St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-25
Chicago's Most Eminent Citi-
zens Banquet the New
Chief Justice.
Limbs of the Law Praise Him
for His Learn
ing.
Men Distinguished in Other
Pursuits Stand Sponsors
for His Integrity.
Feeling Response by the Head
OF the Nations Highest
Civil Tribunal.

SAt1 1I1UullN1s
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-The friends of
Melville w. Fuller, the new chief of the
nations highest civil tribunal, gathered
by the hundred tonight to take him by
the hand and listen once more to his
voice before his departure for Wash
ington to assume the Office that is
greater in some respects than the
presidency of the United States,
The occasion was banquet rendered to
Mr.. Fuller at the Palmer house by the
members of the Chicago bar, among
whom he has so long been a worker.
Attendance was not limited to the legal
fraternity, but included scores of
citizens of the West distin-
guished in other pursuits. Un-
doubtedlY, the thought most common to
all present was that majority of Mr..
Fuller's five predecessors in the
supreme court chief justiceship, even
with all their far-reaching vision into
the future, lived and died without an
inkling that the high place which
they filled with so much dignity
might now be occupied by one whose
legal reputation should be made in
what was to them at best sparsely
settled prairie. 1t was in the main
dining room of the Palmer house that
500 or more guests sat down to the BAN
quet. The great apartment was mag
nificently decorated and illuminated
brilliantly. At the main table
in the northern end of the
room were twenty-five seats, in
Guiding one for the little man with the
leonine head, whom the great as
semblage had gathered to honor. In
front of this table, and occupying the
whole of the remainder of the floor,
were tables set for eight persons each.
Immediately in front of Chief Justice
Fuller, who sat at the right of the chair
man of the occasion, Judge Drummond,
stood a floral representation of the
scales with which
JUSTICE MEASURES THE CLAIMS
of parties who come before her. A bank
ofroseS enriched with their crimson hue
the appointments of the center OF the
main. table. Halfway to the right hand
end OF the table another bank of
roses reposed in perfumed white
ness, and at an equal distance to
the left the fragrance of still
another bank of roses claimed the at
tention of the participants. Each one
of these small mountains contained $50
roses, and their variegated color har-
moniZed we'll with the vivid green of
the festOOned smilax and inlaid ferns
which otherwise decorated the table. Be-
hind the chairman floral arch reared
its graceful proportions. bearing the in
scription, "Melville w. Fuller" Each
of the tables was made beautiful with
basket of dahliaS or roses, the floral
figure upon each of the tables being
different from all the others. The
chandeliers were decorated with
festoons of glittering smilax. the
side brackets were beautified In
the same fashion, and the delicious per-
fume of more than ten thousand roses
filed the chamber. At the rear of the
raised table upon which stood the main
table, above the heads of the guests,
hung the stars and stripes, fitly filling
out the picture of a scene
which has seldom been equaled
in the history of Chicago.
An hour before the time fixed for the
beginning of the banquet, the hosts of
the occasion, to the number of several
hundred, assembled in the hotel parlors
anu WtlCOulcu MI. AlLtI
pleasant informal social converse, the
company, from the gray-haired veterans
of the bar to the fledglings of the law
who graduated but yesterday, formed in
column with the other guests who had
been arriving meanwhile and took I'D
the march down the long hall to the ban
quet chamber. Arrived at the entrance
to the dining room, the doors were
thrown open and the glitter of siver and
glass, the delicious perfume of the
wealth of flowers within greeted the
senses of the asSemblage. Without
delay the seats were occupied, and as
the chief justice appeared, he was sa-
luted with
A ROUND OF HEARTY APPLAUSE.
The applause SubSiding, the partici-
pants took their seats and addressed
themselves to the business of the hour,
while music from concealed band
added inspiration. AT the right hand
of the new chief justice sat Judge Wal
ter Q. Gresham, and beyond, in the Or
Judge Bradwell, Judge Cation, ex-senator
|. LYMAN Trumbull, Hon. Joseph Medill
and Hon. w. g. Goudy. At the left of
the chairman the following gentlemen
were seated: Hon. Mr.. Fleetwood,
Judge Blodgett, Justice Magruder, of
the Illinois supreme. court; Judge
| Allen, Gen. Williams, Judge Woods,
| Judge Bum and Mayor Roche. In the
body of the hall at the various tables
were seated indiscriminately legal
luminaries, merchant princes and other
gentlemen whose names are widely
known in the most various capacities.
Among them were eX-Secretary of War
| Robert Il. Lincoln. ex-Minister to Persia
Frederick S. Winston, Gen. George
W. Smith, Marshall Field, Alexander
Sullivan, n. K. Fairbank, S. Corning
Judd, Leonard SWEET, George NJ. Pull
man, G. G. Bonney, Gen. Charles Fitz-
simons, r. G. Clowry, T. B. Blackstone,
c. L. Hutchinson. II. ii. Porter, j. a..
McVicker, n. B. Ream, Clinton A.
Snowden. William Henry Smith, Gen.
| John McNulta, John r. Walsh, Jesse
Spaulding, John Creerar and others.
After all the good things on the
of. Judge Drummond raped for order,
and in a speech which evoked great ap-
| plause, took up the charge that Mr..
Fuller was not generally known In the
country. The speaker thought that MIR.
| Fuller was very well known. He was
| certainly well known in the state of
| Illinois. He was certainly we'll known
| I'm the city of Chicago, which now
| contains double the populations that of
4 the whole state of Vermont. [Great ap-
plause and shouts of laughter renewed
i again and again.l Judge Drummond
| warmly commended the new chief JUS
tice as fully
WORTHY IN EVERY WAY
of the chief judgesbip. All present
/ arose to their feet at the suggestion of