Evening star., 1941-11-09
DR.. Harry Augustus Garfield
Pushes District Cleanup
Former Presidents S
Son Is Leader of
Cleanliness Unit
By CAMBRIDGE CRIST.

In a large stone house, along
winding Kalorama road, there lives
a former practicing lawyer and
president-emeritus OF a Northern
college, who has come back 10
the city of his boynood days and
made civic work his hobby IN re-
tirement. He is DR.. Harry Augustus
Garfield, son Of the goth President
of the United States, James A. Gar
field.
DR.. Garfield retired as president
of Williams College in Williams
town, Mass, in 1884; took trip
around the world with Mrs. Gar
field and then settled in Washing
ton at a home on New Hampshire
avenue, which he had purchased
during the World War. Less than
three years ago he moved TO MS
present home at 2435 kalorama
road NV.
At present DR.. Garfield is vice
president of the Dupont Circle Cltl-
zens' Association-althou he has
moved from its area-ano president
of the Outdoor Cleanliness Assocla-
ton. He brought with him wealth
of experience in political science
and knowledge as an organizer OF
the Municipal Association OF CleVe-
land, where he practiced law for
Is years.
Cleaned Up Cleveland.
The Municipal Association was
organized Ito clean up literally,
and politically the city OF Cleve-
land" he explained in an interview.
That is what acquainted me with
the cleanup business"
Upon settling here, he said he was
Impressed by the sad condition into
which the city had fallen" since he
had last lived here. He was asked
to head the committee of the asso-
citation named to see that streets
were properly cleaned. Later. with
the formation of the outdoor Clean
illness group, he was made head OF
| that.
IT think we are making some I'M
preston he declared. I'VE must
have a civic sense" he continued,
that makes people interested In
taking broom in hand and then get
| the District to support what is being
done"
He said that the cleanliness group
had gotten out posters for the out
lying streets of the city, because he
said he was persuaded that a large
amount of paper, cigarette packages
and similar trash was thrown from
passing automobiles. DR.. Garfield
also cited the problem of "fly ash
from furnaces-a whitish-gray pow
der that blows about the streets.
1--WE are cunning for that, too he
remarked.
The associations board. he said,
meets monthly and is working with
| the Refuse Department, police and
other District officials on the prob
lem. The group is anxious, he
added, to get more extensive labor
and larger appropriations for clean
up work.
Twice Served Wilson.
DR.. Garfield, who was born in
Hiram, Ohio, in 1868, came here
the following year. In 1869 his
father built house at Thirteenth
and I streets NV, which, Incl
dentally, is still there. He lived
there until he went away to St
Pauls School in New Hampshire
and to Williams College, from which
he received his bachelor OF arts de-
gree in 1885. He studied at Colum-
bia University law school and holds
degrees from Princeton, Dartmouth
Amherst, Wesleyan, William and
Mary, Harvard, Toronto University
and Whitman College.
| Although his brother, James Gar
field, was two years younger thar
he, they were at Williams College
together and later went to Cleve-
land, where they practiced law. Hi:
brother became Secretary of the
Interior under Theodore Roosevelt
| Woodrow Wilson, who became
president of Princeton in 1902, called
DR.. Garfield to the university, where
he was professor of politics from
1903 to 1908. Then DR.. Garfield
became president of Williams Col
lese. During the World War, Mr.
| wilson. this time as President o.