The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-18
Son of Martyred President
Once Head of Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce
DEEPLY VERSED
IN LAW PROCEDURE
Studied at Columbia, Oxford and Inns
of Court NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Law to
90 to Princeton-Recame President Of
williams in 1908.


williams in 1908.
NEW YORK, Jan. lS.-Dr. Harry
Augustus Garfield, whose order shutting
down the industry and trade of more
than half the United States for fourteen
working days takes rank as one of the
most extraordinary proclamations IN
modern history, was president OF Viii
Hams college when he was appointed
federal fuel administrator by President
Wilson on August % last. He is 81
years old and one of the most vigorous
| figures among those who have been
chosen to handle big war measures.
Dr. Garfield can best be described as
representing the unusual combination
of student and practical worker. His
| business experience i'll early life proved
| that he was a man to handle affairs of
| large proportions. From 1883 to 1908
he was one of the leading lawyers and
business organizers of Cleveland, Ohio,
and was one of the two men who swung
the railroad and development syndicate
!
mines in southeastern Ohio. During his
residence in Cleveland he served as
] president of the Chamber of Commerce
and was organizer and first president of
| the Municipal Association, now the
Civic Association.
lie is a son of the martyred Presi
dent Garfield and was an undergraduate
at Williams when the nation was
shocked by his father s assassination
He went through ST. Paul's school a
Concord, \. H., and was graduated a.
Williams in 1885. He taught Roman
and Latin history at St. Paul 8 for
year and then studied law at Columbi;
university and at Oxford and the Inn
of Court London. He was admitted t
the Ohio bar in 1883 and began tn
practice of law as n member of the firm
of Garfield, Garfield & Howe.
Soon after being admitted to the ba
ne 7narriednBe cite Hartford Mason Hi
life i'll Cleveland was especially devote
! to the Improvement of municipal eond
tione, and when in 1903 he abandone
| business to accept the chair of politicf
! jurisprudence at Princeton he possesse
a special training in public affairs.
1905 he left Princeton to accept tn
= presidency of Williams college.
a Since he appointment as fuel admin
: | istrator he has been called upon to fac
r situations affecting the coal supply, pre-
|. duction and conservation of the natio
that have called forth the full exercis
of his executive ability. In Novembt
! last he managed to calm disturbance
!, at coal mines which threatened to d
" velop into serious strikes by pointin
: out to the miners and owners that
= was their patriotic duty to put aisle
personal grievances during the war.
. His first order directly affecting Ne
: York city was his now famous "ligh
less night rule, which went into etfe,
i in a mild way on November 9 last. Tn
J. order directed that the big signs [
II Broadway should not be lit before
j o. clock or after IL, and only affectt
y the largest displays. The order vi
S amended from time to time until Il
n middle of December, when the mo
- drastic order calling for two "ligf
n less nights a week went into effet
A This provided that no electric sign
h big or little, except those consider
70 virtually essential, should be illumina
re ed on Sunday and Thursday nigh
@ While this order at first only appli
k. to Broadway, it was gradually extern
e ed to all Parts of the city.