The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-15


grumbling and dissatisfied with their
| and were obliged TO earn their mental
training as they got it Fortunate it
was for them indeed that in the years
before Peter Cooper had been moved to
found and endow the noble institute
that bears his name, for 1t offered ex-
actly the school facilities of which they
must avail themselves.
So they enrolled their names in the
list Of students at the institute. How
they studied and toiled together, cheer
ing and encouraging each other, testing
zach other with knotty questions before
examinations, debating together the
problems of life and law that came
within their ken-all this would make
an entertaining story If only 1 had the
details for its composition.
At last they were admitted and be-
gan their practice as young lawyers
When Randolph MARITIME, now sitting
on the bench, was district attorney, he
made them both members of his corps
of assistants, and when few years ago
the Peoples Municipal league put up
ticket their names were both among
Its nominees, Golf running for district
attorney and Fitzgerald for a sessions
judgeship. Fitzgerald was elected, but
Goff was not. The latter's defeat, how
ever, was shared by all the nominees
but Fitzgerald, who was the only one
upon that ticket to whom success was
vouchsafed. Then Golf had TO start out
TO build up private practice again. He
was poor, for though he had been for
several years in the receipt of a good
salary as assistant district attorney he
had not accumulated money, and as he
married in the meantime and had a
growing family about him the task was
not so easy as it would have been for a
younger man. However, his worth had
begun to make a name for its possessor,
and. surely, though perhaps slowly, he
climbed the ladder as practitioner. In
time he came 70 be known rs lawyer
who would always fight to the last, not
only for his case, but also for his own
rights in court, even before the most Sc
we're jurist. Once when he made par
ticularly spirited contest for himself be-
fore Recorder Smyth that stern old
judge hailed the lawyer before his au-
gust presence for contempt. This became
noised about in the lawyers offices, and
it appearing TO several of the most emf
nent of the city's legal luminaries that
Golf was in the right the courtroom
was crowded with lawyers on the day
set by the recorder for inficting pun
ishment. More than this, Joseph Choate,
surely one of the acknowledged leaders
of the New York bar, defended GcfT,
and without cost to the latter, in mas
terly speech. This was evidence that
Mr.. Choate believed his brother lawyer
to be in the right, but the recorder i'm
posed fine of $500 or 80 days. 1t is
understood that had not Mr.. Choate ap-
peared in COTS behalf the punishment
would have been fine and Imprisonment.
1t was after this that Mr.. Golf was
asked to be counsel for the Lexow COM
mitteeL At first he declined on the
ground that he could not afford TO give |
up his practice, but when DIR. Parkhurst, |
to whose 'marshaling of the public con-
the present exposures of munic- |
ipal depravity here are so largely due, |
added his pleadings and the chamber of |
commerce agreed TO see TO it that the |
lawyer was properly paid for his serv-
ices, despite Governor Flowers veto of |
the bill appropriating money for that |
purpose, Mr.. Golf yielded. Now his |
name is before the voters of the city of |
New York for recorder in Smyth's |
place, and if he shall be elected the /
lawyers friends say that poetic justice |
will be done
His Life Has Been an Eventful One.
had intended TO write q few para
graphs about Mr.. COTS adventures in
the service of Irish liberty, of the part
be played in the rescue of six Fenians,
who were imprisoned at the penal col
ony of Freemantle, South Australia, in
1870, in which exploit Golf co-operated
with Dion Boucicault John Breslin,
Thomas Desmond and others, but my
;pace is running short, and these mat I
;ers can Only be alluded TO.
In conclusion, here are a few SEN
,ences, each of which deserves a para
graph: he was not born TO be drowned,
or he has been rescued a full half dozen
lines from a watery grave He is a
Democrat in politics, but has been per-
ectly impartial in the distribution of
lis favors as counsel of the committee.
he does not believe that the present in
will permanently cleanse
ne municipal government of this town,
nut he does believe il will straighten
Kings out for the time. The men of the
uture, he says, must look out for the
vii of the future.
l. D. MARSHALL