The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-29
HON0RS 10 THE DEAD.
Hudson's Bar Association
Pays Tribute to
Judge Knapp.
SOLEMN sCENEl IN THECOURT HOUSE
Speeches by ex-Goy. Bedlc, Judges
Dixon and LippincOtt aud
Messrs. Black aud McGee
Actions of the
Freeh0lders.
sOLEMN sCENEI IN THE COURT HOUSE

one blue beneAGn the rOOI OF bne Ola COuFI
House on tire Hill assembled there yester-
day to 10 honor to the memory of Judge
Knapp. The number of sorrowiDg law
yers was not less than ore hundred and
fifty. and all appeared to be filled with u
just appreciation of the occasion. The
sonbre black that p%rofusely decorated the
building, even to the gavei Judge Knapp
had used and the marble block he was
won't to strike when calling some noisy
person to order, and the chair he sat in.
all tended to tho solemnity of the
meeting and seemed to add 10 the visible
grief on many faces.
Among those who slowly entered the
gloomy room filed with the emb lens of
death, over which the half-masted flag OH
the roof floated, were Chancellor Alex
ander I. McGill, Judge Jonathan Dixon,
Governor Leon Albeit, Judge Job Lip
pincott, Lay Judges Paxton and Hoff-
man, Ex-Governor Joseph u. Bedle. DIS
trict Attorney Charles II. Winfield, EX-
Corporation Counsel w. A. Lewis, James
Flemming, Washington b. Williams,
Asa Dickinson, Corporation Counsel w.
d. Edwards, EX-Judge Seymour. Ex-
Judge w. A. Douglass. Ex-Mayor Gilbert
Collins, Charles l.. Corbln. William IL.
Corbin, Flavel McGee. Norman l. Rowe,
Isaac Romaine. Ex-Judge Jotn A. Blair,
Ex-Judge A. @ Garretson, John Bacot.
Frank Clark, James Il. Vredenhurg.
Otto Grouse, Charles c. Black, William
H.. Muirheid, Clarence Linn, George l..
Record. Max Salinger. James Erwin,
Charles Carrick, Samuel McEwan, Ed
ward Russ. Jacob Weart, joseph d.
Bedle, Jr., Judge John A. McGraJh. As
sistant Prosecutor Joseph Nj. Noonan,
Charles Fuller, w. c. Cudlipp and j udge
Skinner of Bergen county.
Among the laymen were Police Com
missioner John p. Feeney, Surrogate
james Ii. O'Neil ans Humphrey w. Carr.
and representing the County Clerks
Office were:-Deputy County Clerk john
Fisher, and his assistants, Edward Grit
ten and Michael +. Kelleher. Register
George b. Fielder was also present, but
Sheriff john j. McPhiilips was not OBJ
served there.
COUNSELOR BLACKS REMARKS.
Charles q. Black. President OF the Bar
Association. called the meeting to order.
He said:-"These sad emblems around
us pronounce the object Of our meeting
more effectively than can, that this Is a
meeting to be held to take such action
concerning the death of Judge Knapp as
you may deem proper"
A motion was adopted that the Presi-
dent appoint u Committee on Resolu-
tions, and President Black al appointed AS
such committee, Ex-Governor Bedle.
Judge Dixon, ex-Judge Blair, Prosecutor
Winfield and Judge Lippincott. While
this committee was deliberating, a mo-
tior was passed that all Bar Associations
in this State and all members OF the New
Jersey Bar be extended, through Secre-
tary Cudlipp, al invitation to attend the
funeral of Judge Knapp. President
Black then read a letter from Judge w.
ID, Daily, who regretted not being present,
but could not because OF the death OF u
near relative, whose funeral he was at
tending.
CHANCELLOR M'GILL CALLED TO THE CHAIR
President Black next did the most
graceful act of his life. He said:-
by reason of the high rank of Judge
Knapp, it is but proper that one of equal
rank should preside over this meeting,
and l ask Chancellor McGill to do So"
The Chancellor accepted the honor and
received the Committee on Resolutions.
Ex-Governor Bedle reported them and at
his request ex-Judge Blair read them as
fcliOws:-
Resolved, That in the sudden death of
Mr.. Justice Knapp, the State Of New Jer-
sew has lost an eminent citizen, and her
Judiciary a distinguished member.
e Judge Knapp Vas a man of easy aud
pleasant address, genial and courteous in
social intercourse and companionable N
an unusual degree; quick in his sympa-
thies, ever openhanded 20 The appeals of
charity. pure and simple in all his habits
of life, quiet and transformations in his
many kindly acts for the relief of the I'M
fortunate, tolerant OF the opinions and
short comings of Others. and OF a wide
and liberal culture beyond the lines of
his profession.
t~ractive and noble qualities, listening
with equal graciousness and forbearauce
to the ignorance of youth and the wis
dom of experience. firm yet courteous in
his rulings, at times almost apoiogetic in
his refusals as if afraid to wound, though
not afraid to strike; clear and exact in his
statements of fact, strong and lucid in his
exposition of law; an expert in reading
the character and motives of men-deter-
mined to get at the truth. that Justice
might be done. 1t was but natural that
the n years during which he was
with us in a position which he adorned
with virtue and learning should have
warmly attached him TO us all.
HIS CHARACTERISTICS.
"Affable and unconstrained. yet dignl-
fed in his intercourse with his brothers
upon The bench, ne was naturally sought
out by them; with easy aptitude for the
disposition of business, his full share of
the labors of the Courts fell upon him.
and an examination of his decisions fully
demonstrates that he was u ma of large
learning in the law. possessed of great
ouickneSS III RraSplnR The CouUrOllnR
facts. combined with a happy faculty of
adaptation of the law 10 those facts.
while sincerely mourning the death OF
Judge Knapp we could hardly have wished
him a happier release. He lived II life of
purity, filled with honest efforts, prompted
by noble ambition, characterized by lofty
integrity. and died full of years at the
highest point of his career, in an overtax-
ln9 effort to defend and uphold the ma
iesty of the law. In the midst of his elo-
nuent words he fell asleep, to awaken to
he yelled wonders of another world. His
life and death should be both our emula-
tion and our pride.
s'Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Association transmit a copy OF these
resolutions to the family of the deceased,
md cause the same to be entered on the
minutes of The courts OF Hudson
county.
"Resolved, That the Bar of Hudson
bounty attend the funeral of the deceased
In a body"
EX-GOVERNOR BEDLE SPEAKS.
Tn moving the adoption of these resolu-
lions Ex-Governor Bedle said:-''I can
moi forego this opportunity of expressing
m NV part the affection l have had for
1udpe knapp and my admiration of him.
He died in maturity, having great eX-
nariance on the bench. | notice there Is
an error in some statements as TO Judge
Kronn,s noe. He was born on June z,
iao5 md next June would have been
iyty-seyen years Old. His birth place
was Newtowp, Sussex county, and he
"h.,d III. e1ncntion there. He was a