Show GAD GARFIELD fIELD THE BOSS Of fUEL tA i A f S S SI r t I b U. U r k 1 f J J. J M i J win s HARRY A. A GARFIELD F Harry A. A Garfield Gar son an s n of James A A. A Garfield twentiethS twentieth 5 S President of the tho United States 5 was born in 1863 when his father was serving as Chief of Staff under Gen Thomas in m the tho q Chickamauga campaign campaign- Another Another An An- t other son James R Ft R. Garfield is is two years younger than Harry In 99 1896 he was a s 's r member of the Ohio Senate Sonata r 3 L j sh e h in in 1903 he became head of the tho y Bureau of Corporation in in the tho Federal Department of Commerce Com Cam 1 merce moire and Labor and in n 1907 President Roosevelt appointed S him Secretary of the tho Interior h Harry A. A Garfield by invitation tion lion of Woodrow Wilson served five years as Professor of Politics at Princeton and z was then elected President of mod Williams College the alma mater not only of himself and JAMES A. A GARFIELD his brother but of his father JAMES R. R GARFIELD U WHAT THAT HAT manner of ot man asks the 7 American 1 public Is Harry Augustus Garfield who has bas suddenly become one ono of civilizations civilization's Important personages through his bis appointment to toby by President Wilson Nilson to the position oft of Y t 7 Fuel Administrator What Nhat facts In t lite lda career carer recommended him for su su- suot t premo premo command over the motive mothe power PoYer of the tho world war war the the fuel which energizes our factories which r is to propel to tho the seaboard vast vat 1 quantities of supplies and hundreds hUndred of ot thousands of ot troops S and which isS is la S to o transport our armies oversea and andi maIntain not only them but our allies alUes i with endless streams of 1 provisions And munitions f R fever ever before has haa King Coal been subjected to a vizier of such power undertakes tho the enormous task sk on on the one hand of ot stripping the fuel barons of their unjust 1 profits and aad d on tho the other of ot holding the mining v Bunions t ns In leash Ho lie Is to control dis- dis so that domestic consumption tion will be safe guarded and at the thee e time Ume 1 plentiful supplies of ot coal fl be be available for our battleships an and 55 merchant marine and also for Italy and W nd France In an era of or unprecedented dented demand for fot coal he Is la to m m maln- maln ln k lain tain a reasonable prices prIces prIces' for the tho con con- In his keeping ing is placed liter liter- t j i the mainspring of tho war No Noa J a er that there Is fa widespread curl curl- to his 1 personality and t J the tale le first place he be Is a a. university 4 Williams williama Colt Col- Col tr-rUte tr the head or t and Massachusetts and has the theof theof of writing after his bis name Ii ftera i LL LI D. D This introduction El i s w years ago might have seemed r a a humo humorous us tinge but r Wilson has made the world ret rethe re- re t the station of college president and the possession of or strings of deA de- de A ea No longer do these attributes ote to an impractical dreamy old F 1 J lemon leman immersed in theology an and and Latin syntax but rather flare of keen intellect of tie statesman spa spa- t s outlook of masterly prowess in to tte realm of actuality in la III the second place Garfield dei de- de i Ties ns from a distinguished family amily He lie the 1 l ae elder son of that tbt James A A. A Gard Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field d who won a brilliant brillian military I reputation l la is the Civil War having ed as Chief of Staff under Thomas Thomasin Thomasi i 1 in in- inthe the Chickamauga campaign and who became D the twentieth President of the United States Another son 1 L is James Games R. R Garfield li who b was Isar a Secre tary tiry of the Interior In President Roosevelt's Cabinet S Sons ns of celebrated men often orten labor under a severe handicap but in th the tho case caso of the Garfield boys s escape from such a fate was provided through the wisdom of their father When the tha youth were In their teens Gen Garfield Garfield Gar Gar- field made them his companions and even his counsellors Going forth fort on his Incessant political campaigns he usually took one or both of the boys with him and upon them he was wont to try tryout out the arguments which h he proposed to offer to his constituents When hen harry was fifteen years old and games James thirteen they were gravely consulted by their father as t to whether he should resign from the House of Representatives and become a candidate for the Senate Thus in early erly youth the hi others brothers were at tho the heart of politics and of public service Both Doth were educated at Williams College from which their father had been graduated with distinguished honors in 1856 Then they studied law Harry at Oxford and the Inns 0 of Court in London and James at the Columbia Law School and In the offices offices of