Show t On Commerce Board JAMES S HARLAN APPOINTED TO INTERSTATE COMMISSION Former Attorney General to Porto Rico Honored by PresidentNew I Member Cornea from a Distinguished Dis-tinguished Family r Oyster Hay N Y President HOOBO volt has aplJOlllted James 8 Harlan of Chicago a member of the Interstato commerce commission Mr Hnrlnn Is ft HOD of John M Hiirlun associate justice of the Miipronio court of the United Stains Ho held for some time lire position of attorney general of Porto Ulco In the appointment of Harlan as a member of tho commission President HooHovalt has honored Chicago and Illinois and tho nation as much as tho man who lu in alt rs a representative of tho people In the dlfltcult task of adjusting railway rates and framing l = s t e a I p4 JAMES S HARLAN Now Member of the Interstate Commerce Com-merce Commission rules that shall bo Just to shippers mid carriers nllko In tho prime of his young manhood Mr Ilarlan has been chosen to fill a place of the greatest great-est Importance to tho business and transportation Interests of the country coun-try That ho Is prepared to accept tho responsibility with confidence Is not altogether duo to himself alone for back of James S Harlan IsNin ancestral an-cestral line whoso blood Is as good as tho coutnry Coasts Ills forebears wore patriots who in legislative halls and on tho field of battle fought for tho liberties of tho nation Ills father soldier and Jurist Is now a member of tho most distinguished distin-guished tribunal of tho world his brothers stand preeminent In tho community com-munity There Is no taint In the liar Ian blood In tho time of Henry Clay one of the closest friends and political confidants confi-dants of tho great statesman was James Harlan member of congress from Kentucky Clay Harlan uncle to James answered tho call to arms during tho war with Mexico wounds and exposures received In that conflict con-flict end In his life Silas Harlnn great uncle was a pioneer of old Vir glnln and gavo his life at tho battle of nine Licks while fighting shoulder to shoulder with Daniel Boone James S Harlan is u hoosler Ho was born at Evansvlllo Ind November Novem-ber 24 18C1 but the foundations of his education were laid In Kentucky his early schooling being nt Louis vlllo In 1883 hu graduated from Princeton university and then studied in tho law school of Columbia university univer-sity From 1884 until 1888 he was In thp offices of Melville W Fuller now chief Justice of tho supremo court ol tho United States While that distinguished distin-guished lawyer was practicing In Chicago Chi-cago Ho was admitted to the Illinois bar In 188C In 1897 he married Miss Maud Noble at Washington D C Physically James Ilarlan has tho charactetlstlcB of his family They are all big men are the Hnrlans and James Is more than six feet tall weighs beyond 200 and carries hfc pounds with the ease and grace whlcli tells the athlete whoso muscles arc in magnificently fit condition James Harlans physical prowess Is I a family trait Ills mothers brother Georgo Shanklln stood G feet GV6 Inches his uncle Silas Harlan G feet 3 his father Is G feet 2 his brother Richard G feet 4V4 and his brother John f feet Ho himself measures G feet 21fr Inches Athletic during Ills i college days James Ilarlan was also I studious active In tho literary societies socie-ties and one of the honor men When he worked with his books It was telling tell-ing work when ho played ho gavo his attention to the contest at hand Ho was captain of tho baseball nlrro nt Princeton when hid brother John was catcher James S Harlan Is of the breed that produced tho chivalry of tho south The male line represents tho oldtime plantation owners the old homestead still stands at Winchester Va and one of the schools of that place has had a Harlan for a teacher since the tlmo when tho memory of man run neth not to the contrary Tho father of the new Interstate commerce commissioner John Marshall Mar-shall Harlan Is associate Justice of the supremo court of tho United States a member of distinguIshed tribunal since November 29 1877 He is a native of Kentucky and from the outbreak of the war until 1863 commanded com-manded the Tenth Kentucky regiment of the union army serving with Thomas Thom-as and Sherman Rev Richard Don D-on port Harlan another brother Is president of Lake Forest university John Maynard Ilarlan another brother bro-ther Is ono of the best icnown men in Chicago and as an orator has few equals |