New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-02
Academy of Music.
. In Mem0riam Gaspard James.

There was u large attendance of the bar
yesterday morning in the Sixth District
Court to attest the remembrance of Gas
pard James, and besides there were numer-
GUS friends who were only drawn there
from friendship.
1t was the first time that bar meeting
had honored the decesse of clerk of court
in New Orleans, but the twenty-five years
of service of Mr.. James was sufficient war
ranty for the innovation.
Judge T. Wharton Collens called the
meeting to order, and Messrs. Jules Vienne
and c. w. Cotton acted as secretaries. On
motion of Judge Duplantier he, as chair
man, and Hon. Arthur Saueier, Joseph A.
Breaux, Joseph P. uornor, Louis Powers
and ]. j. O'Brien were appointed commit
tee to draft resolutions. They performed
their duty, the resolutions were passed and
they were discharged.
Major John H. New said of the deceased
the following sincere words:
We are often called together to give ex-
preston to our sorrow at the loss of an
associate, member of the bar. So often,
indeed, our sensibilities become sluggish,
and we pass the customary resolutions, as a
y0lley is. fired over a soldiers grave; and
go our several ways, in q little while, to
forget almost the name of our COMPANION.
To-day, we are here to mourn the loss of
one who, for Quarter ofa century, was an
Officor of the courts of New Orleans, SO
that the feeling We manifest is not the re-
Election OF another's grief. 1t is not blow
received by friend in which we share by
sympathy.
There Is not member of our profession
in this city, young or old, who does not
deeply lament the. deprivation our courts
sustain in the death OF Gaspard James. For
clerk, 80 long filed by our friend in the
Second, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh District
Courts of the parish of Orleans, is one not
only. second IN Importance to that of the
judge who presides in the administration of
justice, but it is one whose duties bring its
occupant into daily contact with every
practicing lawyer, and upon the, skill, ac-
curacy and experience of this officer, both
the court and the attorneys equally rely.
There is no one of us of 80 wide and varied
an experience as the minute clerk. And
OpiAe few of us are Independent of the aid
to be derived from his kindly and timely
suggestions.
The machinery of court ordinarily !,
moves SO smoothly, we do not consider the
sent our pleadings to the court. We per-
form our portion of the labor in the exami-
nation of witnesses, and in the framing of
arguments But the faithful record of all
that transpires in q case, the accurate dock
citing OF the innumerable rules, motions 4
and orders; the maintenance of the proper 1
position of every suit that is filed; the legal
entering and writing of the judgments; the
prudence and care displayed in the check
ing the zeal Of attorneys in their premature
claim of the points of . victory; the con-
summation and completion OF what We but
begin is due to that officer whose place in
this court is now vacant.
Who does not recall, in the many years
We have known Gaspard James, his untail-
ing courtesy; his genial manaers; his ready
aid to inexperience; his hrmness ia the
the court and his prOnpt, accurate sand
able performance Of every pesk conAdel so
him. - -. - 80 - ''lri.'
twenty-five years clerk Of our courts!
Ruf think 0f tha atOna of oonu int