or of Francis Lynde Stetson In New York In 1883 1888 when Harry was harry was twenty- twenty five and James twenty three years old they were ready to undertake their active work in the world Seven years year before President Garfield had had- been assassinated by the disappointed of or seeker fice-seeker Guiteau lie He left to hIs sons no great property but only tho th prestige of a famous name Prestige they Immediately decided with rare good sense butters few parsnips So they opened a law partnership in Cleveland eland which is about t miles west of the Garfield farm at Mentor O. O One of the first thin things they did was to hold a conference All of the old lawyers have han clients said Harry and all of ot the theold theold theold old business firms firms' have firms have lawyers V What That hat we ve must do is II to make new business for ourselves And a a boy bay with a normal nose he be observed can always smelt smell apple pie pie- It If there is any in the I pantry an try i This decision to strike out ut for themselves them r Il selves oh instead of relying on their fathers father's name is a pleasant example of Cf the heredity of pioneer energy It U recalls that Gen Garfield when a youth gained his education by the hardest of or ma manual ual toll working toil working on a form farm and at the carpenter carpnter trade anI and even driving horses on the Erie Eric CanaL Thus he owed his advancement t to nothing but but buthis his own industry ambition ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion and brains The first enterprise by which th the brothers undertook to create new business for themselves was the promotion promotion promotion pro pro- motion of one of or Cleveland's first skyscrapers skyscrapers sky sky- stra scrapers n th the Garfield Building That the city was startled is putting pulling it mildly Its a gold brick said one of Cleveland's richest real estate own own- ers But the tho made up in enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- and energy what they lacked IL in cash They borrowed all the money they could lay hands hand on enlisted men cf cl means and issued large sums of or bonds Londs Paying half in cash and halt half In bonds the brothers purchased a site and met the construction bills Local skepticism was not banished as the structure of or steel rose story after arte story It was predicted that the venture venture venture ven ven- ture would ruin its backers Public opinion however was mistaken The Garfield Building proved from tha the start and still remains despite the years that have passed since it was opened for business a solid investment investment invest invest- ment It was necessary to have a substantial substantial sub sub- tenant for the first floor of ot the building The Tho brothers did not sit bit it down and wait walt for some somo firm t to turn up and rent the premises Instead Instead Instead In In- stead for the actual purpose of ot obtaining obtaining ob ob- a tenant they organized a big trust company company Wiseacres augured that hat it would fail To-day To it is one I or ot the largest firms of the kind Inthe in inthe inthe the country Then a prophetic instinct turned Harry Garfield's interest to coal His first adventure in the new field was ifs was not auspicious He lIe organized a syndicate syndicate syn syn- for the purchase of coal lands in the interior o of Oho OhIo but one of his partners betrayed him by buying the fields for himself before the syndicate could get into action In this transaction transaction transaction trans trans- action he h learned a wariness that was cf of great profit in his next ing Organizing an a association of men whom he could trust he purchased another coal field a rusty railroad that pointed north but stopped short some thirty miles south of an accessible accessible sible harbor and a a. farm on the shore short of ot Fairport now one of the busiest shipping points on Lake Erie The farm which was to be Garfield's bartor harbor har bar tor bor cost One of the largest railroads In the I country countr bad had obtained a right of or way through the farm several years before I The privilege had la lapsed sed in Garfield's opinion but he proceeded on the theory that the railroad would make all the thet trouble t it could when it learned that thata a rival company was planning to open ope mines and ship coal by land and water to the Northwest So legal papers paper papers papers' were ere prepared beforehand to meet moot I any attack that might be made and sentinels were ere posted to report an any suspicious movements mo undertaken by bythe bythe bythe the enemy Finally one Saturday night in midwinter midwinter mid mid- winter Garfield was informed by telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph that the railroad seemed to be ba lip up to something James Garfield was summoned from a symphony concert concert con con- cert and promptly forsook k Liszt forthe for forthe forthe the