The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-27
Secretary Garrison, Wilson's
 Military Adviser, Is 51 Today

%LlndIey M. Garrison, Secretary or
 War in President Wilson's cabinet,
 on Sunday, having been born in Cam-#
 den, N. J., Nov 2S, 1864 The man to whom the people of the United
 States look for defense against a pos
 s1bIe foreign foe is clergyman's son. and another of the multitude of living
 demonstrations of the untruth of the theory that minister's offspring new CT amount to shucks." He received
 his education at Exeter Academy and
 Harvard, but spent only a year in the
 latter institution, when he left college and entered the service of the Phila- #delphia1 legal firm Of Bedding, Jones. and Carson. After completing his law studies at at the University of Penn sylvania, MT. Garrison was admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars He practiced law in Jersey City
 for many years, and built tip large
 and profitable clientele His first
 public service was as vice chan
 cel1oT of New Jersey, and he
 was holding that position when President Wilson called upon him to become a member of his official fami- 1y. The European war and the gen. era1 demand for preparedness in the United States which has resulted from that conflict has made MT. Garrison s post one of the most important in the cabinet. The Presidents military pro- gram has been largely worked out by Secretary Garrison who for many months had been working for the war college and the department officers in planning the details of the propos- ed reorga hization and enlargement of the army and the militia. Secretary Garrison has been from the first been an advocate of preparedness, and has expressed himself as tsutterIy out of sfxrr7 fTo xxyit tT1 should neglect or postpone considera- ton of what is now the existing con-
 dition because of a hope or belief ord even conviction that it may be altered. even radically altered, in the future.s' He adds that, Self respect, without which man is an invertebrate animal
 requires that we should be prepared which not only includes our material possessions but that intangible some l thing which makes us a distinctive nation in the eyes Of the world.'' He declares that his plan. if carried out, will not bring with it the slightest any interference whatever by military force in the conduct of civil affairs
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 HEssIAN ROYALTY
 Ernest Louis, Grand Duke Of FIesse, who is one of the royal officers of theet Kaiser.s army. was sfirty seven years old Thursday. He is the son. of Louis 1 " and Princess Alice Maud Mary, the second daughter of Queen Victoria, and a brother of the Empress of Rus sia He has three other sisters who are married to Prince Henry of Prus- sia, Emperor Williams brother; Grand Duke Sergius of Russia, uncle of the Czar who was assassinated ten years ago, and Prince Louis of Battenburg, former Sea Lord of the British navy 1 The Hessian grand ducal family has suffered severely inr the war. Prince 1 Karl Frederick, of Hesse, the Kaiser's brother-ir -irl-Iaw, was severely wound- 1 and one of his sons were also wound 1 ed in the early stage of the conflict, 1 has been killed. The latter was only twenty years old and was killed in the l fighting in northern France. Prince i Karl Frederick married in 1893 the Princess Margaret, the youngest of the 1 Kaiser's four sisters. Drand Duke Earnest Louis, the head of the He's sian ruling family, had. two sons, both i of whom, although still only boys in years, have seen active service. The Grands Duke married in 1894 Princess Victoria of xe-Coburg-Goth otha. The ! match was far sfronHa happy one, and the marriage was dissolved after seven I years of domestic infe1icity. The. form I CT Grand Duchess later followed the [ example of the Grand Dukes's sister and married into the Russian royal | family, and in 1905 became the bride of Grand Duke Cyril, a cousin of the Czar, and the son of the latter's uncle, Grand Duke Vladimir. The divorced | spouse of the Hessian ruler has given her second husband two children, both girls
 Willard Cheney Knight. an Ameri- can engineer, died in a London hos |