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GARFIELD IS SON OF
MARTYRED PRESIDENT
National Fuel Administrator Noted
Man Was Attending Williams
College When Father Was Assassi-
mated.

DR.. Harry Augustus Garfield,
whose order shutting down the in
dustry and trade of more than half
the United States for IA working
days takes rang as one OF the most
extraordinary proclamations in mod
ern history, was president OF VIII
liams College when he was appointed
Federal Fuel Administrator by Presi-
dent Wilson on Aug. % last. He Is
81 years old an done 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 combina-
ton of student and practical worker
His business experience in early life
proved that he was man to handle
affairs of large proportions. From
1888 to 1908 he was one of the lead
ing lawyers and business organizers
of Cleveland, Ohio, and was one OF
the two men who swung the railroad
and development syndicate that op-
ened up the Piney Fork coal mines in
Southeastern Ohio. During his resi-
dence in Cleveland he served as pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce
and was organizer and first president
Of the Municipal Association, now
the Civic Association.
He is a son of the martyred Presi-
dent Garfield and was an under
graduate at Williams when the ma
ton was shocked by his fathers as
sassination. He went through St
Paups School at Concord, N. H. ,ano
was graduated at Williams in 1885.
He taught Roman and Latin history
at St. Paul's for a year and then
studied law at Columbia University
and at Oxford and the Inns of Court
London. He was admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1888 and began the prac-
tice of law as member of the firm
Of Garfield, Garfield & Howe.
Soon after being admitted to the
bar he married Belle Hartford Ma
son. His life in Cleveland was es-
pecially devoted to the improvement
of municipal conditions, and when
in 1903 he abandoned business to
accept the chair of political juris-
prudence at Princeton he possessed
a special training in public affairs. In
1908 he left Princeton to accept the
presidency of Williams College.
Since his appointment as Fuel
Administrator he has been called up
on to face situations affecting the
coal supply, production and conser-
walton of the nation that have called
forth the full exercise of his execu-
tive ability. In November last he
managed to calm disturbances at coal
mines which threatened to develop
into serious strikes by pointing out
to the miners and owners that it was
their patriotic duty to put aside per-
sonal grievances during the war.
His first order directly affecting
New York city was his now famous
''hghtless night" rule. which went in
to effect in a mild way on November
: last. This order directed that the
big signs on Broadway should not be
lit before o'clock or after II, and
only affected the largest displays.
The order was amended from time to
time until the middle of December,
when the more drastic order calling
for two "lightless nights" week
went into effect. This provided that
no electric signs, big or little, ex-
cept those considered virtually essen
tial, should be Illuminated on Sun
day and Thursday nights. While this
order at first only applied to Broad
way, it was gradually extended to All
parts of the city.
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