, 1882-11-25
Acoustic wsrset

vie cannot visit the eoert roo1u IN ,b;,
'' "hers Just nov, Judge wing..i is ad,
"'insssrin2 np'n the law and evidence
H'.noas beng reminded of ,ha, plaes N n.
iehoss.one Park. where a man e,pno, H.,
himself talk, nush less anybody else. ssd
tnA' tae acoustic arrangements oE cur conrt
room Is about as bad as il can be. All ov.,
the room during the progress OF trial, we
See men with apaln Of the hand back of one
VI Don ears, we see tie Judge leaning over
MS bench IN q strained, unnatural no.;,;o,
.f'lhs 10 eaten the words from LAWYER Ten
iee' away. Or the witness less than five
positively, It IL PAINFUL to undertake. .o ba,,
speaker twenty feet removed in this rooro
And PAINFUL TO See the Judge so put out. and
actually uneasy. Our ide. of his position i.
lnat he should lie back az hi, .a.s in ~.
e'a'r' and When the Proceedings are tedious
ana Ills eyes Test on the ceiling, he could
nave vissors Of noble deer bounding avzv !,
the forest about Caur d Alene, while plain
y heaHns " Ii the Court please, and that
sort OF thing. IL is sad :ha, Prosecu,ipg
A''orney George Thompson raped til. Ia
o'e With h's suucsle iast as times during
hi' speech IN the Pearl P.aa~y case-,hjr
-een minutes. We did not hear b1t III Va
are not surprised that yesterday. when one
Q. The younger ball.ffs vas sxc.n hv ClarL
AYres to take good and Iasfcl caye of the
Flnney Iary, that he understood that he Was
swearing 10 tell the truth, the whole truth
and no;hins bot the truth, as = Witness in
some sort OF case, and th.t he should 20 m
ana lake the witness char, instead Of taking
charge ci the jury. Il Is wonder to Us.
alter ha'inZ good look at hi. c;en eoua-
tenance. that he didn't oust the Judge and
~ the case
Sf-so oeau f--sz---lsS7-
But candldly. the ACOUSTIC Z aaiities o: the
loom are abou: az bad as they S-9a''e' and
duung the next recess there Cd sales -
some change to cure the defect. Ii is a SIN
gulsr fact that IN al the progress OF the age
there Is still as much ignorance to-day as
there was IN Christopher Wren's time Of the
architectural laws Of acoustics Ii any hall
now-a-day. is favorable for assembled people
to hear to the bert advantage, that cIrcum-
stance Is dat, not to any true architectural
science, hut to some happy accident, or
II. .lA l.,aL - r.,
against the best acoustic results. Now, our
court room possesses such ringing and re-
verberating echo that the judges charges
are transformed, for all who sit outside the
railing. INTO 4 confused, IHartIculaue roaring,
made up OF equal parts OF direct sounds ana
echoes. 1t miyut be IN part EemedIed by
stretching WEts stove near the ceillug 10
break these r-tiutnt -oand-wave-. The et-
feet nun:d BE- better, Iut 1t could not be
made perfect II tnn Wy. An Clt-iISrIcned
soundii a -GUtrd placed over anu back Ui the
Juaac, ~ IN IT. uIi-lIr.e c!.ur -hcs might
d. some xc,ri Tier. l. ve.y certainly sn
architectural Law of acoustic, and 1t ought
to te foGnl ont by somebody. II some
.oen!hgly sh.ht oaI.e IN the shaping OF
| lines .,nd age, or small differences IN the
frn.aU aUIon oil the ee!ing MAKES such diiiyr-
! e,c. la tine scoust,c quaht.es ut a nail. tror"
TINS s-is 1t sc, III, that so:e mechanic ought
to nnrs out lie sciruce of il. Everybody
Asre /. uncon,iorrshly a~Ars II tie defect n
our court hUuss al. srd .nJae sort Of ehort
I 10 cu.e It ought - he naie.