Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — HARRINGTON IS OUT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HARRINGTON IS OUT.

Chief of the Weather Bureau la Removed by the President. "Professor Mark W. Harrington is no longer chief of the United States weather bureau. He has been removed by President Cleveland, after declining to hand in his resignation. The cause of his removal is ascribed to incompatibility of temper between Secretary Morton on the one hand and Professor Harrington on the other. Mr. Harrington was appinted four years ago by President Harrison, and, almost from the first day that Secretary Morton took charge of the agricultural

department, two years ago last March, there has been frietjon between him and the chief of the weather bureau. So severe has been the strain’lh their relations, it is understood they had held no personal communication with each other for more than a year, but that their correspondence had been confined almost entirely to missives of the most severely official style. The difficulties -came to u> climax soon after the change <>LadmiaisU;ation, when an investigation, wap instituted, by Secretary Morton into the business affairs of the weather bureau*.the results of which did not implicate Professor Harrington in any way. This, however, did not ease the strain between him and the Secretary, and it is well understood that for nearly two years the chief of the bureau has had practically nothing to do with the routine management of his office, which has been governed almost entirely from the department. It is no surprise to those who are well informed that the difficulties have now culminated in the summary removal of Ptofes'sbr fiarrington, as it is known that he has steadfastly refused to resign. .. '.J'.

PROF. MARK W. HARRINGTON.