
era employed at Fall River Iron Works
Cotton mills, which are controlled by M.
C. D. Borden, of New York, did not re
port for work Monday, In accordance
with their announced Intention strik
ing: for increrffee in wages. Although but
one-fifth of the employes of the six mills
were affected when the strike was in*
auyurated Monday, there was a proba
bility that unless agreement was reach
ed during the day, all departments would
be closed down, throwing 5,000 opera
tives out of work. The striking weavers
as for a ten per cent increase.
THOUSANDS RETURN
TO WORK MONDAY
After Week of Idleness
Two Thousand Affected
Workers Back After
Strike Settled.
SACO, Maine—After idleness of about!
throe weeks the 2,200 employes of the
York mill, of —a town, who were thrown
out of employment, by the strike of 150
weavers, returned to work Monday. The
weavers went back to work at the old
rate of wages, hut the mill management
promised to do something for them as
soon as possible.
WITH BROKEN BACK
IIE TRIED TO WORK
NEW YORK —James Sheridan died to
day at his home, No. 109 Douglass St.,
Brooklyn, from a broken back. After
his injury he did not go to a hospital,
and It was not until he had died tha*
the nature of tne injury was ascertained.
While unloading sugar from a ship at
the foot of Harrison St., Broklyn, yes
terday, Sheridan was struck by the han
dle of a derrick whose rope suddenly
broke. For a time he tried to continue
at his post, but finally lay down on the
pier. Seven hours later, at quitting
time, he could not gain his feet. He
was carried home.
Dr. Dusseldorf was called today after
Sheridan died and pronounced the case
to he a broken back.
TWO WHITE MEN UP ON LAR
CENY CHARGE
Two young white men, Henry Wat
son and Amos Turner, were arrainged
before the recorder Monday morning,
ebarged with larceny from the car and
were bound over to the city court un
der a bond of $l5O each. The case
will be heard at the next session of
city court.
hillside, will always be fragrant with
the balsam and hemlock that hem it in
on practically every side.
There was not room enough inside the
burial ground for more than 15 or 29
besides the mourners and the two of
ficiating clergymen.
Others stood In jig road and lookeo
over the high stone wall. The /surpltcad
choir took its stand in another small
clearing, ten yards away, Where, hidden
from view, they sang the hymns that
accompanied the burial—Gross’s “I
Heard a Voice From Heaven," and
"Hark! Hark! My Soul!” It was 5 o’clock
when Arch-Deacon Nelson took a hand
ful of earth, and, sprinkling it over the
bed of lilies that hid the casket, con
signed the body of Edward H. Harriman
to the earth of the spot he loved h»st.
Mrs. Harriman and her children drove
home Immediately.
Every one of Mrs. Harrlman's friends
In Arden and Turner received a remem
brance, when the flowers, that have been
arriving by every train for the past 24
hours, were distributed. Altogether the
flowers would have filled three express
cars. It was at Mrs Harrlman’s request
that these flowerg were distributed about
the neighborhood.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER IS, 1809.
PEARY’S MOTHER AND HIS TWO CHILDREN
fyyyCrui
COMMISSION TO TALK
COTTON PORT RATES
Subject Taken up on Com
plaint of Milledgeville
Compress Co., Against
Central of Georgia.
Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga. —Port rates on cot
ton will be considered by the rail
road commission. The subject will
be taken up on a new complaint
brought by the Milledgeville Com
press company, against the Central of
Georgia railway. The special hearing
has been set by the commission for
November 10, giving more than the
full thirty days notice required by
law, to all parties who may be In
terested. Cotton exchanges, boards
of trade and other organizations are
invited to appear. The question be
fore the commission is the matter of
lowering the rates to port. It will
be recalled that former Governor
Hoke Smith wrote to the commission
just before he went out of office urg
ing it to reduce the rate on cotton to
the ports, 5 cents per 100 pounds.
WILL ARBITRATE THE
WESTERN UNION TAX
Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga. —Two arbitrators,
who will pass on the tax value of the
franchise In Georgia, of the Western
Union Telegraph company, have been
named by Governor Brown. They are
Railroad Commissioner C. M. Candler,
who had already been designated as
the state’s representative, by Comp
troller General W. A. Wright and Gen
eral A. J. West. These will act with
the representative of the company,
who will be Attorney Madison Bell
of Atlanta. The comptroller general
has assessed the Western IThlon’s
Georgia franchise at $950,000.
JUDGE J. S. TURNER
MAY NOT RECOVER
Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga. —Joseph S. Turner,
chairman of the state prison commis
sion, Is near death's door at his home
In Eatonton. He Is suffering from
cancer and some months ago had an
operation performed. It Is not believed
that he will recover.
GEORGIANS MAY GO
TO KINO’S MOUNTAIN
State Probably be Repre
sented at Unveiling of
Monument in Carolina.
Special to the Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga.—lt is quite probable
that a battallion of Georgia troops win
be sent to King's mountain, In South
Carolina, on October 6, to represent the
state of Georgia at the unv«..ing of the
King's mountain monument. The monu
ment was oreeted by the federal govern
ment and la In commemoration of the
revolutionary heroea who fell In battle.
NEW ATLANTA BANK
WILL OPEN SOON
Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA Ga—lt Is expected that
Atlanta’s new National bank, Known as
the Fulton National bank, will be open
In about sixty days. A handsome new
building will be erected on Peachtree St.
Of the $300,000 capital stook, SIOO,OOO has
already been subscribed. Officers will
be announced in a short time. Former
Governor Hoke Smith Is a prominent
stockholder.
WIND BLOWS OUT GAS
KILLING MAN IN BED
NEW YORK—A man who registered
as George Meyers at a note! at No. 160
Columbia street, Brooklyn, was discov
ered. oead from gas In bis room today.
The man reached the hotel ehortly af
ter midnight. When Alfred Flowfed, the
proprietor, tried the voor of his room
early today he found it locked. When
an entrance was forced the man was
found lying dead In bed. The window
was open. It. Is the theory of the po
lice that the wind blew out the gas.
sfiwAßT~v7siTß HOME.
ATLANTA, Ga—Nat Btewart, Uni
ted States consul at Madras, India,
is payinz a visit to Athens after an
absence of several years. He is a
graduate of the University of Geor
gla, class of 189?.. Mr. Stewart said
that the small number of southern
ers In the consular service is largely
the fault of the southern people them
selves. "If they would study the
duties of the consuls, stand their ex
aminations, and get on the eligible
list there would be more United
States consuls from the south,” de
clared Mr. Stewart.
Mi’s. Peary, mother
of the North Pole ex
plorer and his two
children who anxious
ly await his return
from the Frozen North
to he the first to wel
come him as he steps
from the expedition
ship, “Roosevelt.”
VARNVILLE MAN HIT
WITH AXE-HANDLE
General Riot Seemed £m
minent—Several Injured
in Free for All Fight.
Special to The Herald.
VARNVILLE, ' Ga. —Varnvllle was
the scene of a rather bad affair last
night when Ike Llghtsey was badly
Injured with a wound In the head,
caused from a lick by an ax handle.
Several others were badly Injured,
but not, serious. The row seemed to
have started from an old grudge. it,
seemed for a while that It would he
a sorlous riot, but the trouble was
Bonn quieted down. The town mar
shal could do nothing and they con
tinued to fuss after lie arrived on the
scene. Mr. Llghtsey will probably
be luid up for a good while. Weapons
of all kinds were In display during
the melee.
WEDS “DYING” GIRL
AND SHE RECOVERS
NEW YORK.—Kenneth M. Strong
and his bride, who was Miss Grace
Rummage, of Stapleton, S. 1., are to
day planning for a delayed wedding
trip to Canuda.
Summoned by telephone to the bed
side of his fiancee, who was thougtit
to be dying. Strong, a harware mer
chant of Arnltyvllle, L. 1., succeeded
on his arrival at the home of his
bride-to-be in persuading her to have
the marriage performed at once.
Early on the wedding day Miss
Rummage, who had been taking les
sons In cookery, prepared a bowl of
Boup for herself. Immediately she
was seized with pains, and In spite
of tlih efforts of four physicians her
condition became steadily worse.
When Strong arrived he asked the
young woman if she would consent to
a wedding at once. In less than an
hour the knot was tied.
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SCHOONER ASHORE
DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del.—
The three-moated schooner, John Proc
tor, from New York for Norfolk Is bal
last, went ashore early Monday off Cape
Uenlopen and la slowly breaking up.
The crew landed In their own boats and
life Havers and local wreckers are stand
ing by the rtranded vessel. The schoon
er probably will be a total loss.
DAILY AND SUN DAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
18 WHITE 11 IS WITH PEARY
WHEN I REACHED THE POLE
■1 SI SCHOOL
81 OPENING OS!
Supt. Evans Says Enroll-i
meat Curtailed by the
Failure of Students to
Get Certificates.
According to Superintendent Law-'
ton B. Evans, the enrollment, at the j
public schools, which o; . nod Monday,
Is eighty per cent of the number en
rolled last year, and it is expected
that the attendance this season will
be very large. The health eertifleatos
required, have caused mam of the
former pupils to fail to report. At
the present time it is impossible to
state exactly what the attendance
will aggregate, but reports from ti p
various schools set forth the follow
ing enrollment: Tubman High school
170; Central school, 252; John Mill
edge school 529. The report from
the Houghton Grammar school is that
this Institution opened Monday morn
ing with an enrollment of 287 new
members. This Is considered very
good under the conditions that all
new and old pupils have to have n
certificate stating that they are in
now way sick or subject to any con
tagious disease. And under these
conditions a good many had to be
turned down because they had not
secured their certificates. Professor
Otis states that bo will have enrolled
by the first oi October about 500 pu
pils.
!nE™!ll»S|
Plans nre now being made by all
three of the camps of Confederate vet
erans of this city to bo well repre
sented nl the coming state reunion,
which will bo hold In Athens, on Sep
tember 28 and 29. The reunion tills
year promises to be a very large one
! and the people of Athens are making
great preparations for giving the
j "boys who wore the grey” a tine time,
j Camp 425, of Hie Confederate Survi
vors’ Association, will bo represented,
by over 50 members.
Tt is expected that many Important
matters will come up for discussion
at the reunion. On the 29th a parade
one of the largest ever participated
in by the Georgia veterans, will pass
through the principal streets of Alli
ens.
KG ARRESTED
FOR SELLING 'DOPE
Joe Johnson and Henry Parker
(colored) were arralnged before the
recorder Morula?/ charged with selling
cocaine, and bound over to the City
Court under a bound of SIOOO each.
DAN SUIU PRESIDENT COMPANY
10 IKE COTTON GRADER
Commissioner Watson is
Notified That Plant Will
Run in Greenville.
Special to The Herald.
COLUMBIA, S. C. —Commissioner
Watson receled a letter from Dan
Sully Monday saying ho t Sully, had
been made president of a $250,000 cor
poration organized in New York to
make and market, the new cotton
grader invented by L. A. Green, of
Greenville. Sully wants Watson to
come to Atlanta for consultation on
this and other matters affecting cot
ton growers. The grader will be
manufactured in Greenville. Watson
urges Sully to come here.
GUESTS ROSH THROUGH FLAMES
TO ESCAPE DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE
EDGEMERE, L. I. In a lire which
destroyed the Holmcshurst Inn here
before daylight seventy-five guests
and twenty employes experienced ex
citing and narrow escapes. The lire,
which the proprietor said was of in
cendiary origin, started in the base
ment and worked up through the
frame structure so rapidly that the
entire first floor was ablaze before the
guests were given the alarm. While
most of the guests were able to leave
by the stairways, half a dozen, among
them two women, leaped from the
second story balcony but were not
seriously hurt.
The guests were cared for in neigh
boring cottages. The hotel building
was valued at $75,000.
William Holmes, son of the owner,
ran to his brother’s room on the sec
ond floor and found his escape cut off
by a wall of flame. They were forced
to jump, but were not hurt.
An elevator boy ran his car until
the flames stopped the car.
Confirms Cook’s Statement
That There Was No Land
Around the Pole—Could
Find no Bottom at 1,500
Fathoms.
BATTLE lIARBOR. Labrador.—The
following details of Commander
Peary's journey to the North Poi*
have been gleaned from members of
the expedition on board the steamer
Roosevelt. The only men to reach
the pole were Commander Pe<*iy and
one Eskimo, Eging Wah, by name.
The other white members of the vari
ous parties that left Cape Columbia
wno sent mck one by one as Peary
drew nearer daily to liis objective.
Mathew Henson, Peary’s negro at
tendant. and three Eskimos, the only
other members of the reduced party
that made the final dash, were left
south of the pole. At 85 degrees 38
minutes the party consisted of Peary,
Bartlett, Mathew Henson, the negro
man, who has been Peary's personal
assistant on so many of his expedi
tions. With the Eskimos, seven sledg
es and sixty dogs, the journey north
ward was resumed.
The Ice was perfectly level as far
as the eye could see. Bartlett took
the observation on the 88th parallel,
on April 2 and then reluctantly re
turned, leaving Peary, Henson and the
Eskimos with provisions for forty days
to make the final dnsh to the pole.
This reduced party started April 3.
The men walked that day for ton
hours and made twenty miles. They
then slept near the 89th parallel. Tho
pole was reached April 6 and a series
of observations were taken at 90 de
grees Peary deposited his record*
and hoisted the American (lag. The
temperature was 22 degrees below ze
ro. The pole appeared as a frozen sea.
Peary tried to take a sounding bTtfl
got no bottom at j,&00 fathoms. Pear.v
stayed at the polo for 34 hours and
then started on his return Journey,
April 7.
INSANE MEN MAKE
BASE! FOR LIBERTY
FROM THE ASYLUM
WASHINGTON—Three negro crim
inal Inmates, one of whom is a mur
derer made a desperate and sensa
tional doth for liberty from the gov
ernment hospital for insane, late
Sunday night, and fled before mount*-
ed policemen and attendants. The
insane criminals, Edward .Smallwood,
William Green and John Folk, were
three-of the most vicious and unruly
characters at the big Institution, and
their escape was effected by a secret
plan,-whereby they tore from Its fast
enings tin* stout guard rail and made
a daring leap from a high window.
Armed men are now scouring the
woods In which the mad men are be
lieved to lie hidden.
After having been at large for 12
hours, three men wore captured -near
Alexandria, Va., where they had he*
cret.ed themselves In bushes, and re
turned to the hospital.
MEDICAL SOCIETY
MEETS TUESDAY P. M.
At the Medical College Tuesday
evening at 8:30 o'clock there will be
a meeting of the Richmond County
Medical society. As Is usual to the
meetings a paper will be read by one
of the members, afterwards there will
be discussions among the medical
men. The paper for the next meet
ing will lie read by l)r. J. A. Johnson,
whose subject will be; "Haemolygln
Nhaemolyslns.”
DR. HARRY BROOKS
FAST RECOVERING
The many friends of Dr. Harry
Brooks will be glad to learn of hid
fast recovery. Dr. Brooks' physician
slatcH that he hopes to he able to
move him home In the next dav or
so. ,
Perhaps you
once tried
a little bit of advertising, and
It did not pay. Does this
prove anything? You might
just as well condemn automo
biles because you once went
out In one, and It broke down.
There are good automobiles,
and there Is good advertising.
A Definition
Good advertising means ad
vertising that Is planned for
a real business by advertising
men who know their business
—planned In such a way that
the other resources of the ad
vertiser co-operate to form a
whole, called "merchandis
ing.”
Arid You/
■Advertising used to be a
sort of "filler” —you bought so
much space and put some
thing In It. Nowadays, it Is
different; It Is a matter of
thought and study. Tha
chances are that advertising,
In some form, would be help
ful to your business.
The best “form,” or medi
um, In Augusta Is The Herald.