law Ho He had the necessary papers I In 11 his is pocket Docket and with with his his brother I- I hastened to the scene They found that a locomotive drawing several cars loaded with rails and ties had baj steamed up to the edge of or the farm curing the night Surveyors alighted with and tapes and workmen with shovels sledges and tamping only lions only to be met tact by the Sheriff end a writ of temporary injunction hastily hasUly issued by a Judge who had been aroused from his bed to perform the tie function On Monday morning the attorney for Cor the railroad visited the at their office lIe He was an old friend and club associate of the brothers He was certain he be said that they did not seriously hope to prevent a railroad railroad rail rail- I road from building on its Us own prop prop- erty I When a railroad retorted Harry I Garfield goes on what it claims to tobe tobe tobe be its Us own property at o'clock on a Sunday morning in jn the month of February with snow on the ground and the temperature five degrees bel be- be l lew w zero It would appear as if It the railroad had bad serious doubts as to its ItiS rights in that property In the end the injunction was made permanent the rusty tracks traces were extended extended ex ex- ex tended to the lake and the coal began began began be be- gan to move northward The enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise was a money-maker money for all cone con con- e ed Perhaps it n was partly the difference differ differ- I ence i in is n residence which caused their I careers to branch widely 81 apart arL Jamess James's first office was that of at a member of a village Council where he studied pavements lights gutters and dirt roads and incidentally incidentally incidentally incident incident- ally codified the village ordinances He lie was advanced to the County Board Doard of Education and at the thc age of thirty was a a. member of the State Senate Twelve years ears later he was a Cabinet Minister His Ills brother never became a candidate candi- candi date dete for political office and yet he was for years ears the foremost power In Is Cleveland 1 politics Ho accomplished this feat by organizing a partisan non Municipal Association of which he was tas president for a long and militant period Then unexpected there came a a. letter letter letter let let- ter signed with the name ot of Woodrow Wilson Nilson President of or Princeton Uni Uni- I have taught speculative to the young men of or Princeton PrInceton Princeton Prince PrInce- ton the missive ran rm Will you not come and instruct them as to how politics is really practised The letter leller marked marled the Choice o o I Hercules Hercules' in to Garfield's ur life On the theone theone theone one hand band lay before beCore him him the open Ope road to worldly success in business and law and probably to millions On she h I Iother other stretched the laborious and financially fi financially financially fi- fi barren track of scholastic service After counselling with his bid wife be he decided on the thornier war way For five years he be beas was as professor proCessor of Dr politics at t Princeton and the thep n to I 1008 1908 was elected President of Will Will- tams lams College alma mater not only ohis or o o his brother and himself but of or hi his C father ther The fhe man mah who had summoned D Dr Garfield to the academic shades was also the Uie man who called upon him to quit them again in the cause of public public pub pub- lic service This was Woodrow Wilson Wil Wil- son sen now become President of or the United States and the worlds world's wor s leader in tho the war of democracy again against it despotism Under the law the President President President dent was empowered to appoint a committee committee com com- on wheat prices and Garfield was the man selected by Mr Wilson as chairman It was not that Gar- Gar GarfIeld Garfield fIeld Held was an authority on wheat wheat wheat-ha ha I had probably never studied the subject sub sUb- subject until his appointment but appointment but he haJ had the tho mental training swiftly to master any problem put before him and also in his mental up make-up an unusual 1 combination of oC the successful b ness nesb man and organizer and theoretical idealistic scholar It Js Is needless to say that that e soon scon in complete command of e technicality of M C the subject and ss 51 the head of the table with hit hLf of or twelve not only bY bip of or his appointment but also of b hit hIJ hIJi i grasp and knowledge if oil of wheat heat industry y This problem w rl I the Pr Preel sl W he was then asked by tc u. apply to coal n nest neit to bread most Important war pr energy enthusiasm and precision This is the manes Daniell task with which he be Is 18 now busl U cs Asked if it he would a advise vise a 1 1 cat car cathe public man to enter upon a he replied Yes Ves If Jr it is b P do so without sacrificing a D Dor P Of or rl right bt conduct